No one asked for this... 

New Mindustry video! 🤩 And i didn't even have to ask this time. While it is quite sad that i stopped, you already played it so... Im done. Thank you again, Matt, for new Mindustry parts!

This series has evolved from "Someone forced me to play this" to "You cannot stop me" and I am here for it.

I'll be honest, I want more mindustry.

Fun fact about pentagons you can’t make a sphere out of them however you can make a doughnut

Fun fact; that combination of pentagons and hexagons is the same arrangement of the panels on footballs.

Some advice from an Erekir pvp player here, Shift+H will allow you to set factory rally points and Shift+G will allow you to quickly select all units, you can use rally points to make sure all your units are heading to an area after being made which can be very helpful as otherwise you have units sitting down and doing nothing (probably studying to become architects), also, units make a great defense and make sure you pay attention to ratios and power consumption of structures, there is a question mark icon when you select a structure, for example a silicon ark furnace uses 360 power while each turbine only makes 180, so be careful with how many silicon arks you place. Also, V to respawn at your core.

When you tile a sphere with hexagons you need 12 pentagons to make the math work out. So regardless of how many best-a-gons you have, you still need 12 pentagons to fully tile a sphere

Interestingly, Erekir is the planet that is actually much more akin to actual real time strategy, compared to Serpulo. Not only are the units generally more accessible than on the other one, there is much more focus on them as the main force. The planets are VASTLY different, and I really like the more serious and strategic Erekir, while also loving Serpulo for everything it has always been before Erekir even existed.

I love watching RCE playing Mindustry. I hope you continue playing this like you play Timberborn and Poly Bridge making season after season.

Some tips because I can xd 1- Towers fire quite faster with water 2- The vent condenser produce around 30 units of water, while the turbines just 5 3- The impact drill consume 14 unit of water I remember 4- The bean you shoot with the main ship can heal your buildings 5- Remember, you can use the units you fabricate and the turrets (Don't remember which key is needed). This can be interesting as all of them have a bit more range (2 squares mores I think) that its showed, but won´t shoot automatically that far, but you can, that's an advantage looking forward the next episode. :) PD. when I played mindustry (around a year ago) Erekir started to escalate quickly after the fourth map or close to it

RCE being REAL and CIVIL, gonna do some ENGINEERING Football planet

Tip to make the turrets fire faster, you can take the water from the turbine condensers with the conduits and it makes them fire faster if you put the water in your turrets

Seeing Matt post a new Mindustry video without peer pressure is amazing. The more I see of this game, the better it gets. Edit: But I couldn't see much at the end of this episode. Hopefully there is a sequel.

day one of forcing matt at water gun point 🔫 to play more mindustry

I have Mindustry, and your videos have got me playing it again. Hope to see more parts of your journey. And good luck with your addiction

On Erekir, your command unit cannot attack by itself, but it also cannot be directly attacked and can travel anywhere. It has no innate vision, but you can build if the area has been seen before, meaning scouting out areas will greatly expand your options. The beam is for early mining and repairing structures using your core's resources. You can also pick up structures that are 2x2 or smaller, allowing you to relocate them to save resources and energy. Your command unit can inhabit a combat unit to gain that units abilities and vision, but it also becomes limited by that units mobility and won't be able to build until you manually leave the unit, so you generally don't want to do that. I don't know the buttons for it, since I play on mobile. Structures are also more difficult to make compact and efficient blueprints for. There is a much stronger emphasis on adapting to your environment, and not overexerting your power supply. Some structures have optional enhancements, such as the Breach turret using water to improve the fire rate. These enhancements are usually pretty significant. I would avoid Vent Condensers until after you find another power source, since they directly compete with your only power source right now, Turbine Condensers. While the amount of water Turbine Condensers make is low, it's generally just enough to get by in the early game, and the power is far more important.

I'm enjoying this series. Ive had mindustry for a long time and I hadnt played it in just as long until I watched these videos.

Wow!! An all your base reference in 2024! That just makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside!

Well if box king won't ask, I will! More Mindustry please!

It's a cool little game. I'm glad you started playing. Cause I like watching it. Oh and here's some PEER PRESSURE!!

