MORE WARDEN KEYS! | Planet Crafter | Let's Play! | Ep 20

You are sent on a hostile planet with one mission: Make it habitable for Humans. You'll have to survive, collect resources, build your base, produce machines to heat the planet, create an oxygen-rich atmosphere and eventually geo-engineer an entire planet!
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[@AenghusAlpha]

Quill unlocked fusion power last episode and hasn't noticed yet, but he does have the resources to build at least one immediately

[@zacwhertvine6765]

Yup. And want him to do that to figure out how to power the ships. 😅😮‍💨

[@turtuhl]

Quill leaving behind the fuse in the super alloy cave box was so on par. Had iron and titanium in his inventory, but nope! I'm leaving the most expensive item in the game behind! LOL

[@larrywooters8635]

And I believe it was a power fuse which is even more valuable lol

[@varthaner4617]

​@@larrywooters8635 Nah, it's Heat Fuse, I checked and it's tooltipped for split second. Still silly to leave it behind and forget it forever for a chunk of Iron. Because ofc he's gonna forget.

[@JJII161]

Quill: I'm going to launch two of these rockets back to back... Me: Yay! That's great on its own but he can get uranium and iridium! Quill: Then what I'm going to do is go hunting for where to use this warden's key (while completely ignoring the asteroids). Me: Nooooooo!

[@Donaithnen]

I was disappointed that he did two Iridium rockets instead of one of each, but i thought it would at least teach him the value of summoning asteroids. But then he left for so long that almost all of the Iridium had despawned by the time he got back 😢

[@MTGeomancer]

It won't de-spawn until you quit the game, or at least it's really long. It's some of the random asteroids that have time limits (especially the super alloy one). He's full up on Iridium though, and there is very little use for it outside of a little for explosive powder. Can throw down more heaters, but he's AFK'd so much there really isn't much to unlock from them anymore. Eventually he'll be full up on Uranium too once he realizes he unlocked the nuclear fusion power plant (he STILL hasn't noticed it) and there is pretty much no use of Uranium outside of rockets until you can craft Pulsar Quartz. Uranium rods become extremely common in chests as you move along.

[@SilimSavertin]

He has miners set up. He has literally infinite Iridium and Uranium at this point. The asteroids aren't worth the time to pick up at this point of the game.

[@Donaithnen]

@@SilimSavertin He has a single T2 Ore Extractor in the Uranium mine. (And when discussing building a second one it sounds like he's thinking of putting it in a _different_ mine instead of next to the first one =P) But it's only T2, and he's not checking it that often, so he's only getting 5-8 uranium per visit and those visits are few and far between. He should be launching Uranium rockets for the boost anyways, and each drop would probably give him the equivalent of at least three trips to his current mine setup if he bothered to pick it up.

[@oetgaol]

The cave you went to this episode is well worth putting a T2 miner in

[@croneryveit9070]

When you mouse over a booster, it clearly marks what it is buffing with a glow and a big arrow above it.

[@Donaithnen]

Well at least he _finally_ discovered he still had tier 1 Flower Spreaders lying around. Maybe someday he'll make the same discovery about the flashlight chip.

[@MTGeomancer]

Probably not until he unlocks the T3 flashlight

[@kitgautier1658]

How I wish I had your optimism. ;-)

[@maxsalmon4980]

Item Description: "Makes food faster." Quill: "I wonder why there's a T2 food grower. It must have some secondary effect..." lol...ah man, you gotta read the descriptions. Most of the confusion you have (like with how the efficiency machine only affects a limited number of machines nearby) would be cleared up if you paid a bit more attention to those descriptions. :) Then again, it's part of the charm and entertainment of your content too.

[@Steev42]

RE: Autocrafters -- Don't forget you have the recycler available. Anything that gets crafted can get UNcrafted.

[@jaimefernandez2624]

1 very useful thing an autocraft could do is make uranium rods next to your uranimum mine and same for iridium.

[@MTGeomancer]

Not until you have T3 miners, but at that point in the game you don't really need either rod anymore

[@varthaner4617]

@@MTGeomancer He missed Fusion Reactor, unless he stumbles onto it, he's stuck making Nuclear2 forever (and face it, there's excellent chance he never gets it, unless someone takes pity on him, and superchats a hint during some stream - he only made more rockets because some good Samaritan told him to during Pacific Drive stream via superchat). Taking that into consideration, the hint to make autocrafter in Uranium cave is super valuable, but again, he's not reading these comments, so....

[@Kirche00]

Tier 3 extractor and drones is a game changer

[@UnexpectedTokens]

"I got enough room to disassemble this" *continues to drop literally all the material from disassembly to pick up other things*

[@captain_loeffel]

Nothing really interesting left in this cave, leaving behind a multiplier.

[@danielbudney7825]

@@captain_loeffel 😂

[@Donaithnen]

@@captain_loeffel _Eventually_ he'll realize he was in the Super Alloy cave and come back. "Have I been here before?" he asks? I dunno, no way to tell i guess other than opening up the map and checking since you have the map chip now =P

[@maxsalmon4980]

@@captain_loeffel And leaving a superalloy rod (8 superalloy in one inventory slot) to pick up one piece of superalloy...hee hee.

[@outlandishmango4622]

Quill "we are going to see loads more rockets round the planet" Me: Yeah but they are all going to be bloody plant rockets" lol

[@jamesmaclennan4525]

10:00 Dismisses the Super Alloy cave as not important....sighs.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

Well he also ignores the other Osmium caves too.

[@crenwrites]

"Should have brought more oxygen." Quill be Quillin'

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

Quill, while this is a spoiler... it is often found in the early game. (see below) Along the rockwall behind the back wall of the escape pod, there is a small decontructable wall, where you will find the remains of one of the previous people there and some free stuff. To find the wall you must have "deconstruct" chosen.

