Nice!

[BLACKBERREST3]

Approaching mid-game. Had to restart a few times to get the best start. The goal was to have the most overpowered early game that I could think of and I might have done it. I have a few mods that let me control rng of dupes and printer pod, but I don't feel like reloading every time i want squash fries so I'm cheesing it a bit. My 6 dupes are all interested in digging, supplying, and researching, have ugly crier and sticker bomb responses, and have kitchen menace, unpracticed artist, and skilled: super duper hard digging. I've got 1 rancher rn, but all her job is just wrangling wild critters to the printer pod park. I have to claim my food during the day or the hatches might eat the pod food at night XD

I've avoided mining slime for now cause I don't want the slimelung debuffs and I don't care to setup deodorizes yet. So far all of my oxygen has come from 4 terrariums. I had to manually relocate a few polluted bottles so they could off-gas a bit quicker. I also dropped a few bottles down the ladders so my dupes could mine deeper. I might have to start storing carbon dioxide and chlorine soon as it's overpressurizing the pw bottles now. I got all my tier 2 research done and will be going into radbolts soon. I'm tempted to go the shinebug route, but I'll need to setup a system that will allow me to transfer their eggs safely if I ever want to move a hoard of them later. I'll probably just seal them in a room with limited door access so they can come back with lead suits later. I wonder when I'll have to start worrying about temperature? All in all, I think this is a pretty good start.

 

[BLACKBERREST3]

the reason i make my park on the printer pod (when i get a pip that is) is that in every world generation those are the only guaranteed natural tiles that are always made of sandstone every time. for consistency when resetting a bunch of times you can always plan to leave those natural.