so much stuff to do. somuchstuff

crudbullets basically okay. got interested for a while figuring out how to get like rapidfire. like as many crudbullets as possible all in a row or whatever. built a new #2 to be like the official overseer of crudbullet town. made a new basement for them all because i figure scaling up production means lots of digging. we need a lot of crud to make crudtown a success. pulled some minidrones off the scavenging team to be crudminers instead. no complaints so far.

so i got four holes. was gonna make more but mo holes mo teleportals and the more teleportals you got in one place the more chance you got of a blitterswijk scenario happening and you don't need me to tell you that we do not want an invitation to that particular party. no sir.

so yeah. sweet spot. four holes. four portals. three scamps per hole so you got one scamp dropping four crudbullets then grabbing more then the second one can drop theirs and then go grab more and etc so basically you got a pretty constant flow of crudbullets.

kind of sick of calling them crudbullets. we got a branding issue here. just doesn't sound cool enough. so now they're dunno shards? shardrifle. shardgun. shardlauncher. shardtown. okay yes shards. it'll do.

so i got my personal shardrifle with two barrels because dunno just went that way. keeping the fire forward and backward thing from prototype crudlauncher because recoil is a boring thing i don't want to think about. meant i had to do some insane fiddling with teleportal compensation settings but hey that's not a chore. i could fiddle with teleportals all dang day. i mean that was basically my life until these flipping giant ants came along and messed up my biz.

anyway

got a shardrifle. went out on starfax pimsneyback and hunted a couple of ants. not hard to find around here. definitely getting closer. works pretty okay. not accurate at distance is the thing. or maybe i am just terrible at shooting. main thing is it splats ants and that is good.

in other news

scrapbag failed in his mission. don't know what happened exactly but there's a big big hole where a road used to be. took out camera drone in the explosion. maybe got ambushed by ants. checked the stream but it just cuts off before anything happens. one moment you got scrapbag trundling along ahead. next moment nothing. so. dunno.

no bullets anywhere according to scamp bulletsearch parties. what kind of postapocalyptic wasteland is this. should be bullets everywhere. fiction has lied to me. also where the heck did #4 get those first bullets from. such a tease.

anyway kind of trying to get into making bullets myself but apparently i don't have the chems. so frustrating. i mean they're so flipping simple. but i can't make them. flipping nitric acid. flipping clean air initiatives. anyway working on a weather control device to make a lightning storm. seems like the simplest solution.

outpost attempt 2 proceeding. no ant interference so far. all quiet on the river front. put #4 back on patrol duty around that area anyway. keeping a beady eye on that infested water factory.

still no water

still no wash

i cry

aggby research progressing slowly. got distracted trying to decide if aggby is a good name or if maybe agg-b is better or if there's another fantastic potential name i'm just not seeing. agg-b aggby aggbat aggry angry? no stop this jin this is not productive.

well anyway managed to get a 100% aggby-powered shield going but the power draw is stupid. like it'll explode a crudball into like nothing but only for the two seconds it's up before the agg battery runs out of juice.

teleportal aggby interaction still broken

just keep exploding

weapons i dunno. you can get a lot of heat out of an aggby. i mean sure. electricity -> heat is so basic. mostly you're trying to reduce that. so encouraging it is cake. maybe some kind of heat thing then. maybe a close combat weapon.

maybe i want a heat sword

hmmmmmmm