#vulcanus

Solfatara Crater, Pozzuoli - Home of Vulcanus

The area was closed during my visit since three tourists had died there a couple of years earlier. I'm not aware of the current status though.

Be that as it may the site is worth a visit IMO. It requires a bit of "climbing" ( stairs/road) to reach the site and so there is also a pretty nice view towards Baia and Miseno along the way

SOOOO much has happened since the last update!! So I'm just gonna write things out in no particular order 1. Vulcanus is done!! I landed, setup the science, killed some worms, launched offworld with science packs to take back to Nauvis!

2. I've got a ship design that works! It's basic, it's slow, it doesn't hold much, but it WORKS. And I've flown it around the solar system with no problems!!

I dropped to the planet with a bunch of supplies, so I wasn't starting completely from scratch. It made jumpstarting production a lot faster than it would have been otherwise.

With a couple more minutes of building stuff, I ended up with this starter base! It's very simple, very clunky, but it works, and it's been producing the basic materials I've needed to expand on this planet ever since I built it!

At this point I also noticed that the pollution cloud that my Nauvis base is usually completely covered with had almost completely been absorbed:

The only remaining source of pollution is the uranium processing to keep the lights on, but otherwise, the base is completely idle.

My first worm kill!! Importing uranium ammo was a tad expensive, but it made killing the small demolisher guarding my first tungsten patch very easy. Went around and killed a couple more early on, expanded to a couple useful resource patches.

Some janky bot fed science!! It's working!!!!!

Expanded a bit with big drills, added a belt production area.

Imported some science and researched the most important research on this planet: Cliff explosives!!! Then proceeded to go around blowing up every cliff I could find lmao

The very common cliffs and late unlocking of cliff explosives meant that I had to get a little... creative with my railway junctions hehe

The interesting nature of radar scanning lining up perfectly with a demolisher's speed means that it looks like there's a massive demolisher guarding this area 0_0

Environmental storytelling.

Oklahoma.

Expanded power!!

Larger production blocks coming online.

Map overview!!