Can I Survive Trapped Underground in Rimworld?

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Technically it's an ideology playthrough :) - fun to make this one - be sure to check out the mod list if you want to try it out - fantastic work by the modders made it possible

[@shcade8926]

Cool

[@Zakhad1989]

Since you joined the hsk discord do you actually play hsk project/modpack in your own time? It's quite long winded but very in depth you get nice sense of accomplishment once you do start to thrive, it's like adding bobs/angels/aai to factorio if that's relatable.

[@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038]

It was a good story. Though I'm not sure a lucerferium addiction was a fair trade for two toes.

[@GlobstersMessenger]

So, was this the *true origin* of the lucifarium addicted super soldier then?

[@cricketol]

guess im a noob still where do i find it its not on steam if it is I have 125 pages to look thrue

[@whatstuntman4876]

I like to think Seymour wore his chopped off toes like a talisman. A constant reminder of what he had lost.

[@zadikariamitchell1930]

I can only imagine Seymour from the Simpsons as a caveman with a two-toe necklace. Am I broken?

[@Mel-mu8ox]

You know theres a new mod.... tongue necklace lol maybe it will get an update for toes lol

[@majordonut4022]

@@zadikariamitchell1930 don’t worry that’s all I can imagine also

[@Thatguy7242]

@@zadikariamitchell1930 no, it is the video that is wrong

[@ABUBBA22]

You could make it a holy relic

[@MrMaskYT]

Damn, I don't even need to look up at the screen when drawing on my tablet while watching this video. Your voice and your explanation are so good that I understand what is happening without looking at the screen. Thank you for keeping me entertained while working.

[@Lezeroth]

To be honest I thought the same thing recently. It's like an audiobook. You can listen to it while doing other things. ^^

[@jacktarot9512]

My dude, I've been doing the same. It's so relaxing.

[@Mady0]

I know it's amazing. Although sometimes I go back and rewatch because it's easy to stop paying attention.

[@axea4554]

I wish I had english this perfect

[@unbearablysmug2437]

Busy drawing loli's?

[@AnshumanKantiBose]

Aaah so this is cannonically leading into the high on luciferium supersoldier playthrough.

[@MoriShep]

the rueturn of seymore buts

[@murphychurch8251]

Oh yes, you're right, this is a prequel!

[@notjarrod8287]

@J Hemphill I count one loser in the comment section pointing out spelling errors for no reason other than to be a prick. Maybe go outside sometime and make some friends.

[@KenjiAsakura09]

@@notjarrod8287 This is how he impresses the ladies

[@mimizdani8194]

The prequel we never knew we needed 😂

[@valcirp1754]

This guy is a poet.

[@unfadingsolace6230]

J U B I L A T I O N

[@TheOtisLaurey]

Ever since you said it I just realized that he is

[@-nyon-6108]

Always has been

[@siapadah1391]

Rejoice my dude, you have come to our society.

[@YuiFunami]

the best shitposting poet

[@ExireMN]

"Even without my toes I was a savage killer." nice quote from AA.

[@colef2222]

Finally we see the ideology memes reach their true potential.

[@ambiguousamphibian]

Tunnelers pretty OP

[@ED-yy4te]

He would have gone insane for eating without table.

[@connorbranscombe6819]

@@ambiguousamphibian Pain is a virtue should also get a shout out, but yeah tunneler is just basically all upsides no downsides, I did transhumanist tunnelers and my colonists ate nothing but insect meat, nutrient paste, human meat, and nutrifungus, I'll tell ya though anytime I had visitors they were QUITE unhappy with their dinners.

[@itsCatMeme37]

@@EEEEEEEE E

[@thatrandomimperial3357]

Turn that Mindset into a Grindset

[@russelljacob7955]

One of my favorite challenges was a scenario I custom made for myself inspired by Mad Max. In the scenario creator, there is an option to disable sowing.... You start solo with just your dog as a companion. Cannibals and psychopaths everywhere. With moisture down, and heat cranked high? This desert world was hostile. It was a very interesting challenge. I should update it for 1.3 and reshare...

