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Most of this week’s game time went into:

1. FICSMASland Too, which is (as of midday today) completely operational and simply awaits decorating
2. Building a rail line northward from the Oilands into the Rocky Desert, then east & up the long earthen ramp to the Crater Lakes area, then up a bit more elevation to get at all the lovely bauxite in the Bamboo Forest
3. Reveling in having the Hoverpack unlocked in this save

Let’s have a quick chat about the various methods this game gives you to prevent becoming a Pioneer-shaped smear on the planetary surface when descending from great heights (on purpose or on accident).

You only get a few choices, and each an area in which it can shine.

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One of these years I’ll be playing the same save over two successive winters. This… is not that year.

A lot happened this week but there’s not much to say, so you get blurbs and pictures. Enjoy!

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A few posts back I wrote about my adaptation of TotalXclipse’s diluted packaged fuel power plant, including the blueprinted apparatus I came up with based (somewhat) on his design. In the co-op game with my coworkers I built another version of the blueprint with only slight variation. In anticipation of the next diluted packaged fuel power build (in the weekly co-op game with the kids) I figured I’d give it one more try.

I won’t know until after our next session but I think I may have just nailed it.

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There’s a specific cadence to playing through a new Satisfactory save. You build some power infrastructure to meet the current shipment phase’s needs, you unlock milestones to allow you to build the factories to make the materials to meet the current shipment phase’s needs, and eventually you run out of anything else to do but… get the phase shipment sent up to the orbital platform. I’ve arrived at that third step in the waltz once again: It’s time to send up the third space elevator shipment.

Of course, having done this a few times now, I couldn’t let myself just piecemeal the process as I’ve done in (most) previous saves. (“New Clear Plan” is an outlier adn should not be counted.) Not this time around. Go big or go home, right? And FICSIT Inc. isn’t sending a shuttle to let me go back home any time soon, which narrows my options somewhat.

This may be a while.

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It’s only taken me a few years of playing this game but I finally accomplished one of my goals: Making a big factory that’s fully walkable. No jumping or crouch-sliding is required to navigate my new Heavy Modular Frame production site.

To aid navigation, this factory even includes an elevator. Ooooh, neat!

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