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Oxygen Not Included | Part 6 | 300 cycles and 14 hours AFK / IDLE | Last day on thermal map

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Channel: Grind This Game · 2017 · Gaming

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I didn't really plan this but I wanted to see how long my duplicants would last without me doing anything to help them. Basically full auto-pilot. As you can imagine stress went pretty high and quite a few died fairly early. But then I thought... how long would it take for all of them to die? So I left the game running overnight. There is one 7 minute stretch where I run 50X speed and go through 110 cycles. I started at cycle 400 and got to cycle 705 in roughly 14 hours. spoiler alert! (1 dupe survived)

It was pretty interesting to watch at 50X speed and at 100X speed which is almost 1 cycle per second. There are things you see and notice that you wouldn't normally see. I think there might be an interesting meta game where you just make the perfect sustainable base.

I ran out of basically everything and some dupes survived through it. I ran out of: algae, coal, sand and everyone got to 100% stress. Most dupes died due to drowning / suffocating often in their own pee and vomit. 

See below for some of the key points (deaths).

8:50 Hands off the controls
15:35 First death
16:16 2 more bit the dust
16:58 5 more die (15 remain)
17:37 2 more die
20:25 many hours go by while I sleep, time-lapse starts
26:41 algae runs out
28:00 comments and end of time-lapse
28:40 2 more die
30:12 A FLOOD
31:44 3 dupes left
32:21 2 dupes left (cycle 621)
34:21 1 dupe named Bubbles remains (cycle 666)
35:00 Bug: Bubbles survives without eating for many cycles

Things I learned:

- make sure you have proper drainage
- make sure geysers don't flood your base
- stress doesn't really matter but avoid dupes that break things
- a LOT of pee / vomit / polluted water is generated
- you don't need sand or algae or dirt or coal
- fertilizer and bristle blossoms are vital

I'm thinking the perfect mini base that may work forever would be a sealed room with 1 dupe, a morb, an optional puft, 1 outhouse, 1 compost pile (for fertilizer) 4 or more bristle blossoms. I may try this experiment out.

14 hours of 4k footage ended up being about a 300GB file and rendering it after timelapse/editing took 3 hours.

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