EDIT: Nothing has changed with schedules in 1.5 / Anomaly. Guide still applicable! You can check out more of my RimWorld Guides here: th-cam.com/play/PLQWnHloPSfq4ajFkTBA8vZk2R43NaQeKO.html Huge thanks to MortalSmurph on my Discord, as this is a joint guide we've made. If you are interested in more RimWorld guides please let me know in the comments or by hitting the like and subscribe buttons. I really do appreciate it! In addition, I have a ton of crazy, max difficulty, no-pause allowed challenges on the channel (both with and without mods). Here are two of my favorites: 500% No Pause RimWorld Ideology TRANSHUMANIST Playthrough: th-cam.com/video/5Xq_wA9cKig/w-d-xo.html 500% No Pause RimWorld Fluid Ideology Playthrough - th-cam.com/video/UtPGxZnYd6U/w-d-xo.html I am also LIVE on Twitch 5+ days a week! Come hang out, watch, participate, or quietly lurk! Everyone is welcome. Twitch Link: twitch.tv/adamvseverything Discord Link: discord.gg/CaSDVp3 Twitter: twitter.com/adamvstweet
Do you ever play Naked Brutality? A guide for starting on that mode could be fun. Better yet, Naked Brutality blind start. Just take whatever landing zone and colonist the randomizer gives you.
@@Zombull73 Most of my runs are naked brutality starts, or even 'tribal naked brutality' in which I start with 1 naked tribal research pawn instead of the normal NB research. Before Ideology I mostly did random 1 pawn, random seed, random map, go. :P You can find quite a few 'naked tribal brutality' runs on this channel. Here's a couple: th-cam.com/video/UtPGxZnYd6U/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/CznnT4Gyxuo/w-d-xo.html
@@AdamVsEverything this is interesting. I schedule rec time after two hours of work, in sets of 3, followed by "any" time, after each; like in real world breaks after work sets of two hours each. Usually this allows some down time for hauling and cleaning. -but it all depends on priority lists. for e.g: SA; WWRA; WWRA; WWRA; WWA; SSSSSSS. This also allows for day naps, and frequent breaks for meal times. As pawns consider rec tim to also be sleep / cleaning. they're weird like that.
I am also totally convinced that biphasic is the way to go. Just the fact that you’re more able to deal with random events at any time of day far outweighs the costs.
@@eugenesandona6374it's so depressing when your base gets attacked and your colonists have just gone to sleep with a 1 phase sleep schedule. Then being forced to rally them on 0 sleep
Just started using this schedule now for almost all my guys and wow what an improvement to their mood. In my opinion its better to center around this type of schedule because pawns just seem to be more functional this way. It sucks when productive gets ruined because of a mood breakdown or a breakdown just before a fight.
Adam, you're so good at tutorials it's crazy. Requesting your next one to be a tutorial on the Work tab! Priorities, early game vs late game, single pawn starts & conflicting jobs, etc.? That's always where I struggle most
@19:13 Adam didn't mention why he put recreation first for quick sleepers. I'm guessing it's because they have higher odds of finishing sleeping before the hours are up, (ie, sleep 4:30 or less instead of 5 hours flat), so putting recreation before guarantees that they always walk-recreate-sleep-walk instead of walk-sleep-walk-recreate-walk. Superb guide. Getting a ~+15 mood and bypassing ~-15 social mood penalties looks like a great choice in exchange for 20% productivity. Unless one is playing with time based wealth progression, bad events scale off wealth (primarily made from productivity) and are only unsurvivable when combined with mental breaks (due to low mood), so I can see why the biphasic approach is so powerful on the higher difficulties.
Yes, that is one of the reasons. Quick sleepers are kind of crazy. It's actually weird watching how well they do on an 'all anything' schedule, actually.
@@AdamVsEverything if you're worried about long jobs like hunting going all the way through the recreation time, putting it after sleep can work... And you can avoid that extra walk trip from someone waking up early by deliberately shorting their sleep schedule. If they have 3 hours set to sleep followed by 3-4 hours recreation, they'll sleep through whatever parts of that recreation they need to for rest, but then always begin recreating immediately without a wasted trip.
@@PopeGoliath Thank you, I feel like everyone else here is missing this. Sleep 2 hours, recreate 4 hours is SO much better than 2 rec 4 sleep, because a colonist will stop recreation to sleep, but won't stop sleeping to recreate. A pawn who has recently recreated and doesn't need the top-up (say, for example, they recently took drugs), will attempt to go back to work during a rec period, which is bad if sleep is next. So you should put rec last and make it longer. Meanwhile, if you put short-sleep, long rec, a colonist who is very tired can sleep in over their rec period without issue, as long as they wake up with enough time for 1 bar's worth, while a colonist who is well rested will only take the 2 hours scheduled and then do whatever rec they need, maybe only 1 bar's worth, and then go to work in one trip!
I really didn’t expect this video to provide much more then put sleep and Recreation together,, but it turned out to be one of the most useful videos I’ve watched.
Four hundred hours and I'd mostly ignored the schedule tab except in the case of Night Owls and dark-related memes/precepts. This has blown my mind wide open. can't wait to try it out!
Great guide. It's something I've never really thought about much before and normally just leave on default, but this is inspiring me to actually start playing with schedules
I have literally thousands of hours in rimworld and while nothing here was groundbreaking this help clarify alot about scheduling for me! Thank you so much. Great video.
