Day 25: It's lonely out on the ice. The little packages of meat and random clothing has been enough so far. I wish whoever delivered them would visit with me and maybe, help me rescue my dog. I still hear his barks across the ice and when I can no longer restrain myself, I wander the sheet looking for him. Perhaps, Mother was right and the addiction center would have been a less drastic choice but I wouldn't have been able to bring my dog.
Sea Ice, even better than ice sheet. Might I suggest going for nutri fungus as crop for the hydroponics. It will save you the need for a sun lamp which not only costs 40 steel but would also require another wind turbine to power it
@@alexivanovs4122 The wiki is a little confusing on that subject. The page for hydroponics states that you can't while the page for Nutrifungus states that you can. The later being true
I had no idea nutrifungus could grow in hydroponics. But doesn't that food have a massive debuff unless you are a tunneler or have specifically changed the setting?
Interesting you can also grow fibercorn and it does not require a sun lamp, a regular light with do. That means we can get wood as well and no need for a second wind turbine. This might be a little bit less painful than I thought.
I can't believe Brendan survived so long in those inhumane conditions. If he somehow gets out of this predicament he'll need therapy for sure to deal with the PTSD of having to eat without a table.
Early on in my Sea ice run, I was running into issues with getting enough power to run my sun lamp. That's when I learned that you cold use nutrifungus in the hydroponic tables. I'm not sure how much worse/better it is than rice, but it saves you a bunch of power.
It's hard to imagine how francis can become more ruthless in rimworld. But after a nice kenshi series: straight into a starving in the ice series, I'm looking forward to this
Classic hax that may be relevant: Randy Battery Kabooms can't happen if there is no wire; if the entire power grid is just the generators and batteries clumped together, there is no risk. Theoretically you can build a wall near the turbine, roof around it without blocking the generator and plop the battery under it. The turbine is already outside and unprotected so its not like your power grid is particularly secure against raiders either way. And when you're ready for a 2nd turbine you can build it 1 block away from the other one and use the battery as a wire.
23:44 the dog could eat the raider... I mean... she tackle with him, she got hurt byhim... she was starving... nothing like eating the flesh of her enemy as cold revenge
when the help felt from the sky the gave you some chunks btw, i think there were 4, so 60 more steel so they are actualy kinda good, food, maybe clothes and steel
Some sea ice challenges have been done with permanent cold snaps, the map always freezing, since sea ice challenges are done in either poles, solar panels will be one of your best friend because for some part of the year it will be "sunny" all day long, also because of frequent raids smelters are relatively worth the investment
I think u should have bought the pemmican! :D And one more thing!! If u "manually feed" your pawn, it consumes "much more less" food! Make it consume 1 meal when it's food meter drops below 5%! :)
@@mirjanbouma Yes. Set the pawn food restrictions to "nothing", and keep an eye on it's hunger bar. It will get a debuf off hungry (-6), and ravegously hungry (-12) but if you make it the same time fully recreated it will compensate for that period of time, so it won't go mental break.
To start I like to put down a wood walls, a turbine, a heater, an electric stove, a smelter, a research bench, and a butcher table. You have to make the butcher table and stove out of silver but it gives you everything you need to survive the first winter with your starting resources. The charge rifle lets you hunt the few random polar bears and snow hares. The butcher table ensures you get the maximum meat. Unfortunately your pet is part of this. But that and your rations should give you enough food for the first winter and pets have no real utility for the first couple years as you spend most of your days researching. The smelter is key because it lets you start producing steel from raids and events right away.
Yeah I think I would do things very differently if I had to do this all again, given how bad of a situation Brendan is in I think we will get another chance shortly.
It is possible also to do this with an infinite triple cold snap. Beginning is much more tricky but the hypercold is interesting against human raids. Silver for walls is a very smart move. Thinking out of the box.
The only diff in the start is that u need more than one heater.. imo instead of using triple cold snap go for very cold average temp at the world gen is more interesting since other tile is freezing cold too and u can't go to quest outside ur tile without a really good cold protection
@@nicolasbram165 Oh it's more than that. Some streamers have done it already for good reasons. I tested it myself on a long play, it was fun. Day 1 was impossible without building around a steam geyser. Double wall was mandatory. We're talking about -100 -110°C. But the reward : humains raiders, even with parka are auto-killed. A streamer I remember : Crusha of Mans, Ice sheet challenge.
