Quoting: Purple Library GuyFor some reason I'm imagining the actual attitude of a Norse settler/farmer towards this place. "So, I've got my homestead up and running, everything's pretty prosperous, and I hear far to the West there's a land where there's ash and flame and undead monsters and nothing grows. Well, guess I know where I'm not going!"

Easy. New build pieces! :)

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Quoting: razing32You have to create a new world , right ?
So any previous world and all progress made is kind of lost - well minus the skills / gear of the character.

No, you can use your old one if you have not explored everything. You need some unexplored area down the map to generate the new ashlands. Iron Gate even did a prep guide [External Link] for Ashlands. :)
Damn, no spoilers, but i died twice yesterday on my way there... :D

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*sigh*
*rent another server*
*say goodbye to all dear humans around me*
...
*die 5 minutes before reaching the new biome*
*ragequit*
...
*regain my stuff*
(ad infinitum)

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Hell Yeah. That feels good! Well done, everybody!

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I´m not sure if i am really masochistic enough to actually buy this... rimworld already got me a little PTSD in vanilla. But wall lights? I'm back!

Quoting: drjomsNot enough performance fix.

I really don't recall it being that power hungry. I only play on laptop computers, and i never encountered any big performance hits. Did you by chance rendered 100% of the planet scale? I never really got beneath 100 colonists, though.

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I´ve only heard about the sex surge on steam. I´m behind the Great German Firewall (ugh), my sensible senses properly protected against sex. I guess we must continue to proliferate via cell divsion.
We are a strange folk in a strange country...

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Liam, many thanks for your great efforts in these articles! This site gets better everyday!

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I have tried this on a Machine at Work, an M2 Mac Studio and it is really convenient, it works like a charm.
Only thing is - does anyone know how to get steam installed on these new machines? There is no steam installer available for this architecture yet as far as i know.
I tried some games on MacOs, and what really blew me away was the ration of power consumption to FPS. I was able to try heavy modpacks of minecraft, and on FullHD it barely went above 50W with really good framerates. No Mans Sky ran on Ultra Settings, FullHD with around 100FPS without any issues, while the power meter only showed around 30W of consumption. That was awesome. I want that on linux! :)

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Quoting: scaineI don't get why AI in these games is so frustrating. But it is, so I kind of gave up on them.

I have exactly this problem on so many other games, Hotline Miami or Cuphead come to mind. Love the stories, but i guess i am too old and my reflexes have gone down. But i know due to the real life time constraints i am not willing enough to put endless hours into gaming anymore, so it may be that.
Rimworld et al: i totally have the opposite experience. I seem to shine in the early/midgame and tend to lose focus in the end and get obliterated. On the topic of "pawn, wtf you are doing: you can draft/undraft pawns or even prioritize things by right-clicking there, so that should make him do his job.

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