When I left things off last week I was on the verge of actually beginning construction on a Rocket Fuel power plant, with a bonus bit of Smokeless Powder production so I can get a munitions factory going elsewhere.

As of last night I do, indeed, have an operational Rocket Fuel power plant. Just… not the one I started out building, at the location I started building upon.

Let me try to explain.

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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t,” reads a great line from Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I wonder what he’d have made of Satisfactory, a video game firmly in the realm of science fiction that also doesn’t mind if you pin foundation tiles, pieces of equipment, or even entire megafactories in the air with no physical tether to the world’s surface. And yet, I can’t bring myself to build factories or even run train lines high up in empty air just to avoid the frustrations that come with working on the bumpy, obstacle-strewn chunk of real estate that is our assigned patch of the planet designated MASSAGE-2(A-B)b. Something about leaving things hovering in the air bothers my brain.

Dealing with that can indeed be frustrating, though.

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This evening I got my 500 Wonder Stars and turned them into a big golden tree-topper for the big gaudy holiday tree, then spent a bit more time on decorating the event factory. I’ve more decorating to do yet but not until after I get the fireworks production lines going. My goal is to have everything buttoned up by some time on Christmas itself.

Keeping it short this week. I did get my aluminum production under way a couple days ago and just today unlocked Turbofuel so you can guess my next project(s): A big chunky Turbofuel (and Packaged Turbofuel) power plant followed by setting up for the impending drone fleet (hence the Packaged Turbofuel, a placeholder until I can power my drones with radioactive fuel rods of course).

Happy holidays, everyone.

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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