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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I don’t know if this is the easiest way, but it has worked well for me. I have a folder on my computer set up to be accessible from the local network. When I need to put some files on the deck, I switch it into desktop mode where I have a shortcut to the network folder. Then I just take the files out and put them wherever I need them on the deck.







  • I just finished Scorn, it was very interesting.

    I feel like the combat wasn’t necessary since the puzzles and exploration felt like the main focus of the game, but at the same time, I don’t know how they could have made the environment feel dangerous without the threat of death. There was a puzzle later in the game that did require you to injure yourself, but I don’t think that would have worked as a replacement for combat in the rest of the game, and being present throughout the game would lessen the impact of it in the short moment where it is actually necessary. Also, the guns were very neat looking, so that is an additional upside to having combat.

    Even though this sounds like a lot of complaining, I don’t think I could come up with any other criticisms, as pretty much everything else about the game felt perfect. I don’t think it is the sort of thing I will play again, but it will be something I will think back on more than most other games.






  • I don’t have a specific checklist, but I can tell you what I like to do to try and stay on task.

    What I usually like to do is make a world in editor mode and design small parts of that factory that I know I will need, like I know I will need enough smelters to fill a belt of iron, or I know I will need to produce each type of science. I copy those designs to blueprints, and place them back in the main world where I need them to be. At this point, it’s just a matter of placing buildings down where the ghosts say they should go, routing materials between factory sections, and scaling the factory up to deal with resource shortages.

    I find that designing the factories in editor mode makes the process go much smoother, since there is not much getting in the way. No placement/breaking range limit, no resource limit, instantly able to copy and paste buildings, and the ability to use infinity chests to test throughput all make the designing process much easier for me.




  • There are some tricks you can do to make this one a bit easier. I played on a set seed, first planning a base for it in editor mode, and then copying the entire base as a blueprint. You have to play with biters, but you can set their spawning area to be far enough away that you won’t need to interact with them. I also made a new save file for each major milestone in the base, so if I didn’t reach the end quick enough, I could try to go back to a previous segment that I thought was slow and do it faster.



  • “Worthy” from Distance.

    It is still my rarest achievement, with only 0.60% of players having earned it. A lot of the achievements in my rarest achievement showcase were added to popular games years after the peak of the game’s popularity, but were actually quite easy to get. “Worthy” required beating a large level with various unique challenges, and even with checkpoints present in the game, it would often take me hours to reach the next checkpoint at certain parts. I had to follow along with this video at some parts to make sure I was getting through the level correctly, especially the segment from 5:40 to 7:57 which took me about 4 hours to get through successfully.