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kicks the door down yelling about Mindustry
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so hey mindustry is really fucking good
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it's a much more focused Factorio type game
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and it's eating HOURS of my life
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oh boy
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it's like... ok
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you pick a stage to enter, and like air drop in your base
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you land next to a copper field, with a couple mines already set up
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you add more mining rigs on the copper, hook them up to conveyor belts to pour copper into your base
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which you can use to build more shit
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so it's like... a self-contained RTS/tower defense map
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but then the first enemy waves show up
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fuck.
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so you hook up some more copper mining rigs to a wall of guns
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which use copper for ammo
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then build a copper wall in front of it
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basics down
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now air units are coming
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find a lead field, set up a lead mining operation
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use that lead as construction materials and ammo for a battery of AA guns
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find a coal field, mine it and pour it into furnaces to start an electrical network
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use that to power buildings that auto-repair your wall
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split some of the coal off to feed into Graphite Compressors to get Graphite
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i knew you would enjoy mindustry,,,,,
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use it to build faster mining rigs
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and then use the rest as ammunition for long-range superturrets
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find a source of water, build pumps and hook them up to a fluid network to provide water to your graphite drills to make them turn even faster
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find sand, combine it with coal to make silicon or lead to make metaglass
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use silicon to build more complex machinery and a solar panel array to bolster your coal power plant
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use metaglass to build pipes and fluid processing centers
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all the while the enemy attacks are getting more and more intense
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demanding more and more advanced/complex defenses to keep them at bay
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then every few waves you have a chance to bail
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at which point whatever resources are stored in your base are added to your master storage
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where you can then spend them to unlock new technologies
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and then go to other, more dangerous maps
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with exciting new resources available
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alright, fuck it, you've sold me
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I'm currently working on a titanium farm base, which means that I have all my conveyor belts converted to titanium belts to carry shit at double speed and titanium walls to replace my copper walls
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...wait
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quinn you didn't mention it was literally six dollars??
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IT'S SIX DOLLARS
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I MEAN AT THAT POINT I MIGHT AS WELL-
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dehumanize yourself and face to engineering
dehumanize yourself and face to engineering
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some general newbie tips --
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- if you place a conveyor belt, you can just draw another one over it and it'll automatically add the junction
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- relatedly, junctions will do 99% of the time over bridges, you only need a bridge if something OTHER than a conveyor is in your way
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- things that are direct upgrades of other things - advanced mining rigs, titanium conveyors, etc - can just be built right over the lower-tier version without erasing it
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- arc turrets are GREAT because they don't require a conveyor belt to provide them with ammo, fantastic for just stuffing in gaps between other turrets
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- if your turret wall is full on ammo, provide an overflow router to pipe the excess materials back into your base
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- your base can hold up to 4k of each resource
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- different maps have different amounts of time between launch opportunities
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-Sometimes you get a base that can hold up to 9k of each resource
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- Providing water to tier 2 drills is a real nice boost
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- Maps are slightly randomized each time, so you won't always get easy access to the resources you want right away
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- Once you have a hefty sum of Copper and Lead at the base, whenever you can edit your loadout to drop with just a big fat pile of both already in your base
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Makes the initial setup much nicer
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- Don't forget about the pause button, you can plan buildings out while paused and then unpause to build them all super fast
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oh good that was going to be my next question is
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does it have a pause
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-once your base is full of resources, redirect the excess to Launch Platforms to boost extra stuff into space for fun and profit I sent 4200 titanium to space using one launch platform earlier.
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that lets you like, Plan
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because that's the GOOD shit
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yeah you can build launch platforms that let you send excess shit back without leaving the map
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it also has schematics but I haven't found a great use for those yet.
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-if you hold F and drag you can copy and paste a section of your base to rebuild it
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I mainly use it for repeating segments of turret wall
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- routers will offload to ALL available directions other than the input direction, provided a conveyor or building is available in that direction. Handle with extreme care
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- similarly, mining rigs will offload resources in all directions if anything that can accept those resources is available
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so building assembly lines very tightly together is an exercise in Conveyor Belt Tetris
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even the junction will betray you if build directly next to a factory building, as I have learned, turning your inputs into an extra output
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in general, resource distribution units of all types will do exactly what you tell them to do
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which is the danger
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and one lead on a copper route can shut down an entire factory wing
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for me the core engagement of the game isn't the actual base building OR the wave attacks
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it's the spaces between
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where you're just sweeping across your base going
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where's there a gap I can tighten up
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what are my bottlenecks
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how can we grease those wheels