#trashdragon

Brought Thane on Shadow Broker mission, as I thought the second sniper and a Warp may come in handy. Deeply regretted the decision despite his skills significantly helping, because fire suppression systems kept humidity in the building at 100%.

Since the first sprinkler I spent the rest of the mission going "OMG, Thane, I'm so sorry! If I'd known, I would've never exposed you to that! TnT Please see Dr Chakwas and Mordin as soon as these mofos stop shooting at us!"

Offing the SOB responsible was all the more satisfying. He will harm no more drells.

Purrfect base spot almost on spawn - only a hill or two to flatten, lots of sweet water, no wolves or bears spawn near, three fruit trees in a sprinting distance (killed two by accident since I still don't really know what I'm doing :( planted their branches, but sads), a shit ton of clay (still a fire one to find but if not there's flint everywhere), found a pickaxe in a third ruin. Turned off non-animal mobs because of reasons, so cave exploration is perfectly safe as long as you have a few torches divided between two or three slots, a stack of packed dirt and watch where you put your feet. Found sylvite in a wall of a cave merely a day of travel from my base, brain had an error 404 because finding salt on a fifth day???.

Almost starved multiple times, as is my right as a noob. Died a few times, too, mainly to canines. Cavefell creatures and hot spring missteps saved me bacon (the sow was delicious). And thank gods and devs for all the berries!

No cassiterite or any other non-copper metal anywhere (okay, I lied, there's tons of lead which is good considering how much quartz is everythere; still, not exactly helpful right now), but in a cave just a stone throw from my base found brown coal and saltpeter, and in the one the opposite way found a shit ton more of fertilizer, a huge sulfur deposit and another halite dome! What IS this world??? There's also a bit of limestone and borax, so I can make some leather.

Went home to find lambs grown into a ram and two ewes, and of course outside the hole I put them in, lol. Got frustrated when after quickly throwing an enclosure for them I couldn't find them, only for two to be sitting in a rabbit hole and one ewe apparently being an Invisible Woman's reincarnation (eventually she reappeared). At least got them contained at last, but still have no idea how to really manage any of the animals. At least months are long enough I hopefully figure it out before winter.

Hoofed animals have hoof capsules (aka fairy slippers) when they are born, which protects the mother from taking damage from her baby's hard and sharp feet during already risky pregnancy and travel through tight birth canal. Slippers are either quickly shed or worn down, but at their finest look like that:

Meanwhile, horns are usually managed via not growing until teenager or later, because mating display and/or fighting tool is hardly good reason for letting something even more bothersome than hooves stay so long so close to delicate tissues.

Makes me wonder how supernatural species fare with their biology.

Mommy centaur bitching at her hubby that his (still not 100% onto what even is walking) son leaves pieces of slippers everywhere, and she just got her stallion to neatly manage all his hair instead of leaving it in most inconvenient places

Dragon sharpening its claws on a slab of granite, and humans freaking out because huge f*cking lizard just destroyed their peace monument

Mers spending hours gossiping at cleaner shrimps colony, falling silent when little dudes swim into their mouths to nom on food remains stuck between sharp, sharp teeth (webbed hands are no good at this and fish bone picks can only do so much)

Harpy having a sand bath

Satyrs/goaty demons fighting over a female via mashup of roughhousing and slamming their horns against each other

-in a later scene said female freaks out when she sees her baby has weird, almost tentacly abominations on its feet and another one covering its whole scalp (hiding stubby horns)

-for a better comedy outcome she's some other weird species (hormones during mating season are crazy), like beforementioned harpy or lamia, and the winner demon freaks out when his kid's misshapen mouth falls off (egg tooth)

-because neither of them figured out it's a good idea to talk about baby stage of each species

Game felt like spawning me on a roughly moon-crescent island with just a bit more of organic resources than on the actual space rock. All water is salty, and what little isn't sand, gravel or rock, is a low-fertility soil, so no dice on making a long-term base here. Maybe a mining outpost for the copper and space iron. To drive irony home, the island has a farming trader.

I basically can count trees (exclusicely pines) and shrubs on my fingers, and what's worse, there's only eleven cattails. Initially oblivious to that, I turned ten of them into a basket. The wait for them to regrow enough times to make a raft and an oar (why TF do you need rope for a carved bloody oar???) will be a long one, luckily the island spawns some game and several berry bushes so starvation isn't imminent, but cooking sparsly using tufts of grass isn't fun. Will try to survive long enough to escape, regardless.