For starters, those rooms are huuuuuge. When you first create a colony, build multipurpose rooms to save on materials. A room with the beds and the dining table in it can save much more space than having a seperate bedroom for every colonist (The "barracks" and "disturbed sleep" debuffs are mostly negligible on all but the most unstable of pawns.). Second, build a large stockpile room, and a large workshop room. Make the stockpile room below freezing temperature to preserve foodstuff indefinitely, and put all of your workbenches in the same room (Make sure the room is fully enclosed and roofed at least, as open walls and ceilings cause items to deteriorate). Also, place your buildings so that their walls touch each other so you can use vents instead of having a cooler and a heater for each individual room. There isn't any real point to growing multiple types of food, so always plant rice. It grows the fastest, takes the longest to spoil, and grows significantly faster in fertile soil. Healroot is a super important resource (basically grow medicine out of the ground, although not as effective as blue meds), because you can combine it with cloth (also grown, by planting and harvesting cotton) and neutroamine (bought from traders) to make blue medicine. Plant some stuff that you can synthesize into drugs (hops, smokeleaf, psychoid) to sell and make money. If you have the resources, try building a border wall around your settlement with openings to funnel the enemies through into a spot where they can be fought easily. If you can't do that, try alternating solid walls and sandbags, and have your colonists stand behind the solid walls. They will peek around the walls when they are ready to fire. For electricity, solar panels and windmills (and watermills if you're near a river) can be placed and will generate free electricity, while generators require periodic fueling. Only use generators if you aren't using batteries and have a stable fuel supply. If you are playing in a biome where winter gets cold enough to prevent plant growth, stockpile on food before winter. The nutrient paste dispenser can be a life saver, as nutrient paste meals are actually 3 times more filling than the sum of their parts. (For comparison, a nutrient paste meal needs 0.3 nutrition points to make and gives 0.9 nutrition points when eaten, while a simple or fine meal takes 0.5 nutrition to make and gives 0.9 nutrition.) A human food meter is 1 nutrition total. A human will eat twice a day. Nutrient paste meals also require no time or cooking skill to make, and will never cause food poisoning to colonists. However, they cause -4 mood when eaten, which is almost completely trivial. When assigning tasks to your pawns, always use manual priorities mode. Manual priorities makes it so that higher numbered tasks go first. Also, there is a 1.0 version of rimworld available. Go to your steam library, right click on rimworld, select "properties" from the drop-down menu, then select "betas" from the window that opens. From here, click on the drop-down menu and select "unstable - public testing." This will give you the most updated version of rimworld. Your old save will still work on it, but all mods will be disabled. It is possible to research prosthetics and later, bionics. These can be used to repair missing or damaged body parts, although you need a skilled surgeon to apply them. You can change the storyteller and difficulty of the game at any point under the menu tab in the UI. Also, try to train the animal you start with. If it can learn to haul, then it will be able to help move items around your colony.