well now i am out of scrap


    this is getting silly


    just keep running out of everything


    it''s almost like you have to replenish supplies or something


    like stuff doesn''t magically appear in your base


    like you have to do a thing to get a thing


    ridiculous


    what are my scavenger drones even doing out there. just like rolling around in circles laughing. digging holes and sitting in them. it''s not like scrap is hard to find. it''s scrap. just like metal and stuff. although i did use up a lot during that antsiege. and a lot got melted and eaten by ants. and then i used more making stuff like my waterpark. and my art installation/water filter.


    maybe i actually should have seen this coming


    anyway i''ll go out with scamps later. have an actual walk around and point at things and say stuff like ''there you drones that is what you are looking for add that to your visual database okay''


    i can take #1 with me. superhammer construction drone. turns out a superhammer