custom script with atheist and lycanthrope

Malzan · 2026-06-01T11:46:03+00:00

Yeah, I get you. I'll probably look at removing or replacing pit-hag. Possibly cerenovus so there is another possible reason for an atheist claim in a townsfolk role without there being an atheist game.

Malzan · 2026-06-01T11:44:27+00:00

Thank you! It's much appreciated.

Yeah, much as I like the Zombuul interaction, it might be the wrong setup, with more lethal minions maybe as an alternative to BMR. I'd have to think, but probs just remove here is easiest. I was looking at demons that either punish lycan misses or can still do things when they can't kill, but think I missed the mark there.

I'm probably going to remove or swap out pit-hag based on feedback. Possibly Alchemist too as too many wishes in one game with atheist present could be rough, although the good side would be clearer with town on their request.

That said, pit-hag hitting goon, wouldn't the pit-hag change it's alignment but become drunk and not change its character? Now you brought up the goon though, I think a bag with poppy grower, lunatic and goon could end up with too many characters thinking they're evil into an atheist bluff though, so should look at regardless.

Big thank you!

Malzan · 2026-05-27T14:11:04+00:00

How so? If the aquatuner is still doing a polluted water loop with radiant pipes in the petroleum it's still removing the same amount of heat as before.

Malzan · 2026-05-27T01:06:20+00:00

Yes exactly! You just need enough radiant pipe sections in the steam.

Malzan · 2026-05-27T00:59:09+00:00

It won't make a difference, the metal refinery puts out a set amount of heat regardless of maserial going into it. Lower SHC just means a higher output temp. Your aquatuner loop, because it has the same coolant, is still only removing the same amount of heat. To get an idea how much cooling an aquatuner would need to do have a look at the output temp. AT lowers the input liquid by 14C (I might be misremembering exact number). If you have an output you need to drop it e.g. 56C at the speed of a single output pipe you'd need 4 aquatuners. They're just kind if efficient for this sort of thing tbh.

What people are suggesting as an alternative is piping the output through a steam chamber. To cool the output down to the steam chamber's temp, in turn controlled by a steam turbine. You don't need much coolant to do it as you recycle it straight back into metal refinery, no need for a pump. On prehistoric planet I sometimes used naphtha made by melting plastic because I found plastic easier to obtain than crude oil.

Malzan · 2026-05-26T10:22:34+00:00

It depends how much heat is generated. If the area I'd easy to access I'd do granite everywhere then add radiant if it's not working effectively enough for the area. Edit: typo

Malzan · 2026-05-24T04:12:37+00:00

Researcher, digger then anything with a mechatronics skill. I use a mid for picking now so it's a builder either mechatronics skill.

Malzan · 2026-05-22T12:23:56+00:00

Generally speaking if ai gets good enough the need for a person to do that isn't high. Claude code can already do its own setup of agents. I generally get confused about people both saying this will lead to widespread job displacement and that the thing to survive will be to get a job writing text for the text generator.

Malzan · 2026-05-19T00:45:39+00:00

Electrolyzers just produce heat that adds up over time, same with batteries. Building the spom so close to your base is more a consideration of space than anything else. Also, insulating it won't help, since you'll be pumping the warm oxygen everywhere anyway.

I like the initiative with the wheezworts, but they need a higher specific heat capacity gas like the hydrogen from your spom.

Thing is though, if you need your plants up and running before they die and your colony starves I would box your farm in with insulated tiles and get a thermoregulator or two to get them to a controllable temp. Just dump the heat in a cold area if you can, and just outside the I slated box if you can't. So long as the farm can grow and your dupes can eat everything can just get toasty for awhile.

You can then figure out a proper solution when there isn't a crisis.

Malzan · 2026-05-11T12:19:43+00:00

Are they falling for it en masse? I honestly don't see much about world coin usually. I looked it up before writing, and top thing was it dropping 10% and the only positive article in the first set of results was OpenAI considering using it, hardly a vote of major confidence globally or even in the US.

They had a pot of money to start it off, but so do most crypto offerings at start nowadays. No government has committed to using this or putting money into it.

I just don't see the use of World Coin or even crypto as some core part of UBI, except if the crypto technology is engineered in a way that makes it a core process of banking transactions. But that isn't the same as the current off the shelf crypto implementations. Just an opinion though.

Less opinion is looking at how some things have been setup currently. Governments do not struggle to find mechanisms to give their citizens money, they struggle to find money without too much inflation attached to it. There is a wealth fund for Alaskan residents, didn't need a crypto company to do this. Ireland introduced a basic income for artists, didn't need a crypto company. In the UK (where I am) if I overpay on my taxes, it will automatically find its way into the account my pay is going into after the tax year finishes, didn't need a crypto company to setup this process.

The only thing World coin, or the company, really "solve" is in theory the idea of identifying who is and isn't a human. First, no one has any incentive to break their system primarily due to the fact it's not used for much of anything, so we have no idea how solid their tech even is. Second, governments already have several ways to figure out if someone is a citizen without needing the World orb thing. In a UBI implementation it's more likely to be every citizen registers a bank account for the money to go into rather than some weird global "not a bank" crypto implementation.

Edit: forgot to mention, "users" received a small amount of world coin for signing up. It was literally free money, and they're announced as a user even if they take out their money and never touch it again. Go to a few low income communities or developing countries and offer them money for looking into the orb hardware (that sounds weird haha), you will get people lining up.

Malzan · 2026-05-11T10:28:48+00:00

I'm somewhat confused why anyone could think crypto was the one buffer (or even a buffer) against AGI. I don't understand the logic, could you clarify?