Yeah, I started using biphasic what feels like ages ago now, and it's a game changer for dealing with raids. Didn't know about the mood fall maximum rate, so thanks for that. One thing I do in larger colonies is try to stagger work so that I can constantly man limited production stations. You can have just about constant utilization of 2 stations with 3 pawns on biphasic offset 4 hours in succession - which is occasionally useful for lower level cooks when you have a flood of visitors, or you need to prep for a caravan. Otherwise I might just offset cooks to wake up and work several hours early so that there's food ready when the rest of the colony starts waking up.
Yeah, staggering schedules is really great. I usually start doing that right around the time I get to advanced researching so that I don't have to make as many advanced research benches etc.
Definitely the preferred way. Unfortunately, algorithms set higher preference on shorter form content, so often times creators will break each point in a video like this into its own video and stretch a topic like this out over a few of them. There's a few rimworld content creators I've just blocked on the platform so that the informational content isn't so dilluted. I like this series of guides.
Definitely the preferred way. Unfortunately, algorithms set higher preference on shorter form content, so often times creators will break each point in a video like this into its own video and stretch a topic like this out over a few of them. There's a few rimworld content creators I've just blocked on the platform so that the informational content isn't so dilluted. I like this series of guides.
4:02 This is the hardest part of Rim World, being READY to fight. If the productivity is around 20% less then it is definitely worth for that reason alone, if not the cost of a mental breakdown for many hours.
ON the productivity side don't forget to factor in the inspirations of high mood. Some save a great deal of time (instant annimal taming, prisonner conversion etc...) Plus less tantrum and other catharsis events means more time working. So It's not sure that overall there is much of a loss on productivity. It's a bit of the same IRL with the 4 days week, less time at work yet productivity went up overall...
Well, I think I'm going to start treating myself as a colonist and switch to a triphasic schedule every time I sense burnout coming. Thanks for the mental health tip, Adam!
Rimworld is a beautiful double edged sword for mental health, actually playing it can be really shit for mental health but managing colonists' mental health can give you good reminders about managing your own.
Thanks! The short answer is that meditation forces wake up. So as to not interrupt a pawns rest bar I would put it before sleep in pretty much all cases.
Amazing, straight to the point and full of info. I Just found your channel and got hooked on your play troughs on uber hard mode and I wondered if you could do some modded gameplay with maybe a star wars or warhammer 40k theme ? That would be awesome, anyways keep up the good work.
I tend to set schedules to all anything then whoever has the highest moods I'll have take care of priority tasks as it's likely to be a drain on them not getting to do what they want
Thank you, learned a lot here! Might have to come back and re-watch later after this info has rattled around in my brainhole for a while xD A bit to much info to quickly xD
This was fascinating. Currently doing a Zombieland run in a Caldera where walking trips are extremely long and I have multiple schedules based on how many zombies there are. Going to apply this info with glee, should be a huge help
I've been doing everything wrong with scheduling! This is so helpful. All of your RimWorld videos are very helpful, actually. Thank you for making these videos, I really appreciate it. I just got the game a little over a month ago and I wouldn't have ever gotten as far in the game as I have without videos like yours. Well, at least not as quickly as I have, for sure.
A tip that might help some folks. I put a forced meditation time before bed, and placed the assiged meditation spot at the foot of the colonist bed. This forces them to take a trip to their assigned bed before sleep, so they don't walk to recreation that is further away from their bed. This has worked out really well for me. Cheers!
My favorite schedule is work 24h/day, except for pawns with stationary work who get 1h naps twice a day in their bed right next to their work station. Pawns will eventually collapse from exhaustion. As it turns out, this is very efficient. While sleeping on the ground is only half as efficient as a legendary bed, sleep falls 3.3 times faster when pawns are tired then when they are well rested, meaning that pawns on a 24h/day work schedule will still sleep less overall. As a bonus, they don't immediately colapse from exhaustion when at the exhausted level (meaning their rest doesn't fall at all). Pawns will also not waste time moving too or from their bed, and they won't have any recreation whatsoever. They will also eat less, only grabbing a meal when their hunger bar gets at the very hungry stage. So all and all you have a huge increase in productivity. The down side is a pretty massive mood hit from exhaustion, lack of recreation and hunger. There are a lot of other ways to manage your colonist moods, lots of them in tandem will help. In any case, a key element of my strategy is that most mental breakdowns will get interrupted when the pawn collapses from exhaustion. So my strategy here is to mostly avoid them going into into "the extreme mental break" zone, cause those really are a problem. I deal with most major or minor mental breaks with a combination of skip and wall-raise: IOW I skip the broken pawn in a corner, wall them in there and I let them collapse from exhaustion. As for keeping my pawns happy during raids: drugs and psychic pulsers do wonders.
@@AdamVsEverything With the prison labor mod I find prisoners won't work if set to "anything", even once they're rested, fed, and full on recreation, so I have to use "work", but I might take some ideas from this to better set up prison scheduling to cut down on mental breaks, when prisoners go berserk it cuts into productivity because wardens have to go either down the berserk prisoner or wait for the other prisoners to do so, and then rescue everyone downed in the fights or risk them either bleeding out because no one will tend them if not in hospital beds or starving to death because no one will feed them if not in hospital beds. Then productivity is further cut down because both colonist doctors and prisoner doctors have to take time away from other tasks to go feed the incapacitated prisoners in hospital.
