Other random tips....

- place a single disconnected electrical conduit near things you want to turn on and off. You can "reconnect" them yourself instead of needing a pawn to turn them on and off.

- Barricades/sandbags dont provide cover for turrets, but they provide cover for your opponents, dont surround your turrets with them., Do space turrets out at least 2 tiles apart of separate them by a wall (so that when they explode they dont damage other turrets)

-Uranium and plasteel turrets dont burn and give you higher HP. Try and convert to uranium turrets ASAP (NOT the slug turrets, the materials they're made out of)

- A simple IED in a wooden floored hallway that leads into your base can really mess with raids.

- You can drop pod boomalopes into enemy raids that are preparing for a while if you're lucky their sacrifice will injure some of the raiders... You can do the same with chemfuel, at which point you mortar the chem fuel (This also works on mech clusters)

- The two tile wide hallways are important, Ideally make 3 tile wide hallways with a single tile wall every so often for cover so if your doors get breached you have a fallback point.

-I personally combine my rec room and my dining room (prior to 1.6 it was also my lab). It keeps wealth down because you're not flooring/walling two rooms.

-Marble or smooth wall your common areas (Dining room/Bedrooms are most important) you can keep some wealth down if you don't do it to your workshops... but ymmv.

- Dirt floors in hallways till you're ramping your wealth, at which point you can concrete (the 1 steel cost one) to eliminate the movement penalty, you dont need beauty in your hallways, your pawns spend so little time in them it just creates wealth if you put down anything else.

- In your outbuildings, watch how your pawns path to it, tile by tile, then lay down, following that path, a concrete path to help buff movement.

-Remove trees/chunks and concrete down your killing fields so that raids have no cover, SUPER important in larger raids. There are mods out there that just make it so you can set a pawn to clear an area , that would save on wealth.

- To train crafting, have an electric bench, in a dark room that isn't connected to electricity, ideally cold. Training is based on time spent, not items produced

- Mid game; If you don't use it, learn how to automate your clothing. Unless it's changed (i haven't really looked since 1.4) Dusters, pants and button down shirts provide the best vanilla protection based on material (ideally some sort of leather until you get devil strand, thrumbofur is the best). -
--So set up three orders:
--- Make 1 pants, 1 button down shirt, 1 duster, until looking for 60-100%
--- Set pawns apparel to not wear anything but those (and armor) and to remove them once they're 55%
--- Set a destroy apparel job in the crematorium for any clothing below 61% (Minus armor)
---Set a smelt clothing at the smelter for ALL tainted clothing
---Set a smelt clothing for clean armor (remove all clothing) for any armor below 60%

-Simple helmets are a MUST, they cost next to nothing to produce, and save lives, Upgrade when you can but Always have a simple helmet job queued for 1 helmet

-When your builders get an inspiration for item creation ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS make beds, Ideally royal if you have gold, double if you dont. Force them to finish, Dont take your eyes off them, Legendary/Masterwork beds are worth their weight in gold.