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There is a population soft cap where most enemies die rather than fall unconscious, for example. But there are many ways to get more people, even buying as slaves.

The same population cap prevents slaves from being offered.

Is combining the rec room and dining room really important?  I've usually built them separate.

If you combine them in one room, they share the impressiveness stats, and colonists can rec/eat without walking to separate rooms. I schedule recreation right after waking up, so they both eat and relax to get the mood buffs for the next few hours.

Your dining and rec rooms are over 30 tiles away from each other. I don't know what's the search radius is currently, but the colonists might decide not to path to tables or joy items that are beyond that radius.

Are there any other major issues I'm missing?

Your fridge location and access are not very practical. Your meals will be pretty far from the dining area.

Where are you going to point the cooler exhaust end? Into the textile room? That might make it too hot to work if you have any tailoring going on there.

Your colonists will also walk through that fridge to get to the textiles and medical areas, that will let a lot of heat in. You generally want the fridge to only have entrances that involve food storage, not other activities.

On 'u' -> 'others' it also says that the Ettin is only a 'Uninvited Guest' and the Names always seemed a little bit to gentle like 'Hale Sparkles' I mean that sounds more like a Popstar

The megabeasts that attack you are always called "uninvited guests".

Lesse, holy crap I have 6 pages of mods on the workshop alone?

How long does it take to launch and load a save?

I got the game, and it's actually a lot of fun to play. The almost complete lack of fleet tactics, strangely, works ok. Ships are kind of like dwarves, doing their own thing, while you are trying to figure out wtf is going on.

And that's how I learned that the blanket deconstruct designation tool always designates the topmost eligible target in every tile, including deconstructable things that aren't installed. Such as megascreen TVs. I learned that after the fact, when I looked around and didn't find the megascreen TV anywhere.

Oh wow, you get 17 components and 195 steel from that   

To be fair, sun lamps don't give 24-hour benefit anymore due to the aforementioned plant resting cycle.

Nobody said they do, and I don't understand why everyone is mentioning this.

Sun lamps provide a consistent growing environment, and actually grow plants faster than sun. With a sun lamp, the plants grow at 100% between 6:00 and 19:00. Outside plants grow below 100% between 6:00 and 9:00, as well as between 16:00 and 18:00, and stop growing entirely between 18:00 and 19:00.

Unless you are playing at a low difficulty, planting dandelions for grazing is a quite poor strategy, which contributes to all sorts of problems.

Quote from: Blue_Dwarf on October 31, 2018, 03:49:24 pm

Quote from: Akura on October 31, 2018, 05:35:05 am

Feeding the animals has also been hard. I discovered that a large field of dandelions is fairly quick to plant, quick to grow, and can hopefully provide ample nutrition for 30+ grazers. That it requires constant replanting should also raise some Plant skills for the growers.

A grown dandelion provides 0.18 nutrition, and grows in 4.5 days. That's 0.04 nutrition per day.

A haygrass tile provides 1.05 nutrition, and grows in 13 days. That's 0.08 nutrition per day. Two times more efficient than dandelions.

That means that you need double farm space for dandelion growth, so if you see my earlier post about farm size, for 30 muffalos that would be 1080 farm tiles (33x33 farm). For haygrass that would be 540 farm tiles (23x23 farm).

Dandelions are also twice as quick to plant, and provide far less nutrition per tile. Given that a lot of smaller grazing animals consume less than a full haygrass tile's 1.05 nutrition per feeding, yet still use up the full tile when they do so, dandelions are a far superior grazing animal foodsource unless you also take the time to wait till the haygrass is fully grown, harvest it, and move it to the animal zone so that it's only consumed in regular 0.05 nutrition pieces.

Haygrass actually gives 21 pieces of 0.05 nutrition, not a single 1.05 feeding. It's the dandelion that gives a flat 0.18 nutrition per plant.

You need to wait for dandelions to grow, same as with haygrass. They cannot be eaten until they are mature.

Dandelions are a lousy animal food. They cannot be harvested or stockpiled, while hay can be gathered for later use. Double farm size means double the amount of sunlamps and power generators, all of which is vulnerable to random events. With dandelions, any time you cannot grow plants will wreck your animals. Instead of a double farm size for dandelions, you could have a double haygrass farm and stockpile all that hay instead.

So here's a question, I can see in prepare carefully there is a mechanic for dying clothes.   Is there a way to actually do that ingame or with mods?  Cuz I kinda like the idea of everyone kinda having star trek styled colors in their outfits (even if they are not uniforms per se), but other than their starting clothes I can't keep them color coded, once I upgrade them out of their cheap starting clothes, and it bugs me more than it rightly should.

You can buy dyed cloth from traders, and clothes will inherit the color of that fabric. But cloth is obviously an inferior material, so the only way to get something like colorful power armor is to also buy it.