As far as "being prepared for when bad stuff happens" goes, I actually recommend something that wasn't really mentioned here. The "don't care about light, care about always having colonists ready" schedule - Bi-phasic, but with every single colonist scheduled to not be sleeping at the same time. For example, if you have 2-3 colonists, you schedule each one to start recreation/sleeping after the prior one finished. If you have 24 colonists, you set one to start sleeping each hour. This does require dedicated bedrooms and preferably in-base work colonists to work during the night time hours, but it works AMAZINGLY. At most you'll be down a single colonist any time something happens. You'll never not have someone available to work on stuff. Priority tasks (need to build a wall to deal with an incoming raid? need more food? need to produce a bit more to sell to a merchant to buy something before they leave? etc.) will constantly be worked on with no breaks. Also, if playing highly modded games, you can actually get colonists that... really don't actually ever need to rest, and thus should just 24/7 be on anything. I say anything, because they're really stupid at times and will starve themselves to death if set to work and given a task too far away. I've had it happen. This is also just a good reminder that... Rimworld is a video game, and thus isn't going by real world rules. "Tiredness" is simply a meter, and how it gets filled doesn't matter. While Bi-phasic sleep schedules CAN work IRL, most people will have an insanely hard time actually getting to sleep for that short of a period of time, and waking up after that little time. But your colonists are video game characters... so they just go over to their bed and run the code for "sleep". Done. This applies to a LOT of games - MOST management games of any type will benefit from doing stuff like splitting sleep hours, sleeping less or more, etc. - It's not just Rimworld, it's generally basically any game that features energy bars and sleep times. You can pretty much always optimize them way better, and in way more "insane" ways, than you could IRL. You can even adjust the biphasic schedule to have one longer and one shorter period of sleep, to better maximize stuff like avoiding night time, or having a colonist that you manually order between 2 jobs, one that requires less time and one that requires more time - like cooking + research or whatnot.
Saw the infographic on reddit. Stopped playing around the royalty release. Had the colony doing the old war against the crown but that was overhauled. Trying out ideology, everyone's pissed because of their feeble mortal shells. Component production is being researched so cyborgs on the way.
Great guide as always! The only thing I think that could have been touched on was that high mood also has that frequent chance of triggering inspirations; I tend to weight mood more than productivity because of it, but I am also a casual scrub who doesn't play on 500% no pause ;) I'll leave that to you and just enjoy the content!
Add the mod that changes inspiration RNG to ensure your pawns only get inspirations they'll actually use based on their skills, and they start really adding up in terms of productivity.
Another wonderful guide. The biphasic schedules have been great for my smaller bases ever since I first saw you use them. I also love hunting down pawns to work during the night so I always have people working. More so I always have people to watch rather than zoning out while everyone sleeps.
I think productivity is higher for the biphasic in the long term run, less breaks and higher mood will play out in your favor when conflicts are resolved faster, people heal faster, and your colonists aren't tied to events outside the storyteller. I wonder though if slightly staggering the schedules by an hour or so from colonist to colonist will have a higher benefit if everyone is always up and at em.
This is absolutely the best Rimworld guide ive seen in quite a while. I always had an idea that schedules were powerful but had no idea how to handle it. Really really great work dude. Thanks
Wow. I'm a rookie to the Rim. Only 399 hours. I thought I had to schedule work to avoid a colony full of slackers. Thank you for this valuable info. This was great info and as a big fan of naps in real life I will be adopting the biphasic schedule. Also makes me wonder if it is the ideal schedule in other similar games such as Oxygen Not Included. Thanks again!
Update, simply switching from set work hours to anything made a big difference with mood, i haven't had tantrums, people hidind in their rooms, food binge, social fights. A dazed doctor could mean dead colonists, dead colonists don't work.
honestly this is ludicrously helpful, first time trying a completely un-optimised bi-phasic schedule and havent had any mental breaks in several months ingame, everyoneis constantly in blue / green. pretty great.
Simplest method I use to ensure everyone is in good mood for combat, at the center of my base, I put 3 cabinets, 1 for survival meal, 1 for insect jelly, and 1 for wake up, when a raid occurs I will pause the game and draft my pawns, and look at their mood, if they need food, I'll make them eat survival meal, if they need recreation, I make them eat insect jelly, if they are sleepy make them take wake up, make sure to unzone the cabinet for your hauling animals, and to make the insect jelly last longer, don't make it part of your pawn regular diet, just use it only during raids 👍👍👍 The only pawn that can mess this plan is teetotalers, so make any of them do civil work only and not involved in combat 👍👍👍
TH-cam trolled me. Got up to the "it depends" part, video did a light reload loop for about 30sec, then continued with "It depends". I said TH-cam trolled me because I'm listening to the video, rather than watching lol
i generally set up 8-10hr of sleep with about 4hrs of rec throughout the day, 1 hour after wake up then 2 more 1hr intervals every 4 hrs, keeps them pretty damn happy
10:14 Huh, and I was putting all my colonists to work the immediate hour after sleep ends because they sleep in a barracks and they'd disturb each other's sleep if they got up willy nilly instead of all at the same time.
Another good guide, glad to see it, even after 8+ years of playing the game there were things in there even I didn't know, Cheers to a good guide and doing the work to show all those examples. Well done!
