Today ***** joined the session and told us he was eating macaroni for breakfast. This then led to **** self-reporting that he likes eating mashed bananas and that he is definitely 'not weird'. So who's going to try mashed bananas this week and let us know if its weird or not?

Af...

Day 1 of Foundry! 🤖

Foundry is a 3D factory building game, and we like building factories :)

Today we learned the basics:
- ********** & ******** are the basic building block ores that lead into more complicated components and items
- We can burn ********** for power, but ther...

Both groups made significant progress in *****'s Halloween Attack map!

*****'s group settled into solid roles! ***** H stepped up as the leader to coordinate them and ensure they were protected. The group fought their way into establishing a second core and has made coordinated ...

Today we took on *****'s latest map creation, a PvP map based on our solar system! Each team got a planet with certain weaknesses and strengths.

Of course we left breakout rooms open so we could make alliances and strategize with other teams. So far it seems some alliances have...

********** ** ****** – ***** ******** ********** ⚔️🌊

********** *** * ***** ********. ** ******** ***** *** *** ******** ********** ***… ***** ** crushed **. ******.
- ***** ***: ***** ** ** ***** ** and *****.
- ****** ***: ********** ** ***** **, ***** ** **** ** ***** **… **...

This might be too easy for us 🤔

Today we continued with ********, the hardest Mindustry challenge. We reflected on our analysis from the end of last week and got straight to fixing and improving our setup. 

****** handled attacking for us and destroyed several enemy production...

******** ********! 🛰️

***** ****** made ********* ******** today! ** ***** opted for the "** **** **** *** **** ** *** *** **** *** *** *****" strategy. ** *** ****** ***** ** *** plan but ** worked out pretty well! ********* ************ things ** needed to fix ** improve ** w...

We cracked the code! 🧠 Our last Production Deadline run was our most organized and successful attempt yet. The entire squad was firing on all cylinders, and it showed we got further than we ever have before. We successfully produced every single resource target... all the way do...

Learning ***** & Making Group Decisions! 🧠

Today we spent the first ~15 minutes deciding what map to play, I think its our new record! What ideas do we have to speed up this process for next time so we can spend more time playing, and less time debating?

We dove into ***** tod...

Its a mess, but its working! 🤪

We have no space, like none! But, we're making it work! We've packed all our resource production and export onto these tiny islands and managed to do some incredible things this session:
- We found ***** (Ask your kid what that means)
- We set up ...

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******************************************. ****************************************** continues to be a top tier strategy... what is a good counter to this?

******************************************. If you put some time into thinki...

WE DID IT!! Today you all beat an attack map with the most intense defense we’ve ever seen—and you crushed it.

💥 Highlights from the Win:

- Huge props to **** for the idea of divebombing enemy cores with loaded tier 4s—it worked beautifully and cleared everything but the last ...

Today was a challenge

My group struggled to defend against air units. The larger our base gets, the more angles there are for enemy units to attack. If you setup a defense, they tend to go around it. We reached a point where the game was going to nuke our main core, never have w...

We beat ***** ********!

We've been playing this challenge for over a month, failed countless times, and still came out on top! Over the course of this challenge, the biggest challenge we faced was learning how to work well as a team.

This includes:
1. Identifying the biggest p...

We started the timer! ⏰

We continued with ******** this week and made some excellent progress. After spending the first ** minutes planning, we began executing on our strategy. Some of us built defense, others increase resource production, and a few works on unit production.

W...

We're SO close!

Today we took the pause and prebuild strategy to the extreme. The results are speaking for themselves!

We've knocked out all the required materials for silicon, plastanium, blast compound & phase fabric. The only material left that is questionable is surge allo...

Three teams are battling it out to the death. Alliances are created and broken, home bases are destroyed, and insane custom scripts are written.

Today gold team made a successful sneak attack on purple destroying their main core. They quickly followed up by breaking their allia...

We're cooking ******** 🍝

Week 2 of *************** is going well! One group rushed Tier 3 daggers which are ground units with long range. They're out-ranging most of the enemy defenses which has allowed them to push forward quite far. They are not at a defense setup that has **...

We played 4 team PvP maps! 🤪

Huge shoutout to ******** and **** for making incredible maps for us to play! We wrapped up ********'s map where yellow team took a decisive victory. We then moved onto ****'s Lord of the Rings inspired map. 🧙‍♂️

We decided to reintroduce a grace...

