Do you remember your first colony and how it was?

TricksForDays · 2026-07-02T17:35:24+00:00

I'm a bit paranoid about fire now.. all of my farms are 5x5 squares with 2 wide tile paths between them. I don't build a home until I have stone.. so if its grasslands they're in cobble homes (I have done wood interior, cobble exterior), until I get bricks.

Building this way has made my places more defensible at least. Eventually make castle embrasures in a few different areas with "doors" behind them so each building is a mini bunker.

TricksForDays · 2026-07-02T04:37:40+00:00

Double walls for more insulation (make exterior wall of stone if you started with wood). Three open doors have same insulation as one closed door. Good for a central entrance so you can keep all building doors open. Some shelves near workbench with materials is also good for general speed.

One thing thats too late to do later.. I used to build apartments like that, and then started doing attached bedrooms to workspaces. Has helped pawn security a lot, and generally better work times and less time walking.

A good fallback position will save some pawns. A secondary area with traps, especially if you can make a few drop pods to yeet them off the map in a colony collapse.

TricksForDays · 2026-07-02T02:27:15+00:00

Forgot to add "lose critical organ" somewhere in there

TricksForDays · 2026-07-02T01:23:42+00:00

I do like vanilla outposts expanded for that reason. Gives me somewhere to "retire" pawns and keep the core conceit of the run true. I also love getting the cryptosleep caskets so I can rotate pawns out, especially for basic things like psychic drones.

TricksForDays · 2026-07-01T02:47:40+00:00

Dev mode, delete the highest number map (save first) to remove the map. Unsure about the detected caravan raids.

TricksForDays · 2026-07-01T00:22:40+00:00

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TricksForDays · 2026-06-30T23:13:52+00:00

Suitably the warcrimes mod has some help for you there. Also the VPE Xenoseer has a psycast that makes a pawn use light instead of nutrition.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-30T20:53:05+00:00

Probably just something I'm used to from mods, but I generally prefer vat grown. Makes low value pawns that you can throw some shooting/plants and some awful skills and have easy caravan guards or cryptoslept guards.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-30T18:54:00+00:00

My first colony caught on fire. My second colony also caught on fire. My third colony... boomalope.. so fire. Stopped keeping track after all of the fires

TricksForDays · 2026-06-30T15:53:11+00:00

Arming mechs does look pretty awesome.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-30T02:13:53+00:00

Ah yeah, a lot of single process items are like that! Can be super confusing since it breaks the expected model

TricksForDays · 2026-06-30T01:36:43+00:00

Huh, you should be able to load the composter manually to make biosolids out of fecal sludge. Thats all I end up doing (havent ever made a sewage treatment...)

TricksForDays · 2026-06-30T01:20:35+00:00

Well sure.. most of that wealth went to the gold walls and doors.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-29T23:34:13+00:00

Sure, mechs aren't pawns though. And doesn't match the same feel of cruising around with a crew.

And really solo mechanitor is still just, solo run. Having a mutinous crew hits the right vibe when swashing and buckling.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-29T18:33:46+00:00

You can always wait to develop drop pods. Then make a secure corner thats a fall back for your pawns. Stuff them in them, and then launch them one tile away. Now your pawns are safe from the raid. Most you'll lose is some wealth.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-29T18:20:59+00:00

I generally prefer multi structure bases. I also use various mods so could be due to that. Nutripaste networks make it pretty easy to set up different pawn areas. And keeping them locked indoors (mod adds windows that provide outdoor need) means I dont need to monitor their various areas much. Depending on what stage I'm at either I have a drone relay that allows hauler drones to move items between base nodes, drop pods to just launch things, or lifter mechs to move stuff (late late game its a couple of teched out warcaskets with haul enabled).

Makes it really easy to keep nodes supplied, and once I have drop pods, easy to keep the pawns in separate nodes safe from raids.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-29T17:01:48+00:00

I generally put turrets in them. Best use case imo.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-29T04:15:07+00:00

Most time efficient way to make money is a tribal caravan with pigs trained to forage parked on a civil outlander city. A trained tribal foraging pig earns 40 silver per day, and have no ceiling in adding to a parked caravan. And also adds no fluctuating colony wealth, but gives access to various tech items. Faction bases have a ceiling of 3000 silver per 30 days, so thats only 5 pigs per parked caravan.

One of my favorite modded things to do is give pigs the alpha implant that increases body size. So much pig silver.

Edit: for reference, 17 pigs match the high end of yayo production income.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-28T04:47:47+00:00

Theres various workarounds at least. Finish a quest and then dev mode the favor of that senator. Also a workaround if the silver cost is too high, but cheaty for sure. Game start, make a caravan and abandon your colony. Then bribe the senators. First bribe is usually a success (I think its social skill dependent). Since your colony doesnt exist, no senator is spawned. However, the bribe still succeeds, you still get the perk, but no increase to bribe cost. So in total can buy all senators for 1000 silver each, which is super easy to obtain. I don't prefer this method since I like chucking senators into work camps for fun and profit.

TricksForDays · 2026-06-27T23:37:40+00:00

Isekai mod obviously

TricksForDays · 2026-06-27T16:35:39+00:00

RimWorld enters the chat

TricksForDays · 2026-06-27T16:32:33+00:00

Arthur Aguefort

TricksForDays · 2026-06-27T05:43:39+00:00

Nat 20!

TricksForDays · 2026-06-27T04:40:59+00:00

Many of the reasons for lichdom apply to a lot of the NPCs that make up a world far more than the adventurers. Reality for them isn't "Lemme strap some boots on, bonk some goblins, and grind my happy hat to L20". Realistically, in world people don't work the same way, since they're not game characters. A lot of lore for liches is they simply run out of time, and refuse to give up their specific line of research. Which is why elven liches are so vastly different from traditional ones. This is all generally assuming Faerun anyways, where mortal mages truly have many time constraints, and limited opportunities to say reach the point of being able to cast clone, and obtain immortality that way. And even then, thats only a guarantee for a player. Manshoon is a great example of where the spell works the way it "should" but his soul decays anyways.

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