I haven’t had a whole lot of luck with wind power. Solar panels seem to
generate power way quicker and you don’t have to deal with the hassle of
clearing the area for the wind turbines. Maybe they get better later on or
something but starting out they seemed very weak. With 2-4 solar panels you
should fill up your current batteries in a day or two

Also a good idea to grow xerigium indoors with the hydroponics table (need
research for it) since those grow plants very quickly but in small
quantities (I think about 6 plants per table).

I call my guy/gal ‘Cook’ and he crafts and cooks. The trait ‘warm skinned’
is very valuable for this strat and might in fact be necessary for them to
get by.

1. Build a very large room, draw together 3 6×6 ‘rooms’ that a normal
colonist would use and then connect them for a single long spacious
production room.
*This room will be your cooking room, fridge, research lab and crafting
room.

2. Create a reasonably large stockpile and only allow raw meats and animal
corpses to be placed on it (you can expand/shorten it later if you
need/want to) and place another stockpile near the exit/entrance to hold
leathers.

3. Place your cooking bench and butchering table ontop of the stock pile so
that your cook has access to the ingredients easily. Place 4 air-cons along
the wall together to keep the place freezing. Place down your research
table, for now,

4. Remove all jobs from Cook’s priorities (except keep firefighting, doc,
patient & repair all at 1 [everyone should have this]). After that, bump up
cooking to 2 and research to 3. You can actually have everything else at 4
if you like to select them and right click items around the world to
prioritize them (they won’t do the jobs unless they have them allowed in
‘Work’ overview). Finally, add the bill on the butcher table to be
infinite and then config the cook bill to “DO UNTIL YOU HAVE X” and then
bump it up to the # of colonists you have + 2.

This will keep your food and leather production extremely reliable and the
moment Cook’s finishes his batch he will research until the food has had
about 2 portions eaten. If you make more food than you need, then it will
spoil. You can also place a table with some chairs just outside this room
and create a single block-sized stockpile for meals only, so everyone can
pick up a meal and eat on the spot. This will also make your visitors like
you, because they have an area to congregate with your colonists and eat
at.

Once the research is fully finished, you can just remove the research table
and replace his research time with crafting, so instead of reliable
research you’ll have a steady stream of silver coming in. It might seem
complicated and ‘techy’ but once you dive in you’ll find this very
intuitive and easy to set up. If your cook doesn’t have warm skinned, then
you’ll have to wall off the fridge and place the benches just outside of
the fridge to maximize efficiency.