After watching your videos, I actually got this game and now im hooked on it haha. Thanks for that I guess. Glad do see another video on it though.

I'll do my part to add to the peer pressure! I know you've gotten a crazy number of tips, so I'll highlight just one, which is possibly the most important: Go to Settings > Display and enable "Show Block Status" Erekir is actually more difficult because you can't get nearly as overpowered as you can on Serpulo. For example I'm pretty close to finishing the Serpulo campaign without having built even a single turret. It's very possible if you A) understand how enemies target your base (which you partially figured out on your own last episode with the combustion generators!), B) know how to unlock certain things in the tech tree (funny enough, you actually stumbled upon the optimal path by capturing sector 175 right after Ground Zero), and C) use custom core schematics (which almost nobody accidentally figures out). Also, maybe it's because I'm a different type of engineer, but I really enjoy the logic system on Serpulo. You can do a lot of fun things with it! Anuke actually considered removing it entirely when he added the RTS controls, but thankfully those of us who love it were there to talk him out of it. :)

Oh I'm sure Paddy didn't have anything to do with you making another Mindustry video. Whelp. Time to reset the counter! _Day 1 of continuing to peer pressure Paddy into making Matt play Mindustry more._ _It’s worked twice, the second time even it worked without any help from The_Box_King. I believe in you Paddy, you can truly make Matt do anything if you put your mind to it._

I need more mindustry!!! You legally have to keep going! XD

"All your base are belong to us".. rounding 18 years this year :D

I actually really enjoy watching you play this game, it looks really fun!

I’m loving this series

I stumbled upon this video completely by coincidence and this game looks like just my thing. Now imma dive in a week long marathon of this. Thank you kind sir for the recommendation. It's just like the time I stumbled upon DRG

please complete the game. it's really fun to watch

Please keep playing Mindustry! Everybody loves it!

I really enjoy this series. Idk. It is so simple, and amusing to watch.

Peer pressure go. Can't wait until you get to the really high end stuff, the battles get crazy.

Love this game

How many more stupid puns about safety first do I need to do to see an engineer fix high voltage with magical yellow repair liquid..?

Keep em coming, Matt! Love me some Mindustry!

More please - love this game

Hey matt so happy i found you a while back now and love the amazing content also creddit to the edditor in youre vids i just wantes to say i would really like if you did make a few more vids on mindustry i used to see that comment inbthe section all the time and now i want more lol if not i do understand with a busy schedule and all but if you could sneak one or 2 in a month id appreciate it thank you for being an amazing person matt!

Oh, pro-tip! If you find a Derelict, first make sure you can build the same thing (researched and enough resources), then quickly right-click and left-click (deconstruct+reconstruct with little to no resources used).

love this series

The conveyor belts remind me of working in a recycling plant.

1:03 sounds like something an architect would say

1:04 MATT, IT"S A SOCCERBALL

I'm going to have to single handedly peer pressure you into continuing this. You've only scratched the surface of what erekir has to offer Day 1

Hey RCE! Please carry on playing this I've loved watching it and can't wait to see more!

im watching this with a mice asleep on my hand and this started a hour ago will be fun to watch this

Loving this editors pop ups and comments today! give this editor a cookie

Matt Parker at StandUpMaths did a video on different ways of making a sphere with 2D shapes, and the pentagons joined by hexagons style is a classic football

Never stop!!! I want to see this game optimized to the fullest, and you're a prime candidate for that!!

I think that's a truncated icosahedron, a 32 sides shape made of pentagons and hexagons. it's the shape of a football

“We've got tungstene balls!” Hah

No Way!!! I'm quite happy that you played mindustry, I wasn't quite expecting that

Keep it up I love Mindistry!

MAKE MORE GODDAMN MINDUSTRY VIDEOS!!!

this game is a shining example that fully FOSS end-user products are viable. I mean you can literally just download the game for completely free, make bug reports, even fork it entirely and make a competitor if you wanted, and yet it's still thriving. I actually bought it on steam years ago without even knowing it was open source but after I kept seeing it in my repositories and flathub I decided to take a look and, sure enough, it's literally just on github. Most users won't care and just want the convenience of steam (which, to be fair, yeah the save syncing, workshop, etc. more than make 10usd a fair shake) and the users who *_do_* care, will likely just buy it anyway because they're the people who support FOSS and are willing to pay for development even if they don't have to. (plus, again, it's not like the Steam version doesn't have some extra features since it can use Steam for save syncing and mods and such) edit : It's even on F-droid!

