#vulcanus

[romegreeceart]

Solfatara Crater, Pozzuoli - Home of Vulcanus

The area was closed during my visit since three tourists had died there a couple of years earlier. I'm not aware of the current status though.

Be that as it may the site is worth a visit IMO. It requires a bit of "climbing" ( stairs/road) to reach the site and so there is also a pretty nice view towards Baia and Miseno along the way

Pozzuoli, July-August 2019

[doktor-monty]

I'm an official college graduate!!!! I'm back and accepting more commissions!!

[mad-mathematician]

Space Age update 11/28, PT1

SOOOO much has happened since the last update!! So I'm just gonna write things out in no particular order 1. Vulcanus is done!! I landed, setup the science, killed some worms, launched offworld with science packs to take back to Nauvis!

2. I've got a ship design that works! It's basic, it's slow, it doesn't hold much, but it WORKS. And I've flown it around the solar system with no problems!!

I dropped to the planet with a bunch of supplies, so I wasn't starting completely from scratch. It made jumpstarting production a lot faster than it would have been otherwise.

With a couple more minutes of building stuff, I ended up with this starter base! It's very simple, very clunky, but it works, and it's been producing the basic materials I've needed to expand on this planet ever since I built it!

At this point I also noticed that the pollution cloud that my Nauvis base is usually completely covered with had almost completely been absorbed:

The only remaining source of pollution is the uranium processing to keep the lights on, but otherwise, the base is completely idle.

My first worm kill!! Importing uranium ammo was a tad expensive, but it made killing the small demolisher guarding my first tungsten patch very easy. Went around and killed a couple more early on, expanded to a couple useful resource patches.

Some janky bot fed science!! It's working!!!!!

Expanded a bit with big drills, added a belt production area.

Imported some science and researched the most important research on this planet: Cliff explosives!!! Then proceeded to go around blowing up every cliff I could find lmao

The very common cliffs and late unlocking of cliff explosives meant that I had to get a little... creative with my railway junctions hehe

The interesting nature of radar scanning lining up perfectly with a demolisher's speed means that it looks like there's a massive demolisher guarding this area 0_0

Environmental storytelling.

Oklahoma.

Expanded power!!

Larger production blocks coming online.

Map overview!!

This post is getting long, so I'm gonna split it into 2 posts here...

[mercuriicultores]

G. B. Gandinus – Letture latine per uso dei principianti, Liber II: «Mythologia Graeca et Romana»

I. Saturnus

Graeci et Romani olim plures coluerunt deos.

Deorum antiquissimus habitus est Uranus id est Caelus. Is omnium primus mundi universi imperio praefuisse traditur. Uxorem habuit Tellurem, ex qua genuit Saturnum.

Saturnus adiuvante matre patrem regno spoliavit. Pulsus autem ipse a Iove filio in eam Italiae partem venit, quae Latium appelata est. Ibi a Iano, Latii rege, benigne exceptus et in societatem regni vocatus homines in agris dispersos unum in locum congregavit, legem vivendi populis ac disciplinam dedit, domicilia eorum moenibus saepsit. Qua de causa Saturno regnante aurea aetas fuisse perhibetur; terra enim nullo arante fruges ferebat, nulli erant limites agrorum, nulli servi, omnia omnium erant communia.

Saturnalia eius memoriae causa Romae quotannis celebrabantur mense Decembri. Saturnaliorum diebus servis ludendi cum dominis iocandique potestas dabatur, iisque discumbentibus domini ministrabant. Qua re significare voluerunt omnes homines aurea aetate pari fuisse iure.

Fingitur Saturnus senex, falcem manu retinens aut anguem caudam sibi mordentem.

II. Iuppiter

Iuppiter, Saturni et Rheae filius, in insula Creta natus et educatus est. Quum adolevisset, Saturnum patrem regno expulit, regnumque cum duobus fratribus ita divisit, ut ipse imperium caeli et terrae, Neptunus maris, Pluto inferorum haberet.

Omnium deorum princeps et summus habitus est, quare divum pater atque hominum dicitur a poëtis, a Romanis autem Optimus Maximus.

Fingebatur fere sedens in solio eburneo, sceptrum sinistra manu, dextra fulmen tenens. Iuxta eum stabat aquila, quae avis ei sacra erat, et Ganymedes, qui ei pocula ministrabat.

Ex arboribus quercus ei sacra erat.

III. Iuno

Iuno, Iovis soror et coniux, Doerum regina habita est. Argis maxime colebatur. Apud Romanos matrimoniis praeerat.

