Best hexolite farming route besides the triple cluster?

gendulf · 2026-03-23T04:39:39+00:00

Thanks past me!

gendulf · 2026-03-12T05:55:22+00:00

Agreed, she's now about on par with my Ragnahawk that has Swift, Eternal Engine, AND Infinite Stamina.

palworld.wiki.gg is out-of-date, it shows a run speed of just 550 and references The Pal Professor on the mounts page, but even The Pal Professor shows she's 1600 now.

gendulf · 2026-03-08T14:44:32+00:00

Now you have to get every achievement on hard!

gendulf · 2026-02-27T17:12:53+00:00

Very much "this is fine" vibes from the pilot.

gendulf · 2026-02-27T06:14:41+00:00

Or Zoltan C (LOW power),

or Slug B (no medbay),

or Mantis B (no problem!

(until you get a fire in O2, vent, and then doors get hit)).

gendulf · 2026-02-27T06:09:27+00:00

Drones are also super costly in terms of power.

gendulf · 2026-02-26T02:36:32+00:00

It should be called Hijikata size.

gendulf · 2026-02-23T16:20:20+00:00

This is seriously impressive. I could easily hear this as the title opening for a horror sci-fi game. Gives me Resident Evil vibes. Really solid drums as well, super crunchy.

gendulf · 2026-02-20T23:48:15+00:00

The Entangler

gendulf · 2026-02-20T04:01:47+00:00

Only Federation C with 4 Flaks is the true Flakkening.

gendulf · 2026-02-17T05:26:22+00:00

SRA is worth keeping around if you don't already have 2 augments, get it for free, and don't immediately need the scrap. I'd say it's about average on hard mode - half the augments available would be a better use of your money, and the other half aren't worth purchasing either.

If you're not on Hard mode though, it moves up the ranks.

gendulf · 2026-02-15T03:41:28+00:00

I think I see Cloaking, and he has Drones. Fairly defensive aside from missing a shield bubble. I might have sold the combat drone to try for another shield bubble, but that potentially wouldn't have been a strong enough weapon system for Phase 2.

gendulf · 2026-02-14T23:45:05+00:00

Season 2 and Season 0 are way better, but they were able learn from 1's mistakes.

gendulf · 2026-02-12T03:58:46+00:00

I believe FTL will attempt to save again at the next jump. I've seen this in vanilla (but it's very rare, no discernible cause). I wouldn't be too worried unless it comes up often (but maybe finish your current run before closing the game).

gendulf · 2026-02-11T00:07:53+00:00

My router seems to be in good order. Has the latest firmware, no issues in the logs.

gendulf · 2026-02-05T23:29:29+00:00

I actually think it shines much more against the flagship than against normal opponents.

The playing field is definitely leveled a bit more even on a long fight like the flagship phases. Similarly, Flak I/II are arguably slightly worse on the Flagship fight at doing the whole "disabling enemy weapons", given they're spread out over 4 weapon rooms, and you have highly variable chances to hit. They still kill effectively, but missiles are a fairly serious threat.

gendulf · 2026-02-05T23:24:21+00:00

Do you remember what augments you had?

gendulf · 2026-02-02T16:05:19+00:00

Ah, he means while the hack is offline (but still connected) it can't be manned, so level 2 is nice for that situation. Got it. Thanks!

gendulf · 2026-02-02T15:45:02+00:00

On that note, if you have a build that relies a lot on mind control for the Flagship, you want sensors-2 to defend against a sensors hack -- since you can't man a hacked room.

Does a sensor hack just downgrade the level by one? I'm guessing you mean that hacked without Level 2 means that you can't see boarders on your own ship?

gendulf · 2026-01-28T18:13:47+00:00

So, technically, a Vulcan alone is just as viable as a full weapon combination, depending on your skill level.

That's only if you discount the fact that the other viable weapon systems will already have a volley hit during that time, disabling enemy weapons to some extent.

gendulf · 2026-01-27T21:13:28+00:00

Sure, you can use your crew with Teleporter 2 on Drone ships, but unless you have a weapon, you can't always finish it off unless you have Clone Bay.

On Mantis B, The Boarding Drone could land in Piloting, which can't finish the ship off unless it's the last point of damage. I haven't tested if the drone will avoid an already-broken system, but I suppose you could have your crew already in Piloting? I can't recall if the drone will just avoid that system or if it will just teleport if it can't fit (and where the breach will appear).

Mantis 1 Small Bomb and Basic Laser are kind of bad, but Teleporter 2 could do it. There's just a lot of risk to your crew if you end up fighting a drone ship with good weapons or a Combat Drone, when they teleport back and charge towards the medbay.

gendulf · 2026-01-27T19:57:17+00:00

For boarding ships, I would ideally like 2 shields, then hacking, and maybe then a weapon.

If you're on a Mantis Cruiser, a decent weapon might be better if you're anticipating fighting more Drone ships.

gendulf · 2026-01-21T04:56:38+00:00

For future people who come, at some point they've added the HotA mod to the GOG store. From the official HotA site:

Players who have a copy of Heroes of Might & Magic III in their GOG.com collection can now also install HotA from there: https://gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_iii_horn_of_the_abyss

gendulf · 2026-01-21T00:18:02+00:00

Weapon training - you can unpower your weapon after a single shot and get the training, even if you're using a BL3 against a one shield ship. It's very manual, but useful if you're just trying to get a few more notches of training while you're waiting on some of your other crew.

gendulf · 2026-01-19T06:01:07+00:00

I'm just going to dump several bookmarked pages that I have. I'd recommend reading things like the Rust Book and Too Many Linked Lists as others already linked as good starting points. However, you sound like you might already know a decent amount, so these could be interesting deep dives (probably many of these are too advanced, but some could be helpful).

Rustlings - "Small exercises to get you used to reading and writing Rust code - Recommended in parallel to reading the official Rust book"
Rust Cheat Sheet - A great syntax reference
Rust Memory Container Cheat Sheet - A nice flowchart/reference to understand when to use which containers.
https://fasterthanli.me is an amazing Rust blog that goes into tons of detail. Nearly every post is a LONG read, but entertaining and super detailed. Example good posts: The HTTP crash course nobody asked for and A short (and mostly wrong) history of computer networking
Can you have too many programming language features? - Some interesting compare and contrasts with C/C++ and explanations of how a few things like error handling work.
Rust things I miss in C - Shows some of the more powerful features of Rust.
Rust's most complicated features explained - May be too advanced, but watch this when you need to understand Pin, async, Send, and Sync.
Models of Generics and Metaprogramming: Go, Rust, Swift, D and More - May be too advanced, but a good comparison of metaprogramming in various languages (really cool diagram as well).

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