@@AdamVsEverything Always happy to support man, having friends make wins makes me happy in a weird way these days, proud might be the word, but not in a bad way, just like 'yeah! he's kicking ass, GOOD for him!' type of a way, no matter how I try to write it, I just feel like it comes off wrong, hopefully you get what I mean and cheers brother!
great guide dude, ive been playing like 250 hours and have just started wanting to play on harder settings, the other day i started playing with scheduale a bit and this will make a huge difference in not getting wiped due to mental breaks mid raid.
I never really used schedules for a loooong time. …that is until I started using royalty psy-casts more frequently.. it was a little frustrating to see pawns not do important tasks (even research) in favor of meditating for hours on end the instant their focus dropped below the desired %
Thanks for the guide but I've been getting a lot more "ate without a table" mood debuffs on the biphasic schedule and I'm not sure why. The bedrooms, dining room, and freezer are all next to each other
I really enjoy the way you do your guides. If you're looking for ideas of potential future guides, a short guide for confort could be really cool, i think a lot of people could use the informations (How the bar works, how the quality of objets like chairs and beds affect it, the strategies to optimise it...)
You need dedicated work time otherwise they half mine a block, walk across the map to sit at a table, go do another chore another side of the map, do sow one plant, eat a mean, walk other side of the map to haul something, walk back across the map to fulfill recreation. Dedicated work bars about 4 seems to keep them in the one spoor area Also always 2 rec before bed and 1 rec for wakeup followed by anything
No you don't. I've played over 6000 hours of 500% and never have any issues at all basically never using work blocks. I do go over when I suggest using them in this guide either way (when you need work done at the expense of mood), so it sounds like you didn't watch it all before commenting.
This is particularly interesting as my GF and I sleep with a polyphasic sleep cycle. Nice to see it in gaming for the first time, essentially! Its rocks btw.
Wait, so, because my schedule is shit my pawns keep having mental breaks? Also, mood = productivity. Standard is more likely to mental break and that’s not good for productivity.
I copied your biphasic schedule, but my colonists don't seem to abide by it at all. Followed one person for few days and after sleep he kept sleeping through the anything time and into the next rec time. Got up did little rec then worked through the next sleep cycle, only getting tired presumably about the time he should then be getting up and so going to bed for the next anything time lol. Watched few others and same thing happened, like accidentally doing the exact opposite of what they should be.
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EDIT: Nothing has changed with schedules in 1.5 / Anomaly. Guide still applicable!
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Do you ever play Naked Brutality? A guide for starting on that mode could be fun. Better yet, Naked Brutality blind start. Just take whatever landing zone and colonist the randomizer gives you.
@@Zombull73 Most of my runs are naked brutality starts, or even 'tribal naked brutality' in which I start with 1 naked tribal research pawn instead of the normal NB research. Before Ideology I mostly did random 1 pawn, random seed, random map, go. :P
You can find quite a few 'naked tribal brutality' runs on this channel.
Here's a couple:
th-cam.com/video/UtPGxZnYd6U/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/CznnT4Gyxuo/w-d-xo.html
@@AdamVsEverything this is interesting. I schedule rec time after two hours of work, in sets of 3, followed by "any" time, after each; like in real world breaks after work sets of two hours each. Usually this allows some down time for hauling and cleaning. -but it all depends on priority lists.
for e.g:
SA; WWRA; WWRA; WWRA; WWA; SSSSSSS.
This also allows for day naps, and frequent breaks for meal times. As pawns consider rec tim to also be sleep / cleaning. they're weird like that.
There’s nothing like being so entertained by a mundane menu in a game. Great job loved the video
Lol, thanks!
The biphasic schedule has definitely improved my overall gameplay so mad props to you for that one 100%
Thanks!
Yeah I totally wanna slob Adams knob.... u know, for Trump!
I am also totally convinced that biphasic is the way to go. Just the fact that you’re more able to deal with random events at any time of day far outweighs the costs.
@@eugenesandona6374it's so depressing when your base gets attacked and your colonists have just gone to sleep with a 1 phase sleep schedule. Then being forced to rally them on 0 sleep
Just started using this schedule now for almost all my guys and wow what an improvement to their mood. In my opinion its better to center around this type of schedule because pawns just seem to be more functional this way. It sucks when productive gets ruined because of a mood breakdown or a breakdown just before a fight.
Adam, you're so good at tutorials it's crazy. Requesting your next one to be a tutorial on the Work tab! Priorities, early game vs late game, single pawn starts & conflicting jobs, etc.? That's always where I struggle most
Yes! Please do a priorities guide.
Yes please! I always start with something looking decent but during actual game it quickly proves suboptimal and becomes a mess with quick fixes
That's kind of you to say! And it is on the list. So expect it.. soonish :P
Yea I can use that aswell 😝
@19:13 Adam didn't mention why he put recreation first for quick sleepers. I'm guessing it's because they have higher odds of finishing sleeping before the hours are up, (ie, sleep 4:30 or less instead of 5 hours flat), so putting recreation before guarantees that they always walk-recreate-sleep-walk instead of walk-sleep-walk-recreate-walk.
Superb guide. Getting a ~+15 mood and bypassing ~-15 social mood penalties looks like a great choice in exchange for 20% productivity. Unless one is playing with time based wealth progression, bad events scale off wealth (primarily made from productivity) and are only unsurvivable when combined with mental breaks (due to low mood), so I can see why the biphasic approach is so powerful on the higher difficulties.
Yes, that is one of the reasons. Quick sleepers are kind of crazy. It's actually weird watching how well they do on an 'all anything' schedule, actually.
