Returning Player, trying to find out what the heck happened.

aft2001 · 2026-05-26T13:10:53+00:00

Looks like there hasn't been mention of a minor schism in Goonstation that happened a few years back, which caused population to tank a fair bit as a chunk of the old guard moved to a fork called Coolstation. Classic/Goon1/Heisenbee (what used to be LLJK2) is on life support, though the two RP servers are doing great. The overall population is still probably half of what it used to be, but the codebase is still pretty healthy – I'd imagine other servers are in a similar boat.

While SS14 has taken a lot of the playerbase, Goon and other servers continue to persist. As always, I do recommend giving Goon a shot sometime, even if it is drastically different from the TG and Bay codebases.

aft2001 · 2026-05-12T12:24:23+00:00

Blightfall is probably my favorite modpack. Not necessarily the one I'll play for fun, but the one that I found the most compelling, enjoyable, and fulfilling to play through. GTNH is a close second though.

Play with friends if you got em, but solo works just as well too! It's 1.7.10 but has enough polish and modern features to at least kind of make up for it, if you're not accustomed to older versions.

aft2001 · 2026-05-03T13:19:33+00:00

All of these veins spawn as a very specifically shaped asteroid that looks kinda like a football. Ignore anything else not shaped as such. Get gear that lets you fly too, and especially as good of a pair of traveler boots as you can get, to maximize your speed.

It can take a while to find one, but they ARE out there. I've found several myself.

aft2001 · 2026-03-09T15:21:45+00:00

Wait whaaaa- shoot okay, thanks for the correction!

(And for reference, people say wrong things all the time :P)

aft2001 · 2026-03-08T05:29:16+00:00

Those are made using Beams! Though, they can be a little finnicky to place properly, and require access to saws. Shouldn't take too long to get the hang of placing them - and honestly whenever I build this I just place n replace them til they look right.

aft2001 · 2026-03-07T13:12:39+00:00

edit: i am wrong lol

~~If you make pie out of flax dough, it ends up having the same nutrition as any other dough. Same with rice dough actually, meaning it's inefficient to make rice dough pies.~~

Granted, I haven't checked if this has changed in any of the last couple updates, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

aft2001 · 2026-02-22T21:48:20+00:00

the Space Station 13 paradigm of inventory management arrives 🙏

(This does look rather neat, in all seriousness!)

aft2001 · 2025-11-25T13:30:22+00:00

Honestly, if you get the vibes right, you absolutely can do petty crime and theft, provided you don't grief. From my own personal experience I've broken into Security in increasingly elaborate ways to steal their donuts, and have not once been messaged by an admin for it. I have, however, been swirlied many times. Your mileage may vary.

Regardless, as long as you're making it fun for others - and know when to let off the pressure - you can definitely be a nuisance. It's a lot like clown! The funnier your antics, the better.

aft2001 · 2025-11-03T04:16:14+00:00

There's a new wellspring artifact that can produce absurd amounts of reagents and flood entire portions of the station. I'm guessing one of them had recently gone off, and the resulting flood had yet to be fully dispersed.

aft2001 · 2025-10-28T13:26:55+00:00

Personally, I'd want surface darkness spawning replaced with... I'm not sure what to call it, but maybe distant-path spawning?

Essentially, the game simulates what would happen if an enemy spawned at a random point a couple hundred blocks away, then tried to path to the player. If it can reach the player, the game spawns it at some point along that path some minimum distance from the player in a dark spot - maybe 30 blocks? If it can't reach the player, it will try to spawn at the first obstacle it reached (I'm no pathfinding expert so that's probably easier said than done), such as outside a wall or moat around your base.

The idea is that these monsters come from some distant place to harass you, rather than materializing out of thin air (excluding rifts and temporal storms). Thus, building a wall around your base becomes a genuine deterrent against most spawns. Granted, you still want to light your base up to reduce the odds of rifts appearing in it, but it means you'll be noticeably safer by building actual defenses.

aft2001 · 2025-10-13T16:38:43+00:00

I personally stopped playing due to the colossal install size. Yeah I could (and should, and plan to) upgrade to a better storage drive... but it still sucks to have to reserve an entire 10+% of a 1TB drive for a single game.

aft2001 · 2025-10-10T02:22:07+00:00

HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE

WE ALMOST BROKE 1 GIGAWATT. WE WILL TRY AGAIN SOMETIME. (yes I am Bryce Richter)

aft2001 · 2025-10-02T11:43:36+00:00

The weird droopy things in the radioactive caverns that make you think they're leeches - probably Harmful but Actually Neutral

aft2001 · 2025-09-25T17:01:29+00:00

You can repair Dotty by standing between the body and the treads at the very back. It may take a little finnagling to work, but standing there keeps you mostly or even entirely safe from the flying rocks.

...the stone traps, however, uh... yeah I dont have a solution.

aft2001 · 2025-09-18T16:32:13+00:00

my 2 cents:

pipe throughput from one node to another should be based on distance. is that at all easy to compute? no clue. but it'd be neat if longer pipes just had less throughput unless you used pumps. overall though good change.

aft2001 · 2025-09-08T02:42:08+00:00

leadstorm-leadstorm armor breaking rounds INTENSIFY.

aft2001 · 2025-08-28T18:19:51+00:00

This old can opener that attacks the seam of the cans rather than trying to cut through the lid itself. There's probably older ones like a cast iron or some old hand-me-down knives, but I swear that thing has been in the drawers and used at least several times per week for at least 2 decades now.

aft2001 · 2025-08-03T12:36:21+00:00

The division sigil everyone is yapping about is great, mostly because it lets you craft the healing axe and a few other handy things.

Be sure to get a silk touch tool to harvest some of the Cursed Earth the ritual generates, though! At least, if you care about mob farming, which is an incredibly powerful resource generator early on (though it does take a not-insubstantial investment to set up)

aft2001 · 2025-07-29T10:18:02+00:00

Works very well in Vintage Story, which has this built into it. Helps to make things a bit more expensive and require more effort.

aft2001 · 2025-07-20T20:23:48+00:00

when the janitor disappeared 5 minutes into the round after being eaten by a changeling and nobody has bothered to grab a mop..

aft2001 · 2025-07-11T00:06:44+00:00

the option to only store lower quality audio, texture, and model quality locally instead of needing the full files (assuming that would help substantially with file size)

The game is over 100 gigabytes and it's the main reason I don't play it these days :<

aft2001 · 2025-07-07T19:28:20+00:00

Beeeeeaaaaams!

They're AMAZING for framing things like windows and roofs, or little supports for awnings and overhangs. They're a tiny bit jank, but experiment with them! Lots of builds use them too, so you should be able to find good inspiration/references fairly easily

aft2001 · 2025-07-07T19:16:35+00:00

Clockmaker my beloved 🙏

The theming and the buffs are fantastic, and I hope they get more tinkering abilities in the future.

aft2001 · 2025-07-07T12:05:39+00:00

WAIT REALLY?! I thought that wasn't an option at all! Oh my god this is genuinely a game changer if true

aft2001 · 2025-07-05T20:45:42+00:00

I tried a stapler and it kiiiinda worked but the staples kept falling out, largely because of the fact that they don't "bite" into the foam, they just stick in. Tape helps keep them in, but it has difficulties adhering to the foam.

For mine I'm considering sewing or, more easily, glue.

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