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First thing to do is learn what mood breaks are and ways to keep your pawns happy. The easiest way to do this is to look at the needs tab and look at the negative moodlets. At the beginning it is simple stuff like wants to eat at a table, it looks like shit around here, I dont have a bed. Your big mood positives early game is going to be low expectations. Expectations are determined by colony wealth, so the wealthier your colony gets the better they will want to be treated

In general, the game is a wealth management simulator. All the raids are calculated based on how much your colony is worth with some modifiers. So if you dont want your colony wrecked by a horde of whatever the storyteller decides to send you, dont hoard things. It might feel nice to turn all the stone chunks into bricks and clean up the map or mine that whole steel vein or stock enough food for 10 years, you are going to have to have the combat ability to defend it.