[@FarhadHakimov]

Wow, that's actually quite interesting, especially for my ideolized nomadic raider playthrough. On second thought, it also reminds me of the ice sheet survival challenge, where you naturally don't have neither land nor temperature to grow anything.

[@vraolet]

@@FarhadHakimov The difference is that you can grow things in the ice sheets when you start getting enough electricity, in this challenge you will never be able to.

[@seymour47]

Hey! That's me! As a bald and bearded geologist, this feels very close to home.

[@bbittercoffee]

lmao?

[@Cacemomarerona]

oh my god, it’s the actual Seymour Buttes

[@Kermit_E_Frog]

@@Cacemomarerona Jesus Christ it's Jason Bourne

[@TheRat1789]

@@Cacemomarerona no it’s actually his cousin Seymour Cleavage

[@seymour47]

@@Cacemomarerona It's Seymour Asses, actually.

[@TheSneakyone18]

Seymour: *Looses two toes in a battle* "A small price to pay for salvation."

[@ilikemusic5440]

I do miss those long challenge series like the ice biome challenge. But i do see how all the actual time and gameplay has been edited down for convenience.

[@paulmccartneyofc6883]

He still does some series in the vod channel, they're not edited but they're still pretty cool

[@ilikemusic5440]

@@paulmccartneyofc6883 I didnt much care for the neckbeard tribe. But i do watch alot of the stuff on the vod channel.

[@TheRenofox]

@P Shali Same. It's the storytelling that turns regular grind into tales about life itself.

[@Rexxie44]

Was thinking the same thing

[@lorrdy7640]

I hoped this turns into a few videos with a full colony

[@DaZebraffe]

1:43 "On the second day, I began to strip mine the walls around me." *branch mine Strip mining is when you dig/mine downward from the surface in thin layers, or "strips," at a time until you get to the minerals you're looking for, then fill the hole back in when you're done.

[@TripleGia]

Finally, a City of Ember audiobook by AA

[@12woodsteps]

Trueee

[@zadikariamitchell1930]

Holy crap. It’s been years since I have thought about City of Ember. Thanks for reminding me.

[@davestrider9498]

ww

[@idrinkpastaforaliving_6269]

LMAO

[@1ifemare]

This stuff right here, sir, is pure Poe.

[@wiragregory9093]

You know what? I had just found this channel recently, and was absolutely captured by the Project Zomboid videos that had initially been recommended. Now, on my birthday, you upload yet another masterpiece. Though it may be through sheer coincidence, and though this comment may be lost to the recesses of the internet, I cannot help but say thank you, universe for the gift of the ambiguousamphibian.

[@Direblade11]

Happy aging day, ya big nerd

[@wiragregory9093]

@@Direblade11 nicest thing ive read all day ;-;

[@smobasi3367]

Fucking Socrates got revived and is now writing youtube comments.

[@felesnocis]

Congratulations!! you have aged.

[@michealmalloy1934]

Happy birthday!

[@particularbored6072]

"It's always a satisfying experience to watch..." AmbiguousAmphibian. Edit: Well hell, thanks ya'll. You too AA. Have a good one!

[@fakedoorsfordinner1677]

@@EEEEEEEE #€#

[@obnoxiouspriest]

I agree. It is always a satisfying experience to watch AmbiguousAmphibian. Sometimes, I like to think he knows I'm watching...

[@npcknuckles5887]

Clearly this is Dwarf Fortress, and you should have named your first colonist "Urist".

[@justahuman6178]

Or hollow Knight. Like hollow nest was an underground kingdom

[@z34rk79]

this man is able to accurately narrate and descibe the entire journey and emotions of the story in the arithmetic tone and it was an enjoyable experience

[@randomkrieger2625]

2:20 You have yourself a small place to sleep with a rock for a pillow while the fungus happily grew around you. A True Undergrounder.

[@Ryan-hv3kn]

This is amazing I'd love a preset mode or challenge mode to generate underground only maps. This sounds lots of fun to try.

[@benjay3031]

I know. I want to do the exact same scenario but the only way to do that is to go into godmode.

[@Fhaalkras]

These types of challenge videos are def my favorite, just watching you get through a completely fucked situation and then somehow manage out of it (or fail entirely) is entertaining as hell.

