1. When you reload your game and it asks to add the Mechanoid Hive as a faction with bases press "Don't ask for this faction again".
2. With your first scraps build a Pile of Scraps to generate a steady flow of them first or a scrap station to do it manually using materials.
3. If you see some things spawning on the map minified and you don't want that then you need to change that on the settings of minified everything..
4. Travelling is very much encouraged.
5. For legal licence reasons I can't upload music I am using but you are always welcome to add your own hence why Music Manager is in the list.
6. If world gen is broken change the values in Faction Control population mod to 130.5 minimum and 190 maximum. You can attempt to change them afterwards as you wish but commonly that is what works.
7. If you feel like you need further performance towards the late game keep your pawn job lists specialized - don't make them do more than 2 maximum 3 tasks - 1-2 primary jobs and one secondary high importance one (clean, haul, stonecut, refine). Remove everyone from Basic job and use Achtungs right click command to flick those manually. Remove everyone except your warden from wardening job. Ideally only enable wardening when you have actual prisoners. Remove everyone from firefighting job. Don't give too many orders at once(like build a huge town from scratch). I hope this helps.