Editing Raider

{{imagemargin|[[File:raiders_layout_preview.png|124px|right]]|41px}}</div>'''Raiders''' are essentially the main antagonists of ''RimWorld''. They are predatory enemies who appear in events called "Raids" and are sent by the storyteller or by player accepted quests. The group size and strength of a raiding party is determined by 'points', which will be explained in-depth further down this article.</onlyinclude>

Raiders have several [[#Raiders' strategies|strategies]] when a raid event is spawned. Human raiders continue to attack until one of several conditions are met. Mechanoid raiders continue to attack indefinitely. Raiders who survive may return to attack again in future raids or ambushes. This includes prisoners abandoned from caravans who are in restraint, making them unable to attack properly.

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|[[{{Q|Militor|Image}}|50px]] || 45  || 100 || Normal || - || 9999 || '''[[Mini-shotgun]]''' || Any || -

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=== "Drop right on top of you" drop pods ===

Raiders will drop pod right "on top of you" circumventing all exterior defenses. "Drop on top of you" raids choose a singular colonist and all drop pods land around this target in open cells. That singular colonist cannot be under overhead mountain. The drop pods can crash through nearby overhead mountain even though the singular colonist target cannot currently be under overhead mountain.  

 

Rather than landing on a colonist, "Drop right on top of you" raids have a 40% chance to land on a powered, unroofed, orbital trade beacon.

 

These "drop right on top of you" raids always attack immediately and follow standard enemy pathing.

Like Immediate Attack, but the raiders are unusually clever in their tactics because they try to avoid turret line of sight if possible. If there is no path to the raider's target around turret line of sight, or if their target is a turret, they will walk through turret line of sight.

Despite their description, they do not avoid traps like Spike Traps nor IEDS in anyway.

Instead of attempting to kill your colonists by traditional attack, sappers will mine or blast their way inside rather than hitting your walls or doors as usual. Their ultimate goal is an assigned sleeping position. An assigned sleeping position can be a colonist bed, an animal bed, or even a freely placed prison sleeping spot that is assigned to a prisoner.

They can be fairly dangerous to those who tunnel into mountains as their defenses are usually concentrated at the entrances. The best thing to do is instantly assault them before they can mine too much. The other members will then carry on the normal assault. They seem to avoid digging through high-health ore veins or into the areas within the range of improvised turrets and don't mind much about other security traps (spike trap and all kind of IEDs). It's possible to create such an trap area to kill them before hand.

Much like the Sapper strategy, raiders will utilize their tools to easily breach past the walls more. Breachers, like sappers, target assigned sleeping positions. Compared to Sappers, Breachers comes equipped with tools designed to destroy walls more easily (Tribals access to [[breach axe]], Royal, Pirates and Colony uses [[frag grenades]], and Mechanoids utilizes their [[Termite]] wielding [[thump cannon]]) regardless of their mining skill. Unlike the Sappers, they mostly target after colony-built walls in their direct path, rather than mining to the shortest route. Any raiding pawns nearby will always follow the breaching pawn in question, only attacking within range. Breachers will not attack passable player buildings, and instead only target impassable buildings like walls.

Unlike sappers which usually come in small numbers of raiders, breachers are always followed by a ton of raiding pawns, or Centipedes in the case of Termite, which covers the disadvantageous issue that the Sapping raid in the open has with. This kind of raid will appear more frequently if the wealth is high enough.

Once a mortar is ready, they will start to bombard you, guarded by those not busy manning the mortars or still building the second one. Drop pods will continuously resupply 12 packaged survival meals and more mortar shells, as needed. They can receive [[Mortar shell|different types of shells]] during the siege, which can be [[Firefoam shell|less]] or [[Antigrain warhead|more dangerous]] to your colony, depending. After causing enough destruction, they will proceed as a normal raid to converge on your colony. Valid targets appear to be colonists and buildings but not player owned animals.  

Enemies capable of drop pods have a chance of launching a raiding party onto the map via said pods at random points scattered around the map. Due to the fact they can drop through roofs, this type of attack can be incredibly devastating, as they can bypass all of your external defenses and immediately start setting fires, attacking colonists, and destroying furniture. The layout of your base and the room they choose to drop in can also make it very difficult to set up a sufficient defense, as they may drop into an extremely unfortunate location, such as a cramped storage room with lots of things to burn and destroy, and no good way to attack them beyond filing all of your fighting colonists into the room and hoping for the best or attempting to shoot through the door. While the raiders themselves will most likely be easy enough to kill, it is likely they will have ample opportunity to cause tons of damage before they can be stopped. Setting up ample fire defenses and having a defense plan for all potential drop points can help limit the amount of damage they can cause, although it’s almost guaranteed they will be able to cause at least some damage if they drop directly into a room.

Raiders will sometimes start by standing around in a group where they spawned and will continue this until they see a [[colonist]] nearby or they hit a certain preparation time limit, at which point they begin the assault. Because a colonist can set them off early, you can plan out the time you want them to attack. It is generally best to set them off early if you're well-prepared, to avoid potentially troublesome scenarios such as having no power when their timer runs out. Conversely, you should not set them off early if your defense is not prepared. Note that raiders usually take less than one day to begin, meaning that if there is an eclipse and you rely on [[Buildings#Solar generator|solar generators]], you should not wait for them and should instead set them off early while you still have some power left.

Mechanoids have much differing stats and weapons, meaning different tactics may be used.

The inferno cannon is not as directly destructive towards your colonists, but is dangerous due to the [[fire]] it spreads - destroying defenses and bases, causing burning pawns to run out of cover, and preventing movement. Keep watch on your colonists at all times, and remember to send them back into cover when needed. As a precaution, build your base out of non-flammable materials to prevent large-scale fires erupting all over your colony.