Rimatomics Research

Access the Rimatomics research window from the main tabs along the bottom or the tab on selected research consoles. You select a project on the left, then you purchase the project with silver to unlock it, then press the start button to start the project, then work your way through each of the projects individual steps until it is completed.

You can run multiple projects at the same time by selecting different benches and pressing start on the project, active projects are marked with a small white dot in the list.

There are many different types of project steps, the most basic kind is a normal research step where a researcher has to stand at the bench and work like vanilla research, there can be versions of this that require different skills such as crafting or construction.

Some steps require pawns to work at facilities such as weapon research benches or research reactors, 2 pawns can work on these jobs together to speed it up.

There are construction steps where you are required to build certain buildings and set them up in a specific way to complete the task, such as connecting the right kinds of pipes from 1 building to another.

The reactors have a unique construction phase where after constructing the building you will notice the graphic is of an unfinished core with tools laying around, up to 2 constructors must perform more construction work on the core to finish it during this step, it also needs power for the tools.

Some upgrade projects for energy weapons such as ERS are blueprint upgrades, meaning once completed any new weapons built will have those upgrades by default, but existing weapons will need to be manually upgraded.