Dr. Arbitrary fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Oct 18, 2017

• This is one of those goddamn games where stat points start costing more than one point per raise after you hit 30 in a stat, so plan accordingly if you think "oh I will just quickly get to 50 INT and buy that related skill" like I did
  
  
• That notwithstanding it is literally Gothic and Fallout having a baby (literally) so buy it immediately _{actually it feels like a more polished though less crazy Mars: War Logs if you actually played that like I did}
  
  
• The jetpack makes being cool with ranged weapons even easier than in previous Piranha Bytes games on one hand, though on the other it seems like more creatures have some sort of ranged attack so that can be a problem. But it still seems like a saner idea to use ranged weapons in this game than to engage with the super-confusing (as always) melee system beyond finishing things off.
  
  
• Edit: Oh and Captain Rat implied I should post that conversational options that are gated by mysterious casual statements like [Combat 3] are referring to the total number of points you need in whatever skill category they are listing in order to pass the check.
  

Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Oct 21, 2017

anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Oct 22, 2017

• For purposes of thermal conductivity, all varieties of stone seem to be equal. The important thing is how thick a wall is. A freezer built in a hot area with walls one-square thick is a bad idea. Double them up to save on power costs.
  
• Building your base in a mountain and don't have a solution for your cooler/freezer? Build a corridor that will bleed the heat out to the open. Don't think of it as an impassable area--colonists can pass through it to get from one place to another just fine so long as it's not ridiculously hot. Crossing over one or two squares of 120F heat isn't going to hurt anyone, so don't think of them as "ducts," but rather "really warm hallways."
  
• Raid difficulty is heavily based on how lavish your settlement is. Find some gold in them there hills during the early game? Leave it there. It's safer if it needs to be mined in order to be stolen anyway. If you put it in a stockpile or build gold tiled floors out of it or something, you'll raise the overall value of your settlement. How numerous and how capable raiders are is partly a factor of that value. Unless you've got colonists on the brink of a major breakdown, stick with a spartan lifestyle for the early- and maybe even mid-game.
  
• Turrets explode mad style when they have sustained too much damage. This isn't necessarily a bad thing--the AI tends to go after them first, so a lone turret far out in front of your defenses may draw raiders in close for the fireworks. If eight raiders surround that turret and beat it to death, you're looking at eight dying or dead raiders after it goes off.
  
• If a faction is just pissed-off enough to be hostile toward you, capture some of their attackers, heal them, then set them free. Each one that gets off the map successfully gives you +15 with that faction. After a couple of jerks take off walking, the faction may be so grateful to have their people back that they stop attacking you.
  
• Nothing is stopping you from building two research benches and having two people do research at once. Or three. You get the idea.
  
• Chairs. You know what people need when they're at a workbench, slaving away at a lengthy project? Somewhere to loving sit. Put a chair (face it the correct direction) at the interaction spot and they'll be more contented. Hell, if the chair is of a high enough quality, they may actually gain Mood from building/cutting/sewing/etc.
  
• A clean work area is a productive work area. Having crap on the floor slows down work/research. Keep those workshops/labs tidy.
  
• Nutrient Paste Dispensers are bugged as hell and not worth it in the first place even if they did work as intended. Slap together a makeshift kitchen (or campfire if you're really in need) and cook things instead. The game even tells you that nobody likes eating nutrient paste, so give them real food instead.
  
• You are going to fail quite a bit. That's just Rimworld. Not every story has a happy ending. Learn from what went wrong and send some more unwitting losers down to try again.