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy watch that series already.. he didn't start with triple cold snap tho.. he did nb ice sheet and happen to have 2 or 3 temp controller from quest iirc and toxic fallout too
The classic sea ice challenge involves setting the temperature to as cold as possible in the startup. Making the planet have 100% coverage also might make it colder.
Turns out you need to install a scenario that gives your triple cold snaps to get that kind of start, I kept wondering at first why the map was not -40C.
This is great. A choice that may have killed me if I was playing due to mental breaks: I would have taken the debuff of butchering the first few people to have some leather and still letting the dog have the meat. It might be less food for the dog because of the bucher spot's inefficiency, but it's a tradable item and the ability to make a bedroll if travel to those southern hills becomes necessary. Everyone takes their risks, it's a brutal start, but for people who like to play along it's something to think about.
One of my fondest memories of Rimworld was living on a Ice Sheet with a ton of mods. Things were going wrong left and right I couldn't catch a break. All my pawns became severely depressed from the harsh conditions. I swear only waking up a few hours daily. Day after day the pawns would work a few hours mining out our new home in the mountain. I was probably already doomed either way but the mountain could of fixed everything. Just when I started popping beds in the warm mountain an event happen. A random pawn showed up with an illness called ????. He had insane stats so I instantly rescued putting him in the brand new mountain. That night he turned into a mutant and proceeded to rip apart all my pawns with ease. The mutant was insanely OP for how early my run was fucking Randy. I won't say what mod added this event because you wouldn't expect it whatsoever.
Ice sheet order of operations: roof, campfire, bed, research table, table and chair, wind turbine, heater(s), battery, sun lamp, hydroponics (x2), 2nd turbine or solar panel, more hydroponics, electric stove, smelting table. an early sunlamp and 1 hydroponics would have done you a lot better than the smelting table, which is often not even useful until you have like 10 or 20 slag on the map.
That is with the sea ice challenge scenario, it gives you the same starting resources as crash landed. We are doing the rich explorer start so we only get 450 steel. So two wind turbines and two hydroponics is already 400 steel, 25 steel for the research table and that is it you have 25 steel left. This is going to be very different to the ice sheet challenge scenario, we are going to be incredibly resources starved for a long time.
@@FrancisJohnYT yeah you build as much as you can with what steel you have, and build the rest as you obtain more steel. I think building the smelting table so early was a bit of a waste, I think you would have been better off trying to get a hydroponics and sunlamp up instead. Even just one hydroponics basin can feed half a pawn on average, assuming you had enough power for the sun lamp to run. (Which you would not with just one wind turbine, but it's a start.) I'm surprised you've made it this far tbh. A 50 minute sea ice video is a rare sight to see anywhere lmao.
oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! god, your commentary over a rimworld playthrough is really something else ima be honest for a long time id only watch your rimworld stuff (with a slight detour to starsector because I fkn love that game and I love when it gets any attention) but with the hiatus of rimworld I actually started watching the oni series stuff which aside from me not really knowing the game, has been quite fun
ONI is one of those games that sucks you in once you start playing. I'll just figure out how this next bit works..... next thing you know you are trying to tame a volcano and half you base is melting.
What the hell 🤣 Out of nowhere 2 day ago I wanted to watch Rimworld lets play but I couldnt find anything good and gave up, and you started new series, If I knew I would have wish 1 billion dollar 😂
I watched rhamadant when he did this chalange for the first time (iirc he's the one who came up with it, tho someone else may have done something similar first) and it's a fun watch. I look forward to seeing how you do.
I think Rhamadant used a scenario, it gave three cold snaps at all times. Also more stating resources. We are stuck in a weird limbo as we cannot make food no matter what we do.
@@FrancisJohnYT that would explain a few things like how that initial raider didn't immediately collapse. Honestly thought that it was just a vanilla thing, but its not surprising that his initial conditions were outside base game.
Missed you playing rimworld so much.... I think you are the best rimworld content creator. Just the great commentary and describing what is going on is the best!
