Bull, bull, bull.
O.O 7x7 bedrooms? how do you fit a full colony plus prisoners/slaves and all the other stuff? How big does your base's footprint get later on? Curious.
To be fair, it doesn't count as several people if they're all clones of each other
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This is my current colony. Colonists get 5x5 rooms here rather than the standard 5x4 rooms I've usually gone with in the past.
It's not super planned -- I'm not particularly happy with where the hospital ended up (upper right) as it's pretty far away, and in hindsight should probably have put it between the two farm zones on the left. The hospital look weird right now because it's built to accommodate for sterile walls and hospital furniture (from Vanilla Expanded Furniture -- Hospital module) eventually without me having to tear down the original walls (I also like encasing my sterile walls since they cost so much and I hate seeing them blown up).
Prisons (the little side room on the left of the main hall and the wooden shack by the hill west of the main cluster) are also temporary right now, but they're not priority number one for the moment. No slave yet this run, haven't had any prisoners I deemed worthy that I didn't rather just recruit. No idea where I would put those. Potentially in the space where the hospital could have gone.
Production was supposed to go in the central-east room that's all storage right now, but the storage filled up before I had the time to move anything in there. I'm terribly behind on production research anyway, not even able to take apart the mechs I've taken down so far (I got very lucky and one of the first pirate raids netted me three smoke launchers and EMP grenades, so Mechs basically cannot hurt me in any way so far).
I don't think 5x5 rooms take too much space for a colony. I'm using them as pseudo-walls right now, so that my colonists always are close to the battlements if we're raided at night.
What size do you usually make them, Ygdrad?