How can I improve my pawns' mood further?

[Mr. Raider]

I try to give them rich and spacious rooms, as well as good clothes and social drugs like beer and smokeleaf every 3 days to prevent addictions. However it seems like it is not enough and I'm afraid that once their expectations raise even further than they already are (+12) I may lose control of the situation.

[whatamidoing]

Beer is fine every day, and I avoid smokeleaf due to the massive consciousness penalty (as a replacement, psychite tea is nothing but positive). Lavish meals are very good for mood, and I schedule two two-hour blocks of recreation as padding before and after sleep. Making sculptures to get beautiful environment helps a lot as well. Decent-quality armchairs can max out comfort easily for a nice mood boost at workstations.

[Cannenses]

1. Regulate temp of sleeping quarters
2. Variety of recreation, 5 or more
3. Floor (castle-type?) for dining and recreation room. Achieving approx 130 beauty for this room (both activity in 1 room is fine) adds about 10+ buff
4. Fine meals daily if you can optimise your food source

Extra
5. Animal bonding stacks very fast (+3 each)

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Decent-quality armchairs can max out comfort easily for a nice mood boost at workstations.

High-quality dining chairs will also max out comfort. Wooden chairs are much less expensive, while silver chairs have higher beauty than anything you can get with armchairs (and aren't even all that much more expensive cashwise)

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by whatamidoing:

Decent-quality armchairs can max out comfort easily for a nice mood boost at workstations.

High-quality dining chairs will also max out comfort. Wooden chairs are much less expensive, while silver chairs have higher beauty than anything you can get with armchairs (and aren't even all that much more expensive cashwise)

It's masterwork vs excellent though. Wooden dining chairs also have double the beauty of cloth armchairs and still more than most cheaper leathers or wool.


Rec/dinning room + decent food + comfort + beautiful environment are decently cheap once you got your colony going. For that most part it's a cost of wood and skill. I stopped bothering with most other options a while ago, unless I got some pawns that are hard to keep up.

Lavish meals are often my emergency comfort food (the buff stacks with fine meals). Beer can be used without too much danger, tea is ok-ish and smoke leave works in emergencies (but makes your pawns useless). I also keep 2-3 psychic soothers around for when something really bad happens.

That alone should bring you through losing is fun, especially if you got the DLCs, but if you want more you can do some more costly stuff like upping their bed rooms (you seem to have done that already), trying to get people into relationships, covering them in yorkshire terriers, getting a psychic harmoniser or psychic emanator.