"I need this guy to stop bleeding. He's bleeding through the walls!" Also, resorting to cannibalism in episode one... brutal, haha. I have missed the Rimworld videos, looking forward to this!
i believe sleeping uses less hunger, and you can't mental break while sleeping, so you could probably just have them sleep in by setting their schedule to pass through sad times
@@mirjanbouma For a single dark torch its 4 tile radius of fully lit instead of 7 for the campfire, but you can run 6.66 dark torches for the same wood consumption so you still end up with more light.
I'm excited for more rimworld. I'm really surprised you didn't kill that first visitor. All that free stuff, plus a parka, and the corpse for the dog to chew on. I think kenshi may have made you soft my friend 😎
Ive been binging your other challenges!! Im so happy to see this one. Ive seen ambiguous amphibian do one like this. Please make a series for this!! Ill be tuning in every day 💕
Similar but currently running triple cold snap on ice sheet, not sea ice. Have to edit configuration files to allow raiders to even get on the map. Being able to dig in to mountains makes it easier. Requiring 2 to 3 heaters to prevent hypothermia makes it significantly harder. In summer it is around -70c to around -120c in winter. A silver bed is fairly normal for a start, as is silver hoopstone. Power should be less of an issue,for you, hopefully, but I doubt one wind turbine will support all your needs with hydroponics. You can live on 1.5 hydroponics bays,btw, with efficient harvesting and no botched harvests(more is better), a nutrient dispenser is nice with a low cooking skill, plus it uses less rice per meal.. With one pawn food poisoning is bad, as is mental breaks. Also, nice to see you on Rimworld again.
I think with two heaters you might want to spend some wood on a butcher table, since hunger is your biggest enemy at the moment. ETA: we love it when you make Rimworld content!
Butcher table add +66% of nutrition when cooking add +100%. But butcher table don't need to be refueled. And later you can smelt your way to electric stove. Also it seems that Francis have some mod which reduce slag spawn (quest reward should give not only gold but gold+slag from transport pod). If unitnentional should be removed.
@@nicolasbram165 indeed. A butcher table won't run out of fuel. He'll want an electric stove at some point. But those need steel. It's funny, FJ kept going "Brendan's going to die soon" and yet here we are, waiting for episode 2. I think he needs much more raids, specifically the type that brings metals.
Ive played forced vegetarian on minimum temperature sea ice for hundreds of hours. It's my favorite way to play. I always, always always build an electric smelter. Slag is the only consistent way to generate steel.
@@FrancisJohnYT I rush microelectronics, get comms console and orbital trade beacon, buy as much neutroamine as possible, turn it into wakeup, and buy food. More than viable for three or fewer people to buy all your food
Hey at the very least, as far as unprepared arctic expeditions go, only one bout of cannibalism so far is better than a lot of historical accounts. Usually overconfident colonists eat their entire crew instead of just some random invader and their dog that bravely died to save them (and totally didn't just forget to feed afterwards!)
as far as use of steel, i think you actually did the best thing, if you make hydrophonics you may not be able to make more steel ever again (no com to buy them, no mining, no smelting), while for food there is a source of it every raid, either pennicam, melas or... raw meat. and steel is important for actually make everything else farmable or to get easier access to it. btw... is general suply caravan/comconsole the only source of wood until you get transpod pods?
you can make animal flaps instead of walls and since u can butcher the raiders its free walls basically. saving u materials for important stuff. I also recommend starting with a smaller footprint so u can then expand with said flaps.
Having money/wealth at the start is something of a trap, so building the walls out of silver halves its value and reduces the threat from raids; handy extra benefit. Also, rabbit fur is warm.
Day 25: It's lonely out on the ice. The little packages of meat and random clothing has been enough so far. I wish whoever delivered them would visit with me and maybe, help me rescue my dog. I still hear his barks across the ice and when I can no longer restrain myself, I wander the sheet looking for him. Perhaps, Mother was right and the addiction center would have been a less drastic choice but I wouldn't have been able to bring my dog.
do u wanna make me cry?
Damm, that is haunting.
Holy f* that a good imagination you have sir
I'm rooting for poor Miss Brendan.
Finally, Rimworld is back!
"What are these guys doing out here?"
... To raid the house of pure silver for its treasure, obviously. Also explains the trade caravans.
