>>30142875
For the coming days, you can coordinate to activities in the colony.
>Build a facility (you name it)
>Explore
>Open the box
>All kinds of other stuff

>>30142875
>>30142905

-Build more solar arrays

>Archibald and Lev have found ice in the caverns below.
We should start mining water. What do we need to build for this

Also, great to see you back! I almost forgot about this. You should start a twitter and notify people a day or so in advance

>>30142905

>Build additional solar panels

>Put the water filtration system on a schedule so that it only runs intermittently, for half the "day". Sample and analyze the ice to determine composition.

>>30142929
Already got the twitter covered!
https://twitter.com/MinCorpPixel

>>30142929
we should also recover that box

solar array, then box

>>30142949
>>30142944
>>30142929

As for what you will do, we will go by popular vote.

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Herbert and Sally start the construction on the solar panel (-3 resources), for we would like 1d100 from you.

Meanwhile Doctor Martha as the only one on the station besides you goes out to open the box. A foul stench greets the receptors of her space suit as the metal lid is pushed aside. There seems to be movement inside...


Day: 39
>Resources: 9
>Crew: 6 (2 Engineers, 1 Mineralogist, 1 Expedition leader, 1 Mercenary, 1 Botanist)
>Rations: 20 (max pop: 5)

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>>30143053
Made a mistake with the image, this should be the right one.

Rolled 90

>>30143053

Did we get a literal can of worms dropped on us?

>>30142875
is this some kind of space dwarf fortress game

please tell me

>>30143060
>>30143064

Aw shit. Lets send our merc topside in case we need to purge whatever it is. The caverns seems to be relatively safe.

(anyone else having trouble posting? My posts barely make it through)

>>30143084
pretty much, but with OP drawing shit instead of a computer game.

>>30143084
something like that

>>30143091
so there's no software

>>30143087
i second this, cant leave doc all by her lonesome.
also im getting through just fine

>>30143109
there's no software

People must get bored out in the middle of nowhere space. Perhaps we should have a dedicated entertainer. A professional clown if you will.

>>30143109
Rimworld is what you need for something similar. It is a game in alpha stage. Check it out. Pirate it, try it and judge for yourself if it is worth paying for the further development

>>30143127
Please no honks
Please no

>>30143127
>>30143140
how about a fitness room?

>>30143140
Think about what you're saying. We can't lynch a clown if we don't have a clown first.

>>30143147
maybe later, once we have dealt with higher priority shit like water and food

>>30143053
>>30143087
Seconding.

Holy shit OP, just stumbled across this at 5 am. And I am most pleased, also I'm not getting any damn sleep

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The construction of the solar panel goes near perfect, even Herbert breaks hardly anything.

Furthermore, a great pinkish slug-like lifeform is emerging from the crate. Martha calls over the comm for advice, she seems scared for her life. What should she do? Archibald is heading up as you speak, but with crane installed the way up is a slow process. 1d100 for Martha's reaction please.

Rolled 92

>>30143240
Hold it together Martha!

Rolled 57

>>30143240
>reaction
Scream and throw the thing into the botanical lab.

>>30143266
Hold it together? What does that mean, in practice?

>>30143283
ah sorry.
Hold it together, As in don't freak out. CALMLY capture the creepy space slug.

>>30143240
newanon here, this looks...really nice.

glass jar or something.

>>30143300
"holding it together" is fine but i dont know about capturing

how would she capture it

she should just stay calm and try to be safe until help arrives

Rolled 33

>>30143324

She has tools, right? She could try scaring it off with some light or a welding torch. And in any case, she can just back away without aggravating it and wait for Archibald to arrive.

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Although Martha has no equipment to capture the thing at the moment, she miraculously manages push the beast down and wrestles it to the ground. You hear her screaming over the comm "This is not an optimal solution!"

In the meantime Archibald has climbed up the roof and observes the situation with a mixture of amusement and horror.

What should their next action be? And roll 1d100 for that.

Rolled 70

try to find something to contain the thing with

Rolled 98

>>30143343

Have Archibald approach and assist Martha in putting the slug back in the box. Meanwhile, contact the corp and ask them what the fuck they were playing at sending us that thing. They could at least provide specifications on what it is. Maybe it eats garbage or something, or makes oxygen or some other useful thing.

