![]() Time spent walking is time NOT spent working. The majority of the difference in productivity in this example comes from the Biphasic Schedule’s additional walking trip. ![]() Night Owl and Undergrounder essentially remove the pessimist trait from working in the dark but they do NOT remove work speed and move speed penalties. The super short summary of Light is that you should consider working in the dark to mean: Lazy, 4 copies of the slowpoke trait, and Pessimist. In this example, the Biphasic schedule colonist did work more in the Dark. The Biphasic schedule is sometimes going to cause colonists to work in the dark more often. One reason for the difference in productivity is Light. That’s what the Biphasic schedule gives you: 2 additional hours of drafting your colonists and making them suffer when things in Rimworld get terrible. A long fight like this one is going to generate many mood debuffs like. In my totally unscientific, not based on math guesstimation from experience, I’m going to say the difference in mood on a Biphasic schedule versus a Standard Schedule is about 16. It’s virtually impossible to calculate the exact mood difference because, as I always say with RimWorld – it depends. The difference in mood isn’t always going to be that big and it changes depending on tons of factors. At this moment in time, the colonist on Standard schedule is at 24 mood. 99 Psychic Droner? Still an hour and a half before Minor break territory. That’s an hour and a half before minor breaks are even possible. In this example, the Biphasic schedule is 12 mood over the minor break threshold. What is good to keep in mind is that Mood does NOT change instantly. There’s no simple number for how much mood that would be as the circumstances and pawn types vary so much in RimWorld. My general rule of thumb would be “you want enough mood to avoid all mental breaks, including minor mental breaks”. As such, I’m also going to teach you about more potential schedules that have different costs and benefits that may align with your game play. I’d often have breakdowns during raids and end up losing colonists or the entire run.Depending on your play style, difficulty settings, etc, this may not be as much of an issue for you. ![]() The original reason I developed the biphasic schedule was that I found myself losing during raids not because of the actual combat, but because they would happen later in the day when everyone was at their lowest moods and energy. Depending on so many factors you may care about mood more or productivity more. Generally, the biphasic schedule will give more mood. Generally, the standard schedule will give more productivity. The first big choice in Scheduling: Mood verse Productivity. These schedules virtually always have the same amount of sleep per day: total amount of sleep was NOT a factor. This example’s difference in productivity was about 20%. The standard schedule mined 23 squares of steel. In this example, the Biphasic schedule mined 19 squares of steel. However, the Biphasic schedule does come at the cost of some productivity. Generally, the biphasic schedule will have about this much effect on mood relative to a standard schedule. Watch as the Biphasic mood bar gets a boost from the mid-day nap. Watch the mood bars as the day progresses. Here’s two copies of the same colonist in the same base with the same jobs. Mood is higher because BOTH these meters are at the top more AND these meters never drop as low. ![]() The Biphasic schedule will never let these bars get so low because recreation, rest and comfort are refilled every 12 hours. After 16 hours awake, a standard schedule has these 3 meters here. Each of those 3 bars falls at a steady rate. This double-fill-up helps increase mood because 1) the colonist is at these high mood notches of comfort and recreation twice, and 2) the 3 bars of recreation, rest and comfort won’t fall as far. What most players call a standard Rimworld schedule fills all these once a day. The Biphasic schedule fills this Recreation meter twice a day. For example, here’s the Recreation Meter and here’s the different Thoughts between notches. Each notch on these bars corresponds to a different mood amount. The Biphasic has significant effects on these 3 bars: Rest, Recreation and Comfort. The main reason for using the biphasic schedule is its a huge increase to mood. It is so powerful that you can even slap it on your nightowls and they will still be happier on average than a typical ‘night owl schedule’. That’s the simple, “fits everyone just fine”, you don’t have to think about it, Biphasic Schedule. Then, put 2 recreation BEFORE each block of Sleep: Recreation 9-10 and 21-22. Jump to right before midnight: 23: sleep. This Biphasic schedule is great choice for essentially everyone: Set everything to Anything.
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