How to speed up research?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Is research ment to take ages?
My pawns seem to take forever to learn basic stuff like tree farms and stone cutting.

[Dead Legend]

you could always build another research bench and have multiple people researching at a time. Also, build them chairs and place them in comfortable, well lit "research" rooms to not get a penalty to research speed.

[Steelfleece]

Work speed and intellectual skill both factor into a pawn's research speed.

A clean research lab is a happy research lab. If you have sterile floors researched, go for it. If not, at least some kind of floor is a step up from the dirty ground.

If you started with a tribal group, they have an inherent penalty to research.

[HunterSilver]

You'll want your research table to be indoors, in a clean room, with any books that you can get. After that the only thing you can do to improve research speed is to improve the research skill of the colonist (by researching) or add more research benches.

[Philly4eva]

Speed is also heavily effected by which kind of story u are running. If u take the crashlanded scenario with 3 pawns u will have high tech level and research fast. However if u pick wild men or tribal or something similair your tech level will be low, which makes research take much longer.

If u want to speed it up and u use race mods u can make a pawn that has bonus to reserach speed. If u have ideology dlc u can also set how important research is in the current playthrough. Combining all of these and researching the better research bench as first prio will then make research easy for the rest of the playthrough.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Thanks all.

[Buwaro Elexion]

If you have Ideology DLC you can also set a precept that speeds up research at no penalty(must be done at start of game or with a fluid ideology for mid game)