🚨There is no class on 11/28. We will meet again on Tuesday 12/3!🚨

Today we continued learning about silicon production!

Our goal was to:
- Create one working silicon machine
- Scale our design in a straight line
- Use the same line of sand and coal for all lines
- Learn how ...

With a few squad members missing, we decided to pause our 5 Defenders Challenge and dive into a PvP match instead. The group discussed and agreed on a map called “Exploding Bridge.” The twist? The bridge connecting Red Team and Yellow Team explodes every 7–10 minutes, which means...

We started off today's session in another sandbox. Each of us practiced producing materials and setups we weren't fully comfortable with. This included:
- Steam Generators
- Tsunamis and Water
- Turret Setups

After our sandbox, we moved onto Groundwork, the challenge we started ...

We beat chambers! Lets gooo!

What we learned about working on a team from this challenge:
- Pausing helps us communicate our issues and make a plan before diving back into the action
- When someone asks a question, we should answer it!
- Don't interrupt or change the subject on...

Today we took on Groundwork, our hardest challenge yet! In this challenge our goal is to survive for 30 waves. In order to succeed, we need to:
- Communicate, plan, and execute as a team
- Build a really strong defense

In our first attempt you all planned and communicated except...

Today we struggled. Our main power source was blown up multiple times and we didn't know how to organize ourselves to fix it.

After a few lengthy conversations and some long pauses, this is what we've come to agree on:
- If someone is talking, let them finish before you start t...

Today we took on a very hard plastanium production challenge. In this challenge, you need to produce 250 plastanium, but there's a catch! Once you reach 200 plastanium in your core, your core begins to burn plastanium. The only way to reach 250 is to produce 2 full lines of plast...

Today we took on Chasm, and incredibly well designed attack map by one of the kids at *****!

This map forces us to do a few things really well:
- Manage resources effectively! There are very small ore patches on this map which make it hard to progress if you're not careful
- Cr...

We continued our Chambers Wave Defense challenge today and made incredible progress—going from wave ** to wave ***(out of ***)! We’re ahead of schedule, and the teamwork was truly impressive.

Special shoutout to the group’s willingness to stop and restructure jobs as needed. We ...

We did it! We completed the ******** map, surviving all ** waves—and we probably could have gone even further. Our first major challenge was a success! Every member of the squad stuck to their roles. ****** and I were so impressed with all of the late game mechanics you worked t...

On our first attempt last week, we failed on wave 5. After failing the challenge we reflected and came to the decision that we need better planning and division of labor. This lead to us splitting into two groups:
- One group focused on the production of materials and power
- The...

Today was all about unit production! We kicked things off in sandbox mode, experimenting with unit creation in a no-pressure environment. Then, we took on our second Recess Challenge—Glacier Attack. We split into two teams and dove right in.

Both teams nailed the most crucial pa...

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We continued our newest challenge today, Levels—a unique and fascinating challenge created by one of the kids at *****! This map starts with pre-built mechanisms for almost all resources and units, but here’s the catch: they’re all broken in some way.

Our task? Decide whether to...

We continued on our attack map challenge today and made some BIG strides forward, despite a few setbacks along the way.

Challenges We Faced:

- Our entire power grid went down (shoutout to ***** for getting it back up and running!).
- Our units were being destroyed when we sent ...

Today, we welcomed a new member to the cohort—******, it was awesome to have you join us!

We dove into learning how to optimize a refinement process that requires two material inputs and power to create a new output—specifically focusing on silicon and metaglass production. Usin...

We did it! Despite an exploding nuclear reactor and 50 waves of relentless enemies, we conquered the Chambers map. During our reflection, your key takeaways were:

- Division of Labor
- Prioritization
- Defense-heavy Strategy

After celebrating, we moved on to tackle and complete...

We did it! We beat the 5 Defenders Challenge—our toughest challenge yet! We failed once, and we came close a few more times, but you all pulled through. When I asked what made the difference this time, here’s what you said:

- ***** helped us rebuild and mine quickly whenever nee...

You did it! 🥳🎉🥳
You successfully tackled the Bridge challenge and have officially earned your spot in a Mindustry team. You established a strong plan, reflected after each session, and ultimately triumphed on your third attempt. The last 10 waves went almost smoothly—until the...

Today, we kicked off our toughest collaboration challenge yet—5 Defenders and 1 General. The map is set with 5 equal sections, each blocking the path to our shared core, which is contained in a 6th central section. Each team member is responsible for defending their own section, ...

We began today’s session with a reflection on our previous start to the Attack on Biomass challenge. After identifying a few major errors from last time, we decided to start with a clean slate. And wow, did it pay off!

In the planning stage, we made some great suggestions: assig...

We continued our Chasm Challenge today—by the way, did you know this challenge was designed by one of your peers at *****? How cool is that?

We started the session confident in our ability to make significant progress in just an hour, but wow, did this challenge surprise us! Ini...

A big shout out to our newest member, ****, who made a fantastic entrance today! You absolutely crushed the first challenge, and your energy and leadership are a great addition to the cohort!

Today, the group had the option to take on the 40k Power Challenge or try the Wave Defe...

Hey everyone,

Over the past two weeks, we've been working through a tough challenge with the Geysers map. It hasn’t been an easy ride—at times, we’ve hit some real roadblocks. We started strong, but as things got more complicated, our defenses broke down, and we all know how dif...

Yesterday, we restarted the Chasm Challenge, still smarting from our last attempt—but wow, what a difference! This time, we completely rethought our approach. I set a milestone for the group: create Fortresses (a third-tier ground unit) before sending an attack on the enemy base....

We were super excited to welcome another face to our Mindustry cohort today—****! 🎉 The crew stayed super focused, which helped us quickly build up our factory and set the stage for an awesome challenge.

We switched gears from our usual Attack maps and dove into a Wave Defense ...

We did it—** cores down! The Epic Attack Map is officially complete, and what an accomplishment it was. Quick highlights from today:

We created:

-Tier 4 air and ground units (and an army of tier 3 units!)
-Every single material in the game
-Over ***k energy generation per secon...

Today, we took on the Attack on Biomass challenge. We split into two groups, and both teams had some extremely close calls with their cores nearly being destroyed. Interestingly, both teams encountered the same issue—a lack of clear, consistent communication.

In Mindustry attack...

Wow, guys—that was intense. We’ve taken on the toughest challenge we’ve faced as a group, and we fully expect to fail plenty of times before we finally succeed.

This session wasn’t without its bumps—we had disagreements, a lack of accountability at moments, and even a few accusa...

Based on our reflection from last week, we made three big changes going into the challenge today.

1. We paused the game every time someone brought up an important point so we could discuss it
2. We only un-pause the game when everyone on the team has a role that is contributing ...

Today, we conquered our latest challenge—Attack on Biomass! The group ended the session with a bang, rolling through the enemy defenses. Huge shoutout to:

- ****** for mass-producing our attacking units
- *** for resource production and controlling attackers
- **** for mastering...

We had an absolute blast in our first session today!

We started off by discussing what ******** is and why were meeting up to play this game together:

🛠️ ******** is a hard game that will help us think like an engineer.
🪴 We're going to fail a lot. Not only is that okay, but ...

First things first—we need to decide on a name for our cohort! Drop your suggestions in the comments, and let’s make this official.

Today, we kicked off in sandbox mode to dive deeper into the mechanics of metaglass production. We realized that all Mindustry factories that requi...