Stranded: Alien Dawn

Stranded: Alien Dawn

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Optimal House
By NESH
After a few iterations, I've tried to come up with the optimal way for survivors to reach every item easily for their work stations and get quickly back to work from either sleep or leisure.
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The idea
This picture outlines the idea.
I put the freezers on the wrong side, so look at the text mainly, while the blue boxes give an indicator. Workspace can be specific for how you play your scenario. In Military outpost you will have more printers, and few of those in the trading mission.
You can easily remove one or more bedrooms for the benefit of storage or other work rooms.
Execution
Here I play the crash landing scenario, and because I was going for some other achievements, I played it on medium, hence the massive battery storage.
Here the freezers are placed correctly and filled in with storage chests since they hold textiles very well. Be sure to only allow for "stuff that needs a freezer" in it, while things like Sirup and mushroom can go on the shelves. You can easily change restrictions if you gain a lot of electronics, and have to allow some on the stockpiles (while they usually go best in shelves), or similar with other stuff.
The spare storage is here used for smelting scrap metal specifically, and I ended up storing carbon, stone and cement outside, also smelting it outside.
The leisure room is well used with more statues outside. Darts boards usually sneak well in between spaces (between chairs and music).
One shelf is added to the eating area for tea and other drinks. I ended up going for 4 wardrobes here, but everything is customizable for how your materials flow during the mission.
Another benefit here is that two of my survivors married, and you can easily break down walls and move the beds together, as they prefer.
9 Comments
Naros 28 Mar @ 9:28am 
I never build with efficiency in mind. I'd much rather create a pleasant place for my people, that evolves over time.
Moving the bedrooms upstairs for one, would make this whole thing less blobby and huge.

Having some outbuildings for sensible outdoors stuff is also recommended.
For example; a pair of merged scrap shacks that are open on two sides, with a stone table and stone stools around it, and a campfire next to it makes for a very nice atmosphere. Especially if it has a nice view.
fefnir3284 14 Dec, 2023 @ 11:51am 
What? I have only 5 survivors and I have at least 30 times this storage.
MAD 8 Dec, 2023 @ 5:15pm 
7/10 Kitchen heating your freezers, Wood & hay inside the house. No perimeter defence covering your walls from being breached
son-goku 16 Nov, 2023 @ 6:45am 
How do you heat the house? Or generally temperature exchange? I don't see any windows or air vents on the outside walls...
Valky 14 Nov, 2023 @ 7:16am 
@Captain, that easy, 16*16 building 3*3 per bedroom 6*3 for the dinning room and the locker and the leisure and spare storage are 4*4 -1 in the angle for the work space
Captain 14 Nov, 2023 @ 2:23am 
this is great, but it would help if you place the dimensions of each room so that it is easier to replicate.
Vee 12 Nov, 2023 @ 2:57pm 
Very cool! This is really helpful. It's also how I lay out my rimworld bases, idk why I didn't previously consider something like this for stranded.
GeLiNi89 18 Sep, 2023 @ 11:53am 
Do you know how! I can Delete storagefields? Try but dont See the Option under r2 or l2.

Hydrocultur Boxes, shelves can be destroyed. But the Old First storage? Cant find it
GeLiNi89 18 Sep, 2023 @ 11:49am 
Nice idea. But ist biiig. Try something from your guide on ps5. Thank for ideas