Beginner guide: make your first save sustainable

Create a household you can observe

Use Paramaker to define appearance, personality, life stages and relationships, but keep the first group small enough that you can see how selection, autonomy and needs work. Choose fictional nicknames or labels for the site planner; never enter real personal information there.

• Check relationships before leaving Paramaker.
• Give each Parafolk a distinct visual or role cue.
• Save the household to the in-game library as a reusable backup.

Choose function before renovation

A starter home should let Parafolks sleep, eat, wash and move between essential objects without obvious routing conflicts. Play briefly before a large redesign so you can see which rooms or passages cause friction; preserve a budget reserve instead of spending every available unit on decoration.

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Build a simple Live Mode rhythm

Watch needs, emotions and wants without trying to satisfy every signal immediately. Secure basic care, add a job when you are ready for a schedule, use social interactions deliberately and let one skill emerge from the activities your household actually performs.

Save at decision points

Patch 0.1.5 keeps the three most recent autosaves for each save and adds Steam Cloud, but a named manual save remains useful before major building, mod or household changes. Duplicate a save in the Load Game menu when the result would be difficult to reverse, and never delete files as a first repair step.