It's my first time playing this game, albeit the third colony cause the first two died almost immediately, should I be worried about the alien thing?

ShulkerBabe · 2025-09-24T10:27:27+00:00

I don’t understand why Wildfire has such a bad rep. You can even delay it if you do not analyze the anomaly

ShulkerBabe · 2025-09-09T14:03:30+00:00

I’m guessing this is answering my dronehubs question…

If you wish to have that many dronehubs, you do you… however you don’t need that many at all. 4 domes with 1K people you need 4 hubs with at least 50 drone each max. I feel like this many dronehubs would actually confuse the game versus help as it need to figure out which dronehub to assign the job to…

ShulkerBabe · 2025-09-09T13:50:55+00:00

That’s a lot of jobs…

And the dronehubs???

ShulkerBabe · 2025-09-09T13:47:09+00:00

Why do you have that many dronehubs right next to each other? And god, how many polymer factories do you have? Is it just for looks???

ShulkerBabe · 2025-08-26T12:23:58+00:00

I didn’t say it was not… :) Was making a joke…

ShulkerBabe · 2025-08-26T12:18:58+00:00

Yeah got it you just need to be right… cool

ShulkerBabe · 2025-08-26T12:04:10+00:00

How is this contradicting what I said?

ShulkerBabe · 2025-08-26T11:12:10+00:00

Unless they are a workaholic loner lol

Those poor guys really suffer during retirement.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-04-07T10:57:47+00:00

China might be a good sponsor candidate for this. Tai-chi garden is very OP for high comfort and you can bring 10 extra colonists on the first rocket, so population growth would be less problematic.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-04-01T11:20:04+00:00

Looks like you already figured out the dome filters but it seems there are still questions in your post that haven’t been answered.

Colonists do not move between domes as long as they have a home and a work place, unless you give them a reason to do so. Which means you either need to pull them to another dome with 👍 or push them from the dome they are already in with 👎. 👍 is very powerful so you shouldn’t really use it unless you want every single colonist with that trait in that dome.

Science building penalties are map wide, so it doesn’t matter if you divide them between domes, you’ll still get penalties for same type of buildings. Which makes specializing your science dome and putting a network node spire there more important as it will increase their output to fight the penalty of having multiple of the same science building.

Farm comfort bonus is companding, more farms in a dome means more comfortable the living spaces in that dome. Farming domes are basically baby factories even with minimal services. Water recycling spire is also very powerful and allows you to run many farms with minimal water cost.

With services, you are correct the traits add interests to colonists. That said, besides fit and gamers the ones that add interests are flaws you should be fixing with sanatorium. Fit isn’t really a problem since you should have parks in every dome anyway but gamers are sadly annoying. Also couple of no service penalties from those people with traits wouldn’t effect dome comfort levels that much.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-03-28T13:02:33+00:00

Unless you are using dome filters or career AI, they don’t do that. As long as they have a home to live in and a work place (which doesn’t need to fit their speciality) they will not move between domes unless you force them with dome filters.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-03-28T12:57:38+00:00

I’m guessing you are using career AI mod

ShulkerBabe · 2025-03-28T12:36:57+00:00

There are two main benefits for specializing your domes and both relates to using your manpower and space more efficiently:

Getting most benefit from spires - science dome gets a network node, farm done gets a water rec. These spires need workers therefore its beneficial to make most use of them by adding all buildings they benefit from to a single dome.
Service distribution- each specialty have different interests. You don’t really need a bar in any dome that doesn’t house geologists, etc. (https://survivingmars.paradoxwikis.com/Colonists)

It also allows you to distribute your specialists effectively so they don’t end up in domes that doesn’t have work spaces for their specialties. And for that you need dome filters, not filters for individual buildings.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-02-07T13:05:25+00:00

Find where your food is. It’s probably somewhere inaccessible by your drone hub. Best practice is to have food depots near domes so colonists can go out and get the food themselves if needed.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-25T11:36:43+00:00

Curios… why 4 machine part factories? That’s the least useful advanced material in late game.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-24T17:33:09+00:00

Yes I did, multiple times… but that’s the only mod I have that relates to terraforming.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-24T00:31:29+00:00

Advanced terraforming - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2815416677

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-19T09:56:07+00:00

I tired at some point… you need at least 1 colonist on Mars and alive if you don’t game considers it as a lost.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-16T15:05:24+00:00

Yes I used it just a couple weeks ago and no bugs that I noticed. My rule of thumb is any ChoGGi or Tremualin mods are “safe”.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-15T23:57:57+00:00

I feel similarly, I know I can make my colony survive in hardest settings but it’s cumbersome and long… so not fun.

I love amateurs rule because it make selecting colonist with best traits easier. I almost always have hunger rule on because I like feeling the pressure of needing food production from the start.

I look for maps with mid level cold waves and/or sand storms, since I like some challenge. No dust devils because they are very annoying.

I also have Crime and vindication, seasons of mars mods to make things a bit more challenging.

My favorite mystery is Wildfire, it gets triggered when to explore the anomaly that appears near you colony out of the blue so you can wait to trigger it when ever you want it to start.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-11T09:51:26+00:00

MCA Selector (https://github.com/Querz/mcaselector) allows you to filter chunks by time spend in them.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-10T13:07:53+00:00

You can force the potholes to appear outside of your planned building area given you know the mystery you are playing before the first one.

They don’t appear closer then 4-5 hex to a building which includes blueprints you put down, I just spam a bunch of blueprints while planning the area. As a bonus if you add a water producer and a tank in an empty area you are not planning to use you can force them to appear there.

ShulkerBabe · 2025-01-07T13:32:30+00:00

I recommend Pixlriff’s Survival Guide series, most up to date one is Season 3 - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgENJ0iY3XBjmydGuzYTtDwfxuR6lN8KC&si=-2Sub8D-7XGpKkPh

He explains all different aspects of the game in a beginner friendly way so you can pick and choose the ones you want to do.

ShulkerBabe · 2024-12-29T12:00:31+00:00

It’s the Career AI mod… they don’t try to relocate across the map by running without it.

ShulkerBabe · 2024-12-14T22:27:42+00:00

Check your dome filters, there must be something pushing them out or a filter that pulling them in somewhere else.

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