#Brainstorming crazy ideas thread.
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After i successfully place soil, i'm probably gonna simulate the process on planet ground to we can test it better
Should test if plants grow in space first.
Oh yeah i'll spawn one in to test that before i go back
0.5u/s really is slow for printing
Been waiting for a rail car for a couple mins lol
Better than nothing lol.
I've had to make due with that on a few occasions.
Since you're using creative to test anyway, may as well spawn in more power.
Maybe i should strategically do this process so most of the work is done before i scrap the other qt-rtg ๐
Perhaps lol.
I was proud that I could fit a mobile base in a large shuttle. Never thought you could fit a printable base in your player inventory lol.
Challening yourself is defintely the way to play lol
And now to wait another 5 minutes for the crane
Oh hey. You could use a sturdysquash as double duty. Use it for the tapper and try to grow curious sturdysquash with it to get astronium in order to craft fault finders.
Oh, the other steel from scrap can be turned into a probe scanner to scrap it
Sweet.
Yeah might as well
Then after you get enough astronium, trade it for dynamite then blow up some pumpkin shelters for more sturdysquash seeds.
Ohh, that means sturdy squash can give access to the entire trading platform catelogue
Fault finders probably don't work in space, though. :/
Hm.. I think it just needs to be placed on soil
But if its like the Atmospheric Condensor, dead end.
Activating a FF in space would be wild
That Steel got me an extra scrap n a half ๐
Sweet.
Wont need to scrap anything else or need another slot for the Small Printer
Talk about being...resourceful.
Aw man the trade rocket knocked my perfect placement of the shelter & printer platform ๐
Give me those mission rewards
Too bad missions are disabled in a world that had creative mode on at any point.
Huh, i could also make more power as soon as i get the plant up. I have extra compound to put into generators to burn the organic
No matter, i plan to do this in survival eventually
I wanted to do it all in survival(after setup in creative) but mistakes were inevitable on the first attempt
Oh no
Chem lab!!!
Aluminum alloy because Paver was condensed
At that point it'd be better to bring it prepacked
Right.
Maybe the extra silicone can be scrapped instead
Well this attempt is very very scuffed
Silicone does give 1 scrap.
i'll just hurry it up and cheat the rest since im pretty much there
Will have to rethink the list but i've no doubt its possible now
Do you have an inventory space for the seed?
I'm pretty certain there will be one space leftover
If you do without the extra qtrtg. But don't you need that space for the paver?
I'll switch out the qt-rtg & portable oxygen for the shelter, giving me a free slot for the Paver. Then the seed can probably be slotted in by replacing the qt-rtg, you'd have to carefully work out what to craft first so you can scrap excess
So problem #25, i think i'm too far from the planet i launched from
Hm?
In the screenshots i'm upside down compared to everything i place
Yeah?
I'm trying to use the crane to place soil, and despite testing it before, now its not working
Is it normally finicky?
So i can only assume that at a certain point when your gravity is flipped, the crane method doesnt work
Not sure but i tested it after making a sky ramp, and then going off to the side. It worked without fail after replacing the rail post. But this is my first time trying it after launching/flinging myself straight up instead. If i wait a bit less time i shouldn't be flipped like this, so i'll have to try again to verify that
I'm gonna try flying closer to see if i'm not that far from the planet beforehand though
Couldb't get close enough, so i tried a new launch, i turned sideways, but it was able to work.
So maybe as long as u dont turn upside down?
Perhaps floating point inaccuracy shifted the valid location to place the soil?
@rose phoenixThis seems plausible to me.
Could be some distance away from the expected location.
You're familiar with the "sticky boots" bug, correct?
That's due to floating point errors iirc.
Nope, first time hearing it
The further away from the origin you are, the greater the inaccuracy of your position and movement.
It's why planets had to be moved around, so sticky boots wouldnt be as much of a problem.
Sticky boots happened most often on planets furthest away from the origin, also known as x0, y0, z0.
That could explain how i'm suddenly orientated in the wrong direction entirely
You're just not near any planet, so your orientation probably gets flipped to the global "upright" orientation.
Or universal north, if you prefer.
That makes sense
While I've never been involved in programming or game development, I have a lot of firsthand and secondhand experience with how games work. So I have a good intuition of how game engines work and how they bend or break, so to speak.
I'm not always right, but my calculated guesses are usually pretty accurate.
I'm not great at it but i defintely have programming and game dev knowledge, but i never got to truly make a game before i fell out of it ๐คท
I have enough game sense and programming intuition I probably could learn how to make a game, if I had a reason to do so.
Closest thing I've done to programming is creating lua and batch scripts, though. lol
I've also modified some json arguments.
