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What is trillium used for?

Everything, you'll need a lot.  Nearly as much as consumer goods.

The tech level of one of my planets is going down. How to fix that?

Designate it, connect a foundation world to it, or build tech projects on it.

The black part of the map (not to be confused with the dark part of the map) is unexplored.  Larger fleets of explorers can see further, I average sending initial fleets of 100.  The circle immediately around your world is how far they can see and the second larger circle is how far you have imperial control.  You don't get to see the view distance of fleets, that you have to work out on your own.

Stockpiles won't be moved through trade routes, only production.  The amount of resources to be moved takes time to calculate and will change each minute(watch) until it hits an equilibrium.  You can move stockpiles manually, though that can cause issues.

A large number of things you do take time to take effect.  The biggest one that isn't exactly obvious is efficiency on planets.  This changes the production output of the available workforce.  This takes a big drop each time a planet is conquered, it's designation is changed or a negative event (low supplies, low happiness, revolt, civil war).  A planet regains efficiency over time.

A high tech, un-inhabitable world with low efficiency can become a uncontrollable location for a long time as it gets stuck in a loop of civil wars when ever a player controls it.  This happens when a world has such a low efficiency, and to high of a static tech level and (even with imported resources) it dosen't meet it's need for life support items because it didn't calculate in the lower efficiency for the automated assignment of the production of life support materials.  Which causes negative events that lower efficiency that isn't calculated for when auto assigning work for life support items which yadda yadda yaddas.

This also can be caused by teching up a world prematurely,  though these self right a little better as they drop in tech after they civil war into independence. Which means they'll stop having issues because they won't demand things they can't supply.

It's fun, has potential. But development has been slow.

Worth a few moments of my time again I guess.

HVAC units are used to cool down air passing through them, they are further into the tech tree.  You should be able to unlock them and insulated air ducts in a normal game before heat becomes a major issue.  Big thing to do is NOT make to many things that produce heat, like coal generators.

If you just do repeated double heavy attack with the pike (click-click, short pause, click-click) you can keep a large number of enemies stun locked with the pike.  If you go full combo you have a short gap at the end that leaves you open and you have to dodge.  If you never finish the combo you can attack fast enough with hits that stagger to never leave an opening.

Tower 2 is ostensibly done.  Original stated goal is complete, you can take a elevator(s) up to the top then an elevator across to Chaosmouth.


Top floor also includes a publicly available map room.  So anyone in the area that wants to use it just take the elevators seen on the left side of the image.  I had to make that... abomination (that killed me twice making it) because I hit the limit for how far vertical elevators will go.  Also you take your own life into your hands when you take it, I didn't want to take the time to install any safety features.

I'll get some screens of the internals and the view from the top at some point.

Now that Tower 2 is done we have begun work on Tower 3.


On the left is the Annex Tower, or Tower 3.2.  It contains the wheel of pain, a mitra shrine and a publicly accessible map room.  Just take the side stairs to get to it.

The main tower on the right has the beginning of a public tavern(The Lonely Nord) on the second floor.  Has a stage, over looking balcony and eventually a out door deck.  Zero furniture but am planning to fix that at some point.  If you are traveling to the Volcano why not stop by.  The neighbors get a bit rowdy but the bouncers keep them in check.

While I was out exploring I found a giant face that was an entrance to a cave.  Inside was this massive chamber.  My first thought was this was a boss room.  I was right, partially.  The shot is from the other side after climbing up.  Down below is a bunch of spiders, ruined boats that are on fire, and a sand reaper boss.  I climbed up the pillar in the center.  Kind of let down the chest only had a few coins.  Behind is a further passage that leads to the Highlands, so I found a shortcut from the jungle to the snow.

I still want to know how those boats got up into the jungle then down into that cave and are still on fire.

It's a non-passworded, publicly listed PvP server.  You are going to get griefers.

It probably wasn't anyone you interacted with.  Could have been anyone who was on when you kept saying where you built, or someone just stumbled on your place.  I've been building my stuff from day one to be secure, and someone still messed with me.  You can only trust the public on the internet so far.