When you put it that way it does sound a lot more logical.
"i just wished that guy would stop bleeding. he keeps bleeding through the walls and dirtying up the room" quotes from francis
That's tea in the corner
That's me in the cold night
Losing my addiction
You are actually on "Strive to Survive" 500%. It resets when you click on custom.
And hell yeah, more Rimming! :D
Dammit your right, it's been to long since I played. I'll change it the start of next episode.
I don't think you know what that means.
You start out with a bonded animal :D
It's a 500% sea ice run D:
RIP puppers, atleast it wasn't on purpose.
Sea Ice, even better than ice sheet. Might I suggest going for nutri fungus as crop for the hydroponics. It will save you the need for a sun lamp which not only costs 40 steel but would also require another wind turbine to power it
can you grow it in hydroponics?
@@alexivanovs4122 The wiki is a little confusing on that subject. The page for hydroponics states that you can't while the page for Nutrifungus states that you can. The later being true
I had no idea nutrifungus could grow in hydroponics. But doesn't that food have a massive debuff unless you are a tunneler or have specifically changed the setting?
@@mirjanbouma I would not call -6 (raw) or -3 (cooked) a massive debuff
Interesting you can also grow fibercorn and it does not require a sun lamp, a regular light with do. That means we can get wood as well and no need for a second wind turbine. This might be a little bit less painful than I thought.
I can't believe Brendan survived so long in those inhumane conditions.
If he somehow gets out of this predicament he'll need therapy for sure to deal with the PTSD of having to eat without a table.
love it when Francis just ignoring the precious steel from the pistol, slowly rusting away from seawater exposure
Oh no!
also he completly ignored building a roof over the food outside
In the end, I think one of the caribou dropped right on the edge of the maps, you can see a green dot on the minimap.
The Old Sea Ice challenge had a permanent double cold snap created by editing the save game file. It was brutal!
That would explain it and the the extra resources, I thought my mods were interfering.
@@FrancisJohnYT Check the Description on this video for instructions on how to create the challenge :)
ua-cam.com/video/Me15lHBRP-A/v-deo.html
Here is what I believe is the origination of the Sea Ice Challenge ua-cam.com/video/8P5y2qajSOo/v-deo.html
Ambiguous Amphibian did a rather entertaining series on this too
@@schrodingersmechanic7622 yes, especially with his pawns being *friends*.
I don't want to be the fan that yucks someone else's yum, so I will just say that I am greatly excited for this game to return to the regular upload!
Do you listen to "Stuff you should know" podcasts? that's where I heard that term from, lol.
@@shanejohnston7586 Nope. It's from a coworker, but that podcast looks interesting so I will definitely check it out.
Glad to see more Rimworld again! Has quickly become a favorite to see, right behind the ONI episodes. Love to see how someone handles a challenge.
Early on in my Sea ice run, I was running into issues with getting enough power to run my sun lamp. That's when I learned that you cold use nutrifungus in the hydroponic tables. I'm not sure how much worse/better it is than rice, but it saves you a bunch of power.
I think we will be using a bunch of nutrifungus earlyish on while we are strapped for steel. Though I am also interested in the fibercorn for wood.
Aaaand we're back, with some more Rimworld. A part of me is so satisfied by that phrase
This is the best thing you can hear on all of UA-cam.
That credits music has no business being that calm, this is what Brandon hears slipping into madness.
Pretty sure the madness has already claimed him, I don't think he is going to survive.
@@FrancisJohnYT unless I'm extremely mistaken, Brandon is female.
It's hard to imagine how francis can become more ruthless in rimworld. But after a nice kenshi series: straight into a starving in the ice series, I'm looking forward to this
you got the other caribou it did not leave the map in time also well done on living.
That was so luck, it was one tile away.
Classic hax that may be relevant:
Randy Battery Kabooms can't happen if there is no wire; if the entire power grid is just the generators and batteries clumped together, there is no risk.
Theoretically you can build a wall near the turbine, roof around it without blocking the generator and plop the battery under it. The turbine is already outside and unprotected so its not like your power grid is particularly secure against raiders either way. And when you're ready for a 2nd turbine you can build it 1 block away from the other one and use the battery as a wire.
