#February - March 2025
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This month's theme: trees.
How come Base Game gets Care Packages? 
Because you guys get frozen biome and they don't. >:(
Ahhh. Huh.
If I'd had a SO non-moonlet forest themed start with no frozen biome on the starting planet you'd have gotten them here too. Probably. Maybe. Or maybe curse both to go without easily accessable worts. >_>
Besides, no-one plays the base game maps anyway. :P
I should do this
I'm gonna do it @proper vine
I'm gonna do it on max diff and taking all dupes
And name everyone my friends
-# And I'm gonna make popcorn.
Fearful
begone
Ima be honest idk if I'm making this one
Nono like
I'm gonna try it but my starting dupes are awful
I hope I can make it 0 deaths
got a spom, cycle 13 yay
also i changed my mind and decided to do achievements. so food is going to be hell until locavore is done
No care packages might actually be a challenge for me. I'm gonna try this out
am i doing this right
oh my fucking god
Pressure bobm
||Geodes|| are fun huh
Are geode elements always the same
there is some variety
i think he's asking if it is seeded
Doesn't seem like enough

Looks like a dupe murder chamber
wait so im not allowed to run bionic dupes this month?
You're always allowed to. You're just not allowed to talk about them on here, I think
If you add cosmetics you can’t even tell them apart!
It's actually setup such that a dupe is extremely unlikely to be hit by a radbolt
I even got motion sensors hooked into the not gate so the only way a dupe would eat one is if it fired and then a dupe ran over and idled on 1 of 2 specific tiles while the radbolt was mid-flight
Oh and the floor just below the satellite has access restrictions
I always put building where they fit and end up with a messy base at mid game. 😂
Aalllright, i've been kinda away for a few months but let's goooo
my researcher is gonna be FUN
Just go to the ice biome nearby.
||up, left, and up-right||
you cheater
Bro I was ||digging down forever||
How did I actively dodge the mf geysers 😭
because ||they aren't down||
phoodie show me ur base
Draco’s probably on his 44rd dupe
Man, this feels empty
I guess that'll do for a start
i'm gonna do so much pip planting
yaaay
the Big Three are complete
and with cycle 100 done, i can finally start doing mid-game things
also, I think I have decided to pause on taking every dupe. I think 100 cycles of that is enough to sort of complete the challenge
Noooooooooooooo
you got super sus already?
I don't think I've ever done that in 100 cycles
having tons of dupes is helpful for it
Ah yeah that makes sense
I'm suffering
Playing nothing but solo to suddenly printing every duplicant has put my ass on the line
Only cycle 21 and I'm out of food
This damn ranch better get going asap
ya know, you are allowed to play the game in a way that isn't ass bustingly difficult.
you have my permission
Noooo you must take every dupe and get every achievement on the highest settings on every new savefile 
I would have to check my steam profile to see when I last did carnivore.
Because I haven't done it again.
Is that how it works
....there is no care packages ? F**K 🤬
I'm doing my part 🫡
how can there be so many acorn seed ? pip produce acorn seed when eating it ?
Basically, yes.
When arbor branches are harvested and when new branches sprout there's a 10% chance on each event for an acorn to spawn inside the tree. Pips can then dig that acorn out.
ok, my mistake here is I did not harvest the branch, I just wait it fall naturally. so far I only have 2 room ranch pip.
Yeah pips and trees have an actual symbiotic relationship, so wanting to raise one usually requires the other
(Though I did end up splitting some seeds to plant these so quickly)
CW: Full map screenshot!