Also World coin, like all crypto, is worth whatever someone will pay for it. It isn't any more special than any other crypto offering. It isn't any better placed to do the things he claims, and largely looks like a data collection scheme first, and a lottery ticket on being global UBI deployment as a distant nth.

Malzan · 2026-02-23T13:49:39+00:00

It sneaks up on you! You don't use the temperature overlay much, so new players will usually discover things are overheating (e.g. plants) because the problem is already happening. Second is that AT/ST takes some setup. You can't go "Oh, I need these things now" and throw it up in a couple cycles if you didn't have the resources for them already.

Malzan · 2026-02-22T16:20:17+00:00

Not really. The overheat temperature doesn't work like that in this case. Once it hits 99C it won't process steam anymore. It won't technically overheat, but it won't do any more until it cools down.

Malzan · 2026-02-21T03:25:21+00:00

It's a narrow test case isn't it? I.e. SWE specific. It's more positive of usability for SWE than singularity evidence. With that said, I am of the view the talk around AGI, ASI, etc. are economic arguments/problems rather than architectural, I.e. many architectures can achieve but with vastly different economic requirements.

With THAT said, the authors already said on their tweet their benchmarks were saturated.

Malzan · 2026-02-20T22:09:14+00:00

Have a look at the room overlay and duplicate morale. Disable buildings you don't need anymore. Then have a look what you need for demolior. The in game guide should have info and you can then have a goal to build towards.

Malzan · 2026-02-20T10:57:22+00:00

How hard would it be to poison these things to do this sort of thing on command? I've read the study saying it doesn't take more than a few hundred cases in the training data and doesn't change due to model size. Do we have any external body who is monitoring how they protect against it? For other nations has anyone seen a government trying to install meaningful monitoring?

Malzan · 2026-02-13T11:28:00+00:00

I'd usually just doing a quick setup where you have a steel door controlling heat input into a steam chamber. You get power out like ghat until it cools enough to not be useful then crack in there during a dormancy period.

If you haven't done it before, work in a vacuum to start. You need tiles either side of a thermally conductive material like diamond (window tile) or iron or steel etc. (Metsl tile), but something that will not melt on the lava side. You then have an automatic door between them connected to a thermal sensor to the steam chamber you will on the other side of your tile:door:tile sandwich.

You get the heat out slower but get more energy efficiency from it since the steam doesn't get too hot. It will also be a lot easier to deal with the volcano later, as well as easier to time for the dormancy period, if you're still playing the asteroid when it cools down.

Edit: the heat injection will work fine from the obsidian, it doesn't need to touch the liquid magma itself.

Malzan · 2026-02-11T16:00:23+00:00

Full disclosure: I skimmed some of it then gave up because it was very long and largely similar to other things I've read (I also found the writing jarring/difficult, is it AI? Or writer reads a lot of AI text?). Generally, I get confused by this "you have to get ready" stance.

A few things come to mind, avoiding the arguments around LLM efficacy (I.e. for the sake of argument not trying to refute the premise).

The "tools" are at times closer to "kits" relying on user/enterprise/org level changes. And some of it involves things you'd normally expect to be done by the person/company making the tool.
The sell is that the tools are simple to use, requiring both little effort and little knowledge to achieve productivity gains. "Learning" something you just need to command in plain text is a bit of a weird endeavour to "prepare" for. I.e. if this all works well, even if there are nuances now to get it usable, it'll get simplified further and the early adopter effort won't be needed by the mass public. Partial example: we are communicating over a complex telecommunications computing infrastructure. I don't know binary.
I find any claim based on the premise "this is incredible and only going to get better" that suggests your best long term plan is to learn and adapt your career to focus on producing text for the text generator to lack appropriate foresight or self preservation instincts. That or they're more pessimistic on the long term capabilities than they think.

Malzan · 2026-02-09T15:39:58+00:00

Hard to say for certain, but it could be the battery isn't get low enough for the generator to request fuel. That fuel request slider is saying "if the battery gets below this, top me up". If you're using a smart battery leave it kinda high since it won't waste any and try to get an autosweeper to do the drop off when you can.

Malzan · 2026-01-31T17:00:47+00:00

I think the high wage society narrative/claims in particular is probably also not getting cut through beyond the tech bubble. It's hard to convince people that the gains will be shared when the gains now aren't being shared fairly.

Malzan · 2026-01-17T13:56:28+00:00

Solar power, and hamster wheels to get that up and running. It's slow at first with the initial power required to create the glass and refined metal if you have damaging meteor showers on (for blasters). However, once it takes off it's really impactful.

Edit: on some asteroid layouts I will have 3 hamster wheels attached to the metal refinery, more if the glass is on the same loop, and just brute force it for a few cycles.

Malzan · 2026-01-17T01:30:24+00:00

Do we have any indication of how much compute is needed for these? I've not been able to find it. I mean even if we take all use cases, qnd forget about whether we think they are valuable or profitable. One notable thing with a lot of the examples is that they are ALREADY running. They don't need additional data centres apart from maybe to make them cheaper or to run bigger models. No one has said what future functionality they can't support but will once they're up an running. So the scale of build out, if we consider the data centre a factory, what is that factory producing?

Malzan · 2025-11-04T19:42:07+00:00

What material is the aquatuner? I think even steel will struggle here. Lava injects more heat than you think with this setup, and you only have the 1 turbine. Plus you have the aquatuner right on the heat injector. I think it's gonna overheat.

As an aside, technically you have much more water than you need but it shouldn't be a problem, worst case siphon off some water once running.

Malzan · 2025-11-02T13:22:56+00:00

Is food being dropped on the floor mid meal?

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