Ideoligion

Ideoligions are a mechanic introduced with the Ideoligion DLC.

Structure

Choosing your structure affects which symbols the game uses for your ideoligion. It does not affect gameplay.

Image	Structure	Description	Styles	Unlocked Rituals	Chance to Have Precept
	Abstract theist	The god(s) do not have physical form, but are everywhere at once. They know all, and can do anything. Their will defines the moral structure of the universe.
	Animist	Spirits live in everything around us. In the plants and animals, rivers and trees, sky and stars. The moral structure of the universe springs from the necessity of respecting them.	Animalist
	Archist	Archotechs are the true gods. They know the moral structure of the universe, and serving them is how we will connect with it.
	Buddhist origin	This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Buddhism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Buddhist	Smokeleaf circle	Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
	Christian origin	This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Christianity. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Christian	Christmas tree party	Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
	Embodied theist	The god(s) walk the planets like us, yet they are powerful and immortal as we are not. They decide the moral structure of the universe.
	Hindu origin	This is a variant of the embodied theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Hinduism. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Hindu	Smokeleaf circle	Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed
	Ideological	There are no gods. The moral structure of the universe is found in our grand narrative of social forces.		Symbol burning
	Islamic origin	This is a variant of the abstract theist structure. This ideoligion is a descendant of ancient Islam. It may have very different precepts than those of thousands of years ago, but its symbols are similar.	Islamic		Headwrap: Relaxed Broadwrap: Relaxed

Cultures

Cultures affect names, appearances, and symbols.

Image	Culture	Factions Allowed	Description
	Astropolitan	New Arrivals	A broad collection of cultures common among frequent space travelers.
	Rustican	Outlander Factions	A hardy industrial cultures common among rimworld outlanders.
	Corunan	New Tribe Tribal Factions	An ancient culture common among rimworld tribes.
	Kriminul	Pirate Factions	A broad category describing the styles and practices of many pirate groups.
	Sophian	Empire Faction Ancient Factions	A techno-feudal culture centered on the planet Sophiamunda.

Memes

You must choose one to four memes at the beginning of your playthrough to form the foundational ideas of your ideoligion. Some have much more gameplay impact than others. Hovering over a meme will show you the information in this table.

