A basic checklist of things to look for or do when starting out, intended for beginners who don’t want to read lengthy commentary.
Set Up
Year-round
Mountainous
Temperate
Mountainous
Temperate
Characters
Look for:
High growth (growing skill of 8)
Shooting
Medical
Construction
High growth (growing skill of 8)
Shooting
Medical
Construction
Landfall
Best Shooter gets rifle
Melee guy gets knife
Unforbid stuff
Melee guy gets knife
Unforbid stuff
Basic Priorities
- Safety
- Food Intake
- Mood/Happiness
Base Location
- Centered on map
- Defensible
- Rich soil nearby
- Near a steam geyser
The Marching Orders
- Uncheck items that are forbidden, send your trio to gather them
- Choose colony location
- Create a funnel
- Look for ship’s resources
- Create a temporary bedroom w/3 beds (in a cave?)
- Build a large stockpile zone
- Build five growing zones
- Find colonist with best growing skill of 8 or more
- Specify heal root, potatoes, rice, strawberries and cotton
- Train pet to haul
- Mine minerals like steel where we will build a mountain base
- Set work priorities
- Hunter/Miner
- Warden/Coook
- Doctor/Researcher/Animal Handler
- Set schedule based on traits (night time preference?)
- Plan the base:
- Go to Orders and choose plan
- Set walls beyond crop fields
- Electricity and power:
- For now, build one solar generator
- Build storage area
- Build area to store juice
- Set power conduits to connect solar, battery and base
- Cover with roof
- Conduits to kitchen, bedrooms, cooler when built
- Alternately use wind power
- Go into Power and select Wind Turbine
- Set power conduits to connect solar, battery and base
- Cover with roof
- Conduits to kitchen, bedrooms, cooler when built
- For now, build one solar generator
- Food Service:
- Build freezer
- Set stockpile zone in freezer
- Build as a square for efficiency
- 11×11 interior dimension
- 13×13 exterior wall first
- Set as a stockpile zone so peeps haul there
- Build a roof for it
- Build 2 coolers
- Rotate so blue is on inside
- Set temp in the coolers to 32 degrees F
- Build double door chamber to keep cool air in
- Build kitchen nearby
- Build electric stove inside kitchen
- Select Add/Build –> Set do until you have 20 meals.
- Build two stools for chef
- Put butchering table in freezer so mess is out of kitchen
- Build freezer
- Defenses:
- Go to Security, build sandbags for initial defense
- If raid happens, draft rifleman and gunman to fight
- Don’t forget to undraft!
- Prisoner?
- Build a cell with a bed
- Set it to prison
- Choose how prisoner is to be treated.
- Choose if you want to recruit.
- Research
- Build research bench
- Choose research focus
- A good start is to research to unlock gun turetts for defense
- Expansion
- Build med bay — six beds set to medical
- Build prison — with individual prison cells
- Update work priority as colony grows
- Build sculptor’s table and then build large pieces of art
- Permanent bedrooms
- 8×9 wall dimensions to get spaciousness buff for a single bedroom
- Or, 5×6 if space is limited
- Build 3 with doors
- Move beds from original bedrooms
- Recreation
- Build a horseshoes pen
- Build art
- Later add entertainment
- You’re on your own!
- Make sure you have one person constructing
- Make sure you have one person cooking
- Make sure you have growing and plant cutting
- Everyone should be on hauling
