Reason 2 – Never have kitchen food poisoning problems again Good thing we don’t actually need to do it, with this knowledge! late game.Ĭleaning in vanilla is also painfully inefficient since it relies on home area, so you run into either issues with firefighting or designating sane cleaning zones. Thus, in general, the percent of total available labor dedicated to cleaning floored bases is much higher in early vs.

But early game, practically every movement involved in collecting resources involves a movement from outside (unfloored) to constructed tile, resulting in dirt. Later in the game, most pawns in their daily work in floored bases are moving from constructed to constructed tile, and these movements don’t produce dirt.

Realizing that dirt production is proportional to unfloored tile -> constructed tile connections also explains why having a cleaner is also especially punishing for early game. But again, regular rocks like slate/granite will give you disgusting rough-hewn stone instead. Side note - you can access more rough stone by mining under resource veins. This makes rough stone an extremely valuable type of terrain. This should be distinguished from rough-hewn stone (which resides under mined out rocks), and smoothed stone, which can get dirt-tracked onto it. Not only can it not get dirt tracked onto it, it has a cleanliness value of 0.00, equivalent to most non-sterile tiled rooms. Rough stone is a special tile in this regard. Or, to put it in a more catchy way, dirt can’t get dirty. Obvious solution is – don’t use constructed tile.

Trash is produced while human pawn is walking on a constructed tile.Īnimal filth is produced while animal pawn is walking on a constructed tile. What if I was to say that a janitor could be made, aside from the occasional drop pod raid, completely unnecessary?ĭirt is produced by going from an unfloored tile such as soil to a constructed tile. One of the things that is drilled into a new players head is the underrated vitalness of a cleaner. So let’s start with “why I don’t build floors.” So I believe this information should be pretty widely applicable. In general, this information is drawn off play experience, or the play experience of others on Cass/merciless, almost exclusively in vanilla settings (I don’t believe things like Moody have hidden game mechanic altering features, at least.). From “mildly curious” to “turns merciless raids into basebuilder” to “useful information for ethical players” hopefully this series will have something for everyone. Figured I would share some of the ‘unintended mechanics’ I and kakarotultrainstinct have learned over our time playing this game.

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