Suddenly, everything is green!
I think the reason this happened is I put off terraforming for so long, and now my percentage is going up very fast. It is a little disorienting to arrive in an area that used to be a desert-type expanse, and find it is now a green canyon leading... somewhere.
I've unlocked T4 heaters, so my next task is to upgrade those and explore that big pit thing that just opened up.
My base may not be out of the woods yet. As snow melts, the water level rises, so what was a natural bridge is now the beginnings of a waterfall. I found a osmium grotto I missed when I explored the snowy area previously. This is probably a mineable area. I also found my first machine optimizer fuse and put it to work on a pair of newly unlocked T4 drills.
I'm to the point where I need to trek out quite a bit to explore further. My vehicle is nowhere close to where it needs to be, and we're a long ways off from Zeolite development still, so IDK. I should probably build another base farther out.
A neat Sokobon dungeon crawler.
Grabbed this on sale for like $1.50 with zero expectations. Husband extols you to build the deck, so you must. When you build the deck, you get money. At first, the floppy physics are frustrating, but I stuck with it to build one deck and after a few upgrades I was pleasantly surprised by how the game flow improved. You hammer nails (don't hit hand, ouch!) and build the deck for money, which you use to upgrade hammers, nails, planks, bugs, and so on to make more money.
Some of the nails yell at you, others whisper ominous portents. I still haven't figured out how to reliably squash bugs with my hammer for the big cash prizes (and I'm honestly not sure if you can really "aim" beyond just getting lucky when they crawl under your nail). This is becoming a weirdly cathartic game experience for me.
Also, I want to be very strong for Husband.
Good news: My base did not flood, and I've got a very convenient river circling it.
Bad news: The game is starting to get a little grindy, as I'm in a weird place between T3/T4 heaters and miners.
Continuing to play around with survivor mode in Voids Vigil. I can see myself continuing to play this one off and on for a bit, same as Boneraiser Minions.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what did i sayyyyy
Lakes are now pooling around my "maybe it will be underwater haha" base. Having water close is convenient, so I'm going to wait it out, but I've been meaning to upgrade my nuclear reactors anyway so I'll probably go ahead and move those. I don't like having a bunch of lower-tier machines around, since each advance in machinery makes the last obsolete, so this is a good time to rebuild some stuff on the high plateau nearby and never have to move it again.
The race to terraform continues, and I've finally unlocked algae-generating stuff. I also took the liberty of shooting several rocks into the air, and those have 1000x multipliers. In response, they've showered the surface with iridium and uranium, it's just a matter of going around picking it all up.
Finally, my uranite mining did not in fact mine uranite, boo. I moved it to another area, and in doing so, uncovered a lot more uranite at a higher elevation. So I might not need to mine for it after all. We'll see.
Unexpectedly scavenging 2 rocket boosters allowed me to build a vehicle. Right now, it's utility is somewhat limited outside carrying cargo. It's slower than the jet pack. But when I find Zeolite I can craft an oxygenated cabin, and then it's on.
I went looking (and kicked myself when I realized I didn't pack any explosives...), but I now realize Zeolite doesn't spawn until you're at 150 MTi and I am NOWHERE near that. So I'll head back to the base and get to work on my numbers, which I haven't paid much attention to since unlocking T2 nuclear.
Ice is starting to melt, which has allowed me access to better bounties. I set up an ore extractor to hopefully mine uranite, so that should solve some of my resource problems.
DIG GAME sort of. Finally started finding digginger games on Steam. Bore Blasters is a twin stick shmuppy diggy thing where you burrow into the planet looking for gems and the exit. You upgrade your ship as you go, for even more diggingness.
Continuing to play Planet Humble while forgetting to take screenshots, so I took a wild and woolly adventure in hidden areas well below the crashed landing pod and died due to lack of oxygen and have nothing to show for it! There were absolutely NO common resources down there, so I learned my lesson and from now on will make sure I have enough resources to build an emergency shelter if I decide to go way off the beaten path.
The bad news is I'd just raided the osmium lake near the starting area, which was the only osmium place I knew of, and lost most of it. But the good news is I found an osmium field just past a massive, enticing derelict that begged to be explored.
It's a bit of a trip, even with the jet pack, so I set up a satellite base with food and water. I've just researched T2 nuclear reactors (finally), the T2 deconstruction chip (FINALLY), and vehicles, so I have plenty to do. I'll need to raid the sulfur fields, and also return to that frozen lake (which is hopefully not frozen anymore) when I'm ready to harvest algae. The next research item to shoot for is the gas extractor, so I can get methane.
I haven't really paid attention to my terraforming numbers since I unlocked the T5 inventory. I don't even have a main terraforming progress screen set up yet, I've been "cheating" using the blueprint screen to gauge where I am and what I need to do next.
I also finally found something to blow up! Weird spherical rocks have resources inside. So far, I haven't found any worth blowing up (I blew up one with aluminum not knowing what was in it, so now I'm reserving my explosive charges since God knows when I'll figure out how to make them).
Once I've replaced my T1 nuclears with T2 and have a solid vehicle I'll probably start setting up ore extractors. The ore crusher has done a really excellent job of providing iridium, uranium, aluminum, and super alloy so far, and that has improved the grind considerably. Since I've harvested all the Uranite in the ice caves, setting up an extractor there is priority, but eventually I'll need to start harvesting sulfur as well.
If you break it down, the Planet Crafter is really just a never-ending list of "space chores to do so I don't die" or whatever but it's so fun.
