
🛠️ RimWorld update history
Official announcements the developer posts on Steam—patches, new content, and events—sorted by date. Click a title to read the full post.
October 2026
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10/13Tue🛠️ Patch / update v1.7Announcing the Waylith Engine and Update 1.7
Hey everyone, big news today! We’re announcing update 1.7, which moves RimWorld from Unity to the Waylith Engine, our own in-house engine built by Ludeon Studios. The game looks and plays exactly the …
June 2026
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6/9Tue🛠️ Patch / update v1.6.4850Update 1.6.4850 released
Hey everyone, we’re back with a small update for RimWorld and the expansions today. Check out the changelog below. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. Have a bug to report? Y…
October 2025
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10/31Fri🛠️ Patch / update v1.6.4630Update 1.6.4630 released
BOO! Happy Halloween! 🎃💀 On this spooky day, we’ve got a small RimWorld update loaded with fixes. They’re listed below in the changelog. This update should be compatible with all savegames and mods. H…
August 2025
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8/29Fri🛠️ Patch / update v1.6.4566Update 1.6.4566 improves gravships, shuttles, and more
Hello everyone, we’ve got a content update for RimWorld today! Gravships have received some quality-of-life changes. The new gravship launch interface lets you get your colony's animals and mechanoids…
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8/6Wed🛠️ Patch / update v1.6.4543Update 1.6.4543 released
Hi everyone, we just released a small update for RimWorld. Have you reached Odyssey’s ending? There’s now a new epic song that plays! We also fixed an issue where quest shuttles attempted to land on w…
July 2025
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7/29Tue🛠️ Patch / update v1.6.4535Update 1.6.4535 released
Hello, we’re back with another update for RimWorld! If you need to report a bug, or you’re having a problem while playing, please join us on the official RimWorld development Discord. Today’s update f…
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7/23Wed🛠️ Patch / update v1.6.4528Update 1.6.4528 released
Hello! It’s been almost 2 weeks since Odyssey came out, and we’ve been hard at work fixing bugs and incorporating your feedback. If you’d like to help us by reporting a bug, please join the official R…
Source: official Steam announcements (updated every 6–24 hours). Titles and summaries are copyright of the original developers.