About 4 years ago I found a lush world with storms so rare that I often forget that they do actually happen and decided to build my base at a merchant settlement, the one with the landing pad, and then within the base building radius is one of those settlements where you do the number sequence puzzle and it finds a location for you to go check out. Been improving and restarting that base over and over again over the years. It also helps that just 200u away is a b-class electromagnetic field as well.

In the span of these 4 years I have moved three times after around a year-ish in three different cities. So in a way, that base has been more home to me than my own real-world homes by familiarity alone and I love that.

Here’s to another 1000 hours on my planet! Cheers!

Sometimes the loneliness the game makes me feel is incredibly wild, I will go from happily exploring and building, to suddenly being hyper aware of how I’m bascially on a life sized planet populated by a bunch of npcs with the intellectual capacity of a tamagotchi. The nearest person probably a billion km away..

Kinda flowing between loving and hating it the feeling. I have found myself many times, just shutting the game down if it feels too intense!