This is off to a great start...

[Ncates1234]

https://imgur.com/rnPmjQa



You know what I love the most about Rimworld?


"Zzztt..."
Messages.

[dearmad]

Image kind of small... What's the gripe or the funny?

[Dargaron]

You can click on the image to make it bigger. At least on a laptop.

And it looks like he got a Zzztt event within the first few days of the colony. I'm not sure why that's surprising.

[Shurp]

He doesn't even have a battery yet.  So the zzzzt did no damage.

Oh, and he doesn't even have any electrical devices drawing power.  He got some windmills up and the power blew instantaneously before he even had a chance to build anything else.

[zizard]

Two windmills for three colonists is massive overkill too.

[5thHorseman]

Not to mention that Zzzt is the Diet Coke of bad events.

Just one calorie, not bad enough of an event.

[B@R5uk]

Shot circuit happens without batteries now, as it should. But first time it happened for me, I was surprised too. Also some electric devices like electric stove (which I tested myself) will shot lock under rain. Good news is this event now so rare you can almost forget about it existence. But it can and will happen at the most inappropriate time.

[Shurp]

Since the batteries were nerfed, it's hard to have enough batteries to get a decent explosion that sets a few colonists on fire and half your base because you forgot to replace your starting wood construction with stone.

The zzzt event should really hit a battery so you at least lose 2 components from it... and maybe more if neighboring batteries blow too!

[Ncates1234]

Oof's... I always avoided batteries ever since "Stuffed batteries" went out of date. Damn I miss those plasteel batties...
Which is why I built 2 wind gens to support upcoming workbenches full time.

Hearing about new short circuit mechanic is scaring me...

[b0rsuk]

I had a zzzt on a wood-powered generator. It simply started a fire.

[Kirby23590]

Zzzzztt...

You know what that means?

Time for getting those fuseboxes ready!


Or you could keep playing and fighting those fires, i had a bad time when a zzzzt happened and made my storage explode which had mortar shells & chemfuel in it...
Whoops!! Fun times!!

[TheMeInTeam]

I still advocate against building conduits.

[5thHorseman]

I tried the whole not building conduits thing but kept getting annoyed that I couldn't place powered things where I wanted and instead had to put them where they were close enough to something that had enough spare power.

I'd rather have a nicely laid out workroom and a 5 second fire a couple times a year than power generators scattered willy nilly all over the place and clusters of benches around them.

[SystemDC]

That isn't as bad as getting a heatwave in an arid shrubland a day after you land. Sometimes Randy is a pain in the ass.

[bbqftw]

Zzt with consistent power source like mill/chemfuel/geo is trivial anyways, literally 1-2 tiles at worst