Anyway, how's the testing going?
Just started testing, will let you know in a bit
After starting with just 1 rtg, and scrapping things in a better order, i'm left needing 1 more scrap. I have a but of scrap in the shredder & these items left. The items on the terrain tool are for the crane
@rotund geyser
I cant use the extra silicone for scrap yet as i need to turn it into something scrappable, the printer i'm done using for now, and the compound and resin fan probably be turned into tethers & soil canister, respectively.
Just a matter of what do i give up
I chose to scrap the resin & printer for the time being. As i cant do much with 1 resin, and i dont think i'll need the small printer until i get to seed growth
That gets me the crane, and an extra compound i could use for a small generator actually if i get 1 more scrap, then i can get a large printer, which i need anyways
Successfully got to seed growth with these items
Tapper requires 1 aluminum so something here will need to be scrapped. Potentially the plat B?
That would require dynamite and a large shredder.
Ah its too big, forgot that needs large shredder
Small plat B can go in large shredder without being blown up prior
It would sting a bit, but you could scrap the portable smelting furnace for 2 scrap.
Maybe you could make a smelting furnace with the leftovers?
Ah. but you'd need the portable smelting furnace for the laterite.
That would be an option if it werent for needing to smel- yep.
Shred the last qtrtg?
I can use the soil canister up to make a platform and shred the empty can
Only have 1 now, remember?
So up to .5 with tethers from the extra compound
Still need .5 ๐ค
If only i could shred the silicone
What do you need the silicone for again?
Nothing, it's the leftover silicone
The first one.
The crane
Ah. Right.
Even shredding the last rail post doesnt get me the scrap
List what we're down to now.
Unpacked Portable Shelter, Small Plat B, Medium Printer, Medium Scrapper, Rail Car, Portable Furnace, & Trade Platform
Oh and crane... and paver ๐
You can attach a qtrtg to the rail car, correct?
Yes
Is the rail car a small or medium box?
Med sadly
That would require alot of rework, and bringing more soil cans
Two compound and one aluminum for the initial crafting, then full soil canisters for compound and resin.
Each soil canister would be 4 compound or resin.
But you'd need to craft the rail post & rail car to use it beforehand
- Field Shelter
- Small Platform B (Packed)
- Medium Printer (Packed)
- Portable Smelter
- Medium Shredder (Packed)
- Paver (Packed)
- Soil Canister (Full, stored in Leveling Block recipe)
- Seed
Trade Station: - Iron
- Tungsten
- Exo Chip
- Qt-rtg -> 4 Scrap
- Fault Finder (Pre-Activated) -> 2 Silicon
- Fault Finder (Pre-Activated) -> 2 Steel
I'm not sure if anything is removable at this point
Yeah.
I was thinking if a bit more scrap can be crammed in, then it'd be possible but 1:4 scrap is already the best for a single item no?
Only heard of the gateway glitch from you, i believe
Wow to think we're gated by a single slot after all this ๐ฌ
Exo request platform with pending rewards?
Do you dig up more or less soil than you place?
Dang it. I was going to say we win anyways, by switching the seed out for another qt-rtg. I thought it would be enough for a landing pad & shuttle but again 1 scrap short for the 2 ceramic.
Technically it would be possible if you never enter the shelter and die (to respawn back on planet)
Or have a friend come to you after placing the landing pad
Since u can redirect one of the 2 scrap that's for the shuttle, to the ceramic that the landing padd needs instead
I'll come back to you on that when i get back in space for another attempt.
Would be interesting if the crane doesnt use soil or uses less soil when placing
Just tested. It's less.
What about just placing the landing pad, dropping resources, then taking a shuttle or performing another launch with more resources?
Placing a beacon on the landing pad if you decide to launch again, in order to try to aim for it.
Yeah that's what i mean by making sure u never enter the shelter (which sets your spawn), so u can respawn on the planet and bring more resources
If u enter the shelter, i dont believe there's a way to ever get back to the planet ๐
iirc you respawn at the nearest shelter/shuttle. Regardless of if you entered it or not.
Though you can force respawn at starting point.
Well u could if u make the shuttle, but u wont get back to that place without the landing pad. But good to know, if u mess up and need to protect the save
Oh you're right.
Nvm about what i said then
Praise the random game features that save odd challenges like this
I'd deploy the landing pad and place a beacon, drop the resources you brought with you, respawn, then use a shuttle to bring the rest.
Im also re-doing the simulation of it to see if i made a mistake somewhere
That should work, hopefully
Or just do it the easy way and use a large rover with hydrazine thrusters.
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The easy way doesn't seem like your thing, though. lol
Not at all
But yeah. That's how most people set up space bases/stations.