Fingebatur in solio sedens, habitu regali, sceptro et diademato insignis.

Ex avibus pavo ei sacer erat.

Iunonis ministra et nuntia erat Iris.

IV. Minerva

Minerva, quae etiam Pallas dicitur, e capite Iovis nata esse ferebatur. Dea fuit sapientiae et artium. Colebatur imprimis Athenis, qua in urbe studia litterarum maxime floruerunt. Eadem belli et armorum inventrix et princeps habita est.

Fingebatur armata, galeam in capite gestans, thorace induta, in quo effictum erat Medusae caput serpentibus circumplicatum, cuius aspectu homines in lapides commutari credebantur.

Ex avibus noctura ei sacra fuit, ex arboribus olea.

V. Vesta

Vesta, Saturni filia, dea erat ignis domestici. Cultus eius fuit antiquissimus. Romae primum ei templum a Numa, altero Romanorum rege, exctructum est.

In eo templo ignis perpetuus a virginibus Vestalibus, deae sacerdotibus, alebatur. Gravis poena constituta erat in eam virginem, cuius negligentia ignis esset exstinctus.

VI. Ceres

Ceres, Saturni et Rheae filia, frugum dea erat. Ea enim prima agriculturam et usum frumenti homines docuit, qui antea glande vescebantur.

Sacra eius arcana erant ac silentio celebrabantur.

Fingebatur coronam in capite gestans spicis ornatam dextra manu falcem retinens, sinistra manipulos spicarum et papaverum.

VII. Mars

Mars, belli deus, praecipuo honore a Romanis colebatur. Putabant enim Romulum et Remum, qui urbem Romam condiderunt, Martis filios esse.

Ex eius nomine tertius anni mensis Martius appellatus est. Martius quoque dictus est campus, ubi Romana iuventus gymnicis ludis exercebatur.

Ex animalibus ei sacri erant lupus et equus.

VIII. Mercurius

Mercurius, Iovis et Maiae filius, nuntius erat deorum, imprimis Iovis. Animas mortuorum ad inferos deducebat.

Idem mercaturae deus habebatur. Lyram quoque et palaestram invenisse dicitur.

Fingebatur iuvenis formosus, insignis petaso et talaribus alatis, caduceum manu tenens, id est virgam duobus serpentibus circumplicatam.

IX. Apollo et Musae

Apollo, qui idem Phoebus dicitur, Iovis et Latonae filius, cum Diana sorore in insula Delo natus est. Deus fuit medicinae, artis iaculandi, musicae, poësis. Praeterea divinationi praefuit; quare plurima oracula ei sacra fuerunt, quorum nobilissimum est oraculum Delphicum.

Idem dux erat novem Musarum, quae deae artibus ac litteris praeerant, et Calliope quidem epico poëmati, Clio historiae, Melpomene tragoediae, Thalia comoediae, Euterpe arti musicae, Terpsichore choreis, Erato poësi amatoriae, Polyhymnia lyricis carminibus, Urania astrologiae.

Fingebatur adolescens imberbis, promisso capillo, dextra arcum et sagittas retinens, sinistra lyram.

Apollini laurus sacra erat, quare etiam poëtae laurea coronantur.

Ex avibus ei sacer erat corvus et cycnus.

X. Diana

Diana, Iovis et Latonae filia, Apollinis soror, semper virgo fuisse fertur; quare Latonia virgo a Vergilio dicta est. Praeerat venationibus, silvis, montibus. Eadem habebatur quae Luna in caelo et quae Proserpina apud inferos; quare et triformis et tergemina a poëtis appellatur.

Fingebatur plerumque coma soluta, arcum et sagittas manibus retinens, cervos aliasve feras persequens stipata canibus.

XI. Venus

Venus, amoris et pulchritudinis dea, ex spuma maris orta esse ferebatur.

Fingitur curru vehens, quem cycni vel columbae trahunt; comitatur eam filius Cupido vel Amor, puer alatus, arcum ac sagittas ferens. Praeterea comites habet tres Gratias, venustatis deas: Aglaien, Thaliam et Euphrosynen.

Apelles Venerem pinxit e mari exeuntem, quam picturam nobilissimam Venerem Anadyomenen vocant.

Ex arboribus myrtus ei sacra erat.

XII. Vulcanus

Veneris, pulcherrimae omnium dearum, maritus erat Vulcanus, turpissimus omnium deorum, Iovis et Iunonis filius. Is propter deformitatem a Iove de caelo deiectus in insulam Lemnum delapsus est, quo casu claudus factus dicitur. Erat autem deus ignis ac fabrorum ferrariorum; nec in Lemno solum, sed etiam sub Aetna monte et in Aeoliis insulis habere officinas dicebatur.

