I dont play this game like a story teller. I play on easy, with weak raids, with no insta colonist death, no friendly fire, and with reloads enabled. I just wanna build a cool colony! But it got me thinking…
How do you guys play? super hardcore or really chill, somewhere in the middle perhaps? I wanna know.


I also play with no/weak raids, phoebe chillax, dev enabled, etc.
But I have soooooooo many mods that add complexity and decor and stuff, and my goal is to build up an incredible resort of happy people for the wandering visitor groups that come through, and end up with everyone being allies (if convertible - dart guns to capture enemies for release reputation are glorious). I usually end up with 80+ people before the lag hits too hard to keep going (let’s hear it for move speed enhancers!!! rimrails is my favorite by far.)
So I have massive numbers of recreation buildings and stuff, and my base ends up so huge and complicated with multiple floors, absolutely giant freezers, and everything just everywhere so that it crashes and lags to hell and I start over with a new map. I need a better gpu…
I have never once completed a main objective, whether from vanilla or the DLC or even mod objectives. I’ve made some tiny amounts of progress toward them (like the one where you sell your base 3x, I’ve sold it once) but never actually done anything with completing them. Someday I might! But probably not. Win conditions don’t interest me in a sandbox game. Haven’t done any main objectives in oxygen not included, either.