I then export all my corpses from raids there, where they butcher them for their food, and they send back human leather (which I then sell or use for textiles). having a second colony running means potentially doubling the load on your hardware from simulating a full play area, so if you're running hundreds of mods that affect things like tree growth or animal behavior, have the default tile size set to largest possible option, and have a couple dozen pawns, starting up a second colony might make things slow down quite a bit And a second warning, but this time, about performance.Also, good to know some events are shared and most are not. Like having a raid on site 1 quickly followed by a blight on site number 2. Though, it can get a bit crazy when you've got events or important things to take care of on more than one at a time. It's really good fun having more than one colony.But you'll have to make the second one yourself, once you feel ready for it
In the options, you can change it so you CAN have more than one.
The option to have multiple colonies is just that: an option. Home RimWorld multiple colonies Colonies bei Amazon