Cerys

You discover Cerys, a moon of Fulgora whose ruins lie frozen under a thick layer of dry ice. As you touch down, methane ice crystals scatter into the vacuum. Asteroids wander overhead, along with a gentle solar wind under Fulgora’s magnetic influence.

Many frozen structures lie embedded in the surface. Though made of new materials, they bear the hallmarks of the Fulgorans. As you explore, it becomes apparent that without lightning, they turned to another source of power.

Features

• Brand new gameplay:
  • Uncover ancient wrecks from multiple layers of ice, and repair them by various methods.
  • Defrost your factory with a new mechanic, different to Aquilo.
  • Solve the workings of plutonium to unlock devastating weaponry for other planets.
  • The play area of the moon is finite. Terrain curves as you approach the moon's edge.
• Traditional mining is combined with a novel recycling chain based on nuclear components. Iron is a scarce resource, providing challenge in the early-game. Logistic bots appear only later in the gameplay.
• It is said that due to the solar wind, cargo pods cannot drop resources onto Cerys (without researching a specific technology.)
• It is simple to include Cerys in existing saves as there are zero changes to vanilla: no restrictions on vanilla planets, changes to vanilla gameplay, or new recipes with purely vanilla items.
• On first playthrough, Cerys is equal parts puzzle game and Space Age planet.

Reviews

• "one of the best mods ever made. every recipe has a purpose. does not waste your time." — notnotmelon
• “This is a GREAT mod” — MelodicBreadfruit938
• "Extremely impressed at how several space age systems work together" — PlzPuddingPlz

Notes

• Cerys originally contained a revamp of GotLag’s Flare Stack. We later assisted snouz to port the original mod to 2.0. In the current version, with Cerys installed, flare stacks are unlocked on Cerys and incinerators are disabled by default since Space Age brings the recycler (but this latter change can be reverted in the mod settings).
• We didn't set out to make a 'planet'. This mod grew out of roc experimenting with a recycling chain based on nuclear plant components after the release of Hardcore Fulgora.
• More you’d like to see? Something you hate? Trying to get a Cerys megabase working? Let us know in Discussion or Discord.

Localization

• English, Chinese, Ukrainian, French, Korean, Russian, Japanese.
• To help translate more languages, submit a pull request on Github (but please play the game first to get context.)

See also

We recommend these modpacks which include Cerys.

• Snouztorio.
  • Snouz even provided extra polish to Cerys making his modpack better. Thanks Snouz!
• Starmap: Nexuz

Credits

• Gameplay and code by thesixthroc.
  • If you'd like to collaborate on making this mod better or your own idea, feel free to reach out. Opening PRs on Github is welcome, especially for compatibility with other mods.
• Art by Tserup.
• Special thanks:
  • rjdunlap, xbarsigma, Preceti, notnotmelon, NekoBaron for feedback, suggestions and discussion
  • snouz for contributing improvements to many icon graphics
  • Quezler and notnotmelon for contributing bugfixes and code improvements
  • LunarNex for providing feedback and saves on a key issue
• Some assets are adapted from open-source materials. See Credits.md for details.