TL;DR: Read only the part after -Insulation Hot and Cold -

I wanna address some issue I found it really difficulty to play with this mod in certain biomes with Naked Brutality(Starting with 1 tribe naked pawn with nothing). I understand that this is the flavor of this mod, but I wanna know if others or @PartyCowboy have any thoughts of what can possibly be done. You can also see this thread as my Naked Brutality starting guide, since that's the first thing I thought about when I saw this mod. (I don't think this is what the mod is designed for when he made this mod though however. LOL)

I wanna address most of the threat for Naked Brutality/Thinking Spot and my way of counter them, so I can address what I find no solution. I suggest anyone who hasn't played Naked Brutality/Thinking Spot before to tried them out first before reading a guide though. It's a lot more fun without a guide.

Before we talked about the threats let's talk about the starting pawn. In my experience, your starting pawn for NB w/wo TS has to be 12+ Melee preferably 14, 2 flame passion for Intelligence and somewhat a decent in Medical. The rest are optional, a somewhat decent constructor and mining can help, but it's mainly about what your plan is once you survived early game. I will explain why these stats below with threats. With my tips and RNG, you should be able to survive early game as long as you don't have any bad traits. However, cannibal (too easy imo), ascetic and Super Immune are really fitting traits.

There are 5 types of threat for starting with nothing: Food, Disease, Mood, Hostile NPCs, and Insulations. I will label them as "Both","NB(Naked Brutality Only Solution)" or "TS(Thinking Spot Only Solution) to further separated them in detail.

- Food -
1. (Both)If you are on food rich biome such as temperate/tropical forest you can simply lived by foraging plants forever. Should still work on shrubland swamp if you run around the whole map.
2. (Both) On extreme biomes such as icesheet and extreme desert you will always have to punch snowhare and lizard to eat them as food. It's better to eat them without butchering to get more food out of them. On this part ice sheet can be easier than extreme biome, since I believe lizard hits harder than snowhare. This is why you need a high melee stats pawn.
3. (Both) Observe the predator on your map, take their target's corpse once the predator hunted something(only do this with NB, because you won't even be able to build a room to hide inside with thinking spot this early. It's better to leave to corpse outside for the predator to eat, so they don't turn manhunt and hopefully they will bleed out before they comes for you.), and grab predator's corpse once predator's bleed to death from their target's counter attack.
4. (NB only) Lay down some traps and wait for the predator to come to you for free meat, you can also punch a thrumbo and run to your trap if you are desperate for food.

- Diseases -
1. This is why you need to be a decent med pawn.
2. On normal biomes, just gather some herbal med, then you will be fine.
3. On extreme biomes, without herbal med you will have to micromanage self-tend and immediately sleep on a med sleeping spot. Otherwise, you will die. This is where super immune come in handy. It's ok to prepare carefully in the super immune trait imo, since dying to disease alone on icesheet/dessert really isn't anything fun but more of RNG.
4. I believe you will always die without med, super immune trait when you do self-tend, if you ever caught a plague, so ya... unlucky..... Another reason to start with Super Immune.

- Mood -
1. (Both)On normal biome this shouldln't be too hard to deal with, depends on your difficulty settings, of course.
2. (Both)Cannibal = don't need to worry about mood
3. (Both)Ascetic is pretty good and less cheaty than cannibal.
4. (Both) 2 Flame passion gives a +14 mood boost. This is why you want a 2 flame passion in intelligence, since your pawn will be researching all the time and he/she barely has to stop and walk while researching. That means +14 most of the time except eating and sleeping. Which is A LOT.
5. (Both)What to do if you cannot keep your mood high? Make 2 work schedule, one filled up with "working", while another filled up with "anything." This will be the 2 schedule early game, ♥♥♥♥ sleeping regularly. Keep your starting pawn working when he or she is about to break. If the pawn fall down due to exhaustion, immediately draft and undraft him to wake up and continue working. Your pawn will fall asleep soon after they have any mental break to stop them from mental breaking. (If you get Catatonia then it's gg, but that's the only exception.) Swap back to the all "anything" schedule once they broke since they will get the +40 mood buff. Constantly going intentional mental break and fall asleep then back to "anything" schedule should be your early game flow on extreme biomes without cannibal.
6. (Update) I discovered that camp fire as a gathering spot is a good way to provide recreation early game. I am talking about thinking spot of course. It's possible to build one early for the mood, if you research it early. It can work as a place for recreation without burning, so just prohibit your pawn from refueling it, if you don't have many wood.

