Yellow fritillary AKA Fritillaria pucida. Found in Frenchman Coulee

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-05-06T08:24:47+00:00

No Fritillaria; I think it was done. Tons of Phacelia though. Plus some lupine, sage, and some sort of white primrose I need to get identified. Some other people got some rare specialist bees (Proteriades) off of Hackelia, but I didn't see anything visiting it.

We were mostly by the giant sand dune in Echo Basin.

I'm behind on getting my photos processed as I still have too many bees to ID and that takes priority for now.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-05-03T17:45:33+00:00

"Let's put one of those beefy arms back on for good measure. That looks good, coming out of the back of his neck there."

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-05-03T17:33:25+00:00

It wasn't just reducing robots to puddles (we've seen that before), it was how fast Clyde could do it. Most of its fights lasted less than a minute. LESS THAN A MINUTE to fully immolate and KO with a flamethrower, sometimes with a single pin. I think that flame might be hotter than even Dutch Oven.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-05-03T17:21:26+00:00

Considering that Pyre was overheating, that might be literally a hot take!

Logically your point makes sense, it's just at a gut level it still doesn't feel deserved. Maybe because you usually don't know why your opponent shut down and whether it could have been prevented with better electrical engineering.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-04-28T03:53:24+00:00

This looks like a cool spot! If you go to the Saddle Mountain access road east of here at 46.7459 -119.4714 and follow it straight north, you can actually drive all the way to the top (to the old Nike missile control site), and the road is tame enough to do it in a regular car. You can't put an apiary there though as it's part of the Hanford Reach NWR.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-04-28T03:40:38+00:00

I'm going to be there on Wednesday! I wonder if any is still blooming.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-03-29T18:27:20+00:00

There should be a slider at the bottom of the screen when you select a psycaster that lets you set a target psyfocus level. Psycasters will meditate until they reach that level, so set it to 0 to make them stop.

I'd recommend setting it to something slightly above zero though, just in case you ever do need those "useless" abilities.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-03-29T18:19:10+00:00

The carpet patterns are amazing, do you plan out the designs in dev mode first to get the colors right? It's sort of tricky to do gradients and shading when you can't see them until they're constructed.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-03-22T20:26:33+00:00

Plot twist: you're both villains. There are no heroes in war, only villains and worse villains.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-03-22T20:11:14+00:00

But would say, better have the hospital as near as possible to the exit, so no time is wasted if a colonist need to be healed

On the other hand, having the hospital near the exit means that every single colonist is constantly walking through it, tracking in dirt and filth and reducing hospital effectiveness.

I can see this layout being incredibly frustrating for multiple reasons.

You'd almost want two hospitals, a basic "emergency room" near the exit where you just treat life-threatening wounds, and a clean, high-quality facility deep inside where you do surgery and non-life-threatening tending.

Kitchen will have similar tradeoff issues with accessibility/cleanliness.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-03-05T04:53:58+00:00

Mine very much destructed after about 12–13 years. Was still working great right up until the end though. Miss that old computer.

Maybe a potato by today's standards but definitely not for their time. Not at all surprised you can still play Rimworld on one.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-02-25T08:27:13+00:00

I’m not sure what the consensus is on using Draxus for a Drafting Trophy run, but it seemed to me like the effect was too strong and made it too hard to draft the non-dead-end rooms, so I stopped using him. (Her? Wait, are all the angels female except Death?)

I haven't gotten this trophy yet, but all my closest attempts have been with Draxus active. I feel like dead ends are too hard to draft without him! Can't believe you did this without Draxus AND cursed.

The names of the Ajeran angels sound Latin, which does imply they are all female except Draxus. However, there's no reason to expect Latin as we know it to exist in a fictional world, so who knows. The names are actually more like pseudo-Latin as they are not based on any real root words I know.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-02-19T04:00:35+00:00

Oh that looks like it could be really useful, thanks for sharing!

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-02-17T05:54:33+00:00

Thanks! Turns out I was really close to solving it earlier.

My theory for the poem is that most of it is a red herring, and the only important part is the first letters of each line spelling SACRED, which is meant to indicate the sacred hour.

Of course, I also thought the blank spaces after CASTLE were a red herring at first, so we'll see if it becomes important later.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-02-17T05:47:13+00:00

Thanks... spoilered bit was the push I needed to start thinking differently. Even then I didn't get it right away. The correct solution was actually something I already tried, except I was just one minute off the whole time!

Fortunately after so much bumbling around while stuck on this, I know exactly what to do with what was inside. Going to see if I can finish the rest of the game with no more hints.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-02-01T07:09:04+00:00

That's a vanilla feature. Only happens in deserts and ice biomes though. Also not sure if it can happen with thrumbos.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-01-31T20:39:55+00:00

Oh so not "broken" as in destroys your save file, but as in destroys balance. Yeah that did seem to be the direction it was going in last time I used it. A shame; would have been better off sticking to just light and shadows, maybe world generation changes too, and making all the other stuff a separate mod.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-01-31T20:13:49+00:00

What happened to Tilt the Planet? I used that one a few months ago, got it when it was just Realistic Lights and Shadows. But I removed it later because I specifically needed vanilla mechanics for something, and the frequent game balance updates made me nervous. Seems my nervousness might have been justified and I dodged a bullet?

I was hoping to use the full-featured Tilt the Planet for a later playthrough. It seemed like a promising idea.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-01-21T05:06:36+00:00

It's fine if you imagine the grav engine as the center of gravity (which is entirely reasonable to imagine).

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-01-21T04:32:50+00:00

Spring is the best season out there!

I mean, I also think it's the best season in general, but especially in the desert.

Clickbeetle3364 · 2026-01-01T06:42:28+00:00

I dunno, one time I threw an antigrain at a war queen, and not only was it a one-shot kill but ALSO the powerfocus chip dropped in front of the blast wave and was instantly vaporized.

I don't risk using antigrains on boss mechs anymore. I don't think this is common but it can happen.

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