[@spoonie525]

The best way to listen to these videos is imagining its an audiobook. Purely magical.

[@spoonie525]

Always in the style of a fantastical historical biogrqphy

[@lightfallonthehead3842]

You talk in a manner which is simply admirable, i truly can not comprehend how you weave the words in such ways to enthrall my feeble mind.

[@caffienatedtactician]

Your intro perfectly explained what I love most about Rimworld. I regularly refer to Rimworld as my "ant colony game" when telling people who dont play about it

[@azericthetraveller6355]

I like that, occasionally, I’ll learn a new world through these videos, due to the somewhat artful style that he speaks in. Today’s word was Fastidious: 1) Especially particular, critical, or demanding. 2) Requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy.

[@CandleWisp]

Neat

[@_vicary]

When there is no storyteller ever mentioned, it's ambiguousamphibian who does all the narration. You know it must rhyme somewhere, but it's always halfway there. The satisfaction is there, almost. I truly appreciate the effort, almost.

[@parenthesis317]

Hi

[@MrNegi3]

It's come to the point where I play your videos to hear your voice. It's very like a instant serotonin release

[@timothypeterson4781]

"In the words of Lewis Carol, I went galumphing back, O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" So random, so great.

[@raulzayas9673]

BTW, ambiguousampbian, if you didn't know prior; there is a built in vanilla tool in rimworld that allows automatic reconstruction of any claimed building in your colony. Lets say you build a wooden chair. A pawn breaks said chair. This function will automatically add that chair back as a queue, as if you had placed it manually and your pawns will rebuild said chair. To find this function look at the bottom right of your screen where you can select different overlays such as room quality. It is the hammer icon next to the automatic home zone creator. Or under your selective play speed.

[@TheRenofox]

These stories are more beautiful than any poems and literature in my life. A possible idea for a challenge: Can you get to space without ever using electricity?

[@alexdraco9926]

Unless you count the noble ending as going to space I don't believe so because researching that requires the hi tech research table which I think takes power

[@murder1625]

@@alexdraco9926 watch speedrun that's possible

[@alexdraco9926]

@@murder1625 I'll stand corrected then maybe one of my 90 mods is doing that but I definitely thought vanilla did

[@murder1625]

@@alexdraco9926 ship message get in ship and that's how beat that i know

[@Kapppa]

Are we just gonna ignore that he took luciferium at the end of the challenge to grow his toes back?? Luciferium is literally the equivalent of a drawn-out suicide. How's the dirt-poor mountain man supposed to support an expensive & rare drug addiction? A second episode would be impossible because he'd die in a couple of days like 99% of scenarios...

[@Dietrich_Kaufmann]

*opens dev mode*

[@dg5059]

Die in a couple days? That's enough luciferium for over a year.

[@agentbarron3945]

he has 11, thats like a years worth of luci for one man

[@DodgyDaveGTX]

It's this sort of anti-drug hysteria that gives luciferium addiction a bad name. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it, I say 😉

[@NottoriousGG]

Also you can get mech serum have your pawn die after his body is fully regened and res him. Why the drama?

[@sirpuddings8019]

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[@regialdamanita8392]

This is a fact in my case. I no longer rage at a bad round in a tough game.

[@aeteno703]

one must imagine sisyphus happy

[@regialdamanita8392]

@@aeteno703 yes indeed, my fellow mushroom brethren

[@wazaagbreak-head6039]

@@regialdamanita8392 hello my fellow fungi

[@Kingsly9802]

The prequel to the Luciferium Super-Soldier we never knew we needed.

[@Jackoff_icial]

this is the most amphibian geared playthrough I've ever seen. the neat little holes in the wall. everything laid out. the fact that it's pretty much literally an ant hill as he calls them all the time. congrats on living your dreams, AA

[@Jesse_Dawg]

I love the random poetry that happens in your videos. Also please more underground playthrough

[@dioniscaraus6124]

By the way you can hide sealed of paths by using dev command 'refog' to keep that unblemished cave aesthetic.

