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I had always wanted to try a Sea Ice play through, but couldn't see how to survive the early game. So full disclosure: I started as an Archonexus part 2 site. This way I at least started with warm clothes, good guns, genetics, etc. I had assumed the hard part would be surviving hypothermia and starvation, but what I learned is the challenge is surviving the nothingness. Nothing to eat, nothing to build with, nothing to trade. So the only way to survive the early game was to eat raiders, ideally after harvesting their organs. The first 2-3 years were really brutal and started getting better only after deep mining and hydroponics. To answer your question, there must have been 100's of raiders contributing their protein to my survival.
Props to those players whose origin site is sea ice.
My first one was real, started in alpha when animal herds were still gigantic. I then continued way later when solar panels had increased in size and if you scroll down to Flowerville you'll see the end result. I fooled myself into believing there was no cannibalism, but there's clearly a corpse hanging out at the dining table. Anyway, without those big herds it's really hard now, you have to get lucky and get warm clothes asap
Yes, I've seen your base! Amazing that you've kept it going since the very beginnings of Rimworld!
Curious how you got value out of solar power. I was surprised to find that during long stretches of the year there is little to no zero sunlight. I know that's the case IRL, but didn't expect it in the game. So I quickly abandoned solar.
I just kept building panels and batteries to make sure there was always enough power. On my current run I have split the power into three segments so one zzzt doesn't drain all batteries in one go. Panels are expensive though so it makes wealth high, but it's free energy so no resources wasted on electricity