-Hostile NPC-
1. Predator: Trap your door for free meal(NB). For TS, you should constantly checking(Use Wild Life Tab Mod) on their food meters and build a wall to lock yourself inside the room until the predator hunted something else. It's better to leave the animal and raider's corpse outside to kept the predator fed when you are playing TS since you cannot build traps. You will have to research walls first in TS of course. If you get predator before you research walls then this is where high melee stats for... I once beated a polarbear with 14 melee pawn... extremely lucky... she didn't have enough time to tend before she fall down due to pain shock though.
2. Man Hunting Animal: Pretty much the same as predator, trap(NB) or wall off(TS), fight when you have no wall research(TS).
3. Raiders and infestation: for NB you should always use traps. For TS read the point below to try to get a weapon as soon as possible.
4. Getting Weapons. If you are lucky you can mine some silver and buy a range weapon. Otherwise: You will always be checking all the visitors' and traders' bio. If you ever see anyone with a range weapon with "Wimp" Trait. Just equip a log and give that wimp pawn a punch. It's usually enough with only 1 punch, 2 punch at most for a wimp pawn to fall down. Each attack will drop -30 good will with the faction. As long as the goodwill doesn't drop below -50, the pawn's friends aren't gonna attack you. After the wimp pawn dropped just grab his weapon, strip him and rescue him. It will be extremely easy to rescue him to gain back some good will, since he only got punch once or twice, that's less than 5% health. You will be able to gain a weapon, some clothing and maybe other loots with net lost of only -17 good will.
5. If point 4 seem to be easy/not lore friendly then install some ammunition mod or No Weapon Looting Mod, so you won't be able to craft ammunition even if you have a gun. LOL

- Insulation (Hot and Cold) -
This is the issue I wanna talk about.
For NB:
- Cold: In icesheet, dig some steel and build a house on a steam geyser as soon as the game starts. This is the only way, no other solution for you to survive the first night.
- Hot: In desert, research passive cooler first before anything else, build a passive cooler as soon as possible. Or, dig very very deep into mountains. (I never tried this but I heard it works, but you are racing with heat stroke and you will have no time for fist fighting lizard, dig a straight line.) This is where mining stats might be useful, if you planned to pick a mountain biomes. However, this doesn't seems very practical for NB anyway, since you have other things such as food to worry about.

For TS:
- Run to nearby tiles and hopefully it's warmer/cooler over there, and come back to the extreme biomes once you have the research and call it a Thinking spot extreme biome playthrough.

- Cold: On ice sheet, you can't build fire, you can't build doors, you can't build walls around steam geyser, you will die before you research anything.
- Hot: In desert, dig straight into mountains, but what about fist fighting lizard for food, most likely you will die, either by heat or starvation. Also, what if you don't wanna start on a mountains terrain?
- Early Heat Wave: You will die, even on temperate forest, unless you research wall first and having a mountain on the temperate forest.

This is where I want some tips and ideas about Thinking Spot. I feel like passive cooler shouldn't be behind fire, since it really limited the ways to deal with heat wave even on temperate forest, and that feels really just RNG while playing with Thinking Spot.

Also, I wonder if it's ok to start the game with just fire and passive cooler, or maybe a different version of Thinking Spot for those people who wanna play in more extreme biomes. I really like the idea of this mod, and how much work PartyCowboy put into making all these patches. This mod is actually a huge project and it really deserve more recognition simply for the work amount he put into. Currently, I feel like it's a shame that this mod cannot be too versatile on the starting biomes and terrain, and the biggest limitation are the Hot and Cold in my opinion. Starting with fire and passive cooler are probably still not enough for ice sheet and extreme desert, since we will still at least need to research wall, and those biomes won't give you enough time before you died off hot/cold. However, it will enable the possibility to start in trunda, boreal forest and maybe normal desert, if you pick a more mild temperature in those biome.
I really like the idea of discovering fire though. Currently I can only think of a few solution listed below for this:
1. Make TS started with fire and passive cooler
2. Make another version of TS that start with those.
3. Make Fire and passive cooler parallel research instead of fire being pre-requisite of passive cooler, and decrease the research to 75 points for both. (Honestly, why so high as 300 anyways? We can't even cook on the fire and dying to heat wave, cold snap isn't anything interesting in the gaming aspect for even playing on temperate forest.)
Any other thoughts?