There are two really good ways to kill big worms cheaply, the first is laser turrets, they out-range the big worms and rip them to shreds since the big worm has no laser resistance. The other good way is poison capsules. They out-range the big worm if you take advantage of area damage. Poison capsul...

This mission is funny playing with the knowledge and strategies gained from freeplay: 1) Repair the powerplant and collect the 3 laser turrets around it, laser turret rush the nearby nests, do this before starting mining. 2) Setup local iron mines and iron production and a basic belt assembler, buil...

I'm a big fan of tank. For extra fun, use a combination of repair bots and defender capsules. Defender capsules are kind of crappy without upgrades but if you get all the bullet upgrades they absolutely shred everything including big biters (bullet upgrades also enhance gun turrets, your SMG and the...

When playing on higher biter settings, you quickly hit a wall when it comes to personal combat. Here is one example, the global capsule cooldown is ~1s, so you can throw 1 capsule a second and no more. A distractor capsule can absorb 6 big worm spits. A big worm spits every 2s which means that dist...

I was thinking that since it's possible to burn power poles and wooden boxes and other fairly nonsensical (from a gameplay not realism) perspective, how about giving a MJ value to alien artifacts? I know this probably sounds pretty retarded, but alien artifacts are one of those things you either don...

As a fan of oil power plants, I was wondering the same: Based on the above: Chemical plant has crafting speed of 1.25 and solid fuel recipe has crafting time of 3s, so a solid fuel is created in 2.4s (this should be the same for all solid fuel recipes). Chemical Plant creates 0.417 solid fuel/s, at ...

Oops I actually meant "steam engines" not "boilers". When you take a single small pump (which provides enough water to run 5 steam engines), then connect that to 10 steam engines, the 5 steam engines furthest from the pump consume the water, and the 5 closest to the pump consume ...

All pump does is it REMOVES THE EFFECT OF TRAVELING THROUGH PIPES. That might explain why when you connect 1 pump to a string of 10 boilers, you can end up with the 5 boilers at the far end of the string consuming the liquid, and the 5 at the near end of the string (closest to the pump) being starv...

harvesting artifacts with the tank is very easy if you beeline it (at least moderately) and then once you have the tank you should still only be facing small biters (unless you went absolutely ballistic producing pollution), then just drive around squishing nests to your heart's content: and here's ...

I wonder how

Really I don't know why that was on my clipboard, I would say I wonder how it got there