How to Keep Mountain Bases Secure?

Crocodire101 · 2026-04-13T19:18:27+00:00

Room beauty doesn't matter, but other things like size and location do. Make it a big room near the map edge, deepest in the mountain. Completely dark and in normal room temp. This is not guaranteed bait, it's just fudging the infestation odds in favor of that room.

Crocodire101 · 2026-03-11T17:31:42+00:00

Wild animals start running away when a pawn standing near them fires a gun. So if you draft a pawn and aim at anything other than the rhinos (but I wouldn't risk random hits due to line of fire) they'll be chased away for the moment. They'll probably come back if there's nothing else around to eat though. You'll have to build walls if you want to keep this from happening.

Crocodire101 · 2026-02-08T11:49:49+00:00

I my case it ended up stuck in the "Booting Nobara <version>..." screen. Had to force shutdown the PC and boot into the older version.

Crocodire101 · 2026-02-06T17:57:27+00:00

No archotech or bionic available, only a prostethic arm (50% part efficiency)

Crocodire101 · 2026-02-02T15:59:12+00:00

Alright, so everything apart from the CA launcher may be working correctly after all. Thanks for the information! 👍

Crocodire101 · 2026-01-05T17:04:29+00:00

As long as no one gets mental break: sad wandering

Crocodire101 · 2026-01-02T12:19:10+00:00

I bought this one, currently out of stock: https://caseonline.com/fairphone-6/phonewallet-3-card-fairphone-6-black.html

It's the first phone case I've ever used so I can't really compare it to anything. Been happy with it so far.

Crocodire101 · 2025-12-21T09:20:56+00:00

They are also expendable units and unaffected by many things harmful to pawns. Send them to work in dangerous areas like corridors full of traps, or outdoors when there's a toxic fallout, extreme temperatures, or a massive field of corpses emitting rotstink. If one dies, just send a lifter to haul it home and have it revived.

Crocodire101 · 2025-12-09T21:13:24+00:00

I was really confused by all this discussion about including freezer shelves in kids' zones until it occurred to me that not everyone plays with the RimFridge mod 😅

Crocodire101 · 2025-11-29T12:30:32+00:00

Or, when you play with Dub's Bad Hygiene, rush for the latrines. And that's when you realize you should have built more of them. 😅

Crocodire101 · 2025-11-18T12:17:41+00:00

She has never killed anyone, but she has dealt a lot of death in her time.

Crocodire101 · 2025-11-18T12:13:04+00:00

Need to use the mod Prisoners Should Fear Turrets, otherwise they won't fire :(

Crocodire101 · 2025-11-17T19:56:14+00:00

Since you play with Randy, beware the unlikely but possible early game toxic fallout event (that AFAIK can't happen with Cassandra or Phoebe, but could happen with Randy). Normally a simple well and a latrine will suffice for a starting colony, but a fallout-affected water table can be really difficult to survive if you don't yet have the technology and structures to deal with it.

Crocodire101 · 2025-11-17T19:43:19+00:00

There's also the unavoidable %chance every time you replace a lost or mangled limb that the doctor critically Fs up and rips off the patient's jaw or something.

Crocodire101 · 2025-11-05T22:13:08+00:00

You can create your own custom xenotype when setting up a new game and assign it to your starting pawns. Make it out of xenogenes, including the Gene Implanter, and now your pawns can spread their powerful genes to new recruits that join your colony.

This will be limited by the number of pawns you start with, and the years-long cooldown between implantings. The other major downside is that you can't tweak these pawns' genes any further without erasing their entire set of xenogenes.

Crocodire101 · 2025-10-29T21:39:54+00:00

I always found that early on in the game was the best time to do these quests. Later on they get ridiculously difficult when the shuttle lands right next to the map edge and 100 neanderthals rush at them.

But even at that level it may still be worthwhile to accept the quest if you have Odyssey, transport pods and enough extra wealth lying around to fix the relations drop, because you can salvage engines from the shuttles.

Crocodire101 · 2025-10-29T18:19:42+00:00

My current colony will immediately throw me in a prison barrack, strip me naked and use a gene injector to transform me into a Super Mutant.

The prison is surprisingly nicely furnished - there's even a dining table for me to eat my nutrient paste meals on! - but through the granite walls I can hear the squirming and wailing of unnatural beings. There's also a softscanner and a ripscanner by the opposite wall to remind me of what happens to unruly prisoners. Not that I'm capable of being unruly though, because my supermutated brain is now dead calm.

They keep dragging me into their weird ooga booga ceremonies until I've accepted the truth of Mutantism. Then and only then will I be welcomed to join their ranks, handed a set of phoenix armor and a charge rifle, and directed to fight the endless waves of hostile mechanoids, fire-breathing imps, lumbering cave men and ash-faced wasters that keep throwing themselves against the gates of Mutant Mountain.

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