[@fran13r]

A touching story in under 14 minutes with outstanding narration, classic amphibian.

[@Akymma]

You know you're a good storyteller when you give your viewers a sense of nostalgia by the end of a 14 minute video..

[@esven9263]

I feel like you need to do a negative man equivalent play through of Rimworld sometime. Maybe something like "how many colonists will every negative trait can one superhuman support". Where all food and medicine must preferentially go to that group of sickly, jealous, gourmands who are incapable of every labor type including violence rather than the person whose actually doing all the work.

[@steelers5ty9]

Easily the most entertaining Rimworld player!

[@denaytan7746]

I really, really love these Rimworld challenge playthroughs, so here's an idea: - Scenario that gives you a new man in black every three or four days, start with only one colonist. - As large a map size as possible. - Executing, banishing, and the like are all forbidden. - Go for the base game build a spaceship ending only. - Your mission is to battle overpopulation and starvation to get to the spaceship ending with as few deaths as possible. Perhaps increase the challenge by making it so that the spaceship must have enough cryosleep capsules to bring everyone? Could just make it at least a certain percentage of your population. IDK if there's any limit to how big you can make your ship in the base game.

[@Mel-mu8ox]

"it was better sleeping on the gravel and I'd be down here for a while" .... You sleeping on a bolder ????? LOL

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

some of the first pillows were shaped stones.

[@sci_pain3409]

to be fair, he is an ascetic

[@Peroxide-Mark]

hey just wanted to say ur my new fav youtuber and i look forward to everything you post, I enjoy watching your rimworld playthroughs at 6am before i have to head into work :)

[@gregtheegg7030]

This is like if welyn made rimworld videos, absolutely amazing.

[@Trigger0x10c]

*Superintendent Chalmers digs through the mountain of rocks* -Well Seymour I made it, despite your directions. -Ahhh superintendent Chalmers, welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon!

[@vienisas5869]

I love how the Stoic community seems to love Rimworld, Bannerlord, and Kenshi. I feel like i am home, thank you sir.

[@epochx7157]

I love how this video is both a fun entertaining romp for rimworld vets, and a how to survive your first few days in rimworld for newcomers. Bravo sir, now enjoy your time with the upworlders!

[@xkaedos5960]

I just started this game yesterday and it's amazing. I am thinking of writing "Colonist Logs" where I detail my journey after each session. This was such a great video to watch. Great work. Goals.

[@CynessaTessa]

I really like these! we need more of this :)

[@robkaka4029]

youre too good AA, i wanna see you try a horribly difficult challenge (not saying this was easy). I wanna hear the panic in your voice, i wanna see you scrambling in terror for a solution, i want you to accept failure only to turn it around thru sheer force of will and emerge victorious when all hope was lost

[@hevoo]

A general tip: if you must build a stone door, hold it open. They're extremely slow to open and close, even the autodoors.

[@aidenweaver3940]

"mom, can we have Oxygen Not Included?" "no we have ONI at home" ONI at home:

[@alexlaking]

No "Hello?" My dear Amphibian, don't leave us hanging like that. I for one like to say it alongside you.

[@wolfwoman1231]

love when you do Rimworld stuff

[@dakotabenson4540]

This was a spiritual journey, and it touched me deeply

[@Corevex]

this was without a doubt the most entertaining rimworld video i ever seen. its among the best videos ive watched overall the last couple of months, amazing job

[@kentv8371]

I Started Rimworld after seeing your playthrough and, oh god, i was waiting one with the news extensions

[@lukerainey7675]

Writing for the voiceover is too good for a RimWorld video. I love it

[@WoddCar]

Should have used random randy for the absolute amount of pain and masochism

[@ExtremeMan10]

You say that playing rimworld shoud be enjoyment and satisfactory instead of pain and suffering. So these 800 hours were played wrong

[@TheAncientOfRites]

Can confirm, would have fucked him up.