>>30143353
very much this

>>30143353
Maybe it's edible.

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>>30143343
>mfw I suggested she capture it with nothing to do so

Ill second >>30143353
Is it possible for us to move the box into our base?

Rolled 62

>>30143361
so the black pudding from Nethack?

>>30143343
can we lure it into a safe enclosure while we're at it?

>>30143053
>>Rations: 20 (max pop: 5)

Don't we have more living space built? Or does max pop mean something else? We have 6 people so we're exceeding the population limit.


OP, how do the rolls work? Best of 3? First one?

(God, posting is almost impossible for me. I think I'll just lurk)

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>>30143353
These rolls man.

Together Martha and Archibald manage to push the creature back into its box, but its sealing mechanism is broken, and you won't be able to close it. You are not sure if this creature scares you more then Archibald's maniacal laughter as he struggles to push the thing back in.

>>30143386
You have more living space built, but with the food you produce, this is how much you can sustain until the next shipment of food arrives.

As for the rolls first one of the most supported option.

>>30143457
>sealing mechanism is broken

Weld it shut.

Any luck on contacting the corporation for information on the thin?

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>>30143457
New image! Now without spasming Archibald over the place.

Right, just finished reading the last thread.

>>30143457
Get Lev to bring that ice up.

If the slug creature is incapable of climbing, leave it in a pit while we contact MinCorp.

After the new solar panels, either more panels, or start making space for a new room.

Rolled 71

>>30143487
forgot to roll

>>30143487
>>30143472
I forgot saying it, but please make a roll for it as well.

Rolled 18

>>30143487
can we try and weld it as >>30143472
then do >>30143487 if that doesn't work?

Rolled 95

>>30143515

Rolling.

>>30143457
>As for the rolls first one of the most supported option.

so everyone will support the highest roll?

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>>30143521
Archibald presses the slug into the box, as Herbert aproaches with a welding torch. Martha looks on, still recovering from the shock.

At the last moment however, Archibalds grip on the box slips, and the slug darts out, going for Herberts head!

What to do now? And roll d100 for it please.

Rolled 80

>>30143644
move herbert's head away from the slug

Rolled 29

>>30143644
Archibald KICK!!!

>>30143644
Kill it.

Why the fuck are you guys trying to capture it?

Rolled 25

>>30143644
I don't really want to kill it. Since Herbert is using the welding torch, he's got a face mask, right? He'll be fine.....probably.

Martha should just leave, she can't really do anything here, and staying isn't doing her health any favors.

May as well try to stick it back into the box and weld it again. Short bursts of welding fire to scare it?

>>30143673
Fucking this!

>>30143677
>Since he is using a welding torch hes got a face mask

>not because he is in space

Rolled 37

>>30143673

Until we know why the corp sent it here, I vote against killing it. It may have useful properties. Subdue, contain and capture.

>>30143673
>>30143678
no, dont kill it are you stupid

its a special slug with unknown properties, who knows how useful it could be

Rolled 82

>>30143664
HA! Yes please this. I like heads in their correct places.

Also try putting it back in the box and welding again

>>30143644
REPORT HERE what you want done. The majority wins, and THEN we roll.

>>30143709
and two 80s down the drain

I vote we put the damn slug back in the box and try welding it again.

>>30143709
Have Martha Leave, try to get it back into the crate.

>>30143709

That's not how we've been doing it this far. If we were, you would not have taken >>30143521 over >>30143548.

>>30143752
thats quite true. I've not done that before, where there wasnt much confusion. Now there's a lot of confusion and I dont know who is in the majority. This helps me finding that out. Please understand. Or dont, whatever suits you best.

>>30143709
Nobody?

>>30143821

Attack the slug with the welding torch.

Rolled 57

>>30143821

I came here for the civ building, not to micromanage the details of slug wrestling matches. I have no idea for a suggestion, so I'm donating this here roll to whatever you're going with.

Rolled 2

>>30143821
we voted, didn't we?

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Alright, this way of decision clearly is not working, so we'll go with >>30143677, having the narrow majority. We'll revert to the previous way of decision making with the next update.

Archibald rushes forward, but to no avail. The slugs attack has already done its toll on Herbert, who falls to the ground. The thing itself immediately starts burrowing into the ground, most likely scared by the charging mercenary.