Ministri eius erant Cyclopes gigantes, unum modo oculum media fronte habentes, qui Iovi fulmina fabricari putabantur.

XIII. Pluto

Pluto, Iovis frater, inferorum deus, in Orco habitabat.

Fingitur in solio sedens, truci vultu, sceptrum manu retinens.

Plutonis uxor erat Proserpina, Iovis et Cereris filia. Eam flores in nemore Hennae legentem olim Pluto rapuisse dicitur.

Orci partes erant Tartarus, ubi improbi post mortem poenis afficiebantur, et campi Elysii, sedes piorum.

Iudices umbrarum tres erant: Minos, Rhadamanthus et Aeacus.

Ad inferos umbras deducebat Mercurius, deductas excipiebat Charon et trans Stygem et Acherontem, Orci flumina, transvehebat. Ii, quorum corpora humata non erant, diu ad ripam Stygis vagabantur; quare veteres magnam sepulturae curam habebant.

Ex flumine Lethe manes oblivionem superioris vitae hauriebant.

Introitum Orci custodiebat Cerberus, canis triceps.

Malos homines excruciabant apud inferos Furiae vel Eumenides; erines serpentibus circumplicatos habebant, manibus faces ardentes praeferebant.

XIV. Neptunus

Neptunus, Iovis frater, maris imperium obtinebat. Amphitriten uxorem duxit, maris deam, ex qua Tritonem genuit.

Neptuno equus sacer erat.

Agnoscitur imprimis tridente, quern manu tenet. Comitatur eum Triton filius tubicen, concha utens pro tuba.

Multi praeterea erant in mari dii minores multaeque deae, in quibus clarissimae sunt quinquaginta Nereides Nerei senis filiae, quarum una, Thetis, mater Achillis fuit.

XV. Bacchus

Bacchus, Iovis et Semeles filius, vini deus fuit.

Fingitur adolescens formosus, nudus, saepe etiam cornutus, hedera coronatus, manu tenens thyrsum id est hastam pampinis obtectam. Currus eius a tigribus aut a leonibus trahitur.

Comites Bacchi erant Nymphae et Satyri caprinis pedibus et Silenus, qui Bacchi praeceptor fuerat; praeterea mulieres ebriae et furentes, quae Bacchae vel Maenades dicebantur.

Baccho immolabatur hircus, quod animal vitibus nocere solet.

XVI. Ianus

Ianus summa religione a Romanis colebatur. Praeerat omnibus rerum initiis ac vicissitudinibus, imprimis anni et mensiurn et dierum.

Mensis Ianuarius, qui annum aperit, a lano nomen accepit.

Ianus antiquus Italiae rex fuisse et omnium primus homines ritus sacrorum docuisse putatur.

Fingitur bifrons, manu altera clavem, altera virgam tenens.

Templum eius belli tempore patebat; quum antem pax facta erat, claudebatur.

[siren-darkocean]

I find it ironic the oldest living village on Bara Magna was Vulcanus which was inside a Volcanus crator

Like yeah temperatures on the desert barren wasteland planet are already skyrocketing, let's make the longest surviving village be inside a crator of LAVA!

[shadowqueenjude]

Festus Creed: Meet my pet, Vengeance

Vengeance:

[mangher]

@constellaris

Lycaon is giving him The Look.

Gehh--! He's caught before even sneaking out. "What? Karaoke is a fine hobby and quite entertaining."

[tsunagite]

Rhythm Rewind:

I created 123 new Rhythms designs, of which:

42 are from Arcaea

35 are from maimai

12 are from Phigros

10 are from BMS

6 are from Rotaeno

3 are from CHUNITHM

2 are from Paradigm: Reboot

1 is from Tone Sphere

1 is from Orzmic

1 is from EZ2DJ

1 is from SDVX

1 is from takumi3

1 is from KALPA

1 is from vivid/stasis

1 is from Nanobeat…??? Honestly I have no idea if 狂喜蘭舞 came from that or is original

And 6 are originals who later got put into games.

Here’s some personal faves, both new and remakes

[smt-smash-or-pass]

[asrielsquared]

22 hours in 2 days.

[movedtoacolorlessworld]

i hate him

[arcaea-updates]

Past the moon, past the stars...

Fate is reversed.

