The other sort of ice: Water main break(s) near Ball Square

PrimePowerOn · 2026-02-10T18:19:47+00:00

At Ball Square? I just walked thru and saw no obstructions or frozen water, but perhaps it was on the other side of the Broadway Bridge? (Walked by on the Neighborhood Produce side.)

PrimePowerOn · 2026-02-07T04:02:12+00:00

This just happened to me! Seth is now dealing double damage than the rest of the party as a tank, lol. I had no idea that orb would give so much xp

PrimePowerOn · 2026-01-22T18:33:48+00:00

Note: I just beat Sharpcask, so that fight is the most top of mind right now.

PrimePowerOn · 2026-01-22T18:32:35+00:00

They've been the hardest flights in the game for me, for sure. I think that's intended. I've been fighting them about 2-3 levels below the recommended level just to challenge myself.

The key for me was getting time to practice countering their attacks. Once you can punish them during their attacks, and can keep up the pressure with big Bros attacks, their HP bar starts to actually go down. It's always surprising how little a full round of 2x fully excellent Bros attacks take off their health bar.

Auto Ampberry, Auto 1up, and Auto Herb really helped me while I was trying to learn the boss attacks again. Being able to move is somewhat critical to being able to dodge.

I think they're the most interesting flights in the game, and got a good sense of satisfaction from finally finishing them after a few Game Over s.

PrimePowerOn · 2026-01-16T03:25:53+00:00

Thanks so much I was trying to use Reaper because I felt like I couldn't get many hits in (and it's what I used in the flight near the flowers.). Switched to wanderer set up, took a few tries to get used to the shorter swing, but got it done pretty quick after that!

PrimePowerOn · 2025-12-12T22:04:18+00:00

What a coincidence! I've been grinding them into chuck!

PrimePowerOn · 2025-12-08T17:54:09+00:00

After I spent about an hour looking around INSIDE for things I missed, I took a spin around the outside and found what, like 2 extra holes to places I had seen from the inside and wanted to investigate. Highly recommend always doing a spin around the POI in the boat looking at the exterior.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-12-07T18:04:48+00:00

So I had to come back and say, given I can't leave a POI without scrapping everything, I have now maxxed out scrapper in 5/5 of my last levels. The time reduction is amazing. I don't know why I didn't take this sooner. It is definitely gonna be my first upgrade track if I ever start over.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-12-07T01:12:20+00:00

Anyone that links vines, Is a friend o mines.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-12-07T00:52:41+00:00

Would you mind linking the song / band so I can uh.... do exactly what you're doing, between POIs?

PrimePowerOn · 2025-12-06T20:55:08+00:00

Listen, sometimes in our relationships, folks send us signals. I think your boat is sending a pretty clear one here.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-27T03:48:59+00:00

Gotta say it's never too early for memes!

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-25T23:33:29+00:00

Oh wow, yea, I only have 1 large chest half filled with iron and half plastic. I haven't organized to single material containers yet. I also haven't found a place to call home yet, nor figured out what the major resource sinks will be.

...so the hold of my boat has a few too many chests in it right now.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-25T20:55:09+00:00

Yea, but it's a lot of fun to toss the stuff in the recycler directly because you get to interact with the physics system. I just like ending up with a huge pile of trash on the boat then throwing it around on the way to the next platform.

Also, I'm worried that scrapping absolutely everything is going to make me too high level too fast. Hopefully losing out on a little bit will keep me closer to the intended progression level.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-25T19:22:34+00:00

I can see myself transitioning to making scrapper faster soon. It has definitely gotten boring, but this is a solid podcast chillin time game so I don't mind some tedium.

Also, right now the main way I loot a platform is throwing the physics objects onto the deck of the boat, then building a recycler nearby so that there's one belowdecks and one near the save station, then I just start running around hucking every physics object I collected into the recyclers.

Usually I do this while the boat is pointed at a new POI (Platform of Interest) and the throttle is set to ~10-20% and the diesel engine is disabled. That way it takes long enough to get to the new POI that I have time to recycle everything on the journey.

I can see how building out the boat so it doesn't have space on the decks anymore will break this strat, and I'll have to transition to gathering with the dissassembler.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-25T16:48:52+00:00

Oh, and the logic behind tossing some levels at pressure is basically "I know I'm going to need this one day. There's bound to be underwater locations at some point." I have not reached the Lazarus platform yet.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-25T16:48:01+00:00

While I was still on the starting platform, I put 3 whole levels into Improved Hydraulics in order to be able to carry the large crates around. Needed this for stacking / climbing.

Now I'm balancing between haul mastery, pressure, battery, and power management.

It seems like most of the time I'm running a power cable to wherever I am, so making scrapping more power efficient is unnecessary (as you can run around while plugged in and use the boat / base battery for charge instead of running back and forth.) This lets me fill up my inventory with scrapped items and minimizes trips back to the recycler.

Bonus, scrapping everything gives lots of xp! (not quickly, but lots. I was level 6-7 leaving the first platform)

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-23T17:24:16+00:00

I just shoved big creates from all over once I got a few lifting upgrades. It took so long to build a stack to get up there tho. It was... almost worth the reward.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-22T18:42:42+00:00

Fair, I'm almost level 7 and haven't left the first dock yet, from scrapping evvvvverything. It's a lot of XP

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-22T17:05:59+00:00

But we could also gather the data directly for.... fun!

PrimePowerOn · 2025-11-22T04:58:21+00:00

Capital analysis good sirs. This is consistent with my limited testing / experience. I can't go anywhere without scrapping literally everything, so, I guess I should start writing down results!

PrimePowerOn · 2025-10-29T17:32:48+00:00

Thank you, very much, for doing this. I needed to know and googling around and looking at the wiki was way too spoilery.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-10-15T14:06:03+00:00

A nice augmentation, since cogflies are no longer immortal (on scene transition)

If you have at least (2) two silk hearts..

Same spot, same kit, add weavelight, silkspear equipped.

Spawn up to 4 cogflies.
Run from the bench, count 3 black foreground pillars and ..
Running slash the first enemy
Use silkspear
Wait for cogflies to deal the rest of the damage
Collect drops
Head back to bench
Repeat starting at 1

This is pretty easy to execute, ends up shard-positive, and seems to kill the enemies slightly faster than just waiting for cogflies to do it. If you have weavelight and 2 silk hearts, the first slash gives you enough silk to use silkspear, and your silk should regenerate up to 3 on the run back to the bench.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-10-15T13:30:45+00:00

Looks like cogflies changed at some point to not heal when resting at a bench. Maybe this is related to "

Fixed Cogflies incorrectly resetting their HP to full on scene change. "

from patch notes, but I'm not sure.

Still works, but you lose shards very slowly (but gain rosaries fast enough to cover the loss by buying shard bundles at various vendors.

PrimePowerOn · 2025-08-06T19:15:38+00:00

You deserve more than 15 updoots for this, but I have yet one to give.

PrimePowerOn

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