Your contact at MinCorp is confused about your complaints - Apperently, no live cargo was scheduled to be dropped off at your location. It must be a misunderstanding, for which you most graciously will not be fined. The identity of the slug is as of this time unsure. On a different note he tells you that the 'Walrus' will come a day or two late, as there have been reports of space pirates in your area.

With this disastrous business dealt with for now, it is time to turn to other activities. The Walrus was scheduled to arrive at day 60, but it is unclear for how long they will be delayed.
>Build a facility (you name it)
>Explore
>All kinds of other stuff

Day: 40
>Resources: 9
>Crew: 5 (1 Engineers, 1 Mineralogist, 1 Expedition leader, 1 Mercenary, 1 Botanist)
>Rations: 20 (max pop: 5)

>>30143927

Lets put some illumination on the tunnels and explore them further.

Rolled 86

>>30143927
so we have a pink, unknown slug creature that is capable of surviving without oxygen at extremely low pressures, is capable of burrowing through rock, and can punch through the protection of an engineer(read: pretty damn protective).

Archibald should escort anybody going to the tunnels. Plans are mostly the same:

Get Lev to bring that ice up. do >>30143955
to illuminate them, too, I guess.

After the new solar panels, either more panels, or start making space for a new room.

This is a high-fatality thread, huh?

>>30143976
also, turning in for the night, so feel free to overrule my plan.

>>30143976
this guys got a plan!

>>30143927

We should order a flamethrower to kill that slug of we see it again.

Sally starts working on some illumination in the mining shaft, for safeties sake. (-1 resource)

In the meantime, Archibald guards Lev as he takes various ice samples. It appears to normal frozen water, albeit with a few impurities that can easily be extracted using your recycling facilities. Lev is also excited to find a few frozen protein, which would suggest some sort of life.

As we are passing a week, its time to substract rations, your recycling facillities reclaiming 1 ration worth of food.

Day: 43
>Resources: 8
>Crew: 5 (1 Engineer, 1 Mineralogist, 1 Expedition leader, 1 Mercenary, 1 Botanist)
>Rations: 16 (Max pop: 5)

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>>30144082
Forgot the image, sorry about that.

>>30144082

Can we build a scouting drove to explore the rest of the caves with the resources we have?

>>30143927
Let's get a sample of the ice back top. And we can't forget the reason we are here is to find something worth a damn.

Keep pushing deeper into the cave.

>>30144094
yikes, can we also clean up the dead body of our fallen engineer.

>>30144170
We should make it into rations

>>30144082
>>30144094

Can we build a quarantine and decontamination room? After the incident with the slug it could be wise to prepare for further precautions.

>>30144245
you have a high security chamber in the right hand lower corner of your base. Do you want to build another such room?

>>30144123
You'd need to get some parts (or the whole thing) from the next freighter - but that shouldnt be too much of a problem to get

>>30144266

Oh, I forgot about that. And yes order it.

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You all are very sad about the death of your dear, incompetent Herbert, but life goes on. And who lives, got to eat. With little ceremony, Herbert is granted his final resting place in the vats of the recycler. You gain one ration.

As Lev squeezes through the small gap between rock and ice, he sees a faint green glimmering in the dark - on further inspection it seems to be some kind of cristal! You might have found a reason for MinCorp to keep sustaining you!

>>30144082
We should make a little cannon on the top of our shuttle.

>>30144290
Day: 45
>Resources: 8
>Crew: 5 (1 Engineer, 1 Mineralogist, 1 Expedition leader, 1 Mercenary, 1 Botanist)
>Rations: 16 (Max pop: 5)

What will your next step be?

>>30144294
This, it'll help defend ourselves from any pirate scum.

Rolled 73

>>30144301

Set up defense turrets around the perimeter, and proximity sensors inside the mine to detect the slug. Build more solar arrays. Expand hydroponics to make more food.

>>30144301
eh sure Ill second >>30144316

Hey Anime. Its Mathrian faggot OP here is robbing me of my sleep. What are you up to?

>>30144327
Not much to be honest, It's 10 AM here and I just had breakfast.