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@DripSerpent my apologies sir, its hard to heal these wounds randy gave to me

[@n16r3d0]

I wake up to silence and pitch darkness. It doesn't take much to grasp (literally) the severity of my situation. I've been thrown - entombed - in a tiny cell, surrounded by stone and earth on all sides. There don't seem to be any seams in the walls. I have a terrible suspicion come to the front of my mind. To test it I grab a chunk of stone I've felt myself kicking, and start banging on the walls. Each strike shifts the suspicion towards certainty - I'm surrounded by many meters of solid material on all sides. Despair overtakes me. --- I'm not sure how long it takes me, but I eventually regain some of my composure, enough to take stock of my resources. Those are scant. There's ten metal cans - probably canned meals, no doubt left by my jailors as a cruel joke, to prolong my suffering. On one of the walls I manage to find a tiny bit of fungus sticking out. I've heard some kinds of fungus could be edible, so I might try and plant those around me to keep me alive when canned food inevitably runs out. This raises my spirits considerably. But for fungus to sustain me I would have to plant a lot of it, far more than my current habitat can hold. I will need to dig out more room. I shudder at the amount of effort I would have to expend for that - but it's the only choice I have. I grasp around, and on one of the walls I find a rock that seems not too large from my side. I claw at earth around it, and manage to get the rock loose. Armed with this most primitive of tools, I continue digging in that direction with grim determination. --- It's been... two days, I guess, although there is no way to measure the time here. I've slept twice, and have expended two of my precious cans. Half of one of those I've wasted trying to open the can with the "tools" I had, before I've managed to break one rock to get an edge fine enough to cut through the tin given enough force. The tunnels are coming along. There's no light at the end of any of them (figures), but I might just have enough space for the fungus that I won't starve after all the cans run out. The bit I have found is growing remakably fast, so fast I can seed the tunnels almost at the speed I'm digging them. I've tried a bit of the fungus and didn't encounter any adverse effects. That doesn't mean there aren't any - we'll see what my stomach says when this fungus will be my entire diet. The lack of light is getting to me. What woudn't I give (not that I have much in here) to see *anything*. To see someone else. --- Its been ten cans and some fungus. Fungus edible, but there mightbe some effects after all. Or itmight be isolation and darkness getting to me. Digging is repetitive, brings repetitive thoughts. I cant get away from thinking of seeing another person. Seeing their eyes blink their mouth smile their arms move their... --- Cans and fungusandfungusandmore fungus. Dig more might be light might see dig more see more see eys se mouth digmore seemore arms dig seymour butts dig see...

[@NerdySatyr]

Good lord, this could have easily been a whole series! Not just a barely 15minute video! Enthralling, great stuff!

[@tcironbear21]

This has the makings of a really good mod. You could call it "Vault Survivor". Basically your character was sealed up in a pod in the middle of a mountain to survive a nuclear war. But a earthquake buried the complex and then the back up power on your pod ran out well before the world had recovered. The win condition for game is establishing a glitter refuge (all techs researched with fusion generator, energy to matter fabricator, and cloning vat built) with 10 nonmutant pawns.

[@NachozMan]

Imagine the spore lung this guy woulda got stuck in this cave with all this fungus and no airflow out if he'd never found the natural cave lol

[@Calozard]

This is why I love Rimworld A story told by a passionated and original player... Love it

[@bionicdragon5]

Seymour, with his crazy excavations. Amphibian's gonna need his dedication. When he sees Rimworld's famous complications, there'll be troubling times tonight! SEYMOUR!

[@GuTTs1975]

Love the reference to Cow and Chicken ;)

[@SapioiT]

I had a playthorough in which I kept an insect nest safe, for farming food in scorching heat before getting an AC and grow lights, and even long after, until some "allies" barged in and destroyed it. Needless to say, I was not pleased at the loss.

[@TheDormantPsycho]

I greatly enjoy the style and cadence of the story telling you use in your rimworld videos

[@GhettoCabbage]

O FRABJOUS DAY!

[@landofconfusion838]

Not gonna lie I've rewatched this a ton, it's shit like this that i subbed for, it's truly hella good. Thank you for making these and i hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoy watching it.

[@bofbeaten1561]

"With the insect jelly filling my belly" What a poet!

[@halomerc5423]

It's always a satisfying experience to rewatch your videos

[@micahwho7403]

"My only problem is that there's never enough content." - Micah.