Just finished your tribal playthrough -- what a great series keep up the good work!!
I love the descent into madness, I can't wait for next episode.
23:44 the dog could eat the raider... I mean... she tackle with him, she got hurt byhim... she was starving... nothing like eating the flesh of her enemy as cold revenge
when the help felt from the sky the gave you some chunks btw, i think there were 4, so 60 more steel
so they are actualy kinda good, food, maybe clothes and steel
Rimworld is the kind of game that I come back to when I want to feel at home
After what I've seen FJ do in the Biotech runthrough, it is so nice how he tries to take care of that dog
Some sea ice challenges have been done with permanent cold snaps, the map always freezing, since sea ice challenges are done in either poles, solar panels will be one of your best friend because for some part of the year it will be "sunny" all day long, also because of frequent raids smelters are relatively worth the investment
I already know I'm going to love this series. Love your work!
I think u should have bought the pemmican! :D And one more thing!! If u "manually feed" your pawn, it consumes "much more less" food! Make it consume 1 meal when it's food meter drops below 5%! :)
How do you do that? Microing it?
@@mirjanbouma Yes. Set the pawn food restrictions to "nothing", and keep an eye on it's hunger bar. It will get a debuf off hungry (-6), and ravegously hungry (-12) but if you make it the same time fully recreated it will compensate for that period of time, so it won't go mental break.
Yeah assuming Brendan does not make it I have a bunch of ways to stretch our food supplies.
yeah! I've been waiting for rimworld content for months! 😀
I didn't realise how much I missed your rimworld content until now!
love everything you do tho. wonderful pschopath you are
To start I like to put down a wood walls, a turbine, a heater, an electric stove, a smelter, a research bench, and a butcher table. You have to make the butcher table and stove out of silver but it gives you everything you need to survive the first winter with your starting resources. The charge rifle lets you hunt the few random polar bears and snow hares. The butcher table ensures you get the maximum meat. Unfortunately your pet is part of this. But that and your rations should give you enough food for the first winter and pets have no real utility for the first couple years as you spend most of your days researching. The smelter is key because it lets you start producing steel from raids and events right away.
Yeah I think I would do things very differently if I had to do this all again, given how bad of a situation Brendan is in I think we will get another chance shortly.
@@FrancisJohnYT You got dealt a tough hand with psychite withdrawal. Props on sticking with it. It made for a good watch.
It is possible also to do this with an infinite triple cold snap. Beginning is much more tricky but the hypercold is interesting against human raids.
Silver for walls is a very smart move. Thinking out of the box.
The only diff in the start is that u need more than one heater.. imo instead of using triple cold snap go for very cold average temp at the world gen is more interesting since other tile is freezing cold too and u can't go to quest outside ur tile without a really good cold protection
@@nicolasbram165 Oh it's more than that. Some streamers have done it already for good reasons. I tested it myself on a long play, it was fun. Day 1 was impossible without building around a steam geyser. Double wall was mandatory. We're talking about -100 -110°C. But the reward : humains raiders, even with parka are auto-killed. A streamer I remember : Crusha of Mans, Ice sheet challenge.
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy as far as I know that will be no human raid if u drop below certain temp without mods ofc
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy watch that series already.. he didn't start with triple cold snap tho.. he did nb ice sheet and happen to have 2 or 3 temp controller from quest iirc and toxic fallout too
I survived my first sea ice raid by repairing the door until hypothermia set in. Them I got some free clothes.
Oh praise be! It has been a mortal age since you posted a Rimworld video and I am so glad to see it back on the channel.
The classic sea ice challenge involves setting the temperature to as cold as possible in the startup. Making the planet have 100% coverage also might make it colder.
Turns out you need to install a scenario that gives your triple cold snaps to get that kind of start, I kept wondering at first why the map was not -40C.
This is great.
A choice that may have killed me if I was playing due to mental breaks:
I would have taken the debuff of butchering the first few people to have some leather and still letting the dog have the meat. It might be less food for the dog because of the bucher spot's inefficiency, but it's a tradable item and the ability to make a bedroll if travel to those southern hills becomes necessary. Everyone takes their risks, it's a brutal start, but for people who like to play along it's something to think about.
Yes!!! You can really stretch your meals if you don't let them eat when they want but wait till they are hungrier but still not starving.