Once i find a bit of leeway to do a harder thing, i'll stick to it or give up
doesnt feel as satisfying to settle for a cop out after trying so hard
I'm probably somewhere in the middle. I'll increase difficulty unless it feels arbitrary or pointless.
Difficulty has to have purpose, in my opinion.
I hate when higher difficulty just increases enemy health and decreases your health.
Alright so before using scrap for any of the main materials, i have 9 scrap to work with. 1 is traded for 2 compound, of which one goes towards a small printer to make a rail post, and the other towards a large printer.
Really cheap way to increase difficulty for sure
I use up 2 Scrap to make a rail post bundle, but scrapping the other 9 posts gets me another scrap. So now i'm at 7 scrap, with an extra resin
Halfway towards another Scrap
Oh no. I forgot about thrusters ๐
Well i guess even if i mistakenly used a scrap earlier, it's up to death strats to do this in the end
Thrusters?
I'm seeing if i can the 1 remaining scrap i needed to make a shuttle and landing pad but i forgot to launch u need a thruster
So i need another slot or 3 more scrap total
That gets me 4 scrap but only because i dropped the seed from earlier
Unless re-doing this magically gets me another scrap over that
And you said shelters don't generate soil in space.
Not nearly as far as the Crane trick does. I made a sky ramp and kept placing shelters until it stopped placing soil, and i barely even got to see the planet shrinking behind me before it couldnt place soil
I'm satisfied we're only one inventory slot short. Didn't think we'd even get that close lol.
Ok back to seed plan. I have an idea. What if i reorder the things i trade for so aluminum isnt the last item?
If possible?
Perhaps.
Then i could safely scrap the portable furnace
That just might work.
I'm defintely happy too, dont get me wrong. I just want to keep trying ๐
I'll have to redo this again then ๐
Test on the ground with creative.
Yep ive been doing that
Remember you can copy platforms and silos with their contents. Use that to create a blueprint of your chosen inventory.
That i know thankfully!
I saved the items on a silo so i can quickly start a new test
Figured I may as well friend you at this point lol.
Mind if I join you to help test?
I'm good with that lol
I haven't had anyone join my world yet, do i need to do anything or can u join as is?
I think you just need to add me as a friend on Steam.
I also sent you a friend request on discord.
Oh gotcha, i dont get notifs for that oddly
Seem to be unable to join you.
I wonder if your router is blocking the incoming traffic. May need to port forward the game.
Oh right. Are you on Windows?
Ah, no no. I'm on Linux too- Steam Deck actually
Same.
Whoa sick
I could stream the game from windows and see if that works, or i can try to join from yours
I installed Windows 11 onto a micro SD card in a "windows to go" like install using a program called Rufus. That way I can just pop it in and boot into windows for software that refuses to run on linux for some arbitrary reason.
I think i'll eventually do something like that if i really need to
Since i already have a pc though, Streaming works alright, only until i switch that over to Linux too i guess
Just have to hold minus when powering on the steam deck to select the micro SD card as the boot device.
Native hardware is usually a better experience compared to streaming, though.
Some weird issues like the screen freaking out when is used touchscreen while streaming, so yeah.
Should i try switching over to Windows or should i join your game? I did try to port forward with our router a while back but couldn't get it to work.
If port forwarding is the issue in this case, no clue if theres a different issue
I'll see if it lets me
Ah, not joinable either
Odd
Oh well, no co op ๐
Cant seem to find any helpful information in the discord for this
Ah. Try putting an item on the portable smelting furnace.
Or anything else, for that matter.
I'm embarrassed I didn't think of that sooner lol.
I even do this all the time on SMS ๐ญ
What's SMS?
One of the challenges i did, The one that evolved into no digging too lol
This should work now, right?
I really hope so
There was only 1 scrap blocking me from tapper should it should be possible
And now you'll have 3 scrap to spare.
And honestly tapper could be skipped to avoid infinite resources via tapper, since 3 scrap is what i needed to make shuttle+thruster+landing pad
But the tapper would allow never going back to planet lol
You deserve infinite resources at that point lol.
๐ not wrong at all
It worked! I even got an extra scrap leftover
Dont even need the extra slot
Extra slot could be a qt-rtg, but actually for power lol
So... we basically just figured out a way to carry an entire self sufficient scrap base that can be built on literally nothing- ie: space. All within a single inventory.
Yup.
Oh, the only downside is it only has 1 soil canister's worth of ground
I guess that could be a better use for the extra slot. More ground space?
Not really needed but ๐คท
True, but more soil!
Exactly the plan. Lets see if i can get a good launch first try
Yep, will do
Actually, mind streaming it?