[Spoiler] Do i need this to continue?

[Yiasmat]

Hey there, kinda stuck at the moment. I am looking for a simple yes or no here, please no further spoilers. Also please do not correct me if i'm wrong on my assumptions. Just a yes or no:

I went down to the basement and i am presuming that i need to drain the reserviour to keep going, which in turn requires power in the pump room to use the backup tank. As for the yes or no question: Do i need power in the pump room to continue?

Because if so i think i might put this game down for a bit as after ~15 days i still cannot connect the boiler room to neither the lab nor the pump room (which i am trying for ~35 days now).

[Lactose Intolerant Volcano God]

"Need to?" No. What you are proposing may be useful at some point in time, but by then you will likely have a specific reason for doing so.

[Petter1789]

You do not need to power the pump room to continue

[Fishy]

No

Not spoilers, but just let it happen when it happens. I didn't get this until day 50+, and I was not short of other things to progress in that time. Personally, I wouldn't ever try and focus on one thing. This game has hundreds of threads to pull. Pull whichever one you are presented with that day.

[Yiasmat]

The problem there is that i find that many of the threads i currently want are just RNG gated. The only thing i can currently do every run at this time is look at the pictures which i finally figured out what they mean. Other than that i have to either get lucky for the power as described above, omega giga ultra giga mega lucky for the classroom thing i want to look at, or lucky again finding the discs i already found without ever having access to a console.

But again: i'm pretty sure this is just my feeling though. The game is still fun but i don't think the puzzle genre mixes well with the roguelike aspect.

[Fishy]

I'm around day 80, and I've had only a handful of days where I didn't feel like I made meaningful progress. The only days I didn't really achieve anything are days when I dead-ended myself 10 rooms in, so were very short.

And I still feel like I'm pulling a dozen threads.

I've never gone into a day trying to 'force' an outcome though. Just started drafting, and kept my eyes open for any of the dozens of things I'm currently curious about.

New rooms, new items (or combinations of items), new books (or other purchases), a whole bunch of different things that might connect to a boiler room, more stars, new areas outside .... there's just so much!

I'd be happy to point you towards a dozen different threads to pull, but I don't know where you are in the game yet. If you've got to room 46 though, then there should be at least 8 more threads to pull, each of which opens up another rabbit hole .

I see so many threads here where someone is trying to force [x] and failing, and having a miserable time. And it's funny, because they are all for completely different values of [x], that are being missed/ignored by all the people trying to force some different x.

Keep a notepad with a list of every time something catches your eye, and glance through it every 'day'!

As the days go on, you do get more and more ways to work around the RNG. There are always multiple ways to achieve your goals, or ways to mitigate the random factor.

[Gargish🐸]

Blue Prince has often alternative ways to achieve something.

[Silyon]

No. Power is only needed in the pump room for one very specific task. All other uses are able to be done without power, though the water-shuffling can get awkward.

[Fishy]

Originally posted by Silyon:

No. Power is only needed in the pump room for one very specific task. All other uses are able to be done without power, though the water-shuffling can get awkward.

I think you can even do that task without power as well, in the end. (Unless of course there's even *more* than I know about!?)

[Draco18s]

Originally posted by Silyon:

No. Power is only needed in the pump room for one very specific task. All other uses are able to be done without power, though the water-shuffling can get awkward.

I am amused that I accomplished that task on the same day I first emptied the reservoir. Well, secondary benefits took another two days, but the important bit was "well I've got one key left..." and hit jackpot blind.

[GuyYouMetOnline]

I can't really answer without knowong how far in the game you are. There's a need to drain it eventually, but I don't know of you're there yet. If you just got basement access, then no, you don't need to.