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I have borrowed a laptop, and an playing oxygen not included because of +tony
Here's a brief synopsis.
First try: how do I make a shitter? Ok, got one. Now I need food... Food requires power. Power requires metal.....
Where's the fucking metal,?
Second try: I've got metal! I'll use this oxygen rich location as a bridge...
Oh shoot, my guys are unable to get to the base. What happened?
Ohhhhhh, the bridge made of oxygen dissolved....
On my third try. I've got four guys. Air, water, food, and power all look ok. I am rearranging sleeping arrangements so they must go by the washstand.
I just got the first agriculture research, and can now do something with all that waste they produced.
How will they die?
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Eventually, slimelung.
ReplyDeleteDepends how adventurous you are!
ReplyDeleteIf you boldly stride where angels fear to tread, yeah, Bret Gillan has the right of it. Slime lung will probably turn your duplicants inside out. That or chlorine poisoning, depending.
But there is another option! You can play it cautiously, prepare before setting out, and you’ll run out of algae for your oxygen generators. Your people will grow sluggish, your crops will fail, and you’ll feel like you’re just a tiny bit short of transitioning to water-based life support when it all collapses.
As it turns out, I’ve been playing recently too!
Oh! Oh, wait... there is a third option that combines the cascading horror of slimelung with the inevitable “oh, I’m screwed” feeling of resource depletion, and I’d completely forgotten about it.
ReplyDeleteThe game has so very many ways to die. Enjoy!
Theres also the "went the wrong direction now our essential crew is a frozen corpse and the heaters are chewing up the remaining fuel so that we dont all freeze to death" option, that one was "fun"
ReplyDeleteSean Gomes : Okay, I have definitely never seen that. "Too little heat" would be a new one for my colonies. Well discovered!
ReplyDeleteOnce you dig into the ice area you'll discover the joys of monitoring Air Temperature! Marvel as super-chilled air enters your carefully planned air filtration, cooling your entire base and making your crew susceptible to illness.
ReplyDeleteOxygen Not Included is a whimsically sadistic game.
William Nichols: You understand we all want reports, right?
ReplyDeleteSo far: The guys have managed not to die. Haven't even gotten that close.
ReplyDeleteI'm about to run low on Algae, though. That'll be very bad.
I've (finally) gotten coal power, releasing goals to do something else besides run on a treadmill.
I've got a super computer, which when I first built I didn't have a jobs board. That's a fun first time error.
My first water supply has run out, but I found another one first.
I tried to build a hydrogen electricity generator, and couldn't get it to work.
For entire cycles, I couldn't get the super computer to have enough power -- some asshole kept needing a backmassage and turned off the computer. Hence, the need for the coal fire plant.
Oxygen is getting pretty terrible, actually. It's flowing up near the top of our little base, and the original lower levels are turning red. Especially near the goal plant, predictably.
I have discovered some slime. Planning to stay away from it for the foreseeable. Right now, I am digging down down, down, trying to get the bad air to follow so the rest of the base is in better shape. Too bad for those diggers, of course. They will be remembered.
Now, my guys are sliuggish and not at all happy. Stress is high and immunity is low. I'm not sure -- at ALL -- what to do about immunity.
ReplyDeleteI moved all the privies and terraniums to the lowest level, next to the composter. Figured that'd help contain the mess.
They nearly all died from lack of food. I think I can save them.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to build a toilet / shower / cleanup facility now. I expect to figure that out tomorrow, as I am done for the night.