Day one guide

Hey there. 

Quick guide for what I think is the best day 1

1) restart the game until you get a good spawn on open ground. When you get it place the flag. 

2) make 4 3X7 berry fields in a box. 

3) open invintory. Make 8 copper parts and 4 copper tools. Shift click to make the rest copper nails.  You want to make 6 beds and 2 crates. Move the science lab as well

4) place 6 beds. Place crate near fields. 

5) spawn 4 colonists

6) dig down starting close to your flag. As you dig make enough room for stairs on your way up. 

7) Find copper. Make a miner job on the copper and spawn an colonist. Place a crate. 

8)go back up placing stairs as you go. 

9) place the science lab next to the crate. Start researching bread. and spawn a colonist. 

10) open invintory. Shift click planks and stone pebbles for sling  Move the planks to quickbar. Make 2 more copper parts and 1 more copper tools!!! Otherwise you won't.be able to finish bread. 

11) Begin building the wall. To make a Wally you just need to put planks at eye level. You will most likely not get a perfect box and will need to adapt here. The wall does not have to be perfect on the first day. 

12) keep building until bread finishes. Place 4 10x10 wheat fields in a line north south. 

13) make and place 2 more beds. Make crates with the rest of the copper. Make 2 more colonists. You should now have 8 Colonists. 4 on berry 2 on wheat 1 on science and 1 on copper. With -2 jobs. 

14)Remove the science lab and the miner. Then help them plant the wheat. Make sure not to take all the wheat seeds or they can't help you plant

15) when. You are done planting, unjob the 4 wheat guys and make 2 berry farmers and 2 miners. 

16) finish your wall. Set 2 night slingers. Unjob the miners who will be come the slingers. 

Day 1 done! If you planted all the wheat and have 6 functioning berry fields by the time they go to sleep you did good. You don't need to finish the wall by day one. The first night is really easy.

Not Obvious Things for 100 category

Hello,

Just want to drop this in here. 

0)The most vital rule is to never be sitting on unplanted seeds. (berry or wheat). The only exception to this is if you will not be able to fit in another 2 day wheat planting and harvesting cycle. 

1) Berry Farming Size
As best as I can tell, the size of your berry farm does not effect production (unlike wheat). You actually want the smallest possible berry farm! In game that is a 3x7 (21 units with 8 plants) or 5x5 (25 units with 9 plants). I think 3x7 is best because you are 12% more production potential. Note that you can also do 1x15 berry farms (15 units with 8 plants). Although this saves the most space, your colonist will be doing too much running between plants and crates to make it worth doing IMO.

2) When to save till the end
There is a certian point when the colonist will actually be a drag on your economy, not a boon. Berry Farmers make about 23 food per day and cost 5 food per day. So you can expect about 18 food per day from your berry farmer. Which means, they do not "pay off" until they have been farming for at least 2 and a half days. So you should NOT make any guys until it is time to push to 100. But the big test will be when exactly is that. 

3) Pathfinding
As shown in the videos, you only need 1 raised block to eye level to keep zombies out. You should NOT build a full wall as it will take more time and resources. You can also dig to finish your wall. The rule of thumb is if you cant climb it with a 1/4 block, then the zombies cant either.

4) Researching in 100 Colonists.
It is NOT worth it to research ANYTHING other than bread. If the category was larger (1000 for exampel) then you would want to research into mint to get more wheat seeds, but as it is it would not be efficent and you would waste too much time mining and researching and never plant anything). 

5) Workshop
Your workshops should ONLY make firewood (something the player cannot create). You should turn the wood into planks and let the guy make fire wood. Set everything else to zero as you can make it all yourself and save time.

6)Job reassignment 
Basic strat but VERY important and one you will use all the time to save time. If you have 20 colonists and all of them have a job, you can still assign jobs. If you assign a job and you have no colonists left, then when you detask them they will take up the first job in the "queue." You can keep doing this. Practically, you will use this almost every day to set guards before night comes. You can then assign the guards to mining, wheat, berry or whatever, and detask them as everyone else is waking up.

7) Berry farming restictions.
You cannot detask berry farmers (or foresters). So once you have someone set as a berry farmer, they should stay in that job for the rest of the game. This is because you can not give them the job back due to the way that the berry farming job creation works. you will need to harvest all the plants and then rejob them, but they will waste a lot of time replanting.

8)Mining
You only need to mine copper. Task miners (after day 1) when you have left over colonists and not enough berry seeds. After you have made 100 beds you will no longer need any copper miners

9) Bed and crate placement
You can place beds and crates on top of berry plants to save space and make sure the colonists are as close to their job (maximum uptime on planting)

There is a lot more I am sure. But I am not sure how much of it would be helpful for this category. The game was obviously not meant to be speedrun, so maybe there are a couple more optimizations that can happen and give something for the player to do in the later days.

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Day one guide	Brakden 5 years ago
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