Melee is strong, but it's hard to walk out unscathed once in melee combat, which keeps your colonists bedridden instead of working. Shooting is better than melee since being a crack shot can often mean killing invaders without getting injured. A defensive skill like Shooting or Melee: Having a good attack skill on someone can save you a lot of hassle of having pawns get injured because they miss shots or have to fight in melee.Construction: Construction is great for building complicated structures as well as causing fewer botched jobs, which wastes resources.Additionally, you can even plant medicine at level 8 to give yourself a steady supply if your colony fights a lot and needs healing often. Plants: The Plant skill is essential to early game crops and can greatly speed up wood harvesting as well as botching crop harvesting.These are the skills that are the most valuable while getting started, so prioritize these stats when looking for your starting pawns: Incapable of dumb labor and violence are some of the worst to start with, so avoid these things when starting off. In practice, they help pawns recover from both injury and disease faster, compensate for poor doctors or injured doctors, and help mitigate penalties from blood and other filth in the hospital.įor general bedrooms, hospital beds are generally not worth the cost, unless the pawn is sickly, very old, or otherwise needs immediate access to quality care in their bedrooms.A few things to avoid in starting pawns that will make getting started difficult: Anyone incapable of anything is inconvenient when you need everyone working hard to get things up and running, especially early on. While a regular bed can reach all of maximum tend quality, surgery success, and base comfort, hospital beds do have advantages. Requires at least Construction level 8.Nearly impossible to acquire early game requires Hospital Bed research and several prerequisites.Note that an excellent hospital bed reaches 100% comfort with just a dresser, meaning you don't need an end table (which could get in the way of a vitals monitor).Ī hospital bed's benefits are further increased by a vitals monitor. However, an excellent bed with end table and dresser reaches 100% comfort, the point at which more comfort does nothing. Note: This is still subject to the hard cap of 98% success chance, and that that cap is achievable with a regular bed in the right hospital. +10% increased surgery success chance.However, each type of medicine has its own cap on tend quality. +6 HP recovered per day, equal to +75% tend quality for injuries.If weapons or defenses are needed, get them first. A pawn with a high medical skill and herbal medicine can suffice for most cases early game, but a hospital bed minimizes the risk of poor tend results.Īs hospital beds are locked behind a 1200 point research project, as well as needing Sterile Materials (600 points) and Microelectronics (3000 research points), it is not always advisable to prioritize them. This especially applies in biomes like the Tropical Rainforest or Tropical Swamp, where diseases like malaria are much more frequent. The massive increase in tend quality and surgery success chance make hospital beds a worthwhile investment. This increase is applied before the quality multiplier. Beds of the same quality level will all have the same comfort, regardless of what they're constructed from.Īn adjacent end table and a nearby dresser will each increase the base comfort by a further +0.05.

Comfort levels over 100% have no additional effect.Ĭomfort varies by quality but not material. It does not affect the rate at which comfort increases only the maximum level. A pawn sleeping in a bed with a higher comfort value can achieve a higher level. Comfort Ĭomfort is a measure of how high a pawn can refill their comfort meter while using the piece of furniture.

Stone materials would offer less rest effectiveness, but hospital beds cannot be made out of stone.īracketed numbers are in-game hours to refill rest to 100% from 0% at the given rest effectiveness. A pawn sleeping in a bed with 125% rest effectiveness would regain rest 25% faster, and thus require 80% of the time to sleep. Rest Effectiveness is a measure how fast a pawn will regain rest.

Can be linked with a vitals monitor to further increase medical success.

Increases medical tend quality by +10%.

Any quality or material hospital bed speeds a pawn's injury healing by +14 HP per day.

Any quality or material hospital bed improves immunity gain speed by +11%.

It requires 40 Stuff ( Metallic), 80 Steel, 5 Components and is constructed in 2,800 ticks ( 46.67 secs). Constructing a hospital bed requires Hospital Bed to be researched and a construction skill of 8.

Rimworld hospital walls