One of my fondest memories of Rimworld was living on a Ice Sheet with a ton of mods. Things were going wrong left and right I couldn't catch a break. All my pawns became severely depressed from the harsh conditions. I swear only waking up a few hours daily.
Day after day the pawns would work a few hours mining out our new home in the mountain. I was probably already doomed either way but the mountain could of fixed everything. Just when I started popping beds in the warm mountain an event happen. A random pawn showed up with an illness called ????. He had insane stats so I instantly rescued putting him in the brand new mountain. That night he turned into a mutant and proceeded to rip apart all my pawns with ease. The mutant was insanely OP for how early my run was fucking Randy.
I won't say what mod added this event because you wouldn't expect it whatsoever.
Yes more Rimworld! Ice Sheet it great, bring out the best in people. Thanks Francis! Looking forward to see more Sea Iceyness
Brandon's a trooper alright. No one thought he'd last more than 1 day but here he is, still kickin'.
Wow Brendan really held on to the edge there. I’m looking forward to seeing how far this goes
Ice sheet order of operations: roof, campfire, bed, research table, table and chair, wind turbine, heater(s), battery, sun lamp, hydroponics (x2), 2nd turbine or solar panel, more hydroponics, electric stove, smelting table.
an early sunlamp and 1 hydroponics would have done you a lot better than the smelting table, which is often not even useful until you have like 10 or 20 slag on the map.
That is with the sea ice challenge scenario, it gives you the same starting resources as crash landed. We are doing the rich explorer start so we only get 450 steel.
So two wind turbines and two hydroponics is already 400 steel, 25 steel for the research table and that is it you have 25 steel left.
This is going to be very different to the ice sheet challenge scenario, we are going to be incredibly resources starved for a long time.
@@FrancisJohnYT yeah you build as much as you can with what steel you have, and build the rest as you obtain more steel. I think building the smelting table so early was a bit of a waste, I think you would have been better off trying to get a hydroponics and sunlamp up instead. Even just one hydroponics basin can feed half a pawn on average, assuming you had enough power for the sun lamp to run. (Which you would not with just one wind turbine, but it's a start.)
I'm surprised you've made it this far tbh. A 50 minute sea ice video is a rare sight to see anywhere lmao.
oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
god, your commentary over a rimworld playthrough is really something else
ima be honest for a long time id only watch your rimworld stuff (with a slight detour to starsector because I fkn love that game and I love when it gets any attention) but with the hiatus of rimworld I actually started watching the oni series stuff which aside from me not really knowing the game, has been quite fun
ONI is one of those games that sucks you in once you start playing. I'll just figure out how this next bit works..... next thing you know you are trying to tame a volcano and half you base is melting.
Whelp, it's 3am here and you've just convinced me to start another Rimworld playthrough. Well done.
Not a Rimworld guy, but a Francis John guy... So still watching it ✌️
What the hell 🤣 Out of nowhere 2 day ago I wanted to watch Rimworld lets play but I couldnt find anything good and gave up, and you started new series, If I knew I would have wish 1 billion dollar 😂
Been waiting for your return to the RIm, Francis!
Welcome back to RW Francis John. I’m looking forward to this playthrough!
I bought this game on Xbox a week ago and have been addicted to it ever since
Does it have mod support?
There is so many different ways to play this game it's crazy. The addiction is impossible to shake I find.
I watched rhamadant when he did this chalange for the first time (iirc he's the one who came up with it, tho someone else may have done something similar first) and it's a fun watch. I look forward to seeing how you do.
I think Rhamadant used a scenario, it gave three cold snaps at all times. Also more stating resources. We are stuck in a weird limbo as we cannot make food no matter what we do.
@@FrancisJohnYT that would explain a few things like how that initial raider didn't immediately collapse. Honestly thought that it was just a vanilla thing, but its not surprising that his initial conditions were outside base game.
Great timing! So glad to see Rimworld back mate, love the content!
Missed you playing rimworld so much.... I think you are the best rimworld content creator. Just the great commentary and describing what is going on is the best!
i can tell you what it takes!
a lot of bloodlust,cannibal and psychopath traits 🤣
francis: I won’t kill a dog
also francis: proceeds to shoot point blank muffalo for it to bleed to death
"I need this guy to stop bleeding. He's bleeding through the walls!" Also, resorting to cannibalism in episode one... brutal, haha. I have missed the Rimworld videos, looking forward to this!
