It is a powerful visual metaphor for my posting. It didn't make my problems go away, but it put me in such a good mood that I finished out my classes for the week and honestly probably saved my semester. One day, on a class day, I was hungry as hell and had no food in the house, so on a whim I decided to try out a local sandwich shop that had just opened and got their daily special that day, which was a homemade brisket sandwich on fresh-baked bread. Lavish meal buffs are extremely real and i don't gently caress with it at all.ĭuring a poo poo period of my life I was buried under nearly constant crushing anxiety and migraines and treatments weren't really working I was skipping my college classes, had lost my job, all that poo poo. the experience was so good that i was in a good mood for almost 36 hours after i finished the last serving. last week i was in a good mood for all of tuesday, wednesday, and thursday because i made steak and shrimp with jasmine rice and roasted zucchini and i stretched out the meals over two days. Researching deep mining will get me there?īro my life the last year has been hellish and cooking absurd amounts of high quality food from meal kit services has been the literal only thing that has held my psyche together at times. I'm really low on steel so I need to somehow get more. I can research jump packs right now, but I haven't. I'm getting pretty large raids now, thanks to (I think) some random quest that gave me like 1500 gold for some reason. If I stick a bunch of traps down and wood floor is it okay for a first attempt? I'll have three autoturrets, the traps and soon, some chain shotguns, LMGs, heavy SMGs and one sniper. I'll also close up the holes on the right side of my base and right beside the water generator.
I'll remove my water generator since everyone attacks it all the time anyway. My first attempt at a killbox is on the lower left. Thanks for all the advice, everyone, you're all super helpful! Greetings Earthling! Do you have any Zoom Boots?
It’s even easier to make lavish meals and stuff people so silly they’re happy from the sheer amount of food they’re eating One or two is fine, you can build more later and/or salvage the ones the raiders bring (if you don't explode 'em in your shelling). You want to build mortars before you need them.
If you don't have mortars to discourage 'em with, you've got to assault them, and dislodging sieges with your face will cost you a lot of dead colonists. The most important thing mortars are for is for when raiders come to set up a siege. I use them for psychic/defoliator ships, although with those since the mechs are asleep until you do a hostile act, it's feasible to walk up, build defensive fortifications, then just shoot 'em all - but I like the safety of my walls and my killbox. Mortars are for static enemies who are content to sit outside your walls loving with you but not assaulting. Keep in mind that weapons don't get the Tainted debuff, so every dead raider pack is a resupply pod.Ħ. Always keep your dudes equipped with the best weaponry you can.
Devilstrand dusters and hats are superb and will give your guys a wide range of damage protections and temperature tolerances.ĥ. Always build the best armor you can for combat. They have uses and can definitely act as force multipliers, but they're not going to guard your base for you.Ĥ. That's all you need.Īlso, don't expect too much out of turrets. Walls to funnel them into one entrance, floor so nothing can grow to give them cover, traps to discourage anything trying to get into melee, and my dudes way at the other end, behind cover, shooting at people who are out in the open. Chemfuel is basically free, since it comes from boomalopes or you can turn wood directly into it, you'll never have problems getting some.Ģ.
Boomalopes, or chemfuel refinery, or just trade for it. When is it actually feasible/advisable to use mortars? I have like 20 chemfuel and 3 explosive mortars so its gonna be tough.ġ. When I finish it, should I transition exclusively (assuming I have the materials) to these types of weapons?Ħ. I'm researching the gas weapons right now (LMGs and such). What's a good complement of clothing to use?ĥ. Should I start building outfits of flak armour? I also have devilstrand (or whatever it's called) that I can make into equipment. Is it ever possible to manufacture components? I've been cranking out poo poo tons of joints, beer and yayo and selling it to buy components but ye god they're expensive.Ĥ. Is it a good idea to set up a killbox once I have autoturrets researched or are normal bog-standard turrets sufficient?ģ. How do I get a reliable source of chemfuel to make mortar shells? Train up a bunch of boomalopes?Ģ.