My base at cycle 118. Need to set up an oxylite refinery and start going to spaaaaace
also yeah, this time I got it ridiculously quick, probably a combination of a super early SPOM, early solar (no meteors make solar easy), and tons of dupes meaning that not only was the SPOM running overtime, but I had a ton of labor for running on hamster wheels
I am attempting to get that mysterious hermit, I forgot that he need 3 different +4 food.
oh no the hermit is Gordon Ramsay
the freshest thing in our colony, is that pigeon
who need oxygen generators when you got style
are you doing locavore things?
i'm not really looking at achievmeents
well that is one great way to get oxygen early while locavoring. it's also a great way to get clay early too
gosh a few months and I forget where to even check achievors. ok found them
no, i made farm tiles
I guess I'll do super sustainable tho 
you are allowed to play the game however you see fit
...I know ?
sorry, just some people sometimes seem like they feel they have to play a certain way and if they don't they've "failed" but imo that's not a good way to be
and i'm honestly not saying this to like, call anyone out, i've been vulnerable to what i personally call a "toxic completionist" mindset in the past but it's better to just not worry about those things
After doing them once, the "challenge" achievements just don't feel interesting on most starts since they basically just limit your options until an arbitrary number has been reached
I think you'll notice from my screenshots, but I'm not much of a "square base" person, either 😆
emptying the whole asteroid to make it all lines with corridors 4 tall ? nah. not for me
Started up the map, did a little bit, and then realized I was just going through the motions. Might have to sit this one out unless I get inspired.
well, at least i won't have overheat problem, for now
plujs it'll help warm up the brine water (not a spoiler since the full geyser list is available on the star map from day 1 in space out mode)
Fair. These are meant to be fun. If you're not having fun, it's not worth doing.
But now I have to play to make up for it. How could you do this to me.
how daaare
ooh there's a new (to me) feature to just slide the schedule when making a new one. That's super pratical
Yeah, that came with the BBP schedule updates. Really nice.
yes, yes, embrace the healthy gaming habits, let it flow through you!
Cycle 10. It Begins.
god the hydrogen vent area is such a mess 😆
Everything is ||melting on it|| aaaaaaaaaa
hi there quick question, do i enable the frosty planet pack and bionic for this playthrough?
No, we usually do the monthly maps without DLC enabled. If you use the seed string given it will set all the correct DLC/difficulty/story trait settings.
thanks
grmbl then even tho they're supposed to be off, my dupes gets immediate debuffs in the cold (just in chilly surroundings), i should check on that
The temperature mechanics that came in with FP apply whether or not you have the DLC enabled. They were a general update.
noooooooo 😭
Yaaaaaaaaas
finally made some progress
still not pink enough imo
why hydrogen ?
Why not.
fair 🤷🏼♂️
I accidentally left a vent open and decided to roll with it since my core base is sealed in at this point
Also PINK
Well cool, my main hard drive died and i can’t playyy 
Going to give it a try. Wish me luck!!
Max Difficulty because I'm a noob sadist 😈
February - March 2025
New map just dropped 😱
Enjoy~
LOL Im still on the old map
Good news though this is the farthest ive ever made it in-game 307 Cycles
Very proud of my liquid network that took me 75 cycles to figure out.
It basically cools the steam vent water down to 30 deg using ice biome, then send that for Metal Production, then to a SPOM. Heats the salt brine to 10 in the starting biome before turning it into water. Gets polluted water from the Petroleum Generator and Bathroom/Shower routing that into Trees for more wood for Ethanol. Sorts the Melted Ice and Polluted Ice melted from Metal Production, then stores all of the excess into the Reservoirs on the left.
So no new seed for March?
No.
isn't that a "yes" answer?
Yes.
April should be the new DLC map 
Om nom nom. Delicious, tasty jinxes.
go get hired by Klei and make it happen
The date is set in stone
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/165783-game-update-the-prehistoric-planet-pack-dlc-beta-670711/ i was only 23 days off 
Hello friends, We're ready to start beta testing for our new DLC, The Prehistoric Planet Pack! This paid DLC introduces ONI-style dinosaurs to the colony on a brand-new starting world, along with new biomes, elements, plants, and more. Oh, and there's an impactor asteroid barreling through space ...
you scared me, I thought this is Feb - Mar 2026
-# me too
Sonia being early with the monthly map 
