cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4323676

Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

What games coming out in 2024 are you most anticipating? Or games that are coming out sometime in the future?

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Been playing some modded Minecraft, enjoying automation and building a rail network.

    Big fan of any game genre that allows for infinite expression of creativity. Sandbox games, roguelikes such as Noita, and special games like Path of Exile with deep customization.

    Excited for Path of Exile 2, should come out roughly Q3 or Q4 next year with a beta/EA late this year.

    edit: Forgot to mention that I'm also looking out for Dyson Sphere Program's next update, which will introduce customizable vehicles (presumably like motherships, since the player character is a mecha that is already capable of space flight) and space stations. I feel like the combat update is missing a bit more for it to really come into shape, currently it's all defense and no attacking. Also excited for Amazing Cultivation Simulator 2, but have no clue what it's gonna bring.

    • Babs [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      What Minecraft mods? I haven't played in forever but I had an old one where you could build a space program, space stations, and a moonbase, all with gravity and oxygen systems.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Oh I'm playing Create: Astral, so yeah plenty of space stuff. But also trains and steampunk machines.

        This is 1/2 of my base:

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    • buckykat [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      I've been playing Create Astral since you mentioned it last thread and I'm really enjoying it. I just built a dripstone cauldron lava generator and tried to use it to create an infinite lava lake, then realized it'll take about 4000 cauldron-hours to fill and I'm going to need to build an iron generator next to make enough cauldrons to finish it in any reasonable amount of time.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        Yeah the cauldron thing is a trap tbh, you're much better off just getting your lava from one of the underground moon lakes. Getting the lava out of the moon is somewhat inconvenient but cauldrons are much slower.

        • buckykat [none/use name]
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          2 months ago

          I already dug the lake this is happening. Plus, I can't even get to the moon yet.

          Something being slow just means it needs to be parallelized to an alarming extent.

          • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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            2 months ago

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            It is my duty to inform you that you can't really farm iron very effectively until you get to the moon. A vanilla style golem farm probably works fine but screw setting that up, and the gravel -> iron nugget washing recipe requires a very large amount of cobble, which is nearly impossible to transport without brass funnels helping you do so in batches. However, you can make many small units that produce a couple ingots an hour and consolidate that into a respectable output. ideekay.

            • buckykat [none/use name]
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              2 months ago

              sicko-flipped I just dug out a 23x23x23 cube for the lava lake a lack of cobble is not a concern for me at the moment. Right now it's going into a clay generator. By the time I run through that I expect I can get a parallelized cobblestone generator built. So far belts, andesite funnels, and tech reborn storage buffers are serving well enough for item transport. The latter can filter items and transport them in any direction stacks at a time, and are just made of wood and sugarcane.