Any tips on leveling up colonists' skills?

[vampiresoap]

I know that you can construct and then deconstruct graves to improve the construction skill, and shooting at indestructible objects like the sleeping spot will improve the shooting skill. What else did you guys come up with?

[NinjaDiscoJew]

Social- Prisioner's level up Social skill quite a bit.
Medicine- Not many ways to level it up, installing bionics, euthanizing wild animals.
Taming- Tame animals with low chance of them attacking, then sell them, or let them graze for their by-products.

All the other ones are pretty straight forward on how to level them up.

[ReZpawner]

Shooting can be leveled up with fun activities such as horseshoes and billiards. Hunting is probably the best way to do it though.

Medicine is leveled by treating wounds in addition to what NinjaDiscoJew said, so rescue any and all wounded people you can. You can always murder them never know what happens in prison afterwards though, sometimes accidents happen.

Research/Intelligence can be leveled by playing chess and using the telescope

Crafting is from crafting stuff. Note: Not drugs or blocks of stone anymore. (tailoring and smithing also increases crafting).

[Juan el Demgrafo]

I believe that horseshoes and billiards don't level up shooting anymore. Hunting and shooting at sleeping spots is probably best.
If there is a raider who I rescued but is too terrible to recruit, I will install peglegs and a denture and release them so they will weaken the pirates whilst giving massive improvements to my surgeons.
Simply tame and train animals.
Stone cutting actually does still improve crafting in A16.

[Canute]

Punch/shoot prisoner half death once a day, then patch them up without medicne.

[RyanRim]

Punch/shoot prisoner half death once a day, then patch them up without medicne.

Sounds like soviet russia, ay.

[Awe]

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How do I must to level up Crafting in cheap way in such conditions?
Making hundreds of shoddy t-shirts, and wooden swords is wasted resources and time

Make dusters. At powered off, placed outside tailoring bench. Also bad temperature help to make process slower and cheaper. ^.^ At 10 skill switch to components crafting.

[alexdgreat]

Make dusters. At powered off, placed outside tailoring bench. Also bad temperature help to make process slower and cheaper.

And with one arm amputated, and second is "simple prosthetic"? 

[roben]

Make dusters. At powered off, placed outside tailoring bench. Also bad temperature help to make process slower and cheaper.

And with one arm amputated, and second is "simple prosthetic"? 

Maybe also inducing some blood loss to reduce consciousness. (This will so be deleted, but it still has a point)

[Awe]

Make dusters. At powered off, placed outside tailoring bench. Also bad temperature help to make process slower and cheaper.

And with one arm amputated, and second is "simple prosthetic"? 

Only if you have some spare bionic hands. But seems like body part replacements a bit rare in a17. For ~year of game time got only 2 hands and 1 eye.

[Rah]

Only if you have some spare bionic hands. But seems like body part replacements a bit rare in a17. For ~year of game time got only 2 hands and 1 eye.

That's normal. For only 1 year, 3 bionic parts is actually pretty good in vanilla.

[vampiresoap]

Punch/shoot prisoner half death once a day, then patch them up without medicne.

Sounds like soviet russia, ay.

Haha you can also imprison one of your useless colonists to do this

[Canute]

You could but you are geting a global mood penalty for imprison a pawn.

[RyanRim]

Punch/shoot prisoner half death once a day, then patch them up without medicne.

Sounds like soviet russia, ay.

Haha you can also imprison one of your useless colonists to do this

Yeah "Too much horseshoes for you, comrade"