That's a great episode Mat, I'm start asking you for another hopefull great like this one

thx matt for continuing the series i recommend you to try to stay on the named sectors so you can get the technologies as well as the stories

I want more of this series, please Matt *patpat on the hardhat* :3

I love your All Your Base reference

The Timberborners forgive you, but they will never forget you. Time to lead the district again.

The new unit that you control can not attack, but it can repair buildings and units.

Perfect ! He was turned into one of us ! Our emissary has succeeded

Matt, this is a game to keep. I rolled my eyes at the persistent asking you to play but now glad it was done.

Remember, pigs root in the ground for truffles, industrial engineers route resources.

Love it but I like everything you do content wise. Keep it up!

Really looking forward to seeing how RCE manages to complete the later sectors like siege and hopefully origin.

PART 5 PLEASE!!!! Mindustry for ages!!!!!!

As someone who attempted to generate random worlds for D&D using a tedious dice algorithm, in any size sphere structure built out of hexagons, you require exactly 12 pentagons. Ironically for my D&D usage, it essentially makes a blown out D20 structure, which also has 12 vertices. You are essentially laying out 20 equilateral triangles into a grid of hexagons, but you can only connect 5 of them at a point, thus the pentagons.

How did an engineer not know what a dyson sphere is

Whoever that dude was, they were correct. Keep playing this, love it.

You can select a factory in command mode to send what ever tank or unit its making in a specific place you can even control turrets or units

Wait until he finds out how to make the Toxopoid ☠️

Yay, Matt playing Mindustry !

This is actually a really cool looking game I'll have to watch the first one

More Mindustry please

0:45 - It isn’t even physically possible to make a sphere out of hexagons

i love mindustry

I'm loving the mindustry content! Kind of a shame this is the last one. If nobody is mithering you to play more mindustry I'm going to have to start!

That’s just the start RCE, you then gotta beat the main campaign on both planets, unlock everything, download mods, *and do that again*

it's basically a football. not one of those avocados, but "FOOT"&"BALL"

Yes! That's how balls are made With bestagons and pentagons

If you ever looked at a soccer ( foot--)-ball, you notice that they have to have pentagons every now and then to form a ball properly. Just hexagons would only make a flat surface, with the pentagons enable it to make a ball.

You can heal your buildings with the laser. You also can pause the game with spacebar. Might be useful when there's not a lot of time.

Dat 1 of asking matt to continue this series

Finally mindustry

Keep playing it. It amuses me.

Mat: pentagon's are not the best *The CIA would like to know your location*

When I first started Erekir campaign the first 3-4 maps was easy but later on this is getting harder and harder. In the last map I spend 50+ hours to finish

very funny game. love to see more.

A MONTH, WE NEED MORE

Beryllium is an element... "Be" on the periodic table... Are you an engineer or an architect?? 😂😂

as someone once said. Because if i have to suffer this addiction, so will you

There's definitely a Stand Up Maths video about pentagons in spheres. He's complaining about the football signs on British road signs.

It had been 3 months. Router is not pleased.

The factory must grow, ANOTHER

For each breach you build, you can get like 4 stells (tier 1 tanks). Turrets on erekir are rather expensive for their effectiveness.

i for 1 would like you to keep playing this Matt. maybe you conquer bases i havent and i can learn a thing or 2 from a top of the line engineer

I love this game aswell

I would get the mod that lets you play at 2x, 4x, etc. speed. I felt like this planet had some moments where things were moving very slowly, and being able to set it to 8x speed made things much better..

I love it when you unengland yourself

Soccer balls (or football balls, for everybody outside NA) are made exactly like that planet; pentagons and hexagons, 12 and 20 to be precise. Each pentagon has 5 hexagons surrounding it. The math nerds call it a truncated icosahedron.