Asteroids Challenge

Asteroids Adventure is a new game mode offered since Galacticraft 3.0.12.431.

The player starts the game stranded in the Asteroids dimension, with a small quantity of starting items. The aim of the game is to survive long enough to build a functioning base, gather resources, and eventually get yourself back to the Overworld.

It is a challenging game:

• you will need to kill mobs to gain essential resources
• the Evolved mobs present a tough fight when you have only basic items
• if you are killed, you may lose items which are crucial for survival or for continuing in the game: death may be game-ending
• there are the ever-present dangers of running out of oxygen, extreme cold and falling off an asteroid
• you have limited food, wood and oxygen until you are able to make some

The game mode is designed to test your knowledge of Galacticraft. To survive and flourish you will need to make use of many of the different possibilities which Galacticraft offers.

It also allows for a quick game of Minecraft if you just want to play through to a specific goal, for example fueling your rocket and returning to the Overworld.

Story

You are a young and talented miner, planning to make a fortune from mining titanium in the Asteroids. You set off on a well-planned expedition, with supplies to last for many months.

As you make your approach to an area which scanners indicate is rich in ores, there's the sound of an impact and the next thing you know, that sound which every astronaut dreads: the rush of escaping air.

"WARNING: Oxygen setup invalid" flashes in large red letters on your HUD. You just have enough time to activate the escape pod. As your pod plunges away towards the nearest large asteroid, you have a fine view of your ship, tearing itself apart.

Unfortunately, somebody forgot to pay the insurance premium to the salvage company. Whether it was administrative error or embezzlement, who knows. That's really the least of your concerns right now. There'll be time enough to deal with that when you return to the Overworld.

You assess your situation: you're in an escape pod, on an unknown asteroid, with only the emergency survival pack in the pod and the few basic materials you were able to salvage from the wreckage of your ship. And it's dark out there. Very, very dark...

Starting items

These items are in your Entry Pod:

Life support items:

• 1 x Oxygen Mask
• 1 x Oxygen Gear
• 1 x Medium Oxygen Tank (full)
• 2 x Heavy Oxygen Tank (full)
• 3 x Liquid Oxygen Canister (full)
• 32 x Thermal Cloth

Salvaged from your wrecked ship:

• 16 x Glass Pane
• 32 x Wooden Plank (birch)
• 16 x Desh Ingot
• 8 x Basic Wafer
• 2 x Full Solar Panel
• 16 x Can of Food
• 12 x Egg
• 2 x Spawn Egg: Cow
• 4 x Night Vision Potion
• 1 x Cryogenic Chamber
• 1 x Tier 2 Rocket
• a small amount of fuel

Activating the game mode

In Galacticraft's config core.conf look for the following settings and set them as shown B:"Adventure Game Mode"=true

B:"Quick Game Mode"=true

B:"Force Overworld Spawn"=false

Now start Minecraft, create a new world, and start the game as normal.

Note that Galacticraft's config setting "Adventure Game Mode" is not connected with Adventure maps in vanilla Minecraft nor with the 'A' game mode setting in NEI.

Optional settings

For an even more challenging game, approaching insane difficulty level, in core.conf you could set B:"Disable rockets from returning to Overworld"=true and B:"Harder Difficulty"=true.

But this is really not recommended. You will probably just end up dying, a lot.

Note for servers

The config settings detailed above on the server are effective, even if clients (players) have set their own configs differently.

On a server, all new players joining the game will land on the same asteroid. That could be a good thing - they can help each other out and share resources - or it could be a bad thing. A future Galacticraft release will provide a config option to allow the server to spawn new players at separated asteroid positions.

Goals

There are various goals in this game mode. Like everything else in Minecraft it's really up to what you want from the game! How about:

• just survive longer than 2 hours
• successfully return to the Overworld with some valuable resources
• build a basic base so you can survive indefinitely in the Asteroids
• build an advanced base so you can live in the Asteroids in style with everything you might need
• reach a specific technology stage, for example building the Short Range Telepad

Crafting recipe

You can make cobblestone from crunching together 2 blocks of Asteroid Rock, note that it must be two different types (colors) of Asteroid Rock:

				2

Compressor recipes

In Adventure game mode only, the following recipes are enabled for use in the Compressor and the Electric Compressor.

Charcoal to Coal:

				2

Cobblestone to Gravel:

				9

Gravel to Sand:

				9

Sand to Clay:

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Soul Sand:

				4

Obsidian from plain Stone and 1 Blaze Powder:

				4

Mob drops

In Adventure game mode only, there are a few extra mob drops to help you.

• Evolved Zombie will sometimes drop a Copper Ingot - this is more common than the iron ingot drops from vanilla Zombies
• Evolved Skeleton will occasionally drop Lapis Lazuli - who knows why, but Evolved Skeletons like the color blue
• Evolved Zombie has a rare drop of Melon Seeds
• Evolved Skeleton has a rare drop of Pumpkin Seeds
• Evolved Creeper] has a rare drop of Sugar Cane
• Evolved Spider has a rare drop of Nether Wart

Tips

• When you move away from your starting position, make sure to remember the coordinates of your Entry Pod: you will need to come back to it eventually to retrieve the rocket and fuel.
• Practice jumping between small asteroids - due to the microgravity, you can jump a surprisingly long distance (especially from a running start).
• An 'Asteroid Staircase' - nerdpole five blocks up, one across, and repeat - allows you to climb safely up to higher levels.
• If you fall, you can normally aim for a small asteroid below you and so not fall out of the world. Always carry a spare stack of blocks so you can get back up to a higher level again.
• A Grapple can be shot a surprisingly long distance, and is a great way to reach a nearby large asteroid. If you shoot the Grapple at a small (1 block) asteroid, you will not land on top of it, but this can be a good way to reach another small asteroid near it.
• A Hollow Asteroid makes an excellent place for a base.
• Mark the end of a walkway with a Glowstone Torch - this gives you a point to aim for if you need to run quickly in the darkness.
• Mobs are killed more quickly if you can get critical strikes.
• You can use Canisters of Liquid Oxygen to replenish your oxygen tanks, just place them together in your 2x2 crafting grid, like repairing an item.
• Do not carry all your spare oxygen tanks with you - if you die and lose them, they will be difficult or impossible to replace.

How to obtain items

• Mark asteroids you have explored / mined already, so you can see your mark from some distance away.