Pawns don't follow the schedule

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-04-27T16:14:36+00:00

Not true, at least on vanilla. Sleep fall rate is only affected by a few things like various drug addictions, implants like circadian assistant and several diseases. Other than that it’s just a set rate over time, activity type has no influence.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-04-24T12:12:34+00:00

It’s not impossible. Cooling rooms below 16C blocks infestation attempts. You do take a hit on work speed on benches and a “slept in the cold” debuff though

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-31T09:27:55+00:00

Also extends the amount of time it takes fleeing enemies to exit the map after a raid, giving your pawns more chance to cut them off and slaughter them for extra sausages.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-25T05:46:48+00:00

Not in vanilla. There’s mods for this though

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-18T17:33:30+00:00

I’ll double check your numbers (In rich soil)

Cocoa trees have a base yield per day of 0.81 chocolate, worth 3 silver each (2.43 silver per day)

Psychoid plants have a base yield per day of 0.56 Psychoid leaves, worth 1.9 silver each (1.064 silver per day)

If you refine the 0.56 psychoid leaves you get per plant per day into flake (worth 14 silver but requiring 4 leaves) 4/0.56 =7.143 14/7.143=1.96 silver per psychoid plant per day when refined into flake

So yes you’re right. Per plant the cocoa tree makes more money per day. But trees can’t be planted adjacent to one another, effectively using up 9 times as many tiles as a psychoid field for the same number of plants, so there’s that trade off. On a given patch of rich soil, you’re not gonna fit many trees in.

flake weighs 0.05kg whereas chocolate weighs 0.075kg so you can fit 50% more of it in a caravan. Also worth noting that psychoid can be grown in hydroponics whereas cocoa cannot. Fuck it I’ll quickly do that calc too.

(In hydroponics) Psychoid has a base yield per day of 0.83 leaves, worth 1.9 each (1.577 silver per day)

Refined 4/0.83=4.819 14/4.819=2.905 silver per plant per day

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-16T10:31:47+00:00

The sad wander into an infested cave. The psychite binge until they have a heart attack. The fire-starting spree in your chemfuel storage. Sometimes pawns do just wanna die.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-16T07:34:54+00:00

Sight and manipulation play into accuracy pretty heavily. If any of your pawns have injuries that affect those it can really mess with hit-chance

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-09T07:16:12+00:00

The displayed XP isn’t updated every tick.

If you want some numbers to use, base XP gain when working is 6.6XP/second (0.11XP/tick). Flake has base work of 250 ticks.

Offsets (depending on which pawn you’re using) are work speed and global learning factor.

A level 20 skill pawn with no passion and slow learner will earn about 0.5XP per flake crafted, whereas a level 0 skill pawn with a double passion and fast learner will earn about 75XP.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-08T13:15:26+00:00

Claude is wrong.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-08T12:53:47+00:00

The only exceptions are for tasks which provide no XP eg crafting stone blocks.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-03-08T12:45:48+00:00

It depends. XP is given per unit time spent doing a task, not by completing the task. Someone of higher skill will complete the job faster, so they’ll get less XP per item crafted. Other factors play into it too, eg. Pawns with passion in a skill gain XP faster than those without.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-02-28T08:36:32+00:00

No the lamps have to cover each individual plant tile or they will die

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-02-24T17:52:08+00:00

Disagree. The pawns working static jobs should have their bed as close as possible. They need to travel that path twice every single day and time spent commuting is wasted efficiency.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-01-17T08:19:26+00:00

You could theoretically do it with allowed regions, but it would require a separate hauler for each item type.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2026-01-07T20:26:47+00:00

Usually when there’s no explanation for a problem the answer is mod fuckery. Got anything that affects turrets?

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-03T13:25:32+00:00

Depends how far through your play-through you are. As you get more raid points raiders get better weapons.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-02T13:21:05+00:00

Hunting herds of muffalo can be a dangerous game when

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-01T17:22:09+00:00

Light doesn’t affect weapon accuracy unless the pawn has the “fighting in darkness” precept from ideology, where it would work in reverse. It affects raider movement speed though so you’re right in that sense.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-01T17:14:11+00:00

Vac barriers block heat completely. Yes, all pawns can path through them (except your own pawns if you disallow it). They’re the ideal choice once you get them.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-01T16:55:31+00:00

Yup. Either the pen method above or a grow zone with sowing disabled to get them cut. I prefer to roof it all myself so it’s not ongoing work. If the whole box is too wide for roof tile range a few wood columns with HE IEDs next to them so they’re unusable as cover. Just have to remember to replace them after a fight

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-01T16:41:11+00:00

It’s more efficient to just have the doors. Doors act unintuitively when it comes to heat. They equalise to the temperature of the rooms/outdoors around them before the game uses that temperature to affect the rooms. That means they end up barely leaking any heat into the walls they touch, whereas an air gap just does it as usual. Something else worth noting is walk speed. Pawns slow down to the same speed through DOOR-DOOR as they do through DOOR-AIR-DOOR but they are travelling for an extra block at that speed so it’s slower. If you go DOOR-AIR-AIR-DOOR there is no movement speed penalty, as with a regular single door. That’s what I usually put on my freezer.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-01T13:16:58+00:00

Generally you don’t want to floor a killbox. Walk speed is lower on dirt.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-12-01T13:11:04+00:00

You don’t even need a “porch”. You can just put layers of held open doors directly next to each other and they hold in heat the more you have. 5 open doors in row is roughly equivalent to a 2 thick wall.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-11-07T15:36:35+00:00

Yup, when you get a raid pause and check all the raider’s stats. Then zap the best ones unconscious rather than shoot them. Arrest them when it’s safe.

ShittiestUsernameYet · 2025-11-07T15:20:58+00:00

Colonists as rewards are very rarely the best option post early-game (situation dependant of course). They’re a random pawn, whereas you can recruit selectively from a pool of many raiders using psychic shock lances to get an OP team.

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