I've been replaying Planet Crafter, which is a survival crafting video game.

You begin the game by crashing down onto a barren planet. You read a message on the screen in your capsule, reminding you that you are working off a debt to society by attempting to terraform this planet.

Like most survival crafting games, it's tough at the beginning. You can't wander too far from your crashed capsule, which is initially your only source of breathable air. The air tanks you are wearing don't hold much. And you have to find water (which is ice that you have to turn into liquid water) so that you don't expire of thirst.

As you build up your resources and create more and better machines to increase the temperature, pressure, and oxygen in the atmosphere, the planet visibly changes. The sky turns blue, lakes and rivers form as the ice melts, grasses, flowers, and trees start to grow, and eventually you can walk around and breathe freely.

It's nice. Kind of like creating and tending a giant garden, though I do tend to rush through the early stages as much as I can - I like it a lot better when I am not constantly in danger of suffocating.

Anyway, I terraformed my assigned planet, summoned the previous inhabitants of the planet to rescue me, and finished the original game. Then I went back in before the cut-scene and accepted an offer (from the people who initially sent me there) to terraform other planets/moons in that solar system. I think I'm more than halfway done with the first one. I've got insects and I'm working on fish now. Next I'll hatch some frogs and eventually I'll engineer some mammals. That should do it.

The nice thing about doing it this way is that it's basically "easy" mode. You still have to do some grinding, but you get to keep all the recipes that you learned in the initial setting. That makes things a LOT easier. And you can build a shuttle that will automatically fly back to the initial planet and bring back anything that you left in a "fetchable" state. So that's really convenient.

I am having fun exploring this setting - I don't know where all the cool stuff is yet, so I'm wandering around and seeing what I can find. This planet has different lore from the first one, which is fun. I need to explore more of the crashed ships and abandoned machinery before I'll have the whole picture.

After I get this planet done, I'm not sure what I'll do next. I think I have a choice between 2 or 3 moons? One of the settings is Toxic and I think I'll save that one for last. But another one is apparently a flooded planet and I'm really not sure that's for me - I had to stop playing Subnautica because of the way they did the underwater play (I'm still convinced that their "underwater" sound has a tone in it that is designed to unsettle humans, and I won't play the game due to that).

Now that I've reached an oxygenated atmosphere, set up some mining equipment, and crafted some drones, I don't have to spend so much time manually collecting and hauling resources back to my base. I should probably build a portal and explore distant wrecked ships, but that's not my favorite part of the game - I prefer to explore the natural formations.

This world has a lot more caves than the original, which is very cool but also makes it easier to get lost. I have a dismal sense of direction, even in video games. Keeps it exciting, I guess.

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