u/Gumpers08

Spent like forty in-game days hunting a second Special Epion. Don't ask what happened to the first. I ended up spending every night in a Defiled lands, waiting for Epions. Also got a lot of blights and misc goodies.

Team Epion rise up!

Now I gotta start scouting for endgame base locations. Might want to kill a wither first, I'll want a waystone wherever I build the base. Can you guys remind me where to find wither skeleton skulls in the overworld? My vast library of RLCraft trivia is rather dusty.

I just wanna use torches, man. They look nice.

I don't think I've ever truly mag dumped the Shard Diffractor before. Feels nice.

Watch that DPS counter rise in the top left

This level was hard, took me an hour to P-rank; an S in Time, Kills, and Style, all with zero deaths.

I also P-ranked 1-E next, so that is all of Standard P-ranked... making me legally obligated to move up to Violent difficulty.

I'm not kidding when I say this is the most I've ever used spells. I guess I have had about... four 100% playthroughs to get my hits dealt/hits taken ratio low enough to actually have silk for spells.

If you are wondering why music is off, I have the Ultrakill OST on shuffle in the background. No offense to the Silksong OST, shit is amazing, but Ultrakill has a bit more variety. I even rolled Order during this very Moorwing fight.

Also just destroyed Sister Splinter, spells really take care of the minions.

Check in on me later when I'm have an aneurysm kudos to High Halls.

I swear to god, I can deal with these fuckers in a 1v1. Grounded. Slaps some magnets on, dump an overheat charge, JumpStart, repeat twice. Parrying is really easy, just stand still and wait for it, then dump damage when they are stunned. Gabe 1 and 2 are ridiculously easy as I can consistently crank 120 degrees to land those parries.

You can't get rid of the damn thrown glaives with the Slab Sharpshooter's cooldown, and parrying them is ridiculously hard midair. Dashing through them is an option when grounded. Meaning a 50/50 hit every time they do the attack. When they throw the SPEAR, it can be parried pretty easily, but not in mid-air. RAPIER is the same thing; easy to parry, but not in the air.

All of this with Virtues (hopefully not), Mindflayers, Guttermen, Guttertanks (possibly), Insurrectionists, and Maurice third-partying.

I would like to use the Freezeframe rocket to parry the OVER HERE, but it is very hard to get setup given that SPEAR will destroy your rocket and that Maurice will specifically target rockets.

And yet, every time I ask for help with Powers, the one answer I get is to parry them over the void. So the only fucking solution is "yeah use cheese". Complete bullshit, please get the fuck out of my Cybergrind. I'm asking nicely. I said please. I'd gladly take not-limited-to-one Mirror Reapers as recompense. At least those can't follow you everywhere you go, and be an existential third party in the process.

Or perhaps not enough

I didn't know you could detonate shotgun bullets with the Sharpshooter.

Dead Heat Pulse being fire as always

So, I figured I was going to get all the secrets and challenge in 8-3. I had just gotten the secrets and challenges in 8-1 and 8-2 (need those challenges for Cybergrind music), so I wasn't thinking much of it. This is also far from my first 8-3 clear (some of which being P-rank attempts), which makes this run being my record time even more mysterious.

First, I get the challenge. After beating the first three Powers deathless, I get to the fourth expecting to restart once or twice. I clear the first wave, clear the adds in the second, the successfully parry the Power over the loop pit. Takes a while, but no deaths. Then, I beat the blue path, forgetting that I just read that I needed to do the red path. So, I do the red path next, and get the fourth secret.

By this point I realize that, hold up, I might be able to actually P-rank this. So, I start kicking some ass to Event Horizon, and get to the blood tree. I kind of fumbled the entrance and find myself at the Power with 3 HP and 3 seconds before the seventeen minute mark. Luckily, I get some blood off the Swordsmachines and figure that I have until 17:30 to P-rank. I finish off the Power with dual wielded impact hammers and run into the exit with two seconds to spare.

What a way to get the P-rank. I'll certainly take it, but that now means all I have left to P-rank (on Standard) is 7-4... I swear 8-1 and 8-2 are easy compared to that nonesense... maybe I've been playing too much Cybergrind, and as a result Fraud feels like home. Well technically there is still P-2 and Encores, but I'll pass on those for now.

Could've been worse

The Auto Aim doesn't activate sometimes, but when it does activate I can basically treat it like a budget Lok-1.

I also had two stacks of +40% Weakpoint damage on the gun.

I think this is the most damage I've ever done, had 300K damage with 112K overkill.

To be clear, I'm still not picking the M1000 when I can avoid it, or don't see Auto Aim. Really not great for Creepers, with how fast they are always moving.

That's pretty much it. You get infinite soul from the worms, basically infinite soul totems with extra steps. And then the difficulty comes not from the platforming tricks themselves, but the amount of them you need to do consecutively.

Both sections took about twenty attempts each. Annoying, but nothing as horrible as the final section of Path of Pain.

This is about the furthest I'm getting without better instakills, I don't have a strategy for a Power, Insurrectionist, Ferryman, Radiant Cerberus, and Radiant Swordsmachine all at once.

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For anyone who needs explanation, spore to coal gets you about 30% more power.

Spore straight to steam gets you a conversion rate of 25.8 water for 291.5 power (powering exactly one Steam Turbine), so -11.30 power per unit of water, not counting potential water collection costs.

Spore to oil to coal to steam gets you a conversion rate of 15.9 water to 235.18 power (powering exactly one Steam Turbine), so -14.79 power per unit of water, not counting potential water collection costs. Including the conversion tax of the spore press and coal centrifuge.

Now, is it more space and/or more build cost efficient? I'll let you guys figure that one out. In terms of space you have more complexity, and while you have half the Cultivators you also have to add in Presses and Centrifuges. And I think the build cost is about the same, except for maybe exchanging relatively small amounts of copper and silicon for lead, graphite, and titanium. Just do remember to beware the hefty siligone cost of steam turbines and unloaders.

Also the split water and power stats listed in the second image are for whether you have the research/plastanium for the Overdrive Projector.

The schematic also doesn't tile downwards, but it does go left, right, and up.

Secret room

99% of dwarves quit getting lost in the Ramrod before finding this secret room