	Meme	Description	Impact	Required Precepts	Chance to Have Precept	Disabled Precepts	Unlocked Roles	Required Rituals	Unlocked Rituals	New Buildables	Unlocked Craftables	Start with Research	Agreeing Traits	Conflicting Traits	Styles
	Animal personhood	Animals have rights as humans do.	High	Animal connection: Strong Slaughtering animals: Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved Meat eating: Abhorrent, Horrible, or Disapproved	-	-	Animals specialist	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Blindsight	Only those who are blind can perceive true reality.	High	Blind psysense: Strong Blindness: Respected, Elevated, or Sublime	-	Blindness: Horrible Lighting: Darklight preferred Combat in darkness: preferred	Medical specialist	Blinding	-	-	Blindfold	-	-	-	-
	Cannibal	We must consume human flesh.	High	Organ use: Acceptable Cannibalism: Preferred, Required (strong), or Required (ravenous) Execution: Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required	-	Execution: Always horrible or Horrible if innocent	-	-	Cannibal feast	-	-	-	Cannibal	-	Morbid
	Collectivist	A person's role is to serve the community.	Low	Work drive: Tripled	Visage mask: Relaxed	Marriage name: Keep names	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Darkness	Bright light burns and destroys! Darkness nourishes and creates. People ought to live in darkness.	High	Lighting: Darklight preferred Combat in darkness: Preferred	-	-	Mining specialist	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Female supremacy	Women are the superior gender and should rule.	Medium	-	Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Misandrist	-	-
	Flesh purity	The human body should not be debased.	Medium	Drug use: Prohibited Biosculpting: Despised Body modification: Abhorrent Scarification: Horrible	-	Body modification: Approved Physical love: Free and approved	Medical specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	Body purist Nudist	Body modder	-
	Guilty	Our people carry guilt from ages past. Others are more worthy.	Low	Pain: Idealized Charity: Essential, Important, or Worthwhile	-	Apostasy: Abhorrent, Horrible, and Guilty Slavery: Honorable	-	-	Symbol burning	-	Torture crown	-	-	-	-
	High life	Exotic states of mind are central to a good life.	Medium	Drug use: Essential	Flophat: Relaxed	Drug use: Prohibited, Medical only, or Medical/social only	Plants specialist	Smokeleaf circle	Smokeleaf circle	Autobong Mindbend carpet	-	-	Chemical interest Chemical fascination	-	-
	Human primacy	Humans are the moral center of the universe.	Medium	Bonding: Disapproved	-	Slaughtering animals: Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved Killing innocent animals: Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved Meat eating: Abhorrent, Horrible, Disapproved, Mildly required, Seriously required, and Strictly required Mining: Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved Cutting trees: Prohibited, Horrible, and Disapproved	Production specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Individualist	A community's role is to serve each individual.	Low	-	-	Slavery: Honorable	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Loyalist	We stand for our own before others.	Low	-	-	-	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Male supremacy	Men are the superior gender and should rule.	Medium	-	Burka: Relaxed Veil: Strong	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Misogynist	-	-
	Nature primacy	Man is a stain on nature's perfection.	Medium	-	-	-	Plants specialist	Scarification	-	-	-	-	-	-	Animalist
	Nudism	Clothing binds, controls, and suffocates us. We should all hang free.	High	Male clothing: Fully nude or Pants at most Female clothing: Fully nude or Pants at most	-	-	-	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	Nudist	-	-
	Pain is virtue	Virtue is shown through suffering of self and others.	High	Pain: Idealized Comfort: Ignored Slab bed: Preferred	-	Charity: Essential, Important, and Worthwhile Execution: Always abhorrent and Always horrible Scarification: Horrible Skullspike: Disapproved	-	Scarification	Symbol burning	Slab bed Slab double bed	Torture crown	-	Ascetic Tortured artist Masochist	Wimp Gourmand	Morbid
	Proselytizer	It is our duty to spread our beliefs.	Medium	Proselytizing: Occasional, Sometimes, or Frequent	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Raider	The strong should take from the weak.	Medium	Raiding: Respected or Required Execution: Horrible if innocent, Don't care, Respected if guilty, or Required	-	Skullspike: Disapproved Slavery: Abhorrent, Horrible, and Disapproved	Shooting specialist Melee specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rancher	Raising animals is the right way; raising plants to eat is not.	High	Ranching: Central Meat eating: Mildly required, Seriously required, or Strictly required	-	-	Animals specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Supremacist	Our people should dominate all others.	Low	Slavery: Acceptable or Honorable Execution: Required, Respected if guilty, or Don't care	-	Charity: Essential, Important and Worthwhile Skullspike: Disapproved	Shooting specialist Melee specialist	-	Symbol burning	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Transhumanist	Human progress means merging with technology.	Medium	Sleep accelerator: Preferred Neural supercharge: Preferred Biosculpting: Accelerated Age reversal: Demanded Eating nutrient paste: Dont[sic] mind Body modification: Approved	Slicecap: Relaxed	Body modification: Abhorrent or Disapproved	Research specialist	-	-	Hex carpet Hex tile Neural supercharger Sleep accelerator	-	-	Body modder	Body purist	Techist
	Tree connection	Trees are the essence of life, and we must be near them.	High	Trees: Desired	-	-	Plants specialist	-	-	-	-	Tree sowing	-	-	-
	Tunneler	Humans ought to live underground, and enjoy the succulent fruit of the depths.	High	Fungus: Preferred Insect meat: Loved Small spaces: Don't care	-	Mining: Prohibited, Horrible, or Disapproved	Mining specialist	-	-	Fungal gravel	-	Stonecutting	Undergrounder	-	-

Other Faction Customization

Meme	Civil outlander	Rough outlander	Gentle tribe	Fierce tribe	Savage tribe	Cannibal tribe	Nudist tribe	Pirate gang	Pirate cannibal gang	Shattered Empire	Ancient faction
Supremacist		Required			Required			Required	Required	*
Loyalist		*			*					Required
Guilty		*			*					*
Individualist	Required**	*			*					*
Collectivist	Required**									Required
Transhumanist
Flesh purity
Raider								Required	Required
Proselytizer										Required
High life
Nature primacy
Human primacy
Female supremacy
Male supremacy
Animal personhood
Rancher
Pain is virtue
Darkness
Tunneler
Tree connection
Nudism							Required
Blindsight
Cannibal						Required			Required

*Appears on faction's options but conflicts with required meme
**Individualist OR Collectivist must be chosen

Precepts

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Roles

Leaders

A leader who holds the group together and represents your faction in diplomatic interactions.