>>30144301
>>30144316
>>30144324

So, this is a popular vote, but, as was established last thread, for a propper turret, you'd need parts from MinCorp. Do you want to wait for the freighter to arrive or do you want to build a smaller turret now?

Rolled 9

>>30144346
Probably a smaller turret.
Just so no pirates come looking for easy loot.

Rolled 23

>>30144346
Ill say smaller turret for now. We can always build a bigger one later.

>>30144353
the turret you'd be able to make now would work mainly against slugs or attacker on foot/in light vehicles (should they drop down). To fight spacecraft, youd need the one from MinCorp. So, smaller turret?

Rolled 40

>>30144368
Yep

>>30144290
Still an action point left. Anybody else here?

Rolled 43

>>30144424
Mine Crystal! We need to trade shit to MinCorp

>>30143927
I know I'm late but.

Good fucking job you idiots. Special properties? Contain? The slug was important enough to lose one of our engineers?

What the fuck was up with the go to response of trying to capture it instead of killing it? Holy shit, it's like you guys never saw a single sci-fi in your life.

>>30144434
Agree
lets get those crystals and analyze them.

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Martha informs you that due to the current growth at the botanics, you will be able to produce 1 more ration per week.

Sally, all on her lonesome begins to reshape the top of the shuttle to seat a smaller turret. It should be completed soon. (-5 resources)

In the meantime, Lev tells you that working for more then a month on Chiron without any recreational facilities is getting on his nerves. (Especially since 'confiscated' his naughty magazines.) Aside from complaining, he is also widening the entrance the the crystals, in order to get his mining vehicle in there.

Day: 49
>Resources: 3
>Crew: 5 (1 Engineer, 1 Mineralogist, 1 Expedition leader, 1 Mercenary, 1 Botanist)
>Rations: 17 (Max pop: 6)

What will be your next move?

Rolled 92

>>30144492
Well, water and food seems sorted for now, so a recreational something seems to be in order

Rolled 68

>>30144526
thats fine by me

>>30144526
Maybe some type of indoor park? Give every one a little taste of home.

Rolled 33

>>30144541
This

>>30144541
I don't really know what to suggest specifically, so I just said "something" waiting for other people to give concrete suggestions.
Your idea seems nice.

>>30144541
maybe something less resource/power intensive? like some sort of digital entertainment system??
although i suppose you could grow food in the park to increase rations...

Rolled 5

>>30144492
Is it possible to make something like a holodeck?

>>30144610
Your roll says no. But it's a nice idea.

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After a few days of hard work, Sally has installed a small turret atop the shuttle. With this, would the slug show itself on the surface again, you could make short work of it. It may even discourage pirates attacking, though it would not stand up against even lightly armoured spacecraft.

After the turret is finished, Sally starts working on the recreation commons, though in the midst of building, she realizes you do not have enough resources at hand. (you would need 1 more resource.)

Day 54
>Resources: 0
>Crew: 5 (1 Engineer, 1 Mineralogist, 1 Expedition leader, 1 Mercenary, 1 Botanist)
>Rations: 14 (Max pop: 6)

Rolled 37

>>30144668
Continue Mining!

Whens the next ship incoming?

>>30144703
A ship comes every 30 days. Because of pirate activity, this one will be late by 2. so 62

Rolled 12

>>30144668
let's continue expanding the mine shaft.

Rolled 60

>>30144668
Have we collected and examined ice samples already?
If not, do that.

>>30144733
examined, yes, collected, no.

>>30144668
Perhaps we can push for a bonus now that we have something to show? Either extra resources or a few more personnel?

Either way we should get the message to MinCorp that we have struck gold (Crystal)

Rolled 10

>>30144757
We still don't know if the crystal is any good, or if it's good enough for MinCorp to fund our asses.

Seriously Mathrian. Do you even sleep? Also, nice thread OP I believe I shall join you fine gentlemen.

>>30144766
we also dont have a lab or anything

>>30144668

Let's set up another lamp to light up the left cavern. Something could easily get the drop on the guys from there.

