Wrapping up ***** ***** & Moving onto ******************** **********

Today we practiced:
- Evaluating tradeoffs — weighing which enemy core to target based on defenses, unit types, and available resources before committing
- Resource triage — identifying silicon and titanium sh...

Holding the line, zone management and adaptive strategy

Today we practiced:
- Dividing a large map into ******** zones and taking ownership of each section's defense, power, and unit production
- Prioritizing resources under pressure — recognizing when over-building in one area ...

Learning to Attack on USS Iowa!

Today we practiced:
- Observing enemy behavior patterns to figure out what horizons (tier two flying units) actually target and why
- Distinguishing between ground unit pathing logic and flying unit targeting freedom to build smarter defenses
- Co...

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Our Hardest Challenge Yet: Winterland Saints

Today we practiced:
- Prioritizing production layout by placing resource generation in the center to protect it from outer breaches
- Evaluating tradeoffs between resource types
- Managing power systems in real time, using batteries a...

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Managing a multi-front crisis

Today we practiced:
- Prioritizing resources under pressure — recognizing when ******** or ***** was draining critically and pausing production to stabilize
- Diagnosing infrastructure failures — tracing a full power grid collapse back to a single d...

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Managing late-game production under pressure

Today we practiced:

- Calculating resource ratios for power systems (impact reactors and cryofluid mixers)
- Diagnosing production bottlenecks across multiple resource chains simultaneously
- Coordinating team roles during base expan...

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Surviving under pressure: Corvi defense strategy

What we practiced today:

- Planning layered defenses under resource constraints (prioritizing plastinium walls, swarmer turrets, and backup cyclones)
- Coordinating real-time distractions to split enemy fire away from critical st...

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Focusing on the goal: Attack maps and strategic planning

Today we practiced:

- Troubleshooting production bottlenecks (silicon smelters, pulverizers, and multi-material separation)
- Responding to unexpected threats (flying units bypassing defenses and targeting power)
- Experi...

Beating Nucleosynthesis and analyzing what made it work

What we practiced:
- Coordinating roles across production, defense, and offense without overlap
- Sustaining attacks by pairing tier five units with healing support
- Identifying resource bottlenecks (**********, ***** ****...

Building production systems and saving schematics

What we practiced:

- Designing multi-step production chains for advanced materials (**********, phase fabric, *******)
- Troubleshooting complex builds with multiple resource inputs and junctions
- Iterating on designs: starting...

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What we practiced:
- Evaluating trade-offs between early aggression and defensive buildup
- Coordinating roles across three players (attack, defense, production)
- Identifying weak enemy positions by scouting core defenses and unit coun...

Building smarter production systems

Today we practiced:
- Coordinating offense and defense by assigning clear team roles and checking in on progress
- Scaling production by repeating working designs instead of rebuilding from scratch
- Troubleshooting resource flow by tracing co...

Continuing Interstellar Eradication!

What we practiced:
- Analyzing defensive layouts to identify key threats (cyclones, salvos, scatters) before committing to an attack plan
- Comparing unit options by weighing manual control vs group control efficiency 
- Evaluating resource a...

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Returning to a build after a break

Today we practiced skills that help you jump back into a complex project after time away—a key habit for any long-term builder or designer.

What we practiced:

- Reviewing saved progress and recalling previous goals before diving back in
- Com...

Tackling bottlenecks and power management

What we practiced:

- Planning before action: mapping out core attack order and identifying defenses before committing units
- Emergency defense building: rapidly placing turrets and walls when our core came under surprise attack
- Troub...

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Holding the line under pressure

What we practiced today:
- Prioritizing repairs during active combat (identifying which systems to rebuild first when under attack)
- Coordinating multi-player resource management (dividing roles between unit production, defense, and resource logi...

We made serious progress on our attack map today. The crew focused on building up our resource production, especially coal, graphite, silicon, and titanium, which we needed to unlock stronger defenses and better units. ***** introduced us to the thorium reactor—a powerful but ris...

Roles, Strategy, and a Big Breakthrough in Mindustry ⚙️

Today was all about understanding how great teams win together, not alone;

- Our plan was to push deeper into the underwater attack map and refine the team’s strategy.

- We were eventually overwhelmed again, but th...

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Today’s strategy session pushed both groups to think beyond the moment and confront the deeper systems that make Mindustry work.

- Our plan was for each team to expand territory, strengthen production, and practice coord...

We're almost there!

Today we continued with our endless ***** challenge!

My group put our T5 unit production to use and destroyed another core. Our attack is going quite slow because the enemy has very strong defenses. We also triggered enemy T5 unit production which caused us ...

