I'll be doing some coding today, but also mixing in a little more of the all-achievement run I started yesterday.
Another day of mixed programming and Oxygen Not included. Continuing from my previous threads here:
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c85. As promised, baby's first metal refinery is up at the top. I originally was gonna use a loop, but I decided instead to run the ph2o through the refinery once, which will guarantee a temperature >0c, then go through a sieve to feed the quad hydra.
Directly below the o2 prod, we've blueprinted in a) the cooling line for the o2, whose outflow *also* sends water to feed the hydra, and b) the top of the drecko ranch.
Carnivore feels really tight right now. 15 cycles left, and I need to feed 10k kcal of bbq every cycle to get there. There's no easy way to tell if I'm generating that much bbq. Result: tension and micromanagement.
Super-sustainable is coming along nicely. We're about 80kj shy, so maybe 35-40 cycles left?
I will be *very* glad to put those two achievements behind me.
c94 and we've got super-sustainable! Excellent. That achievement really slows you down, because your dupes have to spend so much time on the hamster wheels.
I will continue for now on the drecko ranch, but will also figure out where to put power. Oh, and put a damned smart battery on those hydrogen generators, too.
c98. Tadaaaaa! Carnivore.
Man that was cutting it really close.
In retrospect, I made two mistakes. 1) Shoulda gone ahead and loaded 4 stables instead of just 3. 2) Should have used many more incubators instead of dropping eggs in the evolution chamber.
Oh well, next time.
So that's locavore, carnivore, and super-sustainable all done, plus a handful of the gimmes.
Time to stop and review my situation.
Right. Let's take stock.
I've started the power grid: the coalgens are up, tho not auto-supplied. I'm running the main trunk down to the left of that, WIP. Below that we have a tamed cool slush geyser w/infinistore, but also some dead space we may want to use later.
Right of the ladder, a quad-hydra. Cuz I was using it for power not o2, there's 250kg of cool o2 inside it. A project would be to start using it.
Below that is the three-story drecko ranch WIP.
In the real base area, we've got 3 hatch ranches and a 5-breeder pair pacu farm, the food control area, as well as our research area. To the right, we have a really sloppy version of a starter base, with bathroom, great hall, cooking, and hospital
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So. It's c98. What would I *normally* have by c98?
1) Actual o2 prod + cooling + distribution -- I'm missing distribution.
2) A united power grid. I got nothin'.
3) Some plastic from an operating drecko farm. I got nothin'.
4) Stable food. That, at least, I got.
5) A couple of tons of steel. Well, I have a 500kg, but cuz I haven't cored any caustic biomes, almost no iron.
6) Stable water supply. Mine's, mmmm, wobbly and improvised, not permanent.
Okay, then. Fine. That's just fine. We're fine. Everything is fine here.
#1 priority: that power grid. Rationale: all the labor we're spending on power leaves few cycles for expansion/improvement.
#2 priority: finish the drecko ranch. Rationale: plastic is a wonderful thing, and reed fiber is needed for suits and for decor.
#3 priority: a real bathroom. Rationale: a little less labor, a small morale boost, and then we can lose all the po2 floating around.
Git 'er done!
c105. Good progress.
The power grid is dropping down towards the base, and we've taken over the first pair of hamster wheels w/coal power. Gonna keep going, and soon, start automagically delivering coal.
The drecko ranch is just about framed in. Now we gotta do the nasty tedious liquid stacking it needs. Since I need the part around the mealwoods first, I'll do it in two phases.
c110. Okay, we got the power grid dropped all the way down to the printer level, and we got the drecko ranch in (it's an incremental build, and is operational even manually, as now. So, maybe 25 cycles until my first plastic.
Next a couple of small projects: 1) distribute that crazy mad o2 supply. 2) Get rad research up and running. 3) Locate and build the central supply depot.
After those, we should be ready to fill out the rest of the main base.
