Also if you, like me, become hopelessly stuck toward the end of the early-game, wondering how the hell you're going to make \"refined metals\" without a metal refinery, eventually dying because your crops overheat...<\/p>
\"Refined metals\" is a *class* of materials (iron, copper, etc), not a single material. You're supposed to get by with the rock smasher until you can build refineries. \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/woof.group\/users\/aphyr\/statuses\/115639541548169010","object":{"id":"https:\/\/woof.group\/users\/aphyr\/statuses\/115639541548169010","objectType":"note","content":"
Also if you, like me, become hopelessly stuck toward the end of the early-game, wondering how the hell you're going to make \"refined metals\" without a metal refinery, eventually dying because your crops overheat...<\/p>
\"Refined metals\" is a *class* of materials (iron, copper, etc), not a single material. You're supposed to get by with the rock smasher until you can build refineries. \ud83d\ude2d<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/woof.group\/@aphyr\/115639541548169010","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"inReplyTo":{"objectType":"note","id":"https:\/\/woof.group\/users\/aphyr\/statuses\/115639505443430270","url":"https:\/\/woof.group\/@aphyr\/115639505443430270"}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-11-30:objectType=thread:nonce=f5524f48ffdb4f68","notice_info":{"local_id":"11620626","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-11-30T20:40:21+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/woof.group\/@aphyr\/115639541548169010"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/woof.group\/users\/aphyr","displayName":"\u00c9cole des Bro-Arts","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18623-original-tmp20230106170857.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18623-96-20230112144018.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18623-48-20230112144018.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18623-24-20230112144018.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"18623"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/18623-96-20230112144018.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.Jim Starkey: "Of interest only to third-rate academics a few papers short of a tenure package."Reddit: "would never ever ever hire this degenerate holy shit"Peter Watts: "The most innovative fanfic I've ever read."","url":"https:\/\/woof.group\/@aphyr","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"aphyr","displayName":"\u00c9cole des Bro-Arts","note":"Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.Jim Starkey: "Of interest only to third-rate academics a few papers short of a tenure package."Reddit: "would never ever ever hire this degenerate holy shit"Peter Watts: "The most innovative fanfic I've ever read.""}},"content":"
I picked up Oxygen Not Included this weekend thinking \"oh this might be a cute Rimworld-like base builder\". It... is cute, but really, Oxygen Not Included is for people (myself included) who saw cutaway diagrams of nuclear reactors as kids and thought \"I want that to be a playground\".<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/woof.group\/users\/aphyr\/statuses\/115639505443430270","object":{"id":"https:\/\/woof.group\/users\/aphyr\/statuses\/115639505443430270","objectType":"note","content":"
I picked up Oxygen Not Included this weekend thinking \"oh this might be a cute Rimworld-like base builder\". It... is cute, but really, Oxygen Not Included is for people (myself included) who saw cutaway diagrams of nuclear reactors as kids and thought \"I want that to be a playground\".<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/woof.group\/@aphyr\/115639505443430270","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-11-30:objectType=thread:nonce=f5524f48ffdb4f68","notice_info":{"local_id":"11620625","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-11-30T20:40:21+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/woof.group\/@aphyr\/115639505443430270"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/blorbo.social\/users\/lookitmychicken","displayName":"Chicken :cqlgusu:","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/104850-original-tmp20230306154927.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/104850-96-20231018073037.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/104850-48-20231018073037.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/104850-24-20231018073037.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"104850"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/104850-96-20231018073037.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"fandom nerd ~ fanwork recs ~ faves: mdzs, wangxian, junior quartet, yizhan, wang yibo ~ often posts NSFW adult content ~ shameless","url":"https:\/\/blorbo.social\/@lookitmychicken","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"lookitmychicken","displayName":"Chicken :cqlgusu:","note":"fandom nerd ~ fanwork recs ~ faves: mdzs, wangxian, junior quartet, yizhan, wang yibo ~ often posts NSFW adult content ~ shameless"}},"content":"