@@AdamVsEverything if you're worried about long jobs like hunting going all the way through the recreation time, putting it after sleep can work... And you can avoid that extra walk trip from someone waking up early by deliberately shorting their sleep schedule. If they have 3 hours set to sleep followed by 3-4 hours recreation, they'll sleep through whatever parts of that recreation they need to for rest, but then always begin recreating immediately without a wasted trip.
@@PopeGoliath Thank you, I feel like everyone else here is missing this. Sleep 2 hours, recreate 4 hours is SO much better than 2 rec 4 sleep, because a colonist will stop recreation to sleep, but won't stop sleeping to recreate. A pawn who has recently recreated and doesn't need the top-up (say, for example, they recently took drugs), will attempt to go back to work during a rec period, which is bad if sleep is next. So you should put rec last and make it longer.
Meanwhile, if you put short-sleep, long rec, a colonist who is very tired can sleep in over their rec period without issue, as long as they wake up with enough time for 1 bar's worth, while a colonist who is well rested will only take the 2 hours scheduled and then do whatever rec they need, maybe only 1 bar's worth, and then go to work in one trip!
I really didn’t expect this video to provide much more then put sleep and Recreation together,, but it turned out to be one of the most useful videos I’ve watched.
Four hundred hours and I'd mostly ignored the schedule tab except in the case of Night Owls and dark-related memes/precepts. This has blown my mind wide open. can't wait to try it out!
Great guide. It's something I've never really thought about much before and normally just leave on default, but this is inspiring me to actually start playing with schedules
Glad it was helpful!
I have literally thousands of hours in rimworld and while nothing here was groundbreaking this help clarify alot about scheduling for me! Thank you so much. Great video.
I just found my playlist for work tonight.
My god.
Thank you so much. Your workflow is incredible.
The step by step is how i learn.
Thank you for delivering high-concentration data.
Oh wow this really helped a lot! I don't think my colonist have had any mental breaks in like two seasons. Thanks!
Your channel is the ultimate rimworld guide channel hands down.
Thanks! Glad you think so, especially with all the bigger channels out there.
my goodness, 1,000+ hours of rimworld and never thought of splitting sleep schedules
Hopefully you try it out. It is crazy!
Your schedule guide video is AMAZING! This will really help my 'lose if fun' mod penalty run!
binging lately, getting that prime info dump for my casual runs :D
Thank you for the information
Thanks for watching!
Holy Thrumbo this guide was good. i have over 1000h and right now is the first time i realize how important the schedule is.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you. This guide is amazing. No wonder my pawns go bezerk. this would definitely help
Glad it helped - Thanks for watching!
Yeah, I started using biphasic what feels like ages ago now, and it's a game changer for dealing with raids. Didn't know about the mood fall maximum rate, so thanks for that.
One thing I do in larger colonies is try to stagger work so that I can constantly man limited production stations. You can have just about constant utilization of 2 stations with 3 pawns on biphasic offset 4 hours in succession - which is occasionally useful for lower level cooks when you have a flood of visitors, or you need to prep for a caravan. Otherwise I might just offset cooks to wake up and work several hours early so that there's food ready when the rest of the colony starts waking up.
Yeah, staggering schedules is really great. I usually start doing that right around the time I get to advanced researching so that I don't have to make as many advanced research benches etc.
Before I even finished the video all my pawns mood have basically maxed out haha
A little longer than the others, but definitely high quality and filled with tons of useful information. An excellent guide.
Thanks!
Definitely the preferred way. Unfortunately, algorithms set higher preference on shorter form content, so often times creators will break each point in a video like this into its own video and stretch a topic like this out over a few of them.
There's a few rimworld content creators I've just blocked on the platform so that the informational content isn't so dilluted.
I like this series of guides.
Definitely the preferred way. Unfortunately, algorithms set higher preference on shorter form content, so often times creators will break each point in a video like this into its own video and stretch a topic like this out over a few of them.
There's a few rimworld content creators I've just blocked on the platform so that the informational content isn't so dilluted.
I like this series of guides.
Another very good tool in mytoolbar. I'm probably always going to use this for guests
4:02 This is the hardest part of Rim World, being READY to fight. If the productivity is around 20% less then it is definitely worth for that reason alone, if not the cost of a mental breakdown for many hours.
ON the productivity side don't forget to factor in the inspirations of high mood.
Some save a great deal of time (instant annimal taming, prisonner conversion etc...)
Plus less tantrum and other catharsis events means more time working. So It's not sure that overall there is much of a loss on productivity.
It's a bit of the same IRL with the 4 days week, less time at work yet productivity went up overall...
You make genuinely well made tutorials, you aren't just giving knowledge, you are providing visuals and facts behind your claims!
Thanks! I am glad the effort shows.
Well, I think I'm going to start treating myself as a colonist and switch to a triphasic schedule every time I sense burnout coming. Thanks for the mental health tip, Adam!
Rimworld is a beautiful double edged sword for mental health, actually playing it can be really shit for mental health but managing colonists' mental health can give you good reminders about managing your own.
thank you for explaining this!
Thanks for watching!
Rim-Brain: Just keep ALL of your pawns drafted ALL the time
Lol.
IMO, well worth the penalty to productivity. I cant stand when my colony goes through mental break
I agree. And the extra inspirations are the cherries on top.