>>30144668

was there anything else inside the crate besides the slug? if we didn't check, we better do it now
sorry about english

>>30144773
I do. Sometimes. But I have a friend coming over
this morning, and it quickly got too late for me to sleep because I have no idea when shes coming by, so no idea when I need to wake up. So awakeness becomes me.
also namefagging it up since its not all anons now

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After some observation, the encased in rock crystal turns out to be easily mined, the rock surrounding it being very porous. Unfortunatly, the crystal yield here appears to be quite low, though there are clues it is burrowed deeper beneath the ice. The main problem with mining either crystal or ice, according to Lev, is the lack of transportation to the surface. Also, you won't be able to mine both at the same time, for you have only one mining drill available. You also place another lamp in the mine, for more illumination.

Also, you check out the crate once more, and it seems to keep releasing small amounts of toxic gas.

Furthermore, the Walrus will be at your location in one day.

Day: 61
>Resources: 0
>Crew: 5 (1 Engineer, 1 Mineralogist, 1 Expedition leader, 1 Mercenary, 1 Botanist)
>Rations: 14 (max pop: 5)

Rolled 47

>>30144884
I think we should contain the toxic crate then

>>30144884

Mine out all the visible crystal, then start on ice again. Also take a quick look at what's beyond the ice field.

>>30144884
Contain the crate, mine some resources (that's ice right ?) having 0 is a really bad idea.
I say we try to keep at least three at all times.

Rolled 10

>>30144914
We are about to get more from the Walrus, next turn. It's how we obtained resources so far.

>>30144884

search for slug spores or something. who knows what the pink guy was doing here or how he reproduces, or even better...torch the damn thing.

i leave that for you more sci-fy savvy guys than me to figure it out

Rolled 73

>>30144884
weld the crate shut.

Investigate farther to the right

have excess personal work on transporting up crystal. Slow as it may be.

>>30144884

Make a containment transport device for the crate, and send it off with the Walrus. We don't need to deal with this shit.

I'm only two days from retirement, dammit, and here look at a picture of my wife and kids! What could possibly go wrong?

>>30144884

I think we should build a cargo elevator once we got enough resources.

Rolled 39

>>30144909
this

>>30144934
Mostly this but investigate to the left instead. that's where we lost the worm so it might have surfaced somewhere over there.

>>30144951
most def

>>30144964

I don't think we want to deal with that fuckin' worm just yet. All we have right now is our merc and the turret. If it comes to us, we handle it, but we don't have the resources to go looking for trouble.

>>30144951

Agreed. We should streamline as much of our current operation as possible before we start adding more stuff to-do.

How would we go around making resources ourself?

>>30144985
Didn't say to mess with it but knowing what its up to is pretty important.

>>30145005

Fair enough. I still think we'd spread ourselves too thin with that. I'm just putting it lower down on the priority list.

>>30145022
Putting the evil killing worm who's probably reproducing right now lower down the priority list seems risky.

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Boris the Vries, captain of the Red Walrus, hails your settlement. After listening to his near slew of curses about 'those damned pirates' whom he had to avoid to reach Chiron you discuss the current state of your settlement, and the strange slug that was sent here. While it is as of yet unknown what caused it to be sent down to Chiron, you feel that even if MinCorp knew, you would not be authorized to know.

On a more economical note, Boris makes it very clear that MinCorp is not satisfied with your progress so far, and will only reluctantly resupply you.

In the meantime, you have had the crate welded shut and Archibald has moved further into tunnel.

Aside resources and food, your choices are as follows:
>Prof. Engelbert Rust (Doctor)
>Dr. Lessly Kramm (Xenobiologist)
>Rute Danwin (Mercenary)
>Marvin Danwin (Engineer)
>Peter Romsaw (Miner)

>A high calibre defensive turret
>Shuttle parts
>A crate of medical supplies
>A welding torch of huge proportions
>A ground transporting vehicle
>Another mining vehicle
>A set construction materials for a basic laboratory
>Or do you want to inquire if there is other stuff for you?

>>30145073
forgot the trip

>>30145073

So, how much personnel and stuff can we take?

>>30145073

Fucking MinCorp I swear to god

>>Peter Romsaw (Miner)

>>Another mining vehicle

If it's prod they want they're going to fucking get it.

>>30145073
>>Peter Romsaw (Miner)

Lets get a miner. We need to have something to show the Corp.

You didn't specify how much we can get.
I suggest
>Another mining vehicle

We should really start up some mining operations.

