Baby Base 5 : The Magma Biome and Regolith harvesting : Oxygen not included
We start of trying to tame the magma biome, a small water leak leaves us running for our lives as ladders melt behind us. So we find purpose in deploying our cooling loop and switching crops to Bristle Blossom's. After that we crack open space for the regolith and to dispose of our excess polluted water. Productive day, but I still desperately want to get power sorted.
This is not exactly for beginners, it's more a rough outline of how to survive the most common events. While setting yourself up to be capable of surviving the more uncommon events.
Save game file from end
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10iuzTATRHWjkz2ev2WsO9WqdLJ7WL0sP/view?usp=sharing
00:00 Intro
04:17 Trap Corridor
04:59 Social Fights
05:55 Default end quest
06:37 Herbal Medicine
07:39 Early Traders
08:05 Ancient Danger
11:29 Prepared Raid
12:09 Colonist choices
17:34 Prisoner rooms
17:59 Prison break
19:33 Plagues and Illness
21:29 Basic Research
21:40 Individual bedrooms
23:54 Your first Crafter
26:18 Burning Corpses
27:24 Expansion
28:29 Early Tech
29:42 Early Components
30:17 Early Power
34:09 Upgraded Science room
35:08 Centre drop raid
39:09 Rare Thrumbo
41:03 Manhunter Packs
43:08 Breacher Raids
46:02 Mass Melee Tribal
50:35 Grenade Hunting
51:40 Helmets, Flak and Guns
55:45 Manhunter pack again
56:12 Hospital
56:38 Inventory sorting
57:09 Psychic Ship
59:16 Summary
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHtWRuJqQf4
Lots of side projects got in the way of launching the rocket quickly. But at least now our pawns can get in and out of the rockets without getting scalded every time.
Credits song - Aaron Kenny - Happy Haunts
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Save game file :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pwG2JAimnXIFkoBHKOQOUiqNP10r6YKW/view?usp=sharing
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkSDwU6tPa0
An explanation of the skills system and how it helps you specialize your dupes. You don't need massive moral to make very effective dupes but it does not hurt.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdu6cB44RjM
Industrial brick is now operational, we should not have to worry about refined metal in the future. The whole industrial brick is not fully operational yet but that can be fixed when we get into the oil biome. However all is not sunshine and roses we lose a dupe, by the time I got suffocation warning they were almost gone. We provided them a tasteful burial to commemorate their service.
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Save game file from end of video, please don't spoil Geysers:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C2y4MhbCVfDVPN6OpU-0YWYgL1m16COw/view?usp=sharing
Mods : (I try to avoid mods that affect game balance)
PAUSE on ready to print
Drink tea not coffee
Blueprints
Pliers
Deconstructable POI Props
Show Building Ranges
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Credits song - Funeral March (by Chopin)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRYsUIVXtFo
On the up side we managed to break the game enough to be perfectly sustainable. One the down side we are being perused by a genocidal, homicidal, maniac AI. So bit of a mixed bag really.
With Earth on the brink of ecosystemic collapse, DOLOS A.E.C. leads efforts to find a new home for the human race. Whether by chance or fate, its prototype space station, the Tiqqun, finds itself cast adrift, a disintegrating ark upon which the remnants of humanity must find sanctuary – and you, Administrator, are at its helm.
IXION is a city-builder that requires you to be vigilant, to constantly assess and reassess, to learn and adapt. If you and your crew are to endure, you must confront the perils of space, while at the same time uncovering its secrets and extracting its resources. Danger, however, will come from within as well as without; you’ll need to establish, maintain and develop the Tiqqun’s infrastructure while managing the station’s population, deciding how best to answer their pleas so as to maintain their trust in you and the mission.
There are no simple solutions; your actions will have repercussions, now or further down the line. How you deal with those repercussions will be the difference between survival and extinction.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTbQ_ziuD1w
Their is way to much to this game, I'm 90 hours in and I'm only getting around to capital ships just now. Don't get me wrong I have loved just about every bit of it. I just don't see how a game designer can sit down and come up with a game that keeps so much of it's content past the 100 hour mark considering most people don't make it past 40 hours in a game.
Included DLC
Split Vendetta
Cradle of Humanity
Tides of Avarice
Kingdoms end
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Discord server : https://discord.gg/4unUzJSB5h
X4: Foundations is a huge space sandbox simulator that lives and breathes within your gaming system. Thousands of ships and stations trade, mine and produce, all realistically simulated. In this universe, you can grow from being the lone pilot of a fighter ship, to managing a vast empire, commanding your fleets and designing colossal space stations. Transition seamlessly from first-person action, boarding ships and visiting their bridges, to an expansive strategy and management simulation. Choose your own path at your own pace. The decisions are yours. Trade - Fight - Build - Think.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dSBHn1AuDQ
This dyson sphere is big, really big. The amount of resources we have already poured in is crazy. This is going to be a monster, assuming the computer can survive long enough.
