I wasn't going to do this. I was going to start a new game in normal survival mode instead so that my character and world wouldn't disappear and I could just work on it, happily and without worry.
But it's fun. It's fun to do this. To torture myself. And since I'm still waiting to find out what the hell was wrong with my PC build (apparently the motherboard tested fine, ARGH!!!! Now I'm getting my CPU and RAM tested.) I'm still diddling around on this laptop that could overheat and die in a fire at any moment.
SO! Let's do this again, shall we? And let's BE BETTER this time, shall we? xD (spoiler alert: I've already written up 6 posts at the time of publishing this first one and am still going strong.)
In my last Hardcore game, I named my character The Doomed One. So, quite frankly, perhaps she truly was just doomed from the start. If I'm going to take this seriously, I have to give my character a proper name, and therefore have a life to look forward to.
So, meet Autumnia, the Floran who was once a doomed human, reincarnated into a plant who just wants to LIVE! LAUGH! LOVE!
I'm not caffeinated right now, you are. 🤣
The Floran ship looks a lot cooler than the human one, with vines and plants all over the place. And a pet snail instead of a pet cat.
By some miracle, the automated beam point for this planet was riiiight on top of the mine with the core fragments inside. That'll make things quick and easy!
I also landed right on top of some iron ore, and a bunch of plants I can yoink to replant for my own purposes. A really good start.
I moved over to the right a little bit and started my temporary base. This time I prepared a farming field straight off the bat.
In particular, thanks to my very recent experience in the last game, I planted rice and cotton. Rice is a food that doesn't have an expiry countdown on it so I can just cook it up and eat it on the fly, and cotton is very necessary for quite a few crafting recipes.
I'm going to need more cotton!
While my plants were growing, I dug straight down into the core fragment mine and begun having a look around. I stole a tent for my own purposes! And all the loot I could find.
This time I didn't bother armouring up first, simply because I knew the miniboss in here wouldn't be able to even touch me. I could armour up on the way back.
I found quite a few Matter Manipulate Upgrade Modules in the mine and swiftly upgraded my tool to be able to collect liquids.
Increasing power or size might seem more common-sensical, but I always choose liquids first because oil is quite important and I like to gather that as soon as I see it.
After looting every inch of the mines, I found the miniboss and quickly dispatched him via my cheese-method of just standing on a platform above his head. xD
Nothing wrong with a bit of cheese. Haloumi's my favourite.
With that taken care of, I returned to my temporary base and smelted all of my ingots and transformed it into some armour. And I could just go find the portal to the space station now, but I decided to go look for more ore first.
There's that guy on the space station who'll unlock your tech usage, and I need to have at least 10 silver ingots, 10 copper ingots, and 10 gold ingots before I speak to him.
So, it was time to go mining!
Pretty soon it was only gold that I needed, and I was barely finding any. So I headed deeper and deeper underground to where the core fragments are in the ground naturally.
I vaguely remember finding gold more often down there, and lo! I did. I also discovered a fleshy underground area where stringy flesh-tendrils grew and meat-beasts roamed. Delicious.
Not wanting to bore you too much with that which I literally did and wrote about just a week ago, I headed off to the space station, spoke to the little old lady, completed the Erchius Mining Facility dungeon, and repaired my space ship.
In my next post, Autumnia's true adventure begins as she surpasses the life that The Doomed One but temporarily lived, and here's hoping she survives longer than the Doomed One was destined to.
Since I'm a bit more in tune with the game now, I certainly hope she does. xD
Until next time! 😄