Your Cheapest Ideas

[Bolgfred]

Curtain door
-Not lockable / perma-opened door
-Material: any textile
-high temperature transfer
-No slow down

[betoid]

Spices.
Extra item that lets to replace one food item in tasty and delicious food recipes and makes food one tier better. Can be found wild or grown with a high-skilled level.
May be useful if you run low on meat/vegs and still want to feed pawns good food.

Small battery.
Small battery (1 tile) for space filling options and for some autonomous power too.

Portable battery.
A small battery item that lets to recharge batteries/manually power up machines.

Spill fuel.
A tile option that covers it with fuel making a flammable zone.

Blind fire.
Ignore targets and just shoot certain point with no skill raise.

Dummy.
A practice target that also may attract agressive animals that mistakes it for your pawns.
Also may scare away the peaceful animals and be a primary in-sight targets for enraged pawns.

Garden wall.
A growable wall that requires no resources, but is grown like any other plant, is highly flammable, has low HP and doesn't isolate the temperature. Could be useful for making BIG walls or labyrinths.

[aef8234]

Change the "take to inventory" policy in drug policies so that your pawns automatically take any unforbidden stacks of the drug during the start of the day.

[General Elephant]

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=37317.0

A thread I just made on the subject.

I would love trenches and barricades. quick and dirty security tools to provide a mediocre cover effectiveness and a way to prevent movement across certain areas without needing to build walls. bonus points if you can build them in marshy terrain and mud

[b0rsuk]

https://xkcd.com/1923/

[betoid]

https://xkcd.com/1923/

Use Kelvin - the most universal degree measure.

[jamaicancastle]

I'm sure this has been suggested before, but let tribal raiders bring attack animals along with them. Attack dogs! Attack bears! War elephants!

Use Kelvin - the most universal degree measure.

Measure temperature in Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Sure, there's only six of them, but that's nothing a few decimals can't fix.

[QuantumNelly]

Cheap idea? Radio joy item that comes with microelectronics basics. A little something before TVs, maybe. If there's TV shows on the air, surely there's some pirate radio stations, or even established radio shows people like.

[khun_poo]

Slingshot ?

[Treme1]

Add +1/-1 to the ingredient radius bar.

[jchavezriva]

Youth serum!

[Arcus]

Mmm... cell/prison doors? A new class of doors (or just a toggle, really) that prisoners have permission to open, to make multicell prison blocks. You can already simulate this by holding doors open, but it looks odd to have all your prison doors always opened

Prison furniture toggle. A toggle to let you set tables as prisoner only, like how you can designate beds.

[EMBEAM]

Make Normal beds without cloth have a small debuff and a new type of bed that needs cloth to craft and gives no debuff

[Scarecrow]

URBAN BIOMES:

The ruins of a city making up a new biome with a lot of structures tightly placed together. Less natural resources such as plants and big animals. This kind of biome should have more dormant dangers than usual so cryptosleeping hostiles, mechanoids and bugs should be hidden within unexplored buildings.

Below is a very outdated mod which did something similar:

[NeverPire]

Any easy way to dress prisoners to avoid the nudity penalty.