[@benjamincorey6259]

He has seen that wall, but has forgotten about it because the term explosives was confusing.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

@@benjamincorey6259 No, not the wall with the rockslide that needs explosives... this one is very close to the escape pod, closer to it than his current main base. Easily findable in the first hour or so of game play...

[@croneryveit9070]

31:28 you only lost the buff on the further one because now there are closer plant spreaders for the buffer to buff.

[@varthaner4617]

Ye, it's kind of fail there's no info it's only for 5 nearest machines, but in defense of devs, everyone checks net for those things, it's not their fault someone is being obtuse....

[@WiredDrummer]

@@varthaner4617I believe it actually shows something about only enhancing 5 machines when you hover over it

[@danielbudney7825]

The Autocrafter can be helpful for very late-game production (with Drones and T3 miners), but the only thing I use it for in the mid-game is Superalloy (as you suspected would be useful). Crafting time is so fast, it's not much use for low-count crafting.

[@varthaner4617]

Actually, 2 autocrafters in alu biome can craft rods forever, at least in theory. In practice they get stuck because of some mats missing, but it means significantly less oversight is needed.

[@Spoof10]

Why not just place a T2 miner to mine super-alloy (it's outside the door he opened this episode).

[@varthaner4617]

@@Spoof10 Ofc one should, but you can't automake rods there, as they need aluminum.

[@Flanor]

They are also great for crafting mutagens and fertilizers, or basically anything else that requires slow growing food/algea as an input.

[@urkerab]

@@Flanor As far as I can tell, algae actually grows pretty quickly. I've been watching other content creators trying to automate Bacteria Samples and it's water that they quickly run out of.

[@Bartdmm]

Quill, could you please look carefully at the meteorite landing sites? They're not all base metals, especially the ones you call in using a rocket and the ones that colour the sky weirdly.

[@thomasdunn3118]

If you need more ice, you can put water in a Recycler. Because you can make water from ice at a Crafting Station, and the Recylcer reverses that recipe. It seems weird - but it works.

[@varthaner4617]

It's less strange than putting O2 capsule in and getting a bunch of metal. Or putting bag of Fertilizer and getting perfectly healthy Eggplants and Algae.... And I could go on, let's just admit Recycling Machine is BS and move on....

[@Pannekoek.]

About the T2 food grower: You will need so much Fertilizer, and for that you need egg plant and squash so a food grower that is faster wil make your life a whole lot easier.

[@SoxyKrawl]

Oh no! My bingewatching has caught up to the current release! Now I have to wait 😢

[@Krishnath.Dragon]

Congrats on finding the super alloy cave, now put a level 2 extractor there. Or, preferably a level 3. Edit: Also, build a tree spreader.

[@Apollyon92882]

Quill check the machine optimizer, it has a limit as to how many machines it can work on. You also unlocked the fusion generator which makes stupid amounts of power and didn't realize it.

[@cstkto]

the auto crafter allows you to build items without having them in your inventory straight from the storage "If they are within the range of the auto crafter"

[@urkerab]

Technically the Auto-Crafter obsoletes the Biolab as it can produce anything that the latter can. Spoiler: You don't need to disable the big orb if you don't want humans on the planet.

[@BjrnFriedrichsen]

10:45 well it is the super alloy cave, that you can mine for super alloy.

[@TheMrgrafixable]

I love backseating quill in this series' comment section

[@12tman12]

Did I see that right, he's waiting for the T2 tree spreader and noticing he's got little plant growth.... and he's not setup one T1 Tree spreader?! Edit: Never mind, see he's behind on the plants it's still way locked. It always pays to setup a bunch of what new tech you have... and then go on another exploration trip while they run.

[@Elviolli]

This guy is a goldfish.

[@General12th]

Hi Martin! I hope we can get two episodes a day. This series is so fun!

[@jsbrads1]

Feel like excavating an Egyptian pyramid? Where do you think they got their designs from?

[@larrywooters8635]

Yes, you can be hit by the meteors. And, yes, they can kill you. Experience talking here. lol

[@Z0t4n]

quill, it dosnt matter where this stuff is placed. you can even have 10000 plant spreader on top of each other and it will still funtion normal. dont bother with the range. only range to take account for is the one from fuses

[@benjamincorey6259]

Has he figured out the power source for the reactors in crashed ships, and has he gone back to them?

[@varthaner4617]

Not yet, besides it's silly to stick Uranium into something clearly labeled "Fusion" and expect anything good.... If those were labeled "Fission" that would be another story.

[@larrywooters8635]

Nothing in the game collects raw resources from the ground. The Auto Crafter grabs items from storages, crafters and machines that produce items. The drones only collect from storages and crafters that you set up the supply/demand function for (which unlocks with the creation of the drone station).

[@varthaner4617]

Autocrafter can grab Larvae off the ground tho.... I guess it's debatable if those can be called raw resources....

[@Alex-fn2hl]

It's another rough one, folks. Quill complains about power problems, but doesn't realize he has like three possible solutions to that at this point.

[@jsbrads1]

Does quill know if you launch two rockets at the same time something funny happens?

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

I have seen people build and launch 3-4 in very quick succesion (under 10-15 seconds)... very funny...

[@benjamincorey6259]

He has a mutation item. Can plants be mutated into insects?

[@varthaner4617]

No, once Insect Phase starts, unmodified Larvae will spawn all over. Those can be mutated into smth usable in Incubator. Some ready made usable insects spawn in certain biomes too. However, O2 plant seeds can be muated into Tree seeds.

[@ColtonDs1]

very terraform

[@General12th]

much earth