Carnivore on Metallic Swamp

[Ekimmak]

So, in me wanting to try something much rougher than normal, I'm doing my usual all achievements run attempt, where I aim for Super Sustainable, Carnivore, and Locavore, all at once.

And then I think about how I'm going to get Carnivore, and I get mildly concerned. How should I go about meeting the meat production requirements without any hatch on the start? Is there a way to make a good Puft->Pacu combo for ranching, or should I just beeline for the teleporter and/or rocket to find something easier to ranch? Plug Slugs I consider to be complete evil in swamp asteroids, because the hydrogen gives eye irritation that never leaves(1) and consumption of metal ore is unsustainable.

(1) I know that showers can get rid of the debuff. But when you go for Carnivore, that's not something you can really aim for.

[AlexanderB]

you need any combination of
20 shove voles
66 grubgrubs.
100 hatches, slug plugs, dreckos, slicksters
200 sweetles, pips, puft
250 pacu

to turn into BBQ/Fried Fillet in 100 cycles.
What they consume being not renewable is not a big deal, it's only temporary.

If anything, the plug slugs being tamed and fed are a huge boon to super sustainable as well, giving both hydrogen, and their own power output. Just have to design the ranches so the hydrogen can float up and away from the dupes, and gather in a funnel at the top for collecting.

[DanKirpan]

Just got it in cycle 89. Metallc Swamp was definetly the hardest so far.

My tactic was:
-start with 3 Binge Eater + Sparkle Streaker (Ashkan, Leira and Turner), 2 Builder (interest in Digging, Building and Suit Wearing, 1 with Mechatronics Engineering and 1 Researcher (interest in Researching, Suit Wearing and Rocketry)
In this order they gained their skills:
-Ashkan (Builder): Mechatronics Engineering, all 3 digging skills and Cooking
-Leira (Researcher): Advanced Research, Cooking and Ranching
-Turner (2nd Builder): Ranching, Crop Tending and Cooking
Turner's interests may seem strange for his job, but Building and Digging help him skill up faster in the early cycles.

-use the Printing Pod as a Light Source for a Laboratory with 2 Research Stations (finished cycle 2, 1 switched to Super Computer in cycle 4)
-prepare a fishtank and let gravity fill it with water (finished cycle 3, Fish Feeder set up in cycle 12)
-set up a Sublimation Station and a Sludge press to fuel the Research (cycle 4)
-run to the Teleporter to unlock Pips in the Printing Pod (finished cycle 6, rerolled care packages to get 4 Pip eggs and 1 Pipsqueak)
-open a Gold volcano (cycle 7, don't bother insulating it, the environment will soak up the heat until Carnivore is finished)
-thaw the dupe (Interests: Digging, Building, Ranching with Divers Lung and Loner) and let them life alone on the teleporter planet, slowly building a Pip ranch there by wild Arbor Trees (unfortunatly the asteroid is very cold, so plants don't grow, only reached a high enough temperature cycle 50ish)
-prepare 4 horizontal 96 tile ranches (first finished cycle 15, 4th cycle 22), 2 of which keep some natural tiles for wild planting with a horizontal pneutic door at the entrace to let eggs fall through
-let Pips plant Thimblereed in the 1st ranch, but make it a Greenhouse for now to speed up getting more seeds (swtiched to ranch at cycle 52). Thimble reed to increase the odds to get Cuddle Pips that can stay with the eggs

-use the gold from the volcano to automate the fishtank and build 2 Incubators (cycle 13-16)
-automate egg collection with Atuosweepers+ Autodispensers and upgrade the incubator to a speed incubator (manually switching the eggs and letting 2 Autosweepers move the eggs between two rooms)

-collect every Puft on the map using Auto-wrangle (cycle 31)
-switch one stable of Pufts with Plug Slugs in cycle 52 (after I set jup a Deodorizer near my Great Hall, in Oxygen they loose Eye iritation)
-set up a Deep Freezer only accessable for an Autosweeper with 2 Fridges, 1 for cooked things and 1 for Cooking ingredients (finished cycle 65, research slowed down a bit because I messed up my researchers priority

-toggle Red Alert once the freezer is working, causing +50 % Stress per cycle and lock any not Barbecue/Cooked Seafood in the freezer during dupes breakdown.