Rimworld Royalty brings some new mechanics to the survival game: a ruling empire and the ability to use psychic amplifiers and psycasts. The system is a bit complicated, but at its simplest level, you can have one of your survivors rise through the empire’s ranks. Each provides benefits to your colony, but also comes with a lot of requirements and does make the person unable to do certain tasks. Royalty is above menial labor apparently. Our Rimworld Royalty Titles Guide will explain how titles work, what the requirements are for each, why you want to upgrade titles, and what abilities are unlocked each step of the way.
What Are Rimworld Titles?
Royal titles are bestowed by the empire, increasing a colonists rank within the social hierarchy. Each title comes with benefits, but it also makes the title holder more pompous and demanding. Not only will they need nicer rooms and better food, but they may also issue decrees and orders, and make inspiring or demoralizing speeches.
Your colonist needs a Rimworld Title to use Psycasts without angering the empire.
What Are Psycasts?
Psycasts are basically psychic powers. A colonist with a pychic amplifier can use their psycasts to pacify and defeat foes, blind enemies, mind-control units, or even block pain sensation. Higher level psycasts can teleport objects and people, induce mass vomiting, drive animals or enemies berserk, and make allies temporarily invisible.
What is the Rimworld Empire?
The Empire is an honor-bound culture with incredibly advanced technology. Think plasma swords, Zeus-like hammers, and even weapons that can communicate with the wielder. They also embrace body modifications such as drill arms, skin hardening glands, and nuclear stomachs, whatever that is.
How Do I Increase My Rimworld Royalty Title?
In general, you earn better royal titles by completing quests given by the Empire. These are procedurally generated and can ask you to host guests or prisoners, build and defend a structure, send out colonists to assist allies, explore nearby sites, or defeat challenging foes.
What Are the Rimworld Title Requirements?
There are seven different attainable Rimworld titles.
Freeholder (0 Psychic Amplifiers)
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- Royal Favor Required: 1
Yeoman (1 Psychic Amplifiers)
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- Royal Favor Required: 7
Esquire (2 Psychic Amplifiers)
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- Royal Favor Required: 13
- Incapable of: Cleaning
- Throne Room Requirements: 24 tiles, all floored, 2 braziers (must be lit)
- Bedroom Requirements: 16 tiles, all floored, double bed
- Food Requirements: Simple meal or better, Pemmican, insect jelly, milk, berries, ambrosia, chocolate, beer
- Clothing Requirements: Ruffle shift, Top hat
- Ability: Call Trooper Squad
Knight/Dame (3 Psychic Amplifiers)
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- Royal Favor Required: 21
- Incapable of: Cleaning, Plant Cutting, Hauling
- Throne Room Requirements: 30 tiles, 60 impressiveness, throne, all floored, 2 braziers (must be lit), 2 columns, a harp
- Bedroom Requirements: 24 tiles, 40 impressiveness, all floored, double bed, end table, dresser
- Food Requirements: Fine meal or better, insect jelly, milk, berries, ambrosia, chocolate, beer
- Clothing Requirements: Ruffle shift, Top hat
- Ability: Trade with Empire caravans and settlements
Praetor (4 Psychic Amplifiers)
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- Royal Favor Required: 31
- Incapable of: Cleaning, Plant Cutting, Hauling, Growing, Mining
- Throne Room Requirements: 40 tiles, 90 impressiveness, throne, all floored, 2 braziers (must be lit), 4 columns, a harp
- Bedroom Requirements: 24 tiles, 50 impressiveness, all floored, double bed, end table, dresser
- Food Requirements: Fine meal or better, insect jelly, milk, berries, ambrosia, chocolate, beer
- Clothing Requirements: Ruffle shift, Top hat
- Ability: Call Janissary squad
Baron/Baroness (5 Psychic Amplifiers)
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- Royal Favor Required: 45
- Incapable of: Cleaning, Plant Cutting, Hauling, Growing, Mining, Cooking, Constructing, Smithing, Handling, Tailoring, Crafting
- Throne Room Requirements: 60 tiles, 120 impressiveness, grand throne, all fine floored, 2 braziers (must be lit), 4 columns, 2 drapes, a harp
- Bedroom Requirements: 30 tiles, 70 impressiveness, all floored, royal bed, end table, dresser, drape
- Food Requirements: Lavish meal or better, insect jelly, milk, berries, ambrosia, chocolate, beer
- Clothing Requirements: Ruffle shift, Royal vest/Corset, Coronet
- Ability: Call Cataphract squads, trade with Imperial orbital traders, gain a free psycast amplifier via transport pod on promotion
Count/Countess (6 Psychic Amplifiers)
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- Royal Favor Required: 65
- Incapable of: Cleaning, Plant Cutting, Hauling, Growing, Mining, Cooking, Constructing, Smithing, Handling, Tailoring, Crafting, Art, Hunting, Research, Basic Tasks, Doctoring, Firefighting
- Throne Room Requirements: 80 tiles, 160 impressiveness, grand throne, all fine floored, 2 braziers (must be lit), 6 columns, 2 drapes, a piano
- Bedroom Requirements: 30 tiles, 80 impressiveness, all fine floored, royal bed, end table, dresser, drape
- Food Requirements: Lavish meal or better, insect jelly, milk, berries, ambrosia, chocolate, beer
- Clothing Requirements: Ruffle shift, Royal vest/Corset, Coronet, Royal robe
- Ability: Gain a free psycast amplifier via transport pod upon promotion
There are four additional NPC titles in: Duke/Duchess, Consul, Stellarch, and Emperor/Empress. Each has the same requirements as Count/Countess above.
And that’s it! Climbing these ranks depends on your efforts towards completing Imperial quests. So get grinding if you want to use psycasts!
