IDEOLOGY OR ROYALTY BUG? colonists not doing any recreation

[Charlie Pine (Beaverson)]

I have lots of different recreation activities and i've set them to do recreation all day and none of them will do rec...

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Not a bug from either. Usually if it is bugged it is due to mods.

Have you got enough recreation variety?
Do you have enough recreation sources? (A chess table can support two people at once for instance)
Can they reach the recreation items?
Is it safe to get to the recreation items? (50c indoors will prevent most pawns from recreation)

[Charlie Pine (Beaverson)]

so which mods?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Originally posted by Charlie Pine (beaverson):

so which mods?

That is a question to which the answer can be anything unfortunately. Typically mods which add their own recreation methods or are up to date or are conflicting with another.

It can be a mod that alters the AI even if it only affects animals can break other things (I should know, I made a mod that broke something before because I had an extra linebreak...)

[Excellion]

If you have mods, it is somewhat more likely these are the cause of the issue. That said, there is a scenario in Vanilla where you can run into this issue:

1. Pawns will only do recreational activities they are not bored of.
2. Pawns will only do recreational activities in zones where they are allowed to reside in.

I ran into an issue where i placed an emergency bed for a prisoner in my recreation room. Doing so zones the room for prisoners only, meaning that colonists can no longer use the rec room.

Seemed fine at first, but as my pawns could now only do solitary relaxation and social interaction they got bored of those after a day or two. Even scheduling recreation only didn't force them to take a break in that instance.

So yes, double-check your recreation area's are reachable for colonists (Both zoning and room permissions wise). If that is not the issue, it will likely be a case of trial-and-error to see if / what mod causes the issue.

[MortVent]

Check for the bored moodlet.

If they are bored then you need more recreation types, such as looking for traders to get telescopes for instance (always a must buy for me till I got a couple)

Other things that can count for recreation is chocolate, or drugs (something denied with teetotaler colonists/colonies )

There is a list of the types on the wiki, need more than just a horseshoe ring

[Charlie Pine (Beaverson)]

there is no issue other than they will not do ANY recreation whatsoever.

[Alastair]

Originally posted by MortVent:

Check for the bored moodlet.

If they are bored then you need more recreation types, such as looking for traders to get telescopes for instance (always a must buy for me till I got a couple)

Other things that can count for recreation is chocolate, or drugs (something denied with teetotaler colonists/colonies )

There is a list of the types on the wiki, need more than just a horseshoe ring

I think this was my issue LOL.. they would try and do rec but justs tand their like idiots or run around in circles.. then I put down a poker table and they used that.. but still wont watch TV lol