mining in tiles near my base on world map?

[drop bombs]

Hi? can i use a caravan to traval a couple times away from my base to look for compacted machinary? or can i only go to actual points like quests and enemy and allied bases?

i made my caravan and moved to some mountainous tile but i could't figure out how to use my colonists, it just said settle or rest...

thanks

[BlackSmokeDMax]

You can caravan and mine on different tiles. You can even set up a whole other colony there.

You will need to go to the options menu and turn up the "maximum number of colonies" allowed setting. It is defaulted at 1 colony.

[Nightmyre]

One thing you should bear in mind when you do this though - when you start a new game, and you have an empty colony, part of the reason why you're able to get everything set up relatively easily is that your pawns get the "New Colony Optimism" buff for +10 mood, and "Extremely Low Expectations" buff for +25 mood.

When you caravan and form a new colony to mine a different tile, your pawns in that base won't benefit from those buffs. On top of that, they won't benefit from the usual buffs your colony provided them, such as, for example, the buffs from having a nice kitchen/rec room/bedroom. And to make matters worse, they'll probably suffer debuffs from things like being too hot/cold, being in the dark, etc...

You'll find that those mining towns cause your pawns to break down very quickly. Combine that with the fact that you'll probably be wasting a lot of your pawns' time traveling and setting up, means that it generally isn't worth it to do on a temporary basis.

Now, if your main base is completely out of resources, it might be worth it to set up a separate mining base, but realistically, the main reason to do it would just be boredom. You never actually need to bother, since you'll be able to buy all the stuff you need by using all the silver you accumulate from beating back raids.

[Monoxide]

Nightmyre makes a good point - make sure to take some meals (survival will probably be best) with you, and I would take a bedroll as well. I just recently did this to get steel. I mined about 10 cells, only to find out my single muffalo could only carry about 1/3 of what I mined. I didnt take a bedroll, so I didnt want to leave him there and have someone else carry the steel. I ended up just taking what I could carry and came home.

I wish you could mine from a world tile without having to actually set up a colony though.

[crgzero]

I generally go and attack other bases and just mine the hell out of them. Take enough stuff to keep my pawns fed and claim the raiders stuff that's already there and move in and mine as much as I think I can carry back before being forced to leave.

I find it significantly easier.