I had always wanted to try a Sea Ice play through, but couldn't see how to survive the early game. So full disclosure: I started as an Archonexus part 2 site. This way I at least started with warm clothes, good guns, genetics, etc. I had assumed the hard part would be surviving hypothermia and starvation, but what I learned is the challenge is surviving the nothingness. Nothing to eat, nothing to build with, nothing to trade. So the only way to survive the early game was to eat raiders, ideally after harvesting their organs. The first 2-3 years were really brutal and started getting better only after deep mining and hydroponics. To answer your question, there must have been 100's of raiders contributing their protein to my survival.
Props to those players whose origin site is sea ice.
My first one was real, started in alpha when animal herds were still gigantic. I then continued way later when solar panels had increased in size and if you scroll down to Flowerville you'll see the end result. I fooled myself into believing there was no cannibalism, but there's clearly a corpse hanging out at the dining table. Anyway, without those big herds it's really hard now, you have to get lucky and get warm clothes asap
Yes, I've seen your base! Amazing that you've kept it going since the very beginnings of Rimworld!
Curious how you got value out of solar power. I was surprised to find that during long stretches of the year there is little to no zero sunlight. I know that's the case IRL, but didn't expect it in the game. So I quickly abandoned solar.
I just kept building panels and batteries to make sure there was always enough power. On my current run I have split the power into three segments so one zzzt doesn't drain all batteries in one go. Panels are expensive though so it makes wealth high, but it's free energy so no resources wasted on electricity
Bugs have terrible armor penetration, so some heavily armed melee pawns are basically invulnerable. Ghouls from anomaly, with some bionics, are also great.
You can also cheese their spawn location relatively easily, or prevent them from spawning entirely if the temp is below (iirc) -17 c.
I used 'Performance fish', 'Rocketman', and 'Performance Optimizer' as optimization modes, but even with optimization modes, I only got about 160 ticks, so I had to play for quite a long time.
I played on Blood and dust difficulty (With over 300 modes, the difficulty level doesn't mean much), and the shelves were built using Vanilla Furniture Expanded, LWM Deep Storage, and the 1.5 and 1.4 forks of JDS Simple Storage.
Oh I love how you've done the defenses! I kind of want to steal that idea... are the corridors random or according to particular rules? Also I love that the ancient danger is just storage for your animal feed :D
Oh wow, that's terrifyingly organized! I might have to borrow some of the ideas - specifically the sheer amount of orbital trade beacons - for my current trader run. Somehow it hadn't occured to me independently that I don't need my trade goods to fit into one room...
@TheRedPriest Oh wow, I love everything about this base :-) The way that the rooms follow the mountains without being just a set of squares, the decorated entryways, and most of all the monolith that fell just in the middle of the ancient danger... How many years did this colony go for?
Thank you! I try to follow the organic lines of mountains and rivers when I build, lends itself to a more...natural look.
The colony went for 17 years, first doing the Anomaly "ending" and then the ship since it was a type of ending I had never done.
And yea the monolith breaking through the roof of the ancient danger was a...surprise to be sure. Let me know they can kinda land just about anywhere.
My first Anomaly run, a Void research group turned Void Cultists. Did all modless to get a feel for the new mechanics (and let the mods update). All in all I had a great time with this colony, and I eagerly await for mods to start using the anomaly systems
Oh hard to pick. As far as entities to keep in containment: Flesh nucleus and Devourers. Free flesh and when Devourers escape i just send a ghoul in to get eaten while everyone else wails on them,
Lore-wise? Revenants. They are SUPER annoying to deal with tho.
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