Stationeers survival – Mars playthrough on VERY HARD, E1: Ex Nihilo

Mars is an easy world, even on Stationeer difficulty. … If your starting gear isn’t severely limited for some reason. Which it is here, in case that wasn’t understood.

The setup is pretty exciting but implicitly makes development more slow. And some crafty solutions were necessary. At the end, things are no longer terribly dire. And Episode 2, almost 5 hours long, takes it all home, with base building on crack the closer to the end we get and a lot of turbo MIPSing.

Download ZIP of savegame (310kb) – standing right next to the lander: https://discord.com/channels/276525882049429515/412447900120121344/1206653133263212585

*** denotes important stuff.

0:00:00 – IntrOOPS!
0:01:06 – Cast away
0:02:44 – Good old Minecraft
0:04:44 – Head in the clouds … legs too.
0:07:23 – *** The Autolathe enters the stage!
0:08:31 – This feels like the game “Remains” or “Raft”
0:10:46 – Mining. By hand.
0:12:51 – Expanding a bit
0:15:35 – More mining
0:18:53 – *** Homecoming / Placing the Electronics Printer
0:21:37 – Moar miningh!
0:23:04 – Homecoming in sunlight / Making Solid Fuel Generator
0:23:39 – Getting Coal for Jenny / Devs seem to be on vacation
0:25:53 – *** Placing the generator / First drinking&eating
0:28:24 – Expanding a bit / Planning
0:33:52 – Mining for gold&coal / Placing the Tool Maker / Mining Drill!
0:39:44 – *** Low air (NO RESERVES!) / Making emergency box room
0:44:03 – Printing Pipe Bender / Refilling O2 tank, hehe
0:47:40 – *** Placing the Hydraulic Pipe Bender
0:50:40 – Refilling O2 canister again (wastefully…)
0:52:23 – Mining water / Installing bottle filler “solution” / More mining
0:59:10 – More unnecessarily wasteful O2 can refilling … and the water doesn’t work
1:02:10 – Again hunting for oxite etc.
1:09:50 – *** Homecoming with some urgent things to take care of
1:12:32 – *** Making a building!
1:17:12 – Mining for oxite URGENTLY (Still not woken up to the possibilities …)
1:20:21 – Homecoming to that bizarre half-done building
1:21:41 – OUCH!
1:23:38 – More building
1:25:25 – More oxite hunting (with a second mining belt)
1:29:33 – *** FINALLY doing the oxygen refilling right! xD
1:31:58 – Mining / Europa’s Jupiter visuals are wrong
1:45:12 – Homecoming
1:47:33 – More building!
1:53:28 – Another mining run
1:54:57 – Homecoming, building
1:58:33 – Making parts of the airlock!
2:05:51 – (If you quote-mine this, … special skills and all that.)
2:08:51 – Another mining run – still talking about motivation and purpose
2:11:26 – Stay in the moment! Ars vivendi.
2:16:08 – Homecoming / Inspecting for leaks
2:18:26 – Planning some redecoration
2:23:16 – More building and oxygen refilling (without killing the station :P)
2:26:22 – *** Moving power storage and generator
2:29:42 – Mining for copper / Mental silence should be strived for, so improve your food intake!
2:37:40 – Finding home
2:38:44 – *** Moving the Arc Furnace (Does it actually LOSE all product when deconstructed!?)
2:42:13 – Getting oxygen from the abyss
2:43:55 – *** Making plans / Finally evacuating the base!
2:49:03 – *** Preparing water ‘production’ / Booting up the airlock!
2:52:30 – *** Filling station with oxygen / Filling the bottles with water
2:56:38 – Installing battery charger … with consequences
2:59:24 – WTF airlock broken!?
3:01:28 – *** Making the Arc Furnace nicer
3:04:20 – Setting up hydroponics
3:09:10 – Cleaning up / Goodbye

Part 1 (this video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeO4QRLck9w
Part 2 (NEXT video): …uploading…

Also… “Erhalder – The Stuff (Original Mix)”: https://acidworx.bandcamp.com/track/the-stuff-original-mix

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