Lazy ass colonists

[CrazyChris]

There is no shortage of work to be done at my place yet every single colonist I have waste their day either praying, meditating or visiting graves. Very little work gets done to a point where I'm starting to get low on food. Is there any way to offset this?

[Shoggoth]

There are diminishing returns on joy activities. If you do not have enough variety of joy activities, they will end up spending all their time trying to fill their joy meter by doing activities that no longer fill the meter very fast at all. If you want to force them to work in spite of their joy deprivation, open the 'restrictions' tab and assign them to 'work' for certain hours. During those hours they will work regardless of their need for entertainment.

[SlimeCrusher]

You can also build more joy sources. Horseshoes pins are great starters. Then, once you have more resources, you can build chess tables (Those tables no one ever seems to use, seriously, i've never seen a colonist play chess) and pool tables. They're a great way to fill up the joy meter quickly, since praying, cloudwatching and such take a long time to do so.

[CrazyChris]

And that did the trick, 1 pool table and the production on the colony probably doubled already.

[Loki88]

You can also build more joy sources. Horseshoes pins are great starters. Then, once you have more resources, you can build chess tables (Those tables no one ever seems to use, seriously, i've never seen a colonist play chess) and pool tables. They're a great way to fill up the joy meter quickly, since praying, cloudwatching and such take a long time to do so.

I have one colonist that plays chess... by himself...

[TLHeart]

the chess table is cerebral joy, and is used by the colonist who have a passion for research.

[MisterVertigo]

the chess table is cerebral joy, and is used by the colonist who have a passion for research.

Huh, I didn't realize that. That is actually pretty cool. Are there other joy items that are specific to certain colonists' stats?

[TLHeart]

The defined joys in vanilla are, work, jobs they have a passion for provide joy.

Meditative; praying, meditating... any colonist.

Lewd; not implemented

social; all colonist that have social skill

chemical; all colonist except teetotaler. Larger joy boost for chemical interest.

Gluttonous; eating quality foods, all colonist

gaming dexterity; shooting and melee skills prefer

Gaming cerebral; research.

Passive; all going for walks, stargazing.

Study; have not found it defined.

[cultist]

Lewd; not implemented

This is in the code? Oh my...

[TLHeart]

yes lewd is in the code, and there is at least one mod that takes advantage of it.

[SlimeCrusher]

There was a joy activity that used "lewd", it was "Having private time". It got removed from the game though.

[Thane]

Noticed it back in A11. Pawns would face away and look like they were praying. But you check and nope Lewd Joy going up.