
Annoying Voice, Belligerent, and the like can benefit from sleeping during the day, too-it keeps them from pissing off everyone else and starting fights. Night Owls so they sleep during the day and get a happiness buff.
Colonists with traits like Night Owl or Annoying Voice can be given an alternative schedule using the Restrict menu. From there, your priorities are going to depend on what you need most-but Microelectronics is going to be key, allowing you to trade with passing space ships, communicate with other factions, and research faster. You’ll want to build a Research bench early on so you can get Stonecutting and start putting up strong stone walls. Prepare for your first winter by ensuring that you’ve made a tailoring bench and a few Parkas and Tuques-unless you’re in the tropics or the desert, where you should be focusing on Dusters and Cowboy Hats to keep off the heat. Set their target temperature to 0 Celsius, make the inside of the room a Stockpile for raw food, to-be-butchered animal bodies, and prepared meals. Once you’ve done that, Wall off or dig out a good size room near your common area and install Coolers, under Temperature with their blue side facing inwards.
Make sure to keep your batteries indoors-they get disastrous when wet.
Using the Power section in the Architect menu, build Wind Turbines and Solar Panels, then connect them to batteries to store up energy.
At first, you can’t do much to alleviate needs like a personal bedroom (always at least 5 by 5 in size!) or a desire for robot limbs, but it’s easy to make a Nudist happy by going to the Assign menu and giving them permission to never wear clothes. Character gives their skills and unique traits. If you click on a Colonist, you can get various bits of information about them by using the tabs above their panel, but the most useful ones are Character and Needs.This is also how you get detailed information. Remember, if you don’t know what something is or what it does, you can almost always click the 'i' button somewhere on its panel to get more information.Learn your way around the interface to give orders and ensure your colonists are happy.