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The Schedule tab

The Schedule tab sets each pawn's daily rhythm: when they work, when they rest, and when they sleep. The day is divided into 24 hours, and you decide what each hour is for. Press F2 to open it.

The default schedule is usually fine for a new colony. Most colonies run for a long time without needing changes here, so if this screen feels like extra work, leave it alone until you have a concrete reason to tinker.

Brushes

You assign hours by picking a "brush" and painting it onto the schedule. A brush is a time assignment type, and you choose one by pressing a number key: 1 through 9 and 0.

The list typically looks like this:

  • 1 Anything
  • 2 Work
  • 3 Recreation
  • 4 Sleep

The list comes directly from the game, so the exact order can vary, and DLCs can add more entries. Trust what the mod announces when you press a number over what is written here.

Applying a brush

Move to the hour you want, then:

  • Space or Enter applies the current brush to that single hour.
  • Shift+Left and Shift+Right paint the brush across the hours toward that side as you move.
  • Shift+Home paints the brush from the current hour back to hour 0.
  • Shift+End paints the brush from the current hour to hour 23, the last hour of the day.

Filling a night

A night is not a single stretch on this screen, because the row runs from hour 0 to hour 23 and a night spans the wrap between them: the late-evening and early-night hours sit at the right end of the row, while the late-night and early-morning hours sit at the left end. Filling a full sleep period therefore takes two passes, not one. Pick the Sleep brush with 4, then paint each edge of the night separately: from your pawn's bedtime use Shift+End to paint to hour 23, and from hour 0 use Shift+Right (or Shift+Home from the wake-up hour) to paint the early-morning hours. Painting from a single hour cannot wrap across the end of the day in one move.

Copying a schedule

Once you have built a schedule you like, you can apply it to the whole colony without rebuilding it for each pawn.

  • Ctrl+C copies the current pawn's schedule.
  • Ctrl+V pastes it onto another pawn.
  • The Work tab decides what each pawn does during their work hours. The Schedule tab decides when those hours are.