>>30145073
>Peter Romsaw (Miner)
We need to mine faster
>A set construction materials for a basic laboratory
And know what green rock is

Rolled 94

>>30145073
>Peter Romsaw (Miner)
>Another mining vehicle

Rolled 78

>>30145073
>>Peter Romsaw (Miner)

>>Another mining vehicle

>Get mining vehicle
>Never realize that green rocks are worth fortune

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>>30145111
You can take one specialist gear, and two people, somehow this didn't copy over, we are not retarded, just incompetent.

Also enhanced the picture for viewing pleasure.

>>30145073

Another merc. That worm might be reproducing for all we know.

Ask if they got anything for making cargo elevators.

>>30145156

In that case, let's expand this >>30145158
to include the other Danwin sibling.

>>30145073

Dr. lessly kramm
peter romsaw

Defensive turret
another mining vehicle

try selling cristals
build more solar panels to support the turret

>>30145073
>On a more economical note, Boris makes it very clear that MinCorp is not satisfied with your progress so far, and will only reluctantly resupply you.
>In the meantime, you have had the crate welded shut and Archibald has moved further into tunnel.
>Aside resources and food, your choices are as follows:
>>Prof. Engelbert Rust (Doctor)
>>Dr. Lessly Kramm (Xenobiologist)
>>Rute Danwin (Mercenary)
>>Marvin Danwin (Engineer)
>>Peter Romsaw (Miner)
>>A high calibre defensive turret
>>Shuttle parts
>>A crate of medical supplies
>>A welding torch of huge proportions
>>A ground transporting vehicle
>>Another mining vehicle
>>A set construction materials for a basic laboratory
>>Or do you want to inquire if there is other stuff for you?


We're using up all our available power right now, aren't we? If we are going to expand at all, we need to increase capacity.

>>30145073

Miner and mining vehicle sounds about right. Let's get this mining shit down. With MiniCorp's support we'll be able to tackle the worm problem.

>>30145073

>No clown or bartender

Shit MinCorp, what are you doing?

Rolled 95

>>30145156
>Rute Danwin
for second personnel choice.

>>30145213
Lol, OP can we turn that 95 into the Danwin brothers and the Miner? Lol

Rolled 96

>>30145183
For the second choice, we should get
>Rute Danwin

>>30145213
>>30145251
Dem rolls

>Rute Danwin

>>30145247

Second this. I feel the Danwin bros. would be a great asset.

>>30145213
>>30145251

These rolls man.

>>30145247
Shut your mouth, you get what I give you and you will LIKE it.

But seriously, you won't be able to feed them, most likely

>>30145247
>>30145267

Keep in mind we can only sustain 5 people at the time. The food production improvement would be critical if we get 3 more people. We'd waste a lot of time with these facilities instead of setting up a proper mining operation.
The corp is displeased with us, we need to act fast before they cut all the support.

>>30145283
Hahahaha okay OP

Thats a problem? Aren't we supposed to be playing the Sims?

>>30145283

is there a way to produce resorces?
or to trade our ice with nearby colonies?

What does MineCorp actually want us to be producing?

Presumably we know the relative value of the resources available. What's worth more: ice or the crystals we found a little bit of?

What resources would we be hoping to find here? Gold? Hydrocarbons? Uranium?

>>30145293

With the other engineer, I think we should be able to expand our botanical plant pretty fast.

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The Red Walrus sends down its cargo, granting you 20 resources and 16 food to spend during the next 30 days. After you send up a small sample of crystal to the ship, Boris remarks that this is the sort of substance MinCorp is interested in. He mandates 3 units of this crystal in order to sustain your little colony. Any other crystal you dig you can either trade for additional food or resources, or keep for yourselves.

Upon arrival, a big cheery fellow by the name of Peter Romsaw almost immediately approaches Archibald, and it seems like the two quickly get some connection. Rute Danwin, the young and inexperienced merc now in your employ tries to keep up and appearance of professionalism as she hand you her contract.

Day: 62
>Resources: 20
>Crew: 7 (1 Engineer, 2 Mineralogists, 1 Expedition leader, 2 Mercenaries, 1 Botanist)
>Rations 28 (Max pop: 6)

Rolled 51

>>30145372
The ice is valuable because we found frozen proteins inside, if we had a lab we could study them further, the crystals are valuable because they're shiny.

