Favourite/Interesting Meme Combos?

[Wolfie]

Understand this is probably an old an overdone topic but curious what other players like, im kinda stuck with a working routine and would like to have a crack at something else

My fav so far are Tuneller, blight resistant fungi, plus the whole fungal gravel in general make it easier for tribal starts on cold biomes with underground flora or on geothermal structures

Pain is a Virtue, just makes things easier, easy pawn mood management with pain giving a mood bonus, no need to worry about perky mood debuffs like wet, plus those super comfy slab beds and barbed hats hmmm

my third must have fav is Blindsighted, blinding slaves makes good batteries for charging anima trees quickly, plus they don't mind being in my ugly colony with my fugly colonists plus late game it makes easy psionic gaining with the biosculpture, plus the great medic for organ harvesting to make bank.

My fourth ive kind of in limbo tried a few different paths transhumanism seemed good with the mood bonus per stack of mods but a bit resource demanding mid game and currently alted it out with Proselytizer

Ive also tried the human supremacy/animal personality combo recommended by alot of people but coudnt' see the fuss legendary gear has the same stats as poor stuff?

Ive been curious about high life that could be fun, whats some good combos others have found?

[Veylox]

I usually start with supremacist to get rid of the saw corpses debuff, then branch out to Tunneler or Human primacy depending on where I settled

Haven't tried pain is virtue because I was under the impression you had to actively scar yourself a lot
A lot of the other memes just restrict what you can do without necessarily opening options for what you specialize in, so I tend not to play them too much. If high-life allows you to go for psychite instead of smokeleaf it might be fun, but I believe it doesn't

[Wolfie]

You can go 'scarification respected' and just get one little beauty scar, its the best option it adds like -4 conscious but gives pain which makes you happy i get inspo triggers all the time. Im not sure with of the above memes probably PIAV but i can also go organ harvest/ignore corpses/cannibalism acceptable

[CivyT]

I've been doing Supremacy for the general stuff like ignoring corpses, not caring who I execute or organ harvest, being fine with slaves. Using Human Primacy so i can swap around tamed animals without having to worry about a bonded animal not with colonist mood penalty and for the production specialist, which is utterly broken. Transhumanist is great because you no longer have to have someone constantly cooking, instead they can all eat from the nutrient paste dispenser without penalty which gives you the ability to stockpile food quickly and conserve lavish meals for your specialists for when you eventually find a decent cook. Also any prosthetic, bionic or not, counts and will remove the -3 mood penalty. Psychic bonds also count, for whatever reason, as transhumanist modded. Finally Tunneler is amazing for blight resistant food, indoors instead of outdoors need meter, drop pod raid immune bases, depending on the tile, and a regular supply of insect meat for a plus 6 mood buff on top of the plus 3 you're already getting from the mushrooms. On top of all that I like to dig out a huge 12x30 or 12x24 area, lay down fungal gravel, and proceed to not grow anything there. Eventually things like Timber Shrooms will start to grow and thus even further mitigate your need to leave your base, which is especially helpful when you're playing dirtmoles

[Steve]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.