My Rimworld colony is still going strong. I got attacked by a raid via drop pod while almost all of my colonists were outside, so I couldn't rely on my traps. Luckily everyone was close to camp, so I could attack the raiders from two directions, allowing me to flank them while having cover from their fire.
Once everyone started shooting at each other I had my melee specialist run up to distracted raiders and stab them with her plasteel knife, which was incredibly effective, downing most of them in a single strike. I even managed to capture three of them while my colonists only suffered fairly minimal injuries.
I decided to sell those prisoners into slavery and while the caravan was on its way a mechanoid ship landed in the corner of the map. So I used the money I got from the slaves to buy a Doomsday Rocket Launcher. I'm very excited to see what that will do.
I'm also getting close to the spaceship researches. I have a mod that speeds up research by allowing you to reverse engineer items and by learning from other factions. With the Hospitality mod there are almost always people from two factions visiting (who often also help out with research themselves), so it's been going very fast.
I've never actually escaped the planet before, but I might actually manage this time.
What!? Move all her medical stuff to the jail cell. Now the doctor is ALWAYS in!
Sadly you can't put prisoners to work (though there is a mod for that). With the Idealogy DLC you can make them slaves, but I just read the wiki and apparently if you arrest your own colonist and immediately release them they just rejoin your colony, you don't need to convince them. So that's good to know for next time.
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