moral tips and tricks?

[mementh]

Anyone have some good tips?

Is it good to increase decor?
Food = needed now it seems when it coulda been ignored.
How to get them to take downtime?

[SakuraKoi]

You can modify, add a new schedule and move dupes to a schedule through the icon next to the alerts&clock.

Otherwise, you are quite free to pursue food, decor or luxury since all will end up at above 20

For Food, you only need a great mess hall (+23)
For Decor, you need only appropriate rooms (tier 1 barracks, tier 1 bathroom and great mess hall = +21)
For Luxury, you only need no drab decor or grisly food (+21).

Of course you can mix everything. It is merely advisable to focus decor first on rooms which are used long. Like Barracks and Rec Rooms.

[mementh]

they are not using a rec room i setup.. i put a music player and water thing in.. and i did not know about the great mess hall

[SakuraKoi]

Is it really a rec room? It also needs a decor item (and ofc must not be too big or small).

I have my dupes collect like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1454802080

[mementh]

Originally posted by SakuraKoi:

Is it really a rec room? It also needs a decor item (and ofc must not be too big or small).

I have my dupes collect like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1454802080

yeah its colored.. i can't get a screenshot to happen for some reason

[SakuraKoi]

Originally posted by mementh:

yeah its colored.. i can't get a screenshot to happen for some reason

Steam's Overlay may be turned off then if you did not move F12 to elsewhere (or Shift+Tab to open it).

Now what I can only suppose is that your dupes are simply too busy to mingle. Recreational Activities have a set order and just being in the rec room is the lowest (eating is the highest, I think, or toilet), similarly too the water cooler being last, followed by Jukebot and then Arcade.

Otherwise, if they just stand around somewhere, I'd say it is a bug, heck, it is not like they even go into the most ridiculous room with the absolutely highest decor (of around 300)even though it is the great hall.

[mementh]

hmmm i understand this update.. but don't understand how to make it work properly.. its a bigger change then one thinks.. i have 4 massage tables they kepe going to to remove stress.. should i move them into the rec room?

[SakuraKoi]

I think you should rather keep the massage room clean&beautiful for duplicants are very stationary there and the massage room should itself be a bonus. I am not entirely sure either if they do not even conflict with another. Gotta test that later.

[mementh]

tested... they conflict.. and some low stress ones are going in now.. maybe it will get better?

[Athor]

Private bedrooms just have one tile space between dups.

[nebuchadnezzar]

I suspect Stress to be broken in this update. Never had issue before and now i can barely complete any research to help stress level.

https://forums.kleientertainment.com/klei-bug-tracker/oni/morale-stress-issuebug-r11638/

[mementh]

well this popped up.. seems to be new
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1455985710

[Prometheus]

Its easy enough to deal with but we have to be careful about advancing dupes in jobs now. We can't just give a dupe the scientist hat right away. They require 4 morale for that. 1 base, -1 for early food, +1 bedroom, +1 bathroom, +1 take a break, +1 water cooler. Should be able to get all that up before finishing the basic techs. Just can't rush straight into higher tier.

Once you have that get the Meal Preparation tech then put your water cooler and however many mess tables you need into a single (large) room. That will get you +3 until you can add a painting or statue. Then it upgrades to great hall and gives +6. With the great hall you should be good for going into tier 3 jobs.

For tier 4 upgrade the latrines to sinks and lavatories for another +1. Get a jukebox for +2 (high power cost). Spread decoration around. Maybe switch to bristle/gristle berries. That opens up all the necessary jobs to be functional.

Decorate the hell out of everything and get higher quality food to push your morale for the top end jobs. If you can swing quality 5 food you can do pretty much anything without sweating morale since it gives 16 morale on its own.