🛠️ Building Skills and Confidence in *****

Today our group focused on teamwork, problem solving, and understanding how to progress through the ***** challenge.

- Planned goal. Relearn the map flow after time away, stabilize resource production, and work toward building ...

Map Making Competition at Recess! 🗺️

This month ****, a map making pro, hosted a map making competition for all Mindustry players. The theme was Winter and whoever made the best map would win **** Recess coins!

Today we just started another competition, and this time the th...

Who's Hungry for Spaghetti? 🍝

Today my group decided to make a fresh tier 5 setup on the latest core we captured because the rest of our base was a inefficient mess. After spending the whole hour setting up our new tier 5 production, it also came out as a mess lol. The good ne...

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Today my group continued with **********, a ** wave survival map:
- We made a plan and assigned roles between production and defense
- We survived for ** waves, then lost our core

- We discussed the importance of failure, listed ...

Today in Mindustry the kids tried to crack a very mean, very well-defended map. Here’s what we worked on:

Power & efficiency
- Learned how to setup thermal generators and maximized their efficiency
- Used the “green diamonds” to see which machines had enough resources and which ...

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We're making Spaghetti 🍝

Today we continued with our ******** attack map. My group made slow and steady progress. We successfully setup air defense for those pesky tier 2 units that keep attacking our production. This allowed us to focus is on the late stage materials like ****...

Feed a Turret, Plastanium Mayhem & Silicon!

We split into two groups today - I worked with ***** and **** on silicon. ***** worked with ***** and ***** on Feed a Turret and Plastanium.

My group learned how to make silicon, a crucial ingredient for making our own units. In our c...

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*** ***** ******** on our ****** ******! This was our ****** ******** yet!

******* ***** us to *********** *** *** ***** we've ****** in the ********* *****:
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Day 2 of Taking on *****! ☀️

We continued with our ***** attack map from last week. ***** is an all new world featuring items and blocks we have never used before. The core mechanics of the game stay relatively the same, but we must learn and adapt to the new environment. 

My g...

Hello, my name is ******. 😁 I'm a guide here at ****** and will be your primary point of contact for most feed posts moving forward. I'd like to clarify that I am in a supporting role; ****** remains the lead instructor for the class.

Groundworks Dominated! 💥

We triumphed ov...

Today we dove back into the Maze Wave Battle!

This map is no joke, and it definitely lived up to its reputation! We faced some real challenges right out of the gate, struggling to get our initial defenses solid. We got overrun a few times and had to restart, but the entire crew ...

Moving onto *****! 🪐

After completing ******** last week, we decided to move onto the second planet, *****. ***** has the same core game mechanics as *******, the previous planet, but some of the items work differently and all of the blocks are new. 

We started with a basic a...

********* down!

Today we mastered ********** production, explored how fluids work, and finally went on the attack.

We started strong, crushing our tier 2 production and taking down the enemy base with precision. Then we shifted to **********, building a solid factory that handl...

Learning how to produce and control our own units! 🤖

Today we flipped the script and went on the offensive! In our latest challenge we have to:
- Produce materials to grow our factory
- Build a strong defense
- Produce our own units

We spent most of the session building our fa...

Today was Day 1 of the Advanced Mindustry Cohort, and wow—what a kickoff. I gave you two challenge options to start with, and you voted for Production Deadline since ***** * was out today.

The goal?

⏱️ Race to produce:
- 5000 Silicon
- 4000 Plastanium
- 1000 Phase Fabric
- 2000...

We are the First Cohort to Beat ********!! 👽

We kicked off the cohort by discussing alternatives to ******** because we "weren't feeling it today". After discussing if we should do PvP or an easier challenge, we decided we would rather continue with ********. 

We planned for 5...

We Finished Maze and a Design Problem 🧑‍🔬

We wrapped up Maze, our defense map that taught us the importance of automating material production & building defense. 

After we moved onto Silicon, our first complex material. Silicon requires of 2 sand, 1 coal, and 30 units of powe...

"Everything is going wrong!"

The problem at the start of the session was 5 remaining interplanetary accelerators & enemy tier 5 units spawning in 5 minutes. We need to destroy the accelerators to unlock the boss, but we also risk being overwhelmed by enemy units. 

After our...

Our Engineering Journey has just begun!! 💥

We had an absolute blast in our first session today!
We started off by discussing what Mindustry is and why were meeting up to play this game together:
🛠️ Mindustry is a hard game that will help us think like an engineer.
🪴 We're goi...