Oxygen not included, cycle: In the 20s, maybe 30s.

Oxygen not included, cycle: In the 20s, maybe 30s.

We're looking for an artist to join the seven of us. To be our eighth. We've rejected three possibilities, as none were artists. That is, we've rejected three different times! We could have ten of us, but no artists. We need one.

We need some masterpieces and while Bubbles tries, they produces mediocre art. Eventually, we'd like a dozen members of our collective.

We're trying out a very different topology than the historical manuals show has happened before.

Way back in cycle 1, we built a water lock. We still have it, and also a few air locks. Walking through the water is stressful, but kept the oxygen contained.

As we've expanded, the oxygynated part of the base has stayed very small. All the crops are outside. The coal plants are outside. We dig outside. We still have a small amount of oxylite, in the mess hall.

The pressure is falling on the crops. We're considering moving carbon dioxide from the coal plant to the crops, so they have pressure. Heat is a problem if we do that.

We have something like 20,000 calories. And the oxygenated core of the base has very nice oxygen. We sleep and eat in oxygen, and hold our breath outside. We are very good at holding our breath. We've planted every seed, and have unused planters. The best ones, waiting for the right seeds.

There are two things we want this time:
0. Water lock and a small oxygynated portion of the base.
1. Find space. Keep going UP until we can't go up anymore.
2. Use a critter station. Which, apparently, means getting some plastic.

There is a family of light bugs we trapped who give all the light most of our blossoms need. There's another family of light bugs who are going to make very nice bedrooms, when we get to that. They have an egg, and it is a sun nymph (!).

Some other plans:
1. Cold Hydrogen room. I'll have a water purifier soon. I'll use that to make fresh water, which I'll turn into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen I want to turn into a cold hydrogen room, to loop the oxygen through before releasing it to the wild. I'll do the same thing with water, so crops gets chilled water. That should maybe be enough coolant for a long time. I'll need to find wort plants first.

2. Slime purifier. I want a slime purifier. Get more algae. That being said, I need much less algae so I need to rely on such measures much less.

3. Fancy bedroom. For those jobs where the +6 morale from a great hall (why I need a decent artist) isn't quite enough, I want to try out the fancy bedrooms.

I played way too fucking long yesterday. Still, I have yet to accomplish my first goal: find space.