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[tryrar]

...good enough for me!

[Retropunch]

Before I blow 30 bucks on this, is it really worth the purchase? (If I do this it'll basically be my only real purchase of the month)

Although you seem sold, I'd second that it's worth a buy. Still a bit rough around the edges (especially with the morale system) but its really good fun. More than that, the dev seems keen to keep improving it, and the mods allow for a lot of interesting additions.

[Majestic7]

Any recommendations for mods? Something to add stuff to do after the basics are finished would be nice.

[n9103]

Try out some of the complete overhaul mods?

[Sergius]

These are the mods I found that are updated for Alpha 7 and I've been trying them:

A2B
Apparello
ED-AutoLoader
ED-Core
ED-DeepStrike
ED-EMRG turret
ED-LaserDrill
ED-MortarAmmo
ED-OmniGel
ED-PersonalShields
ED-Shields
ED-WirelessPower
EdBInterface
EdBPrepareCarefully
ExtraResearchTables1.3
Generator
Mining & Co. Common
Mining & Co. Deepdriller+MMS
MoreHair
NaturalTerrainFlooring
PowerSwitch
RTFTJ
SimpleMedicineCraft
SurgeryExtended
Synthmeat
T-ConditionRed
T-ExpandedCloth
T-ExpandedCrops
T-MiscStuff
T-MoreBeds
T-MoreFloors

Right off the bat, I disabled ED-MortarAmmo because I plan to use lots of mortars to level mountains and try to get rid of that annoying Overhead Mountain. Also, T-ExpandedCrops removes vanilla RawBerries and that makes it conflict with SimpleMedicineCraft (you can edit the recipe to use RawStrawberries instead. A better solution would be to ask the maker of Expanded Crops to just reskin the RawBerries instead).

I also didn't install TechTreeMinami because it would probably break a lot of mods.

EDIT: In fact, I don't recommend these at all:
-T-ExpandedCloth: this merely makes making cloth harder, by adding an unnecessary step from cotton (remember when making planks was removed? busywork just for its own sake)
-T-ExpandedCrops: as mentioned above, breaks compatibility. Also no real point in having more crops if they don't make any difference in making meals.

[n9103]

TechTreeMinami

That's the one. Huge overhaul of how everything works.
Read the mod documentation carefully when you get stuck. Some things aren't very intuitive, but generally, it's a lot of fun.

[guessingo]

Is this game still alpha in eveyones opinion? How fast are quality updates coming?

[Zangi]

Ah, TTM, not fully updated to the new alpha yet, since it is in part a compilation of other mods.  It does qualify as an overhaul since it locks everything up behind research. 
Also, the zombie mod works with TTM.

RimWorld is kinda equivalent to Prison Architect when it comes to updating right now.  Does it monthly, but, it is lagging way behind, since it only recently picked up.  (I'm pretty sure I've been sitting on RimWorld for at least a year before it started going at the monthly updates, but then I tend to put in money and forget about it when it comes to kickstarting or whatever early buying thing after it goes off the B12 radar.)

[n9103]

Depends, are you using the popular meaning of Alpha, or the actual one?
It's not feature complete, so it's far from being out of alpha in my book.

[Retropunch]

It's basically a very polished alpha. Very playable (and the bits that are in work well), but certainly not feature complete.

[Fikes]

Depends, are you using the popular meaning of Alpha, or the actual one?
It's not feature complete, so it's far from being out of alpha in my book.

It has to be feature complete to be out of alpha?

[n9103]

Since Beta is basically reserved for bug fixing, or used to be anyway, yes.
But ever since Minecraft, not much you can tell anymore from most dev's self-assigned development phase.

[Fikes]

Since Beta is basically reserved for bug fixing, or used to be anyway, yes.
But ever since Minecraft, not much you can tell anymore from most dev's self-assigned development phase.

I don't think it was ever like that, for sure not with games.

Most software doesn't go into "feature lock" until a bit before release.

[bQt31]

Damn this game is awesome. I love to harvest organs from my prisonner!

[Neon Green]

Since Beta is basically reserved for bug fixing, or used to be anyway, yes.
But ever since Minecraft, not much you can tell anymore from most dev's self-assigned development phase.

I don't think it was ever like that, for sure not with games.

Most software doesn't go into "feature lock" until a bit before release.

I think this is a generalization made from a limited set of experiences. Most users didn't apply patches or updates before always-on internet became common. Fifteen years ago, if you didn't do a real beta test you were taking a massive gamble with your sales and your reputation.