Amazing video! Do you think we could get a Guide About Meditation and how/when it handles against Recreation?
Thanks! The short answer is that meditation forces wake up. So as to not interrupt a pawns rest bar I would put it before sleep in pretty much all cases.
Amazing, straight to the point and full of info. I Just found your channel and got hooked on your play troughs on uber hard mode and I wondered if you could do some modded gameplay with maybe a star wars or warhammer 40k theme ? That would be awesome, anyways keep up the good work.
I may do some overhaul mod playthroughs someday. Right now I am banging my head against Winston Waves :P - Thanks for watching!
So pretty much what they do in Spain...
I can't imagine going through all of this for my 23 pawns!
I use bi-phasic with work & rec, sleep with 1 'any' blocks after works. Then tune it just a bit per pawn characteristic
I love the sleepless gene.
I tend to set schedules to all anything then whoever has the highest moods I'll have take care of priority tasks as it's likely to be a drain on them not getting to do what they want
Thank you, learned a lot here!
Might have to come back and re-watch later after this info has rattled around in my brainhole for a while xD
A bit to much info to quickly xD
there's a theory that biphasic sleep is good for people in real life, as well.
This was fascinating. Currently doing a Zombieland run in a Caldera where walking trips are extremely long and I have multiple schedules based on how many zombies there are. Going to apply this info with glee, should be a huge help
That's pretty cool. Mods definitely make RW a whole new game lol.
I've been doing everything wrong with scheduling! This is so helpful. All of your RimWorld videos are very helpful, actually. Thank you for making these videos, I really appreciate it. I just got the game a little over a month ago and I wouldn't have ever gotten as far in the game as I have without videos like yours. Well, at least not as quickly as I have, for sure.
A tip that might help some folks. I put a forced meditation time before bed, and placed the assiged meditation spot at the foot of the colonist bed. This forces them to take a trip to their assigned bed before sleep, so they don't walk to recreation that is further away from their bed. This has worked out really well for me. Cheers!
I generally only end up letting people do scheduled meditation if I am growing Anima grass, but it may work for someone else!
Just the timestamps alone must have taken ages to do, great job
Thanks! Hopefully they are useful.
My favorite schedule is work 24h/day, except for pawns with stationary work who get 1h naps twice a day in their bed right next to their work station. Pawns will eventually collapse from exhaustion.
As it turns out, this is very efficient. While sleeping on the ground is only half as efficient as a legendary bed, sleep falls 3.3 times faster when pawns are tired then when they are well rested, meaning that pawns on a 24h/day work schedule will still sleep less overall. As a bonus, they don't immediately colapse from exhaustion when at the exhausted level (meaning their rest doesn't fall at all). Pawns will also not waste time moving too or from their bed, and they won't have any recreation whatsoever. They will also eat less, only grabbing a meal when their hunger bar gets at the very hungry stage. So all and all you have a huge increase in productivity.
The down side is a pretty massive mood hit from exhaustion, lack of recreation and hunger. There are a lot of other ways to manage your colonist moods, lots of them in tandem will help. In any case, a key element of my strategy is that most mental breakdowns will get interrupted when the pawn collapses from exhaustion. So my strategy here is to mostly avoid them going into into "the extreme mental break" zone, cause those really are a problem. I deal with most major or minor mental breaks with a combination of skip and wall-raise: IOW I skip the broken pawn in a corner, wall them in there and I let them collapse from exhaustion.
As for keeping my pawns happy during raids: drugs and psychic pulsers do wonders.
Lol. Like I said, there are many schedules. use whatever works best for you. I don't think I will be doing this on my runs though :P
Someone needs to make a mod where this is the default schedule
Great guide.
I didn't knew the anything was THAT powerful compared to work. I guess it is my fault for not checking it out.
Yeah, I hardly ever use 'work' anymore because of it.
@@AdamVsEverything With the prison labor mod I find prisoners won't work if set to "anything", even once they're rested, fed, and full on recreation, so I have to use "work", but I might take some ideas from this to better set up prison scheduling to cut down on mental breaks, when prisoners go berserk it cuts into productivity because wardens have to go either down the berserk prisoner or wait for the other prisoners to do so, and then rescue everyone downed in the fights or risk them either bleeding out because no one will tend them if not in hospital beds or starving to death because no one will feed them if not in hospital beds. Then productivity is further cut down because both colonist doctors and prisoner doctors have to take time away from other tasks to go feed the incapacitated prisoners in hospital.
As far as "being prepared for when bad stuff happens" goes, I actually recommend something that wasn't really mentioned here.
The "don't care about light, care about always having colonists ready" schedule - Bi-phasic, but with every single colonist scheduled to not be sleeping at the same time.
For example, if you have 2-3 colonists, you schedule each one to start recreation/sleeping after the prior one finished.
If you have 24 colonists, you set one to start sleeping each hour.
This does require dedicated bedrooms and preferably in-base work colonists to work during the night time hours, but it works AMAZINGLY.
At most you'll be down a single colonist any time something happens. You'll never not have someone available to work on stuff. Priority tasks (need to build a wall to deal with an incoming raid? need more food? need to produce a bit more to sell to a merchant to buy something before they leave? etc.) will constantly be worked on with no breaks.
Also, if playing highly modded games, you can actually get colonists that... really don't actually ever need to rest, and thus should just 24/7 be on anything. I say anything, because they're really stupid at times and will starve themselves to death if set to work and given a task too far away. I've had it happen.