We finished our Lord of the Rings PvP map designed by **** today! Red and yellow battled to the death, neither group successfully destroying the other. This gave an opportunity for green team to swoop in and destroy red first, then yellow second. Both teams were sent to the exile...

Making progress, as a TEAM! 👥

We've been stuck on the same wave of Naval Defense for 3 sessions and today we finally broke through!

So, what changed?

1. We got on the same page. We ironed out our thoughts around defense, and all agreed that arcs are our best option.
2. We re...

******* **********!

We picked up with our PvP match on ******* from last week. Green team started the session off by attacking yellow and destroying a core. That quickly turned into yellow attacking green, and destroying their base. We then split green players between team red a...

The great debate 🗣️

We kicked off today by discussing two good strategies:
1. Use Ripples to slowly push forward. These are cheap to make and we can get started right away.
2. Make a foreshadow and just blow everything up from long distance. This is hard and tedious to make, bu...

Taking on *****'s map!

***** made an incredible map that uses item sources, typically a nontraditional item to use outside of sandbox mode. This item allows you to produce a full belt of any material. We had 3 item sources and 1 liquid source.

With free materials gifted to us, ...

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Today we made a gameplan:
1. Get ******** into our core. This allows us to create laser drills, *************** conveyers, and higher tier turrets.
2. Once we have ******** and better production, we need to find ********** to un...

******** ********! 👽

** ***** *** today ** ******** * **** ** ********** *****. ***** *** ********* ****** ** *** *** ** ********** **********!

***** ********** ** ** *** **** ** ********* ** ********** ***. **** *** ** ***** ********** **********, ***** **********, **** 5 **...

Challenges & Continuous Progress 🏆

We split into 3 groups today:
- ********, *****, ****, ********, and I continued Interstellar Eradication. We eliminated the last outer core and regrouped our troops on the weakest side of the enemy defense. We tried to send over ** tier * and...

The start of our latest journey 💫

Today we started ********, one of the hardest ********** challenges. We're excited to do this for a few reasons:
1. We can prove to ourselves, and to the world, that we can do really hard things
2. It's going to push us to grow both as a thinke...

5 weeks later...

We finished interstellar eradication! It only took 150+ *****' and 100+ *****' to do it!

We split into two groups today, one to finish Interstellar Eradication and the other to continue with ***** *****. The ***** ***** group went for a ***** + ***** strategy ...

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1. ************************************************** > **************************************************
2. ************************************************** and ***********...

Today we combined both groups and continued on the save with tier 4 units.

We worked on:
- Increasing production of Plastanium, Thorium, Phase Fabric, and Power
- Producing Tier 5 Units
- Destroying enemy defenses
- Defending our cores

I am immensely impressed with our ability...

They finished Lava Lands 🌋

********* group continued with Lava Lands today and beat it! In this challenge you guys:
- Failed, reflected, and started over
- Dealt with the frustrating parts of the challenge and overcame them as a team
- Became some of the first people to beat La...

Production Deathline - Attempt 2 & 3

On attempt two we made some big progress! We reached *** Silicon & *** Phase Fabric. Well done! Before our core blew up we paused to reflect and had some key takeaways:
- If we pause and prebuild, we can get production going much more quickly...

Last week we agreed to a 2 team PvP match for today where we would focus on working as a team and reflecting on our decisions after each game. We only had 5 show up today so we decided it would be everyone vs me.

Game 1 you guys did not make a plan which allowed me to destroy y...

After both teams failed or came close to failing last week, we decided to restart this challenge from a new perspective:

1. Pausing the game, talking about roles, and preplanning our builds doesn't slow us down, it actually speeds us up and helps us be more organized as a team
2...

**** was in a great spot last week. They had a lead on ***** team and even destroyed their front core. Things were looking great for them.... until someone blew up the rear core with a ********* ******. Ok fine, it was me. I blew up my teams core 🤣. Next time someone should help...

The Factory is Growing! 🌱

Day 2 of Foundry was a success! Today we:
- Welcomed **** back!
- Expanded our smelting columns, we figured out that 8 smelters creates a full belt of material
- Automated production of some basic materials like blocks and belts
- Started using splitte...

A Chance to Play with ******, the Creator of Mindustry! 🎥

We're looking for the BEST Mindustry players at ****** to challenge ****** to a game of Mindustry. But first, we have to prove we know his game inside and out.

I'm looking for a minimum of 6 players to take on ******, a...