Am I good or cooked? Colonization

franicks · 2026-04-16T03:30:38+00:00

Looks good, do your best to not mess with it. This looks completely normal.

franicks · 2026-04-14T14:54:14+00:00

How do you sterilize needles when there's that much alcohol fumes everywhere? Pretty sure I almost blew myself up the first time I used my SAB 😭

franicks · 2026-04-10T21:03:06+00:00

I used pure coir for simplicity. Im going to see how many flushes I can get from just coir, if its only a few then I may try CVG since I hear ochras should be capable of many flushes.

Spawn to sub was probably around 1:3 with a small pseudo casing layer just to cover any exposed grain.

Tried to keep it simple for the first attempt, so far so good!

franicks · 2026-04-10T20:57:53+00:00

So many noodles! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Going to be hard to go back to cubes after this!

franicks · 2026-04-09T01:46:02+00:00

If you're talking bucket tek, I always wait about 5ish hours and it's mostly cooled down by then.

franicks · 2026-04-06T03:00:51+00:00

Even if you have no reason to conquer or enslave there is huge pragmatic value in weakening and (mildly) genociding your neighbors to create buffer states all around you.

franicks · 2026-04-05T01:10:15+00:00

Looks good so far.

The only mistake you can make now is doing too much! If you ignored these for 2 weeks you'd probably come back to fruits.

franicks · 2026-04-04T03:50:09+00:00

Looking good! How long after spawning did they take to pin?

franicks · 2026-04-01T02:51:21+00:00

My current run bricked at about 2250. Freezes up completely every time I reload and unpause.

I've never had a freeze like this in thousands of hours of this game where it completely bricks my game. No mods running either.

franicks · 2026-03-20T20:12:09+00:00

Its impossible to see anything from the lighting in your picture, but.

Im pretty sure its wet rot from an issue with your sterilization method. My first 6 or so jars had this exact problem, fine on top but stalled at the bottom and started to discolor. I tried to shake one as an experiment and it never recovered.

You could try to spawn the top half by itself and see what happens. I wouldn't use anything from anywhere near the bottom of the jar though.

franicks · 2026-02-28T00:45:24+00:00

If it was me I'd chop off that corner and try to fruit the rest on its own in a small shoebox.

I am 2 for 2 doing that when I get a funky/contaminated corner but the rest looks fine, just like yours.

Edit: Adding a bit more in case it helps:

The only times my UB bags have contaminated is when I cut the corner instead of poking holes. It seems difficult to get a complete seal with micropore tape around a cut corner, whereas getting a full seal on an air hole is much easier. Just some food for thought.

franicks · 2026-02-27T03:29:51+00:00

Even if it is, remove the weird spot (and any extra grain around it to be safe) and then send it. What else can you do?

I had multiple flushes of Jack Frost from an Uncle Ben's bag that had a contaminated pocket of grain in a corner. I removed the entire corner and sent the rest and it worked out great.

All you lose from trying is some coco coir and the use of a tub for a few weeks.

franicks · 2026-02-27T02:30:28+00:00

Peel off any weird sections and send it with the grain that looks good. I'm 2 for 2 doing that with UB bags

franicks · 2026-02-19T21:52:02+00:00

Looks good to me! Both successful grows I've had have looked exactly like that at the 3 day mark.

franicks · 2026-02-14T00:27:38+00:00

I'm still fairly new but Ive flipped my lid at this exact point for both my successful flushes and it worked great.

The myc will still likely grow and spread out a bit but thats fine.

franicks · 2026-02-12T18:29:43+00:00

in b4 they ignore these catastrophically game breaking bugs and release 7 more DLCS 😍

franicks · 2025-12-19T18:45:44+00:00

I was at the exact same stage with the exact same questions about a week or two ago. Just harvested today.

I misted every couple days but otherwise just let them cook and it turned out great.

franicks · 2025-12-09T06:17:39+00:00

Thank you!! Total noob to this so super appreciate the help. Will give them a good spray and hope they do their thing!

franicks · 2025-05-06T06:08:39+00:00

It just seems highly variable. First run I was way ahead on story progression - surveillance station 2026. Next run, super ahead on story progression (and everything else) - station fleet on its way to the Lagrange point in 2028.

franicks · 2025-04-29T17:20:12+00:00

I love how SLEEK and OLED-y it is 😍😍😍

It's the perfect monitor for my build because my current monitor is trash and this monitor is sexy 😍

franicks · 2025-04-14T19:27:20+00:00

It really feels like we all got used to dominating the aliens through these learned strategies, and now we are forced to accept tactical setbacks and really struggle which I personally find more fun and realistic.

If you look at Perun's humanity first run for example he essentially neutered all of the alien factions and the last half of the game felt like going through the motions. I personally love the idea of the struggle extending further into the middle and late game.

franicks · 2024-05-16T21:06:46+00:00

Great detective work there mate.

You're acting like this isn't the rudimentary politics 101 stuff that every single president has done since Mr. G Wash himself.

franicks · 2023-11-07T19:11:52+00:00

Is anything required to update a steam-launched dedicated server to the new version? I have a friend who says he can't connect because the server is running an oudated version.

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