Sixty-four Pixel Colonists

My thoughts:

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On the potential power crisis:
We don't necessarily need to build batteries right away. They require additional resources that, from what I can tell, we don't know how to get, and the GFP is probably sending us at least one. It will take a lot more work to build a battery than just wait for one to arrive, and in that time, we can just fix the solar array proper.

On gathering additional resources:
To build a battery, we need post-transition metals. According to the regolith analysis on turn 2, we have Andalusite, which contains Aluminum, which is a post-transition metal. So we need to build some sort of refinery to get those resources. An oscillator crystal for the radar tower, like quartz for example, could theoretically be made from silicon and oxygen. Both of these elements can also be found in the regolith. There is a chance we can get all that through mining as well.

On building space:
We just gots to tear out those rocks to the west, unless we just want to build plain on top of them, which won't be easy. We can probably build a bulldozer of some sort to clear away rocks quickly, or we can start the perhaps slower process of mining and get some resources to boot. We COULD recycle old buildings, but it may be worth expanding the buildings we already have. Building the radar tower on top of one of the domes, for example, would save plasticarbon. And we mustn't forget about a52's hallway idea; I think it's a really good one.

On the mold in Algae Tank A:
That mold needs to be contained. Cut out a piece of the tank if we must; we can recycle the rest of the tank for more resources, or simply rebuild it. We need to know how this mold spreads if at all, how it grows, how it affects what it grows on, how toxic it might be, its chemical makeup, if it's safe to bring indoors, and so forth. Someone ought to look at the blueprint for more details, and get that shit contained.

On the Biologist:
He's gone, my dudes. Whatever did that to him and the scouting drone can do it to the rest of the expeditioners also. We need to cut our losses now and go home before we lose someone else. We can hope that he'll show up again later, but finding the rest of him now is NOT worth more casualties. Come back to the base immediately. Keep watch on that ice, also - I have a very strong suspicion that whatever is in these icicles is more of that mold, and we ought to keep our distance until we know more.

On building a lab:
Just convert one of the habitation domes to a lab. We have the space for living, and we need to analyze this mold proper ASAP. If anything is an emergency right now, it's this.

On the alien spire:
This should be destroyed and recycled for resources. We have the blueprints, and we don't need a physical structure to analyze it, probably.

On storage space:
The radar tower will take a whopping 35 plasticarbon to build, and we only have storage capacity for 30 units. We need more storage crates, for plasticarbon, food, AND the stuff we will probably mine soon. Although we are close to building some other structures we may want, at 10 plasticarbon per turn, we will have enough in the long term.

My suggested course of action, from most to least important:
- Build a mining drone if we can. If not, just fix the damn solar array.
- Design a lab, to occupy one of the prefab shelters.
- Have the other drone aid in pushing the busted one back to base with possible help from the expeditioners as they return. Prioritize getting everyone back to base safely, while keeping the busted drone within sight.
- Design a bulldozer for clearing away land quickly.
- Build a storage crate.
- Design a refinery for rapidly extracting resources from regolith and rubble.
- Design ways to combine buildings.

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I'm having loooots of fun reading this. The strange events have been excellently timed and written.

Design suggestion: If you put the headers in the numbers tab in bold, it would be much easier to read and distinguish powered from unpowered devices.

Seconding all of this.