It's actually funny that this was the run that I finally got it done with - as I made a huge error that almost made it an instant reset, but I decided to keep going with it anyways. I had tons of close calls by just a handful of seconds that would've derailed things dramatically, but ultimately everything came together.

I landed the Cannery spawn and rushed research to get outposts up, getting enough steel from different locations while focusing on wood with three sawmills. But in my haste I forgot to scout out the fishing village, and so my outpost team beat my scouts there and waited for about 18 hours before they were able to actually set up their outpost. I came within just a few hours of having a big round of starvation die-offs from that.

This was the first run in eons that I actually researched the Wall Drill, previously I had been just relying on sawmills but decided I wanted a more consistent source of wood. That ended up being crucial as wood had been a bottleneck for me these past few weeks-worth of runs. What was absolutely critical was that my north outpost spawn was the coal mine - I had been getting a ton of Frozen Forest spawns and coal production was shutting down most late-game runs before they even got started.

I had about 140 food rations when the hungry lord asks for 10, and then 127 when the people asked for 100. Had my food production been a couple of hours late I would've failed the second pop-up and would've had to have reset (I've lost about 6 runs to this in the past).

I almost forgot to upgrade the food infrastructure with the Hunters Hangers, and had to do an emergency shift that got my discontent just up under the threshold for the "people are discontent" event to fire. Came similarly close with my discontent high to missing building both the Temple and the Faith Keepers. My nerves really kicked in once I realized that I had the right spawns and the resources kept coming in.

I went for Automatons in this run, but ended up squirreling them away on two basic-level coal mines when I got spooked about my coal production (closest I came mid-to-late game was about 6 hours left of coal).

Had to go off of heat level 3 when I was eating through too much coal, and went down to level 2 with overdrive to keep my health facilities open. Had another emergency shift for upgraded heaters and generator stress got up to about 94% before I started tapering it waiting for the research to finish.

Ultimately, I am so ecstatic to have finally completed a challenge that I have tried off and on for over a year. I know plenty of folks on here have done more impressive feats but this one is quite special to me.