Smokeleaf binge prevention

[Shurp]

So one of my colonists keeps going on smokeleaf binges every 12 hours.  I keep beating him in the face with wooden logs but he Just Doesn't Listen.  Or perhaps a better way to say it is, "What we have got here is failure to communicate!"

So I came up with a solution:

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He won't dig through walls to get to the smokeweed, will he?


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[carbon]

No. Walling off your drug supply is a perfectly valid way to counter binges currently.

[Lizardo]

Wouldn't it be easier to assign him to a 'weed free' area?

[O Negative]

I'm just confused as to why you value smokeleaf so much as to waste materials walling it off lol

Let the poor thing indulge until there's none left. Then he'll have to find another coping mechanism.

You could always mod smokeleaf to be a "hard" drug, in order to prevent this. Save compatible stuff, right there.

[Alenerel]

Wouldn't it be easier to assign him to a 'weed free' area?

Does this actually work for mental breakdowns? Will they stay in the designated area?

[carbon]

I don't believe so. Otherwise, you could move a broken colonist around at will by simply restricting them to a one-tile zone and relocating that tile as needed.

[Shurp]

I'm just confused as to why you value smokeleaf so much as to waste materials walling it off lol

Each joint has a market value of 14.  That's way more than 5 bricks.  And those are the last 10 my colony has at the moment.  I need those to keep my colonists from going crazy when the next Psychic Drone slams my colony.

And no, binging colonists don't obey zones or drug polices or item restrictions.  They will beeline to their drugs and consume them until they pass out.  A wooden log in the face will stop them but not much else.  Well, a wall will as well.  Yay walls!

[Alpha393]

Next time he binges, chuck a Molotov in and lock the door. Negative reinforcement always works, one way or another.

[JustUseMegaPlz]

Next time he binges, chuck a Molotov in and lock the door. Negative reinforcement always works, one way or another.

That's positive punishment.

[mumblemumble]

Next time he binges, chuck a Molotov in and lock the door. Negative reinforcement always works, one way or another.

That's positive punishment.

Reinforcement is neither explicitly positive or negative... but this is negative

how would you call it positive?

[Shurp]

But the last thing I want to do is burn my precious weed stockpile.

Hmmm, given the profitability of drug dealing in Rimworld... I'm surprised there's no interstellar cartel raiding planets to shut down rogue producers.  Maybe that's a new raid type Tynan needs to put in.

[Alenerel]

To be honest all of this seems like too much work and workarounds for this little thing... The best, "realest" and less destructive thing I can think is to arrest him, but then it proves a mood debuff for being arrested.

This makes these pawns very annoying cause you have to micro them too much.

I understand that you have to take care of an addiction, but it eventually goes away, but this doesnt and just creates even more addictions.

[Listy]

Before I got drug production under way I had a simple system, a large pool of water with a drugs only stock pile, and a near by Molotov.
Small amounts of drugs aren't going to make or break the colony financially. One addicted/chemical interest colonist got killed simply because he broke and went for a cargo pod of drugs as a pirate raid came in.

To be fair, I had figured that was going to be his end so I was just utilising him until such time as he got the chop, so it was no great loss. And he died doing something he loved, snorting talcum powder off a telescope mirror by the looks of the graphic...

[Alpha393]

But the last thing I want to do is burn my precious weed stockpile.

Hmmm, given the profitability of drug dealing in Rimworld... I'm surprised there's no interstellar cartel raiding planets to shut down rogue producers.  Maybe that's a new raid type Tynan needs to put in.

Then throw a grenade in.

[Lizardo]

They shouldn't be able to break down doors while in prison.