This is also just a good reminder that... Rimworld is a video game, and thus isn't going by real world rules.
"Tiredness" is simply a meter, and how it gets filled doesn't matter. While Bi-phasic sleep schedules CAN work IRL, most people will have an insanely hard time actually getting to sleep for that short of a period of time, and waking up after that little time.
But your colonists are video game characters... so they just go over to their bed and run the code for "sleep". Done.
This applies to a LOT of games - MOST management games of any type will benefit from doing stuff like splitting sleep hours, sleeping less or more, etc. - It's not just Rimworld, it's generally basically any game that features energy bars and sleep times. You can pretty much always optimize them way better, and in way more "insane" ways, than you could IRL.
You can even adjust the biphasic schedule to have one longer and one shorter period of sleep, to better maximize stuff like avoiding night time, or having a colonist that you manually order between 2 jobs, one that requires less time and one that requires more time - like cooking + research or whatnot.
Saw the infographic on reddit. Stopped playing around the royalty release. Had the colony doing the old war against the crown but that was overhauled.
Trying out ideology, everyone's pissed because of their feeble mortal shells. Component production is being researched so cyborgs on the way.
Lol. yeah, ideology added a ton of ways to make people happier ... but tons to make them unhappy also :P Thanks for watching!
Great video, I’ve heard you talk about biphasic a lot in the vods, but never knew how to set it up.
Thanks! It's a lifesaver.
Hah, you assume that my colony isn’t in a permanent state of crisis due to a beautiful Randy + Anomaly 1 2 combo
dunno what to say so I'm just leaving a random message for the algorithm again :) excellent guide though.
Thanks! It helps.
"Walking trips"
Ah yes, I always limit myself to only 1 trip from my car to my fridge after buying a week's worth of groceries.
Now that is efficiency! :P
Thanks for the guide Adam! Clear and helpful as always.
Thanks! My pleasure.
Great guide as always! The only thing I think that could have been touched on was that high mood also has that frequent chance of triggering inspirations; I tend to weight mood more than productivity because of it, but I am also a casual scrub who doesn't play on 500% no pause ;) I'll leave that to you and just enjoy the content!
Yeah, that is one thing I mention a lot in my stream as well. Generally all the inspirations make up for a ton of the 'unproductive' time.
@@AdamVsEverything Yeah you are so patient and amazing at answering questions on your streams, it's always a treat when I get to tune in :3
Add the mod that changes inspiration RNG to ensure your pawns only get inspirations they'll actually use based on their skills, and they start really adding up in terms of productivity.
Another wonderful guide. The biphasic schedules have been great for my smaller bases ever since I first saw you use them. I also love hunting down pawns to work during the night so I always have people working. More so I always have people to watch rather than zoning out while everyone sleeps.
Thanks, Muz!
Now this is advanced rimming
Lol - Thanks for watching!
triphasic schedule eh? Preparing for your permanent -99 drone run? :D
Don't make me break out the QUADPHASIC!
Lack the work shift strategy (4 team that rotate so 1 workbench/lab is enough for 4 people)
Shifting is already mentioned.
Excellent guide in filthy detail as usual Adam. Great work!
Thanks!
Adam i love watching every video of you, best rimworld content producer in my opinion. And i still hope the pink hair will return!
Thanks! And I am not sure I can deal with all the mean comments if I ever brought it back lol
Absolutely killer guide. this is probably my main weak area of the game and this clarified a lot
Glad it helped!
So basically the way to make the pawns happy is to have them take siestas.
I have almost 1000 hours in Rimworld and this is mind-blowing. I've been playing it wrong this entire time.
4000 hours in this game and the tri phasic self care schedule NEVER occurred to me. Adam you are a legend.
I think productivity is higher for the biphasic in the long term run, less breaks and higher mood will play out in your favor when conflicts are resolved faster, people heal faster, and your colonists aren't tied to events outside the storyteller.
I wonder though if slightly staggering the schedules by an hour or so from colonist to colonist will have a higher benefit if everyone is always up and at em.
This is such a scientific approach and I love it, great work ! :D
Thanks!
This is absolutely the best Rimworld guide ive seen in quite a while. I always had an idea that schedules were powerful but had no idea how to handle it. Really really great work dude. Thanks
"hunter we think you should take...uhhhh.. the late shift"
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Does I will be more happy and have better mood If I do Biphasic Schedule in my Real life??? 🤔🤔🤔
It didn't work for me :P But some people do it!
Wow. I'm a rookie to the Rim. Only 399 hours. I thought I had to schedule work to avoid a colony full of slackers. Thank you for this valuable info.
This was great info and as a big fan of naps in real life I will be adopting the biphasic schedule. Also makes me wonder if it is the ideal schedule in other similar games such as Oxygen Not Included.
Thanks again!
Fantastic extremely comprehensive guide. I love it! You’ve made Rimworld into one of my favorite games to optimize
That's awesome. Thanks for watching!
I would galdly trade some productivity for mood if i can avoid to have some colonists act like spoiled babies.
Update, simply switching from set work hours to anything made a big difference with mood, i haven't had tantrums, people hidind in their rooms, food binge, social fights. A dazed doctor could mean dead colonists, dead colonists don't work.