The only other game that would have made me happier to see on this channel is ONI but this is the second best! Love your rimworld videos Francis
He taught me ONI, he taught me Kenshi... Maybe I too can survive the Artic. Go Francis!
"strip him. strip him now!." quotes from francis
i believe sleeping uses less hunger, and you can't mental break while sleeping, so you could probably just have them sleep in by setting their schedule to pass through sad times
Campfires are useful for cooking, but if you need maximum heat per Wood efficiency, the dark torch is better. Produces about 11% more heat per Wood.
But how much light?
@@mirjanbouma For a single dark torch its 4 tile radius of fully lit instead of 7 for the campfire, but you can run 6.66 dark torches for the same wood consumption so you still end up with more light.
@@DSlyde that's good to know, thank you!
Such gifts you bring us, FJ! Great thanks
Your reason for keeping the dog alive rocks ns should be celebrated xD
Finally, Francis can invoke the name of Randy and it will be technically applicable again! =D
Tune in next week for Episode 2: The Sad but Totally Not Unexpected Finale!
Yeah.... I don't think it's going to go well for Brendan, the addiction is just a step to far.
I'm excited for more rimworld. I'm really surprised you didn't kill that first visitor. All that free stuff, plus a parka, and the corpse for the dog to chew on. I think kenshi may have made you soft my friend 😎
Should have done it, I'm a bit rusty alright but I think I'll get back into the swing of things.
Quantity foods, like pemmican, berries etc... is different, because the pawn will only eat the required amount of pieces to fill it's food meter.
A bit too late for that, but you could've built two hydroponics inside, and removed the roof above them, letting them catch some sun
Too cold for that, I think.
Yeah it's below zero at night but in theory we could roof over at night and remove during the day. But I don't think it goes about 2C-3C
I was expecting Francis John to choose a pawn who is a **friend** like ambiguousamphibian did for his rimworld sea ice play through.
That would be too easy, the man loves to make life hard for himself.
I have been waiting for a new Rimworld series since the last one ended, mi favorite game to watch you explore, let's get in to some trouble.
This playthrough is now Brendan’s Story
I can't believe I'm saying this, but FJ isn't anywhere close to ruthless enough.
For better or worse, the loss of the dog is going to fix that.
Yeah.... I know I should have recycled the dog but it was not in me. If it had of been any other animal though it would have been gone.
Their are a million ways to cheese this but I'm glad you are doing it proper. Ah wait you ate the dog.
Seen a few others same based playthrus so happy to see your trying your hand at this.
I really enjoyed Kenshi. Like really. Good to see Rimworld again!
ah yes, war crime simulator
Haven’t even started watching it yet and that title fucking made me laugh thank you John I needed this
Damn it. Just as I quit my rimworld addiction...
Here we go again!
you should wear that sheep wool tribalwear, it should give a sizable cold resistance.
Tribal wear is underrated, it's much better at cool insulation than pants and a shirt.
Get outta my head Francis! Reading minds in an invasion of privacy!
Ive been binging your other challenges!! Im so happy to see this one. Ive seen ambiguous amphibian do one like this. Please make a series for this!! Ill be tuning in every day 💕
Check out pete complete's challenges if you don't know them already, especially the first two are very enjoyable :)
And of course Crusha of Mans! More challenging. Ice sheet challenge
@@AnotherSpaceCowBoy I wish Xavier would upload again. He's hilarious.
Your last rimworld playthrough was frankly a masterpiece, so I'm expecting big things here :P
Have no idea how to end this one, the last one was built entirely from the start to have that end. Not sure it's possible to top the last one.
@@FrancisJohnYT A tall order for sure. It was pure art. Looking forward to whatever you attempt here. Good luck and I do enjoy!
This was posted 2 days ago??? Why hasn’t anyone told me. Francis Rimworld let’s gooooooooo!!!
Eeey! We're back! With some more rimworld.
I have been playing my own I've sheet playtroughs lately, and to be honest I could use some tips 😄
Sound the alarms, light the beacon, and notify the president, 'cuz RIMWORLD IS BACK!
