Try and Try Again

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So I'm still doing run throughs of with demolier, and after attempt 3 failed, i feel a need to list the saga:

  • Attempt 1: I went too fast, burnt through all my Peat causing an immediate and unfixable starvation issue at cycle 120. Did fire 20/100 infras at the demoiler. Final ditch effort to recover was exceptionally sd, migrated as many as i could to oil asteroid, 5 made it only to suffocate to death. Lesson learned: Lump farm is really important early on
  • Attempt 2: I went too slow, had ideal oxygen, food generation in prehistoric asteroid and oil asteroid, but in hadn't fired a single infra until cycle 250. Got demolier down to 50 (so i made & fired 95 infras in under 50 cycles, so theres that) before it destroyed averything. Lesson learned: "Shifts (2 or 3) are very helpful to fabricate fast with little resources. Plastic farm then infras, not the other way around.**
  • Attempt 3: Destroyed demoiler at cycle 270 (I actually slowed myself when i reliezed I only needed to do one infra every other cycle). Built rockets to 3rd roid, and 4th roid. Cycle 400, realized i had a creeping heat issue. Spent 100 cycles in futile attempt to resolve this. ended up creating a runaway sauna with no easy solution then evacuate and return. Saved/archived and restarted because...meh I accept defeat. Lesson learned: Steel first, then work on industrial block + solar power.

So onto attempt 4. hopefully it'll be a smooth-riding 1000 cycle run. or a quick painful death under 100 (I either hit stability around cycle 100, or a total colony collapse shortly therafter)

sorry no images, I didn't think of saving them from attempt 1 & 2. and attempt 3 picture wouldnt do it justice. entire housing block hit 52C, and that was the "cool" area.

Posted Aug 31, 2025, 12:18 AM UTC

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