Palworld (Pokemon with Guns and Bukkake, minus the Bukkake)

I made the 2nd mining base and goddamn it is way more efficient. Go fuck off for like 40mins exploring, come back, I have 1000 ores and coal sitting there. I made the base near Azurobe on the map there's a spawn with like 5coals 5ores on top of each other and it's great. Just wish there was a way to automate queuing salads with the components instead of having to go there everytime and queue some more, I guess I should make a bigger setup in my main base and just grind out a thousand salad and then forget about it.

But yeah basically at this point I don't have to care about ores or coal anymore, I also setup a sulphur quarry there for when the nodes are down so also getting that. I just need to figure out where quartz is for the next part.

Sadly while I decided I'd be progressing toward the next main story where I assume quartz is, I instead spent about 6hours just fucking around exploring random islands and collecting 5 of each pets as I go, and so I've made almost no progress at all in that direction.

Man there's really a bunch of stuff to do in this game. I had been progressing pretty quickly but hit a wall in terms of gear so started putting some effort into my base stuff because once you get to 40-50 range you start needing serious amounts of ingots for everything. Had to setup an oil base which in itself is a huge fuckery since the buildings are so expensive so you first need to save up a bunch of mats, get one extractor going, then can add more over time but then once you have too many you need to redo your electric stuff cause the small ones just don't do enough and the big ones cost a ton of mats. And then all that oil has to be crafted, which is slow as fuck until you unlock the next forge that needs a bunch of the initial mats, and then you want multiple pals working on the forge at the same time so have to redo the base etc.

Ended up switching the server stuff to allow more than 3 bases, solo it felt super restrictive. Main base needs like 2 guys on farming, at least one guy on transporting, 3 guys on smelting and 1 guy on electricity, plus the power couple to craft faster, leaves very little room for stuff like ranching or mining. Kept my mining base as just that(could probably add some stuff there though as I have some free slots), the oil base needs basically the full base just to supply electricity, then made a secondary base next to my initial with some ranching to start producing large amounts of organs cause every recipe lategame seems to want some of this shit(especially lightning organs goddamn).

Overall spent probably 5-6hours yesterday just doing base stuff, which I didn't really have to do before that other than setting up the mining base(and even that was faster). Meanwhile I haven't been exploring much, ran into Frostallion, figured I'd try it since the 55 bosses weren't so hard so what would 5 levels do. Well it does a lot, it fucking kicked my ass. It has a lot of hp(like Jormuntide had 5k-ish but Frostallion has 20k+). I assume at this point I'm supposed to actually improve my pals(my own damage is like close to 0 I haven't found a weapon upgrade in forever and will probably upgrade to a white weapon but the ammo crafting costs are crazy on lategame weapons) but I have yet to touch on breeding stuff, I'll dedicate a base to it later but figure I should progress the story and kill next boss to get the better incubator first.

Also I have been a retard and not using Mercy Ring because I missed the interaction with mounts, only noticed when I saw a streamer do it. I tested the ring early but since my pals still killed the mobs it felt useless, but pals don't kill stuff if you're mounted on them, so you can blast stuff with like beams or big power balls and leave them at 1hp for easy captures. Changed everything, it was a chore to get them low without killing them before because my pals were too strong but now I can beam 3 mobs next to each other then spam balls to grab all 3 at once it's great.