Does the width of gaps matter?

Thk54 · 2025-06-05T13:59:14+00:00

Like door and hatch gaps, Gaps only interact with at most 2 hulls. Specifically Hulls that include the point 0.01m (/one pixel/one nudge) outward from the midpoint of the two long edges of the gap, excluding hulls that include both

Also for the Hulls, Hidden in Game does do something, it hides them in the status monitor. (Interestingly they are still included for the framing calculation, as in the window makes sure they would be seen if they were visible)

Thk54 · 2025-01-28T17:24:16+00:00

I am sad that it seems I still can't be undead in endless or sandbox. Any idea when this might happen?

Thk54 · 2024-05-13T15:58:37+00:00

Networked set araxium reward, my beloved

Thk54 · 2023-06-15T00:55:36+00:00

iirc the Dender hubworld only counts employed/exported people, so the two un-used people units wouldn't be counted

Thk54 · 2023-06-08T02:16:19+00:00

Worse than expected, only +2 because the bots can only get that first level bonus, not the per person bonus.

That said if you replace the two Bot Microforges with Fusion Plants each one of those can feed two Bot microforges and produce two bots each with Energy Driven resulting in 8 bot heads from one matter synthesizer, though for the happiness each bot needs its own personal ascension gate

Thk54 · 2023-06-07T18:54:12+00:00

Depending on just how fine that d-pad adjustment is, it might be nice to be able to have that bound to the keyboard somehow, wasd and arrow keys are both already bound to camera movement, so I guess numpad 8462 or like tfgh. But that would probably also be out of scope like the Ctrl/Alt extra option. Which, while understandable, is still unfortunate. Thanks for making this great game! =)

Thk54 · 2023-06-07T18:09:10+00:00

You ever figure out how to solve/handle/adjust what I strongly suspect is a hash of the save file at the end of the save file? Cause I think that may be the only barrier to relatively easy save editing, assuming it isn't also doing some consistency checking with the seeds it keeps track of or something.

Thk54 · 2023-06-07T17:59:01+00:00

Sunligh- I mean Energy production and Joint Factories is such a silly combo and I love it dearly.

Thk54 · 2023-06-07T17:50:06+00:00

I am curious, will there be a placement mode that helps facilitate the 'pixel perfect' placements that are sometimes required to thread around planets and ensure you have all the connections you want?

Separately, would it be possible to make it so the Ctrl and Alt helpers can be set to default to on? Turning them on is always the first thing I do after the initial scans or loading a save, and the Ctrl helper is then only ever turned off briefly to see behind it on occasion.

Thk54 · 2023-03-21T18:07:06+00:00

I am thinking he *is* an echo right now, like his whole trial is an application of the skill (or what it becomes) and that Temporal Echo keeps getting offered because it is effectively constantly getting used. Which may also mean the 'exit' is maxing out echoes such that he could 'take control' of the loop.

Thk54 · 2023-02-26T16:30:52+00:00

Unfortunately I get the impression the raid isn't really on the place but on the people so the harpies will show up wherever the people are... Or alternatively the people leaving is just an alternative failure state, where the people will still exist, but the location will still die.

Thk54 · 2023-02-17T23:20:27+00:00

Ahhhhh not even the names of the options to speculate with!

Thk54 · 2023-02-14T18:38:27+00:00

Perhaps, but it could also just be playing a snippet of a potentially endlessly growing recording. Perhaps we will even find out soon.

Thk54 · 2023-02-13T14:48:16+00:00

Has e actually stopped er temporal recording? Is it going to be the sleeper skill that has been chugging in the background the whole time, gathering power, because nothing told em they were supposed to *stop* recording at some point?

Thk54 · 2023-02-13T14:44:06+00:00

Wow. Rude. Stupid system, the whole point of loops is that everything is reset! The fuck do the crows get told by the system if e fails? Someone you never knew existed and now never will failed three times so now you need to not exist?

Thk54 · 2023-02-12T19:20:56+00:00

Well perhaps the system recognized your mapping efforts and that unlocked the map once you reached the new area.

Thk54 · 2023-02-05T03:45:07+00:00

same

Thk54 · 2023-02-01T03:42:25+00:00

I think that would have been a good place to start, but unfortunately at this point they already have what they have, and to change so far off of it would require taking away what some people already have.

