Share your tips for Alpha 13

[SpookCrow]

Share your tips about alpha 13 that people do not know of or do know of.

Let me go first:
*infestation bugs will also attack mechanoids if they are near their hive

[Aarkreinsil]

If you play in a biome that has little wildlife (Ice sheet for example), pay close attention to predators.
They might hunt your colonists, stunlock-kill them and eat them without you getting a notification beforehand.

You can feed your dogs and wargs with the corpses of your fallen enemies. Free waste disposal.

If you get someone who's abrasive or ugly, try giving him/her the night/graveyard shift, so they have as little contact with other colonists as possible.

Save up at least 20 gold, 50 plasteel and around 30+ components so you can eventually start your own component production.

[Aatxe360]

If you play in a biome that has little wildlife (Ice sheet for example), pay close attention to predators.
They might hunt your colonists, stunlock-kill them and eat them without you getting a notification beforehand.

That goes for any biome.  If they sleep near your base just kill them to save you trouble.  I don't recommend killing all the predators in one map or you could end up with a herbivore swarm that can wreck your crap if they all go in revenge mode while hunting them.

[Aarkreinsil]

That goes for any biome.  If they sleep near your base just kill them to save you trouble.  I don't recommend killing all the predators in one map or you could end up with a herbivore swarm that can wreck your crap if they all go in revenge mode while hunting them.

Unless you use a series of steel deadfall traps. Then it means free meat. You just have to lure the horde of enraged animals into your killbox and start butchering them up.

That makes for another tip. Deadfall traps. Use them. A lot.

[Vaporisor]

The killbox deadtrap for animals, need to be aware.  it can mess stuff up if a boomalope herd or worse, manhunter pack decides they want to wander in.

[Mathenaut]

Get a mod that fixes trade.

[Aatxe360]

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My tip was specifically for those that wander outside the compounds(and away from the deadfall traps)...  i.e. tamed animals, haulers, wanderers.

[AllenWL]

Running wire out in the open is ugly and can get easily destroyed by fire or explosives. Run wire inside walls to make your surroundings more beautiful, and have them less easily destroyed by fire or explosives.

[Listen1]

For protecting powerlines or geothermal, build a wall 2 tiles away from the geothermal, cover 2 tiles away outside and inside with concrete. 95% fireproof. Ah, remove the roof out of them too.

[Argus Leadhead]

Here's my tip:  even though it can seem impossible for some to find the materials for the multianalyser, you can survive comfortably for a long time without needing it.

Sure you won't get the most advanced research for a while, but I'm currently on year 3 on Cassandra Challenge and I still haven't gotten the gold I need.  I'm still here though

[GarettZriwin]

Psychic ship can cause nearby animals to go manhunter, if you attack ship to release mechanoids earlier they may get wrecked by animals and friendly fire.

[Negocromn]

don't build the component assembly bench if you're playing on flat

[Shurp]

don't build the component assembly bench if you're playing on flat

That depends... which is more likely, an exotic goods trader showing up with 30 components, or a bulk goods trader showing up with 900 steel?