Outdoors

Outdoors is the need for every pawn without the Undergrounder trait to be outside. Even when landed on a frontier world, most pawns feel the need for the great outdoors. Keeping them inside for too long will eventually affect their mood negatively.

This isn't much of a concern for certain professions. Farmers, animal handlers and hunters will go outside quite regularly. It's more of a concern for pawns whose jobs keep them inside: cooks, builders, tailors, crafters, artists, researchers, etc.

Strategies

• Most pawns that aren't zoned out will satisfy this need on their own by going on a walk during Recreation.
• Spacing out your colony buildings from each other can help satisfy this need simply by forcing pawns to walk outdoors between them.
• Build your Rec Room outdoors will allow your pawns to see nature while they unwind.
• Manually Draft them and move them outside for awhile.
• Pawns not under roofs will gain Outdoors faster than under roofs.
• While events will not affect Outdoors, pawns under a thick roof will lose Outdoors ~30% faster, and pawns in bed will lose/gain Outdoors at 20%.

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Status levels

Needs

Beauty • Chemical • Comfort • Drug addiction • Food • Indoors • Outdoors • Recreation • Rest • Deathrest • Energy • Kill satiety • Learning • Play

Related

Hemogen

Other

Mood (Mental break • Mental inspiration)