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I just had 4 out of 4 die from the plague. All were immediately sent to bed and treated with normal medicine. I'd say that's quite harsh on a colony of 6 on phoebe one setting above peaceful..

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First some suggestions that appear in this thread that I think have already been implemented...

1) ...I set up a Cleaning area...

Do you mean the home area? Or is there a separate way to zone cleaning? As far as I know the Home area currently IS the cleaning area.

He sets one pawn to clean and then restricts the pawn to the area he wants cleaned using zones. Clever, yet I think my pawn will get cabin fever pretty quickly.

I haven't been able to play a whole lot yet. The game set up screens look better. Now I actually see the permadeath option while starting a game instead of having to look for it.

The new Heroes of might & magic game is coming out August 4th.
The new ARK game will be released in July.

i couldnt figure out why my complex wouldnt heat up??? installed 36 heaters, no luck, then i saw one of my pawns left some timber in the outer doorway!!! duh lol

That isn't supposed to vent when something is jamming a door open unless it was set to hold open in past or other error.

I attacked pictures of my test rooms.  The double inside, single outside is far less efficient than the single inside, double outside.  It takes a little to warm up, but once the outer hallway gets a little bit of heat, the room is perfectly comfortable as seen here.  It doubles in that if you have a cell of rooms like this with just the external double wall with airlock, it keeps the hallways a comfortable temperature.

There was a surprising difference between the two different layouts in the first picture.  The room on the right side bled heat faster and hallway was cooler.  The left image, and the four room sample one is the most energy and material efficient design in the testing.

I tested these layouts on a -90c map.  Controlling the general hallway to get it to near freezing with the rooms suppliment heated like normal worked very well. the hallway insulation section made use and captured the bled off heat a bit and created a nice buffer in cold snaps and over night.

Plus it just looks fantastic.

Are you only heating them during the day? I'm surprised it wouldn't cool down completely over night.

I'm not fully on board about blind colonists not being able to detect dirt. Dirt can easily be detected using other senses.

Is there a world file present in this directory?
C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld\Worlds

I think a separate cleaning zone or cleaning area has been suggested quite a few times.

I strongly recommend at least doubling the frequency of trade caravans and orbital traders.  The base rate is way too low to be useful.  By the time one shows up you'll have accumulated too much stuff for him to be able to buy with the silver he has.

Especially orbital traders since you have to wait for the right type of trader to come along.

solar panels do NOT block wind turbines!

oh nice, I did not know that. Even went so far to floor the area in front/behind the wind turbine.
I enjoyed reading your post btw.

I've got it working now. Ive removed the walls except for some pillars to hold up the roof and merged the stockpiles.
Weird because I'm very sure this set up worked before A13.

Thanks for your help!

It says I have about 900 silver which is correct. I'll try removing the walls. They shouldn't be required anymore since you pointed out it can be roofed now.

If you look closely you can see the power line. Also, in game it is not showing a 'no power' icon.

It is powered, see the battery