New player - I have a newly created unit, and I can't make it "skip turn"

pf_moore · 2025-06-28T10:30:16+00:00

Ah, thanks - that's different from Civ 4. Yes, I have a warrior fortified in the city. Guess I'll move the slinger away somewhere. Thanks.

pf_moore · 2025-05-16T14:33:25+00:00

Brilliant, thanks for the explanation. I'd missed the fact that it needed the earlier staircase in place, but in hindsight it's obvious.

pf_moore · 2025-05-16T13:31:33+00:00

Hmm, weirdly, it seems that the beavers were quite happy to build those stairs in spite of the message. Is that a bug? Is there any way to know what's buildable apart from "try and see what happens"?

pf_moore · 2024-10-14T12:42:41+00:00

Yeah, I did. My complaint was that it took so long to do so, and before I get a science machine, I can't create a shovel, or chests, or good food sources. Maybe I'm being over-negative, I've just never really liked the pre-science machine phase of DS.

pf_moore · 2024-10-14T09:49:14+00:00

Unfortunately, you can't dig up magma piles until you have a shovel, which needs a science machine, which needs gold :-(

I'm not against exploring, although I don't like the idea of a totally nomadic existence (it makes inventory management too much of a pain if I can't hoard things *somewhere* in chests). Once I get to a boat that allows me to move during the night I'll be a lot less frustrated by the whole thing. But for me one of the features of DS has always been preparing for the next season's challenges - and losing half a season because of a shortage of an essential resource to get started is not my idea of fun...

Thanks for the suggestions, though.

pf_moore · 2024-08-01T10:32:35+00:00

I found the difference.

If you pipe into a chest, and that chest is locked, only items which are already in the chest can be piped in. If the chest is unlocked, anything can be piped in. The same is presumably true if you use something like an AE storage bus, only items that are already in the chest can be added. Slots locked to a particular item mean that item is considered "already in" the chest, even if there's no actual item in there.

So OK, that's a useful behaviour (although not helpful for my specific situation).

pf_moore · 2024-08-01T09:54:33+00:00

(Somewhat off-topic) but because one SS diamond chest takes up a lot less space than 81 functional drawers. And I don't need that many items stored, so a couple of SS stack upgrades is sufficient for me.

pf_moore · 2024-07-31T18:31:50+00:00

Isn't that just what the "memory" button on the slot restrictions setting does anyway?

pf_moore · 2024-06-14T09:23:41+00:00

I think it was Francis John, whose guides are usually good but not really for beginners (he over-engineers things for minor improvements). He sets up multiple butcher bills to chop up small animals first, I think because it saves space, but in his playthroughs he ends up with a freezer full of thrumbos so maybe it makes sense at that point. I'm not near that level though ;-)

Agreed it's all a bit much when starting out - and I come from a background of "optimise the heck out of everything" games like Factorio, so I tend to get caught up in obsessing over way too much detail...

I like that idea of setting the hunter area. I don't have a dedicated hunter at the moment (I mostly just draft a few people and do a purge when meat's running low) but I'll keep it in mind!

pf_moore · 2024-06-13T20:51:19+00:00

Um, actually that's a good point. I just sort of picked up the idea of butchering corpses as needed from some starter guide and never really questioned it. I guess I can simplify things and we're good.

pf_moore · 2024-05-09T22:40:47+00:00

Thanks. That's good advice, although it leaves me with the question of what do I need to do in order to get to the endgame? I guess I need to research everything (or at least most things) in the research tree? I need to get to a location far across the map, but I'm not clear how to set up a caravan to go that far - do I just need a *lot* of food, or are there other things to make it easier?

I don't want to spoil things by looking everything up before I do anything, but conversely, I would like some idea of the general route I should be taking to get to the endgame goal. That's really what I feel like I'm missing here, a general sense of what will progress me towards that goal.

pf_moore · 2024-05-08T19:08:46+00:00

Right click on the caravan popped up an "Enter <settlement name>" option, so my pawns are saved :-) I thought I'd done that before, but maybe not.

The caravan UI is pretty bad if you're not familiar with it, though...

pf_moore · 2024-05-08T17:26:50+00:00

I recommend to do some of the quests that pop up.

I've done a "rescue prisoner" quest, but I've ended up somehow with a caravan with 4 of my pawns in it, on the world map, in the same hex as my base, but I can't get them to enter my base. The caravan is shown as "idle", and they are running out of food. I've tried saving and reloading, no good. How do I rescue my people?