[@flordelphinta]

Kinda fun to see Hakuja and Gray beating a muffalo together. They both were in my colony. Hakuja was a cannibal, Gray was a Bloodlust Psychopath. Married, both have psychic harmonizers. Giving +10 to +20 to every colonist. And that helped me stabilize my colony since ideology wasnt a thing yet. Good times.

[@iamnotawesome227]

Much like the Allegory of the Cave, we are metaphorically chained to the cave wall. AA is true enlightenment.

[@mikeohc]

I just want to let you know, your videos always make me calm. Thanks for all these subtly inspirational videos!

[@flamewolf393]

This made me realize i would love if we could make specialized tools. Like picks to boost mining skill, or plows/hoes to boost farming, or a loom to boost tailoring, etc. Side note: how did you start with plantable mushrooms?

[@jackhazardous4008]

Vanilla Expanded has your back.

[@thereallaw244]

That's part of the idealogy dlc.

[@Baleur]

13:13 bro i have no clue what you're saying, but i am absolutely loving it.

[@georgevalentin9346]

Is this gonna be a series? Personally I really enjoyed this.

[@TheTyyros]

"You can get by without almost anything in RimWorld if you know what you're doing." ah, i see where i have gone wrong now

[@NeilJan99]

"Only in isolation can we truly appreciate the finer things in life."

[@BlinkingTwin]

As always an intriguing well narrated adventure. Your videos are what got me into Rimworld in the first place

[@SparkleOuije]

I still prefer the multi episodes series where we enjoy seeing your thought process as it comes the situations

[@dragontear1638]

Well done, lovely stuff, such a eloquent and soothing voice despite the predicament Seymour was in.

[@MayBeAHumanPerson]

“Even without my toes i was a ferocious fighter”

[@phear4489]

I truly love your narrative prose and as always the video was a pleasurable experience to watch. Thank you for all the great hours of entertainment. Cheers.

[@ChargedTTq]

Is anyone else bummed at aa's new narrative style being so serious? I liked AA because of the humor. This is like an English professors lecture...

[@mrtoestie2707]

God Seymour Buttes had me rollin not even a minute in

[@frogpuffin]

As much as I love these more concise videos. I miss the series style

[@albertjordan3249]

You should check out the VODs channel then of his streams. They're less polished than his older series (they're unedited streams after all), but you get more content and following characters for longer.

[@alexdraco9926]

Unfortunately he has commented on the vods that the series style is probably done for because aside from the time commitment youtube punishes that kind of uploading

[@frogpuffin]

@@alexdraco9926 damn. What a shame

[@bharris591]

Oh every time I hear that reflection on the jabberwalk. Makes me smile truly a great day

[@Alister222222]

Only 5 mins in, but I must say that it is flat out impossible to dig a space if you are completely enclosed, because there is nowhere for the earth you remove to go. Also, you'd suffocate pretty fast.

[@patruckin]

10:42 was certainly a new way to pronounce malaise

[@drenth27]

AA i hope your doing well, i enjoyed this video, but miss the more episodic centered game play stories. your story telling skills are unmatched. i find myself narrating my own game playing like you did. Although with less success

[@restlessGuy69]

Hey man I’m pretty sure you get this often, but your voice is is amazing to fall asleep too. I’ve been replaying the videos after watching them and using them as white noise. Keep up the work G😂👍!

[@nobob8564]

AA always surprises me with creating new & interesting Rimworld challenges, when I think there couldn't possibly be a new idea for a challenge out there.

[@7tomi8]

The use of erik satie's music is what gets me, what a channel

[@melodysignis6172]

Would honestly love to see the general way you set up these series, especially your sea block one and this!

[@Hawkent]

I find it interesting that you've started shifting your narrative perspective from 3rd person to 1st

[@nickyhr]

It's always a satisfying to watch your videos embrace all the memes out there to their full potential. Jokes aside though, I simply love anything you upload.

[@ahorseofcourse7283]

Today on Rimworld, we play Dwarf Fortress.

[@Perichron]

For areas filled in with rock, you can reset fog of war to hide whats behind the first layer 11:18. Pretty awesome video so far