Map seed 62756395
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Songs -
To Pass Time - Godmode
Hungry for Disaster - Silent Partner
Parisian Cafe - Aaron Kenny
Calculator
https://yesterdaysun.github.io/dsp-calculator/
Mods site
https://dsp.thunderstore.io/package/
Mods used
MultiBuild By brokenmass (Allows blueprints, replaces AdvancedBuildDestruct and Copyinserters)
Multi building recipe paste By wingless
r2modman : Mod manager (Manages your mods)
DspGameSpeed By dsp-mods (Allows you to change game speed)
SuperNightLight by AlphaDSPMod (Allows you to become bright as the sun at night, great so viewers can see what is going on, does NOT provide power to solar panels)
FastAbsorption By brokenmass
Speeds up dyshon sphere absorption of solar sails
BetterFPS By brokenmass
Dyson Sphere Program is a sci-fi simulation game with space, adventure, exploration and factory automation elements where you can build your own galactic industrial empire from scratch.
In the distant future, the power of science and technology has ushered a new age to the human race. Space and time have become irrelevant thanks to virtual reality. A new kind of supercomputer has been developed – a machine whose superior artificial intelligence and computing capability will push humanity even further. There is only one problem: there isn’t enough energy in the whole planet to feed this machine.
You are a space engineer in charge of a project launched by the space alliance COSMO, tasked with a massive undertaking: constructing Dyson Spheres (a megastructure that would orbit around a star, harnessing all its power and energy) to produce the energy that humanity needs. Only a few decades ago, Dyson Spheres were considered a hypothetical, impossible invention – but now it’s in your hands… Will you be able to turn a backwater space workshop into a galaxy-wide industrial production empire?
Neutron stars, white dwarfs, red giants, gaseous and rocky planets… There is a big and varied universe out there, waiting for you to gather all its resources.
Every playthrough will be unique: your universe will be procedurally generated every time you start a new game. There will be different types and distribution of stars, planets and resources. Will you manage to thrive and build your Spheres, no matter what the universe throws at you?
As a space engineer, you are expected to design your interstellar factory and production lines, not to micromanage every small package going back and forth. You have to transport materials from one planet to another, forming interstellar transport teams that gather resources and
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zimClAt3hgE
I am a bit suprised how well the tombs worked out for us. 3 pieces of armour and 4 weapons we can use. This should make it a little faster to get our family up and running as we are now much better positioned to defend ourselves. But we still have lots of research left to go before we are ready for that.
Playlist
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Discord server : https://discord.gg/4unUzJSB5h
Save game file
MODS
Harmony
HugsLib
Camera+ - Brrainz
Allow Tool - Unlimited Hugs
RimHUD - Jaxe
Dubs Mint Minimap - Dubwise
TradeHelper - TimmyLiang
Quick Stockpile creation - slofa
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXVCwY2owxg
Despite getting three new recruits in 6 days, this was very very painful. The man hunting animals were an annoyance. The Mechanoids with their toxic fog was a problem. The three raids of tribals in rapid succession was a little painful. But the ostriches.... they were the worst. They sneak attacked without warning and caught two colonists out of cover. One of them nearly died from their wounds. Our colony is hurting right now but we have a lot of potential in our new colonists, if they survive long enough we will be capable of great things.
"The25" rules
Whatever difficulty you are comfortable with or maybe a little more.
Commitment mode, map seed "The25"
No mods that change game balance.
Cant re-roll starting pawns but you can choose any of the available 8.
Pick any location to settle you like, you cannot ever run from this tile.
Recruit pawns until you have hit a total of 25, dead pawns count towards the total, you cannot recruit more than 25.
Once you hit 25 not before, start the mission to get off the planet, reactor, escape ship, royal mission.
You get one points for every pawn you get off the planet alive and one point for every season under 25 it takes you to get off the planet.
You get -1 point for every season over 25 it takes you to get off the planet, the first season is season 0. It only becomes a new season when the date of the 6th hits, so you can be 10 seasons and 14 days in and that still counts as 10 seasons.
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Credits song - Dan Lebowitz - Surrender
Mods:
Numbers
Defensive Positions
Color Coded Mood bar
Rim HUD
Replace Stuff
Complex Jobs
Dubs Mint Minimap
Harmony
Heat Map
Allow Tool
Show Draftees Weapon
Camera+
Achtung!
RPG Style Inventory
Food alert
Moody
Research Tree
Dubs Mint Menus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6L4zR0kgK4