Similar but currently running triple cold snap on ice sheet, not sea ice. Have to edit configuration files to allow raiders to even get on the map. Being able to dig in to mountains makes it easier. Requiring 2 to 3 heaters to prevent hypothermia makes it significantly harder. In summer it is around -70c to around -120c in winter.
A silver bed is fairly normal for a start, as is silver hoopstone. Power should be less of an issue,for you, hopefully, but I doubt one wind turbine will support all your needs with hydroponics.
You can live on 1.5 hydroponics bays,btw, with efficient harvesting and no botched harvests(more is better), a nutrient dispenser is nice with a low cooking skill, plus it uses less rice per meal.. With one pawn food poisoning is bad, as is mental breaks.
Also, nice to see you on Rimworld again.
Thank you! I have waited for months for exactly this.
I think with two heaters you might want to spend some wood on a butcher table, since hunger is your biggest enemy at the moment.
ETA: we love it when you make Rimworld content!
Butcher table add +66% of nutrition when cooking add +100%. But butcher table don't need to be refueled. And later you can smelt your way to electric stove.
Also it seems that Francis have some mod which reduce slag spawn (quest reward should give not only gold but gold+slag from transport pod). If unitnentional should be removed.
Cooking with wood is really inefficient tho.. imo butcher table is better use of the wood
@@nicolasbram165 indeed. A butcher table won't run out of fuel. He'll want an electric stove at some point. But those need steel.
It's funny, FJ kept going "Brendan's going to die soon" and yet here we are, waiting for episode 2.
I think he needs much more raids, specifically the type that brings metals.
@@92thorstein yeah I was surprised the reward pod didn't give a slag chunk. I agree with your conclusions.
@@mirjanbouma yeah.. but early raid don't give that much metal.. only 1-2 wep depending on the raid.. what he need is a steel meteor..
Ive played forced vegetarian on minimum temperature sea ice for hundreds of hours. It's my favorite way to play. I always, always always build an electric smelter. Slag is the only consistent way to generate steel.
I do you survive as a vegetarian early on before you get enough steel for hydroponics?
@@FrancisJohnYT I rush microelectronics, get comms console and orbital trade beacon, buy as much neutroamine as possible, turn it into wakeup, and buy food. More than viable for three or fewer people to buy all your food
Dang, this felt darker than any of your previous rimworld episodes.
Hey at the very least, as far as unprepared arctic expeditions go, only one bout of cannibalism so far is better than a lot of historical accounts. Usually overconfident colonists eat their entire crew instead of just some random invader and their dog that bravely died to save them (and totally didn't just forget to feed afterwards!)
That dog deserved a tombstone for it's loyal service.
as far as use of steel, i think you actually did the best thing, if you make hydrophonics you may not be able to make more steel ever again (no com to buy them, no mining, no smelting), while for food there is a source of it every raid, either pennicam, melas or... raw meat. and steel is important for actually make everything else farmable or to get easier access to it. btw... is general suply caravan/comconsole the only source of wood until you get transpod pods?
Yes, he can only trade for it unless Randy drops it from the sky.
you can make animal flaps instead of walls and since u can butcher the raiders its free walls basically. saving u materials for important stuff.
I also recommend starting with a smaller footprint so u can then expand with said flaps.
I doubt animal flaps will insulate well enough. It would be pretty cool tho?
@@mirjanbouma i believe there is no such thing as insulation for walls + it worked just fine for me... But, to be fair i only played on an ice sheet.
Oh wow, now Cambiar is a tribe chief :D
Just a fair warning: they'll be cannibals :P
Having money/wealth at the start is something of a trap, so building the walls out of silver halves its value and reduces the threat from raids; handy extra benefit.
Also, rabbit fur is warm.
Damn it's been a while since the last rimworld playthrough
Deconstruct the wall/fence to the north and all the slag to the south west and you should have enough to get the hydroponics running.
Tried that, turns out they deconstruct into nothing unfortunately.
Enjoyed the Kenshi run alot (it even got me interested in maybe purchasing it at the next sale). But Rimworld is still the best!
Its a good day when Francis uploads
I love the fact you're doing this ^^