Rimworld Odyssey: What Are Vacuum Barriers and Vacsuits

Vacuum barriers and vacsuits protect against vacuum in Rimworld Odyssey. Read this article to learn how to create these useful items.

Use your mobile base to find a suitable fishing spot (Source: Ludeon Studios)
Use your mobile base to explore the world (Source: Ludeon Studios)

In Rimworld Odyssey, you travel to different places with the help of your mobile base. This game features various biomes, each with its own unique life forms and environments. Traversing between planets is all fun until you realize that your colonist can die if you are careless.

This game features vacuum zones near locations such as derelict stations and asteroids. These zones can deplete your oxygen levels if your pawns are not protected properly. To counter this, Rimworld Odyssey has vacuum barriers and vacsuits. Every adventurer should know about them, and this article will help you.

In this article, we explain what vacuum barriers and vacsuits do in Rimworld Odyssey.

Read more: Rimworld Odyssey: How To Get and Use Sentient Catalyst.

What are Vacuum Barriers and Vacsuits in Rimworld Odyssey

Explore new planets and capture some fishes in this expansion pack (Source: Ludeon Studios)
Craft these items to survive vacuum (Source: Ludeon Studios)

To protect your colonists from freezing death, you need some vacuum barriers and vacsuits. Both of these items help in protecting your pawns by sealing off the vacuum. Let’s see what item they require to materialize.

Vacuum Barriers

This is a type of barrier that seals off an open area from vacuum. You can use this structure to create oxygen rooms, airlocks, and seal leaks. Note that vacuum barriers only protect an area from vacuum, and you need an oxygen source to breathe. Here’s what you need to build this structure:

  • Research: Orbital Tech
  • Construction Skill: 6
  • Material:

Also read: Rimworld Odyssey: How To Get Gravcores.

Vacsuits

Unlike vacuum barriers, a vacsuit is not a structure but a bodysuit that helps in traversing through vacuum. Even though this suit is heavy, it can save your life in dire situations. You can use some movement buffs to counter the speed penalty. To build a vacsuit, you need the following items:

  1. Research: Orbital Tech
  2. Created at: Machining Table
  3. Materials:
    • 90 Steel
    • 30 Plasteel
    • 3 Components

Read More: Rimworld Odyssey: How To Get and Use Gravity Anchor.


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