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[request a bulk trade caravan]

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Day 25: Im ruining out of food, i used my becon to request a bulk trade caravan. Buying some steel, food and wood. I will build more

How did you request a caravan?! Did the summer temperatures rise enough so that Muffalos can survive at the south pole?

I'm curious about that too.

I will say that Randy is much more forgiving than Casandra. I'm 80 days in on my first Randy Extreme attempt. Probably because all the random cargo drops are much more desirable than the raids cassandra throws at you. I've also noticed a higher frequency of trade ships

When i  was deployed there was 'summer'  -25 during day and -45 during night.  Then after summer end i could not request caravans. But yeah cargo drops was very helpful there. Without this or trade ships i would die tons of time.

Well i did it:

Sea Ice extreme mode, Randy Random and rough level of difficulty. Currently building a ship. 210 days pass.

Story is somehow like that:

Day 1: I landed on deserted. Its freaking cold here. I have to build some shelter, get some power and heater asap.

Day 2: I've counted my food supplies. I have 10 days to go. I build trade becon and communication station and research table. I will dedicate myself to science .

Day 5: Still no caravans or anything... had i expected there is nothing here !
Day 6: Right someone tried to attack me, i killed him, striped and make him a nice grave outside, who knows maybe i will have to eat him later.
Day 7: Another attack - more black hour food. Okey i finish my  researches, now i know how i can plant some food in this ice hell, yet i dont have supplies for that....
Day 10: Finally a bulk trade Caravan ! They had everything i had. Food, Steal, Wood.
Day 11: Finally i start to planting some rice for me, the sun lamp consumes tons of energy, constructed additional wind turbine and few batters
Day 12: From now on my days will looks like that: Planting, Cutting, Research, gathering scrap metals. Im working on technology to melt those into steel.
Day 15: Someone tried to join my colony, sorry bro i dont have food for you. Killed him striped and buried his body. I have 6 graves in 'garden already'
Day: 16: I build machine to refining scrap metal, it consumes alot of energy. I have to build another wind turbine to be able to handle this.
Day 19: After 3 days of switching off/on sun lamp i can finally build another wind turbine
Day 23: Another guy had joined - same story. 11 Graves  already
Day 25: Im ruining out of food, i used my becon to request a bulk trade caravan. Buying some steel, food and wood. I will build more
Day: 40: Continuing my research - i dont know if i stay any day longer because of some powers problem in last days i lost all my food.
Day 41: Well... i used some ...guests from my collection in garden.... i dont know if i will be able to do it again but i guess i will have to
Day: 44: No troubles so far, finally i have enough rice to stop using my black hour supplies
Day 60:  My Rice plant is ruining smoothly i have some extra food now. I also was able to get some extra resources from Cargo Drops
Day 80: I start to have alot of job, planting, cutting, melting, researching. I have some extra food and im starting to feel somehow lonely
Day 100: I let Daniel stay in my colony - he will be useful....for now.
Day 120: Nothing special, some raids, some cargo pots - i think i finally start to see chance to survive this. PS. Daniel is quite nice.
Day 130: Whoah what a nice cargo drop, also a bulk trade caravan, we get some steel and wood and some silver in case we wll have to call another caravana
Day 180: Okey here what we have, 6 rice plant, 4 wind generator and one solar, Hi-Tech lab, oh and me and Daniel have a bedroom - and we get married !
Day 190: Another guy want to join our colony...after digging already 42 graves im done, i let this guy stay here.
Day 191: Turns out it was a good choice, he had a great idea, he and daniel went as trade caravana to other colony - 9 days of travel in total - lets hope it was a good choice
Day 200: They come back with a lot of silver. Also meanwhile i had a great idea, i build small prison and capture one of raiders - guess what, i sold him. We are rich now.
Day 201: We build multi-analyzer.
Day 210: new guy ... how he was ? Black ? have his own bedroom, raids get much more frequent. I think we will build defense system.

PS ( Almost entire research tree done )

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