Will always be restricted to any Supreme gender selected.

Moral Guides

A moral/spiritual leader who heads rituals and personally counsels believers

Specialists

Image	Name	Description	Required Memes	Pawn requirements	Bonuses	Disabled Work Types	Ability Image	Ability	Abililty Desc	Ability Effect	Required Equipment
	Shooting Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on ranged combat to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased accuracy and the ability to boost the shooting abilites[sic] of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do many kinds of non-shooting-related work.	Raider Supremacist	Shooting skill > 6 Capable of: Shooting Violent	Shooting Accuracy +7 Aiming Time -50%	Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing		Marksman Command	Call out shots and boost the shooting skills of everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours.	Someone is using the marksman command ability nearby, boosting this person's shooting abilities. Shooting Accuracy +4 Aiming Time -40% AoE: 9.9 tile Radius on Caster Duration: 24hrs	Tailcap
	Animals Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on animals to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased taming and training efficiency, and the ability to boost the animals-related abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-animals-related tasks.<	Animal personhood Rancher	Animals skill > 6 Capable of: Animals	2x Tame Animal Chance 2x Train Animal Chance 0.2x Animal revenge chance	Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing		Animal Calm	Use unique methods of connecting with animals to calm a maddened beast.	Hold animal stunned while casting, calms hostile animals if successful. Casting time: 1.5s AoE: Single target? Touch range. Duration: Instantaneous
	Medical Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on medicine to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives improved surgery and tending efficiency, and the ability to boost the medical abilities of nearby allies. Believers who receive care from one of this role will be happy about it. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-medical tasks.	Flesh purity Blindsight	Medicine skill > 6 Capable of: Caring	1.5x Medical Tend Quality 1.5x Medical Operation Speed 1.5x Medical Surgery Success Chance Mood buff to pawns treated by this specialist	Violent		Immunity Drive	Offer moral support that energizes the body, boosting someone's immunity gain for one day.
	Melee Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on melee combat to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased dodge and hit chance in melee combat and ability to the boost melee abilites for nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do many kinds of non-melee-related work.	Raider Supremacist	Melee skill > 6 Capable of: Violent	Melee Hit Chance +8 Melee Dodge Chance +8	Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing Hunting Shooting		Berserk Trance	The caster fills himself with anger over ideological grievances. This strengthens the body past normal limits, but also means losing control and attacking every enemy nearby in an unstoppable rage. The berserk state will last for 3 hours.
	Mining Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on mining to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased mining speed, and the ability to boost the mining speed of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do some non-mining work.	Darkness Tunneler	Mining skill > 6 Capable of: Mining	Mining Speed +70%	Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing		Mining Command	Offer guidance on mining techniques, boosting the mining speed for everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours.
	Plants Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on planting to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased sowing and harvesting efficiency, and the ability to boost the farming speed of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-plants-related work.	High life Nature primacy Tree connection	Plants skill > 6 Capable of: Plantwork	Plant Work Speed +70% Harvest Yield +30%	Animals Crafting Cooking Constructing Mining		Farming Command	Offer guidance on farming techniques, boosting the farming abilities for everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours.		Shadecone
	Production Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on crafting and construction to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased crafting and construction efficiency, and the ability to boost the production abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to do some non-production work.	Human primacy	Construction skill > 6 OR Crafting skill > 6 Capable of: Construction OR Crafting	Construction Speed +70% General Labor Speed +70 Quality +1 level	Dumb labor Animals Cooking Plantwork		Production Command	Offer guidance on construction techniques, boosting construction and crafting abilities for everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours.
	Research Specialist	A special ideoligious status focusing on research to the exclusion of all else. This specialized role gives increased research and hacking speed, and the ability to boost research abilities of nearby allies. Holders of this role will refuse to perform some non-research tasks.	Transhumanist	Intelectual skill > 6 Capable of: Intellectual		Crafting Cooking Plantwork Mining Constructing		Research Command	Provide suggestions and mental support, boosting the research speed of everyone nearby. The effect remains attached to the caster for 24 hours.

Tattoos

Style	Face	Body
Tribal	tiger, cobweb, eclipse, line, oracle, pantheon, war paint, worried	tiger, buttons, rings
Punk	tear, headshot, double, love, stars	heart, cross, jester, moon, power, royal, wings
Cannibal	skull, spider	scar, skeleton, spike
Misc	-	insect, sun

Version History

• Ideology DLC Release - Added.