RimWorld – Which objects stack

Select a colonist and right-click on the comms console; there should only be one option, "open communications". Select it. They will walk over to the console and start fiddling with it, at which point a window will pop up asking which ship to open communication with. If there are no ships in range, they'll still try to use the console but that window will instead say "there is no-one in range to communicate with".

If the "open communications" option doesn't appear or the colonist refuses to use the comms console, check:

• That the console has power.
• That the colonist can reach it; some pieces of furniture, like potted plants, block pathing.
• That the colonist is capable of social interaction. (To check, select the colonist, click "Character" in the lower left, and look at the "Incapable Of" section to see if it includes the word "social".)

If all of these requirements are met and you still can't communicate, you've probably hit a bug; Rimworld, being pre-alpha, has these in abundance.

You're off to a good start next I'd get some defenses up, turrets and sandbags to be more specific. This will help with raider waves.

Which brings us to our next part: getting more people.

You can get people in 5 ways right now.

1. People will wander in and just join up no questions asked
2. An escape pod will crash and you will have to rescue the person and convince them to join
3. When fighting raiders, randomly the killing hit won't kill them only knock them unconscious. When this happens you have the ability to capture them
4. The same can be done for visitors
5. The same can be done for the people in cryo-sleep pods. A warning about this one though those pods are guarded by some hard to kill and hard hitting enemies open at your own risk

When you capture anyone you need to have prisoners beds set up for them to sleep in. I usually set these up away from my main colony just in case one breaks out. You then need to have a warden "try to recruit them" your chances are better if the person is not injured and well fed.

As from where to go from there you could outfit people with bionic parts, set up different productions to earn lots of sliver or build a rocket and escape the planet.