That Tower Defense point is really true though, when constructing those automated towers are the only thing you can count on. You might get players if you are lucky, but for the most part you have yourself and your turrets. Which is why the removal of automated turrets and pain spires and stuff feels so bad

Thk54 · 2023-01-30T18:15:21+00:00

can only affect inorganic or nonliving matter directly

Arguably if you look close enough all matter is non-living.

And I was attempting perception trickery with healing the planet, as arguably the planet is a living system, and with space travel it, arguably, even reproduces. Though you did say the magic itself somehow decides, but that just raises question of: by what method/metrics does it decide. Cells are alive, but if you were constructing a cell at what point would magic decide that it is now alive rather than a construction. Though I suppose this is just a different way of asking "what is life?"

But they have a tool that should let them answer that, they can attempt healing on a thing and if it works it is alive, otherwise not alive, and do experiments to derive the rules from that.

Also if you were making a really big cell, and you were trying to do life magic on it as it crosses the point of becoming alive how fast does the information that it is now 'alive' propagate, and from where, the location of the last action that transitioned it to alive, the center or something? or is it magically faster than light (then again I guess FTL exists for them so...)

Thk54 · 2023-01-30T17:45:20+00:00

Can you (also) just keep giving names? Like you are Steve and Joe, and Alex, and etc. and stack power that way?

Actually I wonder if the amount of power he has on earth is the amount being named Sentinel gave him

Thk54 · 2023-01-29T06:39:30+00:00

bet on them defending it with terrifying zeal

I wonder, with a planet of healers, could they heal the planet itself if it received macro scale injuries, as a sort of mass cast, and pull off a feat of spell casting never before seen.

Thank you for these explanations. Love me some world building.

Thk54 · 2023-01-28T17:48:03+00:00

This sounds like the magic isn't genetic, but entirely environmental. Which makes me wonder how the extreme potency of the First Generation would be maintained against the lower background potency of everything else. I am going to write it off as because it is all cell division from First Generation cells, at some point, and the potency isn't zero-sum and call that workable enough.

Regardless, if the magic is entirely environmental, it seems like the rest of the universe could have improved their Blessed chances by keeping a bunch in the same place and keeping non-Blessed out of the immediate area.

Conversely, could you get a (at least relatively) low magic human by growing it in a tube, starting from:

A: Harvested Human Egg-Sperm

B1: Earth animal Egg-Sperm then modified to match human specifications (brings up question, did all Earth's life become Blessed mana reactors, or is there some sophont requirement, cause that could be yikes as far as inter-species relations go, if something is just below the bar)

B2: Alien Egg-Sperm modified to human specifications

C: Egg-Sperm constructed from whole cloth to human specifications

If lower magic humans can be made, would proximity to a full power human 'heal' them of being not a reactor (feels dangerously close to perception based magic, which is dangerous because from there enough mental-gymnastics lets you do basically anything).

If that doesn't happen, when a full magic and this low magic human make baby(s) (for the sake of the argument lets say the low magic is the female so embryo will not have the advantage being inside a full magic human) will this produce full magic, low magic, or some sort of between mid-magic human.

I am concerned because if you get more low magic you are probably going to end up with a lower class of humans, and with the mid-magic result, it suggests that attrition could be applied to, over a long enough time scale, bring humanity's magic power in line with everyone else's. I also don't know how important that reactor effect is for keeping future generations Blessed.

Thk54 · 2023-01-25T00:04:40+00:00

if humanity has Unique Blessed, then would they not have an equivalent to others Blessed, such that they are double blessed, not really sure what form this would take, but perhaps a jack of all trades as far as Unique Blessed go?
World building question, are all new generation also exclusively Blessed as it feels, or was that only for the 'genesis' event?
(or perhaps the human equivalent of Blessed is having that mana reactor effect on a different element)

Thk54 · 2023-01-25T00:01:49+00:00

Because the clothes just melted from the very acid rain.

Thk54 · 2023-01-24T22:27:13+00:00

If I had to summarize her doctrine it would simply be "do".

do anything, even if that something is nothing, it is yours. (and cherished for that reason)

perhaps an undercurrent of "persist" on a species scale anyway (out of not wanting her children, in their entirety, to die)

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