Rolled 83

>>30145385
Let's make an elevator to make transporting ice and crystals easier.

>>30145385

Anyone else worried that we only have rations to support 6 people, but have 7?

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>>30145343
not yet. Feel free to work towards that though. This is going to be our penultimate update.

Rolled 97

>>30145385
Finish the entertainment center.

>>30145401
Second

>>30145385

Why exactly is it so hard to move the crystals up the mine shaft? The gravity on our little asteroid can't be more than 1/10 that of earth. The miners should be able to literally throw the crystals up to the surface if they wanted.

Rolled 89

>>30145385
Spend resources on a freight elevator.

have Miner and miner bot mine deeper for crystals.

>>30145401

Yep, let's go for this. Then we'll trade the crystal for lods of emone.

>>30145385

send miners to take out the ice and free up yhe precious crystal, if we can process the ice for water or trade it with someone else good too. leave Archibald down there and Rute defendind the base
Sally can build extra power sources

>>30145421
It's a lot higher than you'd expect for some reason, as was explained in the first thread

>>30145411
Damn, OP. Really liking this art.

Looks like it could be a really fun DF-esque game.

>>30145458
How many units can we mine of that little deposit we found?

>>30145474

I know, right? OP's pixel skills kick ass.

>>30145474
It really is amazing. I would love a game that even tried to replicate this shit.

>>30145525
I'm not going to promise anything, but I'll be damned if I'm not gonna try.

>>30145525
I know a game of similar style. Cortex command. Look it up and weep at the requirements to play it.

>>30145411
Do we get a crystal counter on the "HUD"?

Rolled 37

>>30145576
Cortex Command is amazing, I just use crab bombs all the time and eventually the entire map is covered in gore and crabs.

>>30145576
I've played it. But it just doesn't have quite the feel this does. If Cortex Command was more DFesque then maybe. To be fair nothing I've played so far can really compare with a well run Quest. Other than other roleplaying games.

>>30145585
next time, yeah

>>30145621
I do feel the same. I play a lot of 4X games to scratch the itch but they don't help much and rpgs feel like a waste of time because of plot railroads.

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The entertainment room, which, under your careful guidance, has become a bit more of a lounge. (-1 resource) Furthermore, Sally starts working on the elevator in the mineshaft. (-2 resources)

So far, you have mined 1 unit of crystal, but without more research it is impossible to tell how much is left in this vein.

Day: 66
>Resources: 17
>Crew: 7 (1 Engineer, 2 Mineralogists, 1 Expedition leader, 2 Mercenaries, 1 Botanist)
>Rations 25 (Max pop: 6)

So, this was the last update for today, look to our twitter if you want to know when the next thread will be. https://twitter.com/MinCorpPixel

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>>30145591
>Tfw one of the devs is a friend of mine.
>Tfw you've gotten to see the shitshow of a dev process for over 4 years
>Tfw Data will never finish this game

>>30145656
Cool, this is a really nice quest OP, I had tons of fun.

>>30145656

This was fun as hell. Looking forward to the next time.

>>30145656
Awesome thread OP. Have a good night.

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>>30145641
Yeah, at least sometimes they manage to make the railroading believable. Invisible or not the walls really kill immersion.


>>30145656
Okay, Ostrich. That was damn good. Definitely worth missing a nights sleep over. And your pixel art is AMAZING. Hopefully I'll be able to catch your future threads.

>>30145656
Someone wanna archive this shit? I have problems with 4chan right now

>>30145707
I'll archive it, no problem.

>>30145697
Follow my twitter, dude, I'll keep you posted. Also, if you think thats amazing, wait for the other project I'm working on. I'm saying "I", but I have helpers for the written parts, so kudos to them.

>>30145733
HA! A step ahead of you man. By about 4 hours. Or whenever you posted the link to your twitter. Anyway. I shall definitely be keeping an eye out

>>30145733
Yeah I followed you as soon as I saw the twitter link. My twitter was literally made so that I could follow quests and nothing else.

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>>30145656
oh, last thing: that image is too small. bigger one here

don't forget to archive

>>30145786
>My twitter was literally made so that I could follow quests and nothing else

Haha, same here

Btw Mathrian turn on your damn steam. I can't chat with ya otherwise.