Yep! That is my overall opinion as well.
call me boring, but i use sleep for standard and the rest of the day is just anything, worked so far haha
Just wanted you to know, I think you are a great guy and great streamer and youtuber! Have a nice day, Adam :-)
That is kind of you to say - thanks!
honestly this is ludicrously helpful, first time trying a completely un-optimised bi-phasic schedule and havent had any mental breaks in several months ingame, everyoneis constantly in blue / green. pretty great.
Simplest method I use to ensure everyone is in good mood for combat, at the center of my base, I put 3 cabinets, 1 for survival meal, 1 for insect jelly, and 1 for wake up, when a raid occurs I will pause the game and draft my pawns, and look at their mood, if they need food, I'll make them eat survival meal, if they need recreation, I make them eat insect jelly, if they are sleepy make them take wake up, make sure to unzone the cabinet for your hauling animals, and to make the insect jelly last longer, don't make it part of your pawn regular diet, just use it only during raids 👍👍👍 The only pawn that can mess this plan is teetotalers, so make any of them do civil work only and not involved in combat 👍👍👍
I play with no pause, so I can't really micromanage that in time :P Biphasic is one of the tools I use to overcome no pause.
Adam: Hunter is staggery ugly
Hunter: Brah... I'm right here!
TH-cam trolled me. Got up to the "it depends" part, video did a light reload loop for about 30sec, then continued with "It depends".
I said TH-cam trolled me because I'm listening to the video, rather than watching lol
i generally set up 8-10hr of sleep with about 4hrs of rec throughout the day, 1 hour after wake up then 2 more 1hr intervals every 4 hrs, keeps them pretty damn happy
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Huh, and I was putting all my colonists to work the immediate hour after sleep ends because they sleep in a barracks and they'd disturb each other's sleep if they got up willy nilly instead of all at the same time.
Another good guide, glad to see it, even after 8+ years of playing the game there were things in there even I didn't know, Cheers to a good guide and doing the work to show all those examples. Well done!
Thanks, Banlish. Much appreciated as always.
@@AdamVsEverything Always happy to support man, having friends make wins makes me happy in a weird way these days, proud might be the word, but not in a bad way, just like 'yeah! he's kicking ass, GOOD for him!' type of a way, no matter how I try to write it, I just feel like it comes off wrong, hopefully you get what I mean and cheers brother!
great guide dude, ive been playing like 250 hours and have just started wanting to play on harder settings, the other day i started playing with scheduale a bit and this will make a huge difference in not getting wiped due to mental breaks mid raid.
I never really used schedules for a loooong time. …that is until I started using royalty psy-casts more frequently.. it was a little frustrating to see pawns not do important tasks (even research) in favor of meditating for hours on end the instant their focus dropped below the desired %
Thanks for the guide but I've been getting a lot more "ate without a table" mood debuffs on the biphasic schedule and I'm not sure why. The bedrooms, dining room, and freezer are all next to each other
Night Owls have always been broken, I tried reversing the schedule, but they're still running around during day time.
I really enjoy the way you do your guides. If you're looking for ideas of potential future guides, a short guide for confort could be really cool, i think a lot of people could use the informations (How the bar works, how the quality of objets like chairs and beds affect it, the strategies to optimise it...)
Thanks! I will add it to the list.
Holy shit are you serious!? Even the gaddamn schedule!? Wow that's just wow. Thank you for the schedule guide
You need dedicated work time otherwise they half mine a block, walk across the map to sit at a table, go do another chore another side of the map, do sow one plant, eat a mean, walk other side of the map to haul something, walk back across the map to fulfill recreation.
Dedicated work bars about 4 seems to keep them in the one spoor area
Also always 2 rec before bed and 1 rec for wakeup followed by anything
No you don't. I've played over 6000 hours of 500% and never have any issues at all basically never using work blocks. I do go over when I suggest using them in this guide either way (when you need work done at the expense of mood), so it sounds like you didn't watch it all before commenting.
This is particularly interesting as my GF and I sleep with a polyphasic sleep cycle. Nice to see it in gaming for the first time, essentially! Its rocks btw.
Wait, so, because my schedule is shit my pawns keep having mental breaks?
Also, mood = productivity. Standard is more likely to mental break and that’s not good for productivity.
ok wow, gonna try using biphasic since RANDY keep sending midnight raid to me for some reason...
thanjs rim master anadam;
I copied your biphasic schedule, but my colonists don't seem to abide by it at all. Followed one person for few days and after sleep he kept sleeping through the anything time and into the next rec time. Got up did little rec then worked through the next sleep cycle, only getting tired presumably about the time he should then be getting up and so going to bed for the next anything time lol. Watched few others and same thing happened, like accidentally doing the exact opposite of what they should be.
I should add though regardless of them not following the timings properly it has helped with mood massively already so thanks!
Thank you so much for this guide! I really like this longer, more in-depth style of guide.
Thanks! I will have all kinds with varying lengths.
Thx this just explained why and how i could have fixed my last run.
Hopefully it helps on the next one!
"This beds too soft...This beds too hard....." .. Recreation time explained 😅. Another great guide.
Thanks for watching!
Dude... this completely changed my rimworld experience
My pawns are all inspired 24/7 now
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback.
Nice guide, thanks! Do you have any guide about working priorities?
I learned a lot, and you made everything very clear thank you !
Also I'm happy that the all anything schedule isn't the worst thing in the world. x)
I just use all anything, it simple and works
That one is also in the video. Not sure if you watched or not.
These guides are some of the most comprehensive and useful information I've found on Rimworld.