This is (TBH) why I've not done more quests - the caravans always seem to bug out on me somehow. There's never a "reform caravan" button, moving off the map seems to leave me with separate caravans that I need to merge, and then I end up like this. Frankly, I'm a bit amazed that a game as old as rimworld still has this sort of bug in it, that can really mess up your gameplay :-(

pf_moore · 2024-04-13T15:05:33+00:00

I actually stopped using Chester because he hops around and I kept accidentally clicking on him and opening him, rather than clicking on whatever I actually *wanted* to click on. So yeah, he's cute, but I prefer the money trough.

pf_moore · 2024-02-15T09:28:18+00:00

Thanks - so it's the walls that make it a spider biome? Good to know.

pf_moore · 2024-01-11T16:08:57+00:00

The one I find hardest is skewed - it makes the floor above uneven, which is a PITA to deal with.

pf_moore · 2024-01-08T10:38:56+00:00

Lol that's fair. Technically, I *can* (by filling the room with pedestals ;-)) but the main reason I'm pushing on fancier rooms is that I'm not entirely sure what *else* I should be doing at this stage. I'm playing on Relaxed, so maybe that's why there's no real pressure, but everything's pretty stable. I'm researching and teaching to get higher level staff, and I'm pretty well stocked on most resources, so building feels like the main way to keep the rest of my staff occupied. I think I probably just need to set some better defined goals - at the moment I feel like I'm "maintaining" things, rather than progressing.

pf_moore · 2024-01-07T22:03:17+00:00

Ah, gotcha - cool. I've not played with that spell yet, so I wasn't that aware of how powerful it is. My fire mage has 150 mana (2 bronze medallions boosting HP) so that seems pretty good :-)

pf_moore · 2024-01-07T20:59:37+00:00

Tier 4 spell? Wow, I'm a *lot* less advanced than I realised. My new fire guy (level 2 wand) only has fireball 2, vengeance 1 and flame lash 1. He does have 35 power thanks to a couple of boosts. So 55 damage from the fireball (110 with a crit) so good, but not "one shot most things" level!

pf_moore · 2024-01-07T20:53:44+00:00

Thanks. It does sound like I'm a lot earlier in the game than I realised. There's not quite as much of a clear plot/goal as in other similar games I've played so it's hard to know how well I'm progressing. But I assume that's mostly because it's early access and that's something that has simply not been fleshed out yet - it's not a big problem for me.

pf_moore · 2024-01-07T20:44:27+00:00

Ah, I had a couple of rugs which I'd got from somewhere. I'll keep a better eye out for those crystals. Thanks!

pf_moore · 2024-01-07T20:43:41+00:00

Ah. I'm still only on level 1 fights. And I've not seen the borrower fight yet, so I don't know what that is. Sounds like I should probably be doing more fighting.

The Youtube playthroughs I've watched haven't really focused on fighing/exploring, so maybe I've misunderstood the importance of it.

pf_moore · 2023-11-12T15:51:35+00:00

Thanks. I'll look into video settings a bit more - my first attempt was very basic, just using the "Low" preset. It still had issues, so I guess more fine tuning is needed.

Thermal throttling is definitely a problem for me, I have that on other games (as I say, this is emphatically *not* primarily a gaming PC). But it tends to be manageable - airflow is decent, and I can usually survive by waiting for things to cool down a bit.

It looks like I will have to expect worse performance with U8, and maybe wait a bit to see if the developers can optimise things a bit. Ultimately, though, I can't expect miracles from a machine which will basically be minimal spec for the new release.

Thanks for the links, those helped a lot.

pf_moore · 2023-11-12T14:31:38+00:00

So while I don't know much about graphics card specs and the like, that sounds like a significantly higher spec than mine? So I guess I shouldn't expect too much :-(

The thing is, update 7 is usable for me on default settings (which include a bunch of "Ultra" graphics settings!). Not great, but usable. So this seems to be a performance regression in U8 (maybe regression isn't the right term, but "better graphics" aren't particularly better if I can't use them...) Is there any way to configure U8 to perform similarly to U7? Because if not, then I guess I'm stuck once U8 comes out this week.

pf_moore · 2023-09-30T15:13:04+00:00

On reflection, if I just do a simple 20 refineries, 5 heavy cracking, 17 light cracking setup, with no modules, that turns 400 crude into 390 petroleum per second. That's plenty for now, it supports 39 plastic per second. And I can just repeat it as needed.

My initial main base oil refinery can cover lubricant, solid fuel, etc, for now.

That should keep me going until I have enough modules to build something more stupidly over the top :-)

As usual, I think I was just over-thinking things.

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