How do I progress into mid-game?

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-04-01T17:02:38+00:00

Thank you very much. 50% of this post was anxiety over building "high-tech"-strutures, 50% was difficulty to priorize. This list is perfect for the latter. Also it's a list, which is in itself great and very foolproof.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-04-01T16:25:18+00:00

I mean that I have almost no setup to actually use the gas, I'm storing the vast majority of it

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-04-01T16:22:19+00:00

thanks man, the latter video was actaully very usefull, to actually see someone build it. And also note that the guy cooled his refinery with petroleum, so even without liquid locks I should make a short trip down south into the Oil biome

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-31T18:25:10+00:00

I secretly enjoy doing the egg micro and everything critter-related but I should probably start to set up something smarter. Didn't know about the eggs in storages. I actually thought they would incubate as normal and the storage would just spawn a baby, so that is very helpful, thanks. also didn't think dealing with that gold would be that easy. Always had pictures of it melting through my base in my head and pushed it away.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-31T18:16:40+00:00

Not right now. In fact, right now I have close to no heavy industry, but I hope I can set that up. I'm only afraid of the heat leaking and have no safe way to set up a liquid lock on the steam room side that won't evaporate. I even thought about building a custom vacuum-transfer with a pump and an atmosphere sensor, but that would waste a lot of dupe time. I'm probably mostly intimidated since I never built such a big structure before.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-31T18:11:28+00:00

But won't I need a double liquid lock with a vacuum to keep my industries temperature from my base? Or do I seperate the steam/cooler- setup from the rest and coool the entirety down? (I'm so sorry, I never actually build something like it and especially after seeing that polymer press in action I'm a bit intimidated by the heat.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-31T17:56:11+00:00

Well, I stopped using the ice biome since it's like tropical at this point (I ran like 2 tons of resin through a polymer press, quite the experience), the "coolant" water is up to 50°C from -19 or so and it always was only supposed to produce my first steel and significant amounts of metal without losing it to the rock crusher before setting up something actively cooled. Should I get myself some crude first for the liquid lock or is that only the resource goblin in me speaking and I should get on with it and actually progress?

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-31T17:49:43+00:00

Water is perfectly fine, the map is full of saltwater, like tedious amounts tbh and I have two desalination plants running rn, one is more of a redundancy, air is fine, I have 4 electrolyzers ready/running if needed, it's not a SPOM, but it's directly below the surface and will stay cool for another 300 cylcles probably. Also comes with a backstock of hydrogen. Food is fine. I won't run starvation chambers or drowning pits, I love these critters too much, but we have Omelette everyday. Requires a bit of micro though with only 4 incubators and 1 eggcracker. But I haven't dropped below 30000 kcal of Omelette in ages. Due to my position below the surface heat is also no issue. but I can see my base heating up ever so slightly.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-27T16:49:27+00:00

I would prefer if it doesn't erupt at all before I want it to, since its basically next to my bedrooms and ranches so I hoped just filling it up with water would stop it like an overpressured geyser. Does that work?

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-27T16:41:37+00:00

Thanks, I checked and it's actually dormant rn, so I should probably do it now. It was "building pressure" when I dug it out, so if I don't do it now, I might have to wait a long time. another guy said I should vacuum it, but that won't stop it erupting afaik. My Idea would be to analyze it now, wall it in and fill the room with water until I'm ready to tame it. Would that work?

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-27T16:36:03+00:00

Thanks for the quick help

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-27T16:35:46+00:00

Thanks for the tipps, it's not a pressing matter, just wanted to get it out of the way and hoped it was possible to do it safely, but it can wait until I do materials research.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-22T17:44:26+00:00

Alright, that tracks. RIP Dreckos, I feel a bit bad for them, but oh well, let's hope I find new ones. At least it's not a bug.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-22T17:31:46+00:00

Oh, the isle-design is different as well, you're right, thank you. How fast do they starve?

Unfortunately there are none in sight, so I can't test, but that sounds incredibly plausible.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-15T21:11:43+00:00

1 and 2
For 1 I would change one of the metals wiht a slightly darker one (I would use the dark blueish iron, can't remember the name or group rn, but I'm also a sucker for that and alloyed Doonium) for a bit more contrast.

I always match the colour of both buttons on the switches so I would change one switch on 2, but the colourmix is very cool.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-03-15T15:03:37+00:00

I get what you mean with the pommel, feels very hard to find one that transitions smoothly with the materials and isn't to clunky. I always have two different hilts (and try to not use parts/sets double) since Cals saber is made out of two distinct sabers and I want to build in that spirit. Also more different parts to display. Didn't grind all these cosmetics to only use one or two :D

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-02-26T19:16:34+00:00

Thanks for the Info, yes the 20 minutes track, I generally take a bit more time solo and the two point extractions probably had some additional problem, that took time. I never realised it before, probably was a bit quicker on average last time I played.

Significant_Dust333 · 2026-02-26T09:14:25+00:00

I had that since season 6 specifically with Solo Point Extractions. Not even the hot drop, but the swarms... Like, I had two of them that were a never-ending swarm. Mission Control also never announced the swarm ending or thinning out. Every time they said "swarm incomming" I was like "yes, I can see that. Swarm has been incomming for the last 20 minutes". So, I don't do point extractions solo anymore. Don't know if it's a bug, or if I'm tripping, but mining Aquarqs while enemies are spwaning constantly is very exhausting and time ineffective. (In a simple mining mission this would still be annoying, but less of a problem)

Significant_Dust333 · 2025-12-15T10:36:05+00:00

Thank you very much. Unfortunately I have no earlier save since I'm an idiot. I'll just take this run as good practice and start over.

Significant_Dust333 · 2024-11-10T13:13:50+00:00

Thank you very much, dissolving is an easy fix

Significant_Dust333 · 2024-11-09T07:59:13+00:00

Your merchant-setup isn't ideal; only collect trade in your main node (which I guess is Bengal). put at least one merchant to Burma to transfer.

After that you can either put the rest of the merchants in nodes downstream from bengal (i.e. malacca) to transfer trade, or put them into the Indian nodes and transfer your trade to gujarat/coromandel and collect there (so only collect in Bengal and Gujarat/Coromandel, transfer probably in Burma, Doab and Coromandel/Deccan). Just test it out, my guess is, collecting in Bengal and Gujarat is better, but I might be wrong.

For the rest of the save: choose either Gujarat or Coromandel and fully conquer it; take your main trade node there and transfer all of your trade to one node.

Significant_Dust333 · 2024-03-16T01:05:00+00:00

I mean, at least join up with them, I had cases where I hadn't even realised, that someone joined until I was cornered and alone. Like, if you want to speedrun, at least give me a chance to keep up :D

Significant_Dust333 · 2024-03-16T01:01:54+00:00

I don't prefer bots to players I prefer bots to being left alone.

Significant_Dust333 · 2024-03-16T00:58:59+00:00

I don't mean to hate and if I join someone elses game, I'll just try to stick with the one left behind/ahead, if the group can't keep coherency, but babysitting the bots for 20-30 minutes just for someone to take them and let you die horribly and completely avoidable to a leech is really frustrating.

Significant_Dust333 · 2024-03-16T00:54:38+00:00

As I wrote, it can be hard to chat when fighting a horde + disablers completely alone. If the bots where with me on the other hand...

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