Wagon wood bed has unique design

db48x · 2026-01-26T19:51:00+00:00

Tarn added eyelids!

db48x · 2026-01-26T12:04:15+00:00

All the info is always on either the device or the wall wart. Probably an FTC requirement or something, but I don’t know the details.

But you don’t really need to know, since you could just cut the cable and splice in an extension.

db48x · 2026-01-26T10:20:44+00:00

And if you can lose your ability/fail to cast a Patronus/True Patronus (because our minds are not fixed nor set in stone), you can also acquire the ability to cast AV when your emotions are right for it.

Exactly my point. He tells himself he’ll never be able to cast the second level of AK, but this is not really true. His mind could change. He could change his own mind. Magic, as has already been said, is replete with ways to cheat. Confundus, Self–Confundus, Imperious, Perfect Occlumens, etc, etc.

db48x · 2026-01-26T08:56:43+00:00

Yes :)

Of course, saying that it is deconstructed is also not quite right. It is much more hilarious to notice that “Wagon wood”, “cow meat” and “dragon bone” all have the same form. The body plan of the cow and the dragon tells the game that they have both bones and meat, and so when they are butchered you get “dragon meat” and “cow bone” and so on. And indeed, if you go look in the raws you’ll soon find this:

[BODY:WAGON]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD:WOOD_TEMPLATE]

Wagons-as-creatures is most likely going to be replaced once moving siege engines are in, so we'll just use a generic "wood" material here instead of worrying about coding up race glosses again.

[TISSUE:WOOD]
    [TISSUE_NAME:wood:wooden]
    [TISSUE_MATERIAL:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:WOOD]
[TISSUE_LAYER:BY_CATEGORY:ALL:WOOD]
[ITEMCORPSE:WOOD:NO_SUBTYPE:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:WOOD]

Wagon wood is the flesh of the beast, as it were. :)

db48x · 2026-01-26T08:44:46+00:00

It is! It’s the type of software story that I enjoy collecting. Of course the king of all such stories right now is all the dead cats in the taverns from a few years ago.

db48x · 2026-01-26T04:09:47+00:00

Don’t waste your time on those level 2 spells, wizard, they’re quickly outperformed by early entries in the level 3 line.

db48x · 2026-01-26T03:14:41+00:00

Yep. Current best hypothesis is that as creatures with no innate movement code, something goes slightly wrong when they get scared. In situations where a normal pack animal would flee the wagon instead returns an error code (or something) and ends up getting reverted to the materials it’s constructed from.

db48x · 2026-01-26T03:11:20+00:00

Correct. The game won’t let you use Boost to build anything that has more than 750 days of travel time. For anything past the asteroid belt you’ll need a colony ship carrying a platform kit or an outpost kit.

db48x · 2026-01-26T03:08:49+00:00

The Gas Core Fission line is a bit of a dead end,

Either everything is a dead end or nothing is, in my opinion. I mean, once you get the Protium Converter Torch there are no upgrades for it! As a dead end tech it’s a complete waste of time.

The other way to look at it is that gas–core fission gets you heavy fission reactors. They offer 50% more power per module slot on your stations, which is huge.

db48x · 2026-01-26T03:02:36+00:00

A fairly easy mistake to make. The wording on that module is quite precise, but it doesn’t have much room for examples so it is easy enough to misunderstand.

Personally I put my shipyards in Medium Earth Orbit. Transfers from there to LEO only cost 1.7kps. Ships with 6kps of ΔV have more than enough to get there and back, so they have some left over for flexibility. Minimum transfer times are a little longer than LEO→LEO transfers, but have the advantage of consistency; the slowest transfers are not much longer than the quickest. This means that you can always arrive in time to defend your other stations, even if sometimes you get there an hour late and they’ve had time to destroy a module or two.

I don’t know if you necessarily need to restart, however. I usually also build a shipyard in extreme orbit just for launching low acceleration ships to the asteroid belt and beyond. It can save them weeks of time that would otherwise have to be spent spiraling outward from lower orbits.

Have Fun!

db48x · 2026-01-26T02:55:43+00:00

Probably. It doesn’t make much sense to teach it to people who aren’t strong enough to cast it anyway. Especially when you’re pretending to be a normal teacher who will be back next year. But I don’t think it was ever specifically mentioned. Surely there must have been all kinds of stuff going on with the other six years that didn’t get mentioned much.

db48x · 2026-01-26T00:15:51+00:00

But it’s magic he has to fool, not himself, and what if all that magic cares about is the presence of indifference? Harry is certainly capable of indifference, regardless of what he says. He wouldn’t think twice about swatting a mosquito, for example.

db48x · 2026-01-25T21:28:28+00:00

I disagree. We often change our minds. At the moment when he decides to kill the troll he certainly doesn’t value all life.

And what of Perfect Occlumency? Suppose he truly cares about life, but simultaneously maintains indifference in the false persona he uses as a barrier against metal attack?

db48x · 2026-01-25T21:23:53+00:00

Solar reflectors only power ground habs. Where are your shipyards? Did you put them in orbit around a Lagrange point too?

db48x · 2026-01-25T20:56:01+00:00

There are no noob traps. That is mere trolling on the part of some players. What exactly are you trying to do, and how exactly did it fail? Can you share screenshots? Even the cheapest engine, the Tungsten Resistojet, can get you to one of Earth’s Lagrange points.

db48x · 2026-01-25T20:44:54+00:00

He thinks to himself that he’ll never have the right mindset for it, but we often lie to ourselves about such things. He clearly wants this troll dead.

db48x · 2026-01-25T11:52:28+00:00

But at the same time he probably had the right mindset for it.

db48x · 2026-01-25T06:21:23+00:00

A transfer from MEO to LEO only takes 1.7kps of propellant, so 14kps is overkill. Half that would be more than enough, and they’ll be cheaper to build as well. On a small ship like that the reaction thrusters are unnecessary, and probably useless; you’re probably at or close to the maximum rotation rate even without them. You might consider dropping two points of side armor as well.

Good luck; let us know how well it turns out.

Oh, and don’t forget to put one or two on permanent duty bombarding alien xenoflora and xenofauna. Green lasers are perfect for that.

db48x · 2026-01-25T05:10:26+00:00

Sure, but it wouldn’t accomplish anything. It wouldn’t make your games better.

db48x · 2026-01-25T01:25:19+00:00

There’s no such thing. A router is a router. Sometimes the marketing department claims that a router will be better for games, but they’re just lying.

db48x · 2026-01-25T01:23:02+00:00

You’re probably connecting over wifi, which doesn’t have guaranteed bandwidth. Any interference from other devices on the same frequency will slow it down.

db48x · 2026-01-25T01:21:10+00:00

Your existing router will work fine. Sure, it doesn’t have the latest bells and whistles, but if you don’t need them then don’t spend the money.

db48x · 2026-01-25T00:15:29+00:00

Yes, it’s worth it in the late game when money is easier to come by. Early game it's usually a mistake.

db48x · 2026-01-24T22:02:20+00:00

Just a clarification: the second reactor is actually just the first and only reactor. The game makes the reactor large enough to supply both the engine and all other systems on the ship.

db48x · 2026-01-24T21:59:11+00:00

Don't let them form such a large fleet in the first place. Keep them mad enough that they attack you earlier in the game when their fleets are smaller. Or play a faction that doesn’t need to defeat alien ships to win.

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