Found within the Rotaeno Collaboration Pack, a new original song:

"Vulcānus" by Team Grimoire vs Aoi

[doktor-monty]

working on redesigning an oc from last summer- Vulcanus- before I get back to my projects now that I'm feeling better

[mad-mathematician]

Thoughts on Vulcanus!

I have many thoughts, but none are in order, so here we go bitches!!!

Demolishers!!

I think the demolishers are VERY cool!! I feel like every good scifi story or media has at least one Fucking Giant Worm, and seeing Factorio get one is very nice!! When I first read the FFF post about Vulcanus, I was waiting the entire time like "show me the worm show me the worm show me thE WORM-" and I was SO excited when they showed us the worm!!!

Their mechanics are cool I think! A twist on how the enemies in Factorio usually operate. The lack of a constant pressure from biters is a nice change of pace, and needing to kill them to expand your building area is fun! They are deceptively easy to kill if you know what you're doing, but if you don't, they can be real nasty to deal with.

I took down smalls and mediums with gun turrets and red ammo, which is basically free on this planet, which I'll comment on later.

Their atmosphere and presence is very cool as well!! The whole idea of them is very well done, seeing them visually slither across the map is terrifying and majestic. I always find it fun when they come right up to the edge of their territory, right next to where my factory is. Seeing this giant, destructive beast inches away from my carefully built machines, it's a very cool feeling!!

Environment!!

The environment of the planets and Nauvis in general has really been stepped up for Space Age/2.0! Landing on Vulcanus, obviously it is an alien world, but it's also so well done for being a factory game!! The biomes are all distinct, each with their own characteristics, and they all feel different to be in! The sulfuric acid vents feel different to the lava oceans which feel different to the volcanic plateau! It actually feels like I'm on a fully featured planet, with variation and development and history!!! It's all amazingly done.

The music is super sick and adds to this as well!! The big brass feels very dramatic, very grand. It sounds like the planet is BOOMING, which it kind of is in various ways. I'm honestly debating buying the soundtrack to have the Vulcanus tracks in my playlist, which is the first time I've seriously considered buying a game soundtrack.

Production!!!

I think the production lines on Vulcanus are very interesting! The mix of resources you have access to makes you think about your supply chains and logistics in a different way, and it's a very fun change.

The simple fact that you get iron/copper from lava and calcite alone changes so much. In my factory, I don't bother shipping iron or copper anywhere but a couple tiles away by belt. All my long distance transport and trainlines only move the calcite, and source lava locally. It DRASTICALLY reduces train traffic, which is VERY nice!!

Casting items in the foundry is fun!! The 50% productivity bonus on everything is so nice, especially for my belt mall. The speed that things cast also changes how you think about basic supplies like gears. While in a standard factory, you'll likely need a good few assemblers making gears elsewhere for a belt mall, you can very easily get away with just one or two with foundries. And steel casting is SOOO nice. Steel being produces so much faster makes so many things easier. I'm making purple science on Vulcanus, and not needing to have the equivalent area of a small european nation to fit the steel smelting is a godsend.

Power generation is a fun twist as well! Getting steam straight from sulfuric acid and calcite seems like it would be odd at first, but because the machines produce so fast, it ends up meaning that a single chemical plant making steam can supply your water needs AND your power needs for a very long time. I currently have 2.2GW of steam power setup, and I think I'm literally using like 10 chemical plants to make it all lmao.

One thing I was absolutely not expecting was how ABSURD the sulfuric acid vents are. Each individual node, on average, produces like a HUNDRED sulfuric acid per second!!!! Before mining prod and beacons!!!!!!! I was worried about my sulfuric acid supply for power production early on, but after killing one (1) small demolisher, I am absolutely set for LIFE on sulfuric acid.

Overall, the production lines end up being very similar to Nauvis, where you start by making plates, then crafting more advanced intermediates, then eventually science packs. But the way you get to those plates, and the logistics involved, make it a very interesting challenge!!

THOUGHTS!!!

I really enjoyed my time on Vulcanus!! I think it's a very good place to start in the expansion, with enough variety to make you have to rethink some things you thought you knew, but with enough similarities that you won't have to smash your head against a wall to make things work. Very well done, very well thought out, I can't wait to go back here and rework things with later game upgrades!! I feel like Vulcanus is going to become a mass production hub for a lot of the heavier things, like space platform and steel products.

I'm very satisfied with Vulcanus! I cannot wait to see what the other planets have in store :3

Next stop, Fulgora!!!!!

[gamesoutofcontext]

Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten (PlayStation 3; 2011)

[xiloscient-is-gay]

gleba is pain

Factorio Fan Comic - My experience with the 3 different planets