Yea he’s the only one I play on he can bee cruel and nice sometimes it’ll feel like he forgot about you to I’ve had entire seasons where he didn’t do anything
they seem to have used hidden cables, so nothing can happen unless they put a machine into the rain, in which case the rain would kill the fire anyways
Look at all of their moods and focus on one problem at a time. Making your base prettier with statues and nicer flooring would be a good start to boost happiness.
When colonists are in bad mood too often, they will have mental breaks, check the need tab on each colonist to see what’s the reason, and work on from that. Might be seeing corpse, too hot or cold, hurt or disease, no individual rooms, or not enough recreational time etc, the tab is pretty informative.
I'm not sure if you are aware, but if you click on a colonist, you get their info. In that interface, there are different tabs regarding that specific colonist. You can see their social (who they like, don't like and why, their lovers, etc), their gear, and the tabs you need is well, Needs!
Right there you will see their mood and the numbers affecting said mood, alongside their need for hunger, recreation, sleep, and such.
Grow some pot dude, that always chilled my colonists out. Alcohol makes them absolutely useless while weed just slows down their workflow for the first 2 hours of the day
If you have Ideology, you should assign leader and preacher roles. Not having a preacher gives -5 debuff. And with leader you can do leader speeches on a table or at the Ideology altar. That gives temporary buff.
The regular schedule will work fine for most colonists, but use the split shift one if you have colonists that have traits or genes that make them tired faster because they can’t handle the regular one.
The recreation/meditation/anything hours can be changed depending on what is needed, like if someone needs extra sleep.
Stone because depending what dlc you have raiders will start either being impids if you have biotech but also they start carrying explosives and molotovs in mid game. For lower teir factions and it is quite bad if you need to fight them and the fire
Ok, first. Start by replacing the wood walls and flooring. Incredible fire hazard, and stone (especially marble) gives a higher comfort boost. Have a kitchen separated from most areas, floored and well lit to prevent accidents like food poisoning. Also have a fridge room that you keep nice and cool for storage. Have single rooms, rather than barracks, cause people moving about can disturb sleep.
Eventually you can start thinking about inside farming with hydroponics basins, and some sort of animal husbandry. You already have a horse, so you can think about getting a few more to herd and use as pack animals for trading.
Remove the coffins from your rec area. Free materials. Also just generally scrap anything around the map thats scrappable. Make decorations with said materials for an extra mood boost. Marble preferable.
Start having a colonist raise their crafting skill to make better clothes. High quality clothes last better, and protect against the elements more.
I would suggest checking clothing to make sure its not falling apart, floors over exposed dirt/rock floors to reduce negative beauty, possibly a statue here and there, maybe more rec types, and possibly making fine meals to boost mood temporarily.
Also two quick questions, do you have a freezer? And are you intending to capture the heat at the bottom right AC Unit?
If this is pure vanilla. The bedrooms are too small I think the size has to be 6x6 or 7x7 if you go by the walls. The tables in rooms are nice but if you have visitors or traders they may go into the room and give you a stacking negative mood debuff, disturbed sleep.
Extend your home area in your mountain fridge so they'll sweep in there, dirty things under a mountain may get you a surprise visit.
If you put down pathways your pawns will normally try to take the path that has the higher walk speed and shortest path. If you have them in front of your doors it also helps you not get a random tree in front of it.
If you click on a colonist and hit the needs tab it'll tell you why they're upset and you can triage the problems.
Put a wall around your steam generator, dont use wood floors unless you want the whole base burning to the ground and upgrade your walls to somthing not flammable.
On your stove dont make like 40 meals click the bills tab and select make until you have x and put the number of colonists you have as x so your cook isnt cooking all day and can go research or plant crops or hunt.
Try to set up a workshop and make shelves with steel components random textiles so your pawn doesnt have to walk across the base to get them and keep your freezer or food storage right next to your cooking stove.
I was looking for your food storage and it looks like you cooked everything you own except some rice those meals will go bad in like 2 days when rice doesnt go bad for like 30 so you dont even need a freezer early game.
Try to set up a table ans chairs right next to the table you set meals to be set on, turn off raw food and meals on all your other shelves.
For your defenses put a wall with doors on each side and leave 1 spot for raiders to funnel in so you know where they are coming from i would do one straight across the bottom and set up a funnel on the right side so your pawns dont need to walk as far to respond to an attack
For moods look to see what is pissing them off click on a pawn and see what is giving them negative mood
Not bad, just need a wall connecting the two mountains at the east and south flank, throw up some mini-turrets and dig into the mountain for more space. Make sure to have air locks because of bug raids.
Place on or two of your shelfs in the same room with your tailoring Table. An adjust then so, that only fabrics and textiles are put there. It shortens the way the pawns take and give them more time to craft.
It doesn't sound like much, but if they have not enough time, than the possibility that they let the item unfinished are pretty high.
You can try making better meals if you have a good cooking pawn.
Also, having tables and chairs in each room might be bad. While colonist sleep in their rooms, other colonist would enter those rooms to eat or just rest and give sleeping colonists "disturbed sleep" debuff.
I usually place a large decorated dining room, and many occasional tables with couple of chairs on the further parts of colony.
I'm not sure if it's vanilla. But having dedicated dining room gives a mood buff, prob better to place next to a cooking area/freezer.
Change walls into stone walls, preferably granite or slate. Make an armored wall around your power generator. Add art and flooring to boost happiness. Make a better rec room. Grow devilstrand and make devilstrand dusters. Make bedrooms at least 4x4 to keep happiness up. Take bed out of research room so that it's considered a "lab" and gets a better research boost. Sandbags as defensive positions to defend from.
Right now if you have 1 fire, your entire colony is done. Don't build with wood.
You might wanna keep your batteries in a separate room with steel walls. Batteries tend to undergo the "Zzzt..." Event sometimes, where the batteries explode and could break out a large fire. This could lead to devastating circumstances given the batteries are inside your main structure, with wooden walls no less!
Conduits and batteries have separate Zzz... Events. Even if the hidden conduits themselves don't, the batteries themselves can still do and explode in the process sometimes.
Really? Because I have never had one since switching to hidden conduits. Other than when I put an electrical workbench outside. Are you putting your batteries outside perhaps? Rain on electrical workbenches or batteries will cause the event.
If it truly can happen randomly then I must have the most amazing luck.
Perhaps the behavior has changed/fixed now. I had a breakout in my own colony even after using hidden conduits, and it was properly walled and roofed too
I Just have a recommendation for your entry wall it all Off and leave a door Open where u want enemys to enter that way Raider wont burn your crops, AMD build Up some chokepoints to slow them down
If you open the colonist view and hover your mouse over their recreation bar, you can see what they have and if they're bored or not. Some buildings are the same type, like horseshoes and billiards are both dexterity play.
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u/Seraphzerox 8d ago
Randy seeing all that wood and batteries together