After many hours

[degr]

Before embark, set morale to max difficulty and disease to max difficulty. They are useless and have no effect otherwise. No need to set hunger to max difficulty and atmo-suits to max difficulty, because it just slow down progress and make game less fun

When you embark into new colony, find one dupe with ranching skill to start ranch hatches as soon as possible

When you embark into new colony, find one dupe who can construct conveyor rails, you need him more then everybody else

You need to play on pause. If game is not in a pause, you should not make complex orders, it is about planning, game does not require "high APM".

Dig agressively first 20 cycles and expand your colony. There are enough muckroots or hexalent fruits for living without cooking

Duplicants should not die, at least first 50 cycles. Then base become too big, and notifications not work. However, I suggest to load previous cycle, if somebody die, as usual it is not your fault, is it game AI sucks

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For me most comfortable amount of duplicants is between 30 and 50. It make no sense build more, because most probably they will iddle, and I see no sense to build less, because game to slow and boring

Keep base floor 4 tiles in height. 5 tiles is luxury, require more time and pain to build something at 5th tile. 6 tiles and more allow you to bring transition tube to each chamber, but keep in mind, ceil light did not reach floor, most probably you will attach lamps to transition tube crossing.

No need to worry about temperature, if you have no plants, so build 3-5 hatch ranches as soon as possible

Dig to oil biome as fast as you get atmo suits, or even faster, you need lead for wires and automation and many other things

Dig to space as fast as you get crude oil

You need petroleum refinary to get 200 kg of plastic to build steam turbine, and around 2 tons of petroleum for nice metal refinary

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Bravely rush to steel production, and heat your water to 90C.

Use 90C water to make oxygen

Build cooler and chill oxygen, not water

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Use more then 60kg and less then 200 kg of water in steam chamber, that way even cooler work couple seconds, it is enough to make turbine work and replenish battery. If you have supercoolant, such setup consume 1200 energy and immediately refund 1100.

Use water tank to make output temperature more stable and predictable

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Balm lilly does not require any resources to grow

Drekkons eat balm lilly

Drekkon is not only fur, but also meat. Build drekko ranch and prepare for long transition from hatches to drekkons.

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Build petroleum boiler "somewhere on magma". With such setup you getting igneous stones with 412C. Pretty good for steam turbines.

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Build generators on the top of your colony, you don't need carbone dioxide and excessive water, just dump them into space. Use it as chilling agent which constantly going to space

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Petroleum generators should work 100% of time. Attach smart battery and signal switch to them. In case of emergency with petroleum, you may disable switch, and generators will work only to charge your battery

Attach smart battery to each power transformer to reduce peak load for generators for now, and to attach more then 50kW in late game

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Build some kind of plastic factory, which should work 100% of time. It make no big sense to have 100 tons of plastic, but it make even less sense to not have it. Once you will be ready to build kilometers of transition tubes, and better not face situtation with pity 500kg at cycle 200 or 300.

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If you have polluted water geyser, make bricks. You need ceramics. Most probably.

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If somebody does not get how it works - you fill all barrels with polluted water, then deconstruct all of them. 5 tons of polluted water fall down packed in plastic bottle. If there is approximately 1 kg of water on the floor, it will ofgas polluted oxygen with high rate. Build barrels again, it take not a lot of time once in 50 cycles

Space in vanilla game sucks. Sometimes you even can't get supercoolant in range of 30.000, and it make me mad. 

Build flying space-suits only for rockets, no need to build them for your base. Game is not ready for it - frame rate fall down dramatically, much more difficult to sustain vaccum areas. Duplicant can't sit into rocket without gantry (or can't pop out).

Things you need to build in late game:

• sour gas boiler
• regolith melter
• abyssalite melter

[Fistleaf]

I have only 12 dupes and they are already idling.

[Gurgel]

On 7/8/2024 at 6:39 AM, Fistleaf said:

I have only 12 dupes and they are already idling.

Same here. I usually go for no more than 9 until resources are plenty and I do not mind dupes idling. The only use-case I have found for 12 is full hamster-wheel power generation. I still do that occasionally. 

[Prince Mandor]

50 dupes... I envy your computer. I use 14 active dupes and 6 or 7 sleepers

 

[asurendra]

On 7/1/2024 at 4:27 PM, degr said:

When you embark into new colony, find one dupe with ranching skill to start ranch hatches as soon as possible

 

I prefer high Agriculture stat. Plants start producing food much faster than critters, and high chance to get additional seed is important. You always can make ranch later, when you already have food stability

[Prince Mandor]

59 minutes ago, asurendra said:

I prefer high Agriculture stat. Plants start producing food much faster than critters, and high chance to get additional seed is important. You always can make ranch later, when you already have food stability

I play all-achievement, so no planting until 400k kcal eaten for Locavore. And plants was too vulnerable to heat (no critters vulnerable too, but at least 40C come later than 30C). Also, stats is not important, they can be trained. While, ranching is a skill, you cannot ranch before you get it, and it is second skill in a chain, so you cannot get it before cycle 15 without tricks. Rolling dupe already having this skill at cycle 1 looks like perfect investment of time rolling

[asurendra]

7 minutes ago, Prince Mandor said:

Rolling dupe already having this skill at cycle 1 looks like perfect investment of time rolling

For max achievements - sure, totally agree. For regular, simple play plants are better. Cycle 25-30 is critical moment where starting food is over and you need to have already established  food production or your colony dies right here right now.  Ranches is too slow so mush bars... Which is always bad choice

[degr]

On 8/2/2024 at 12:01 PM, Prince Mandor said:

I envy your computer

My CPU comes from 2017, it is I7-7700K, which produce 4200MHz per core, 4 cores 8 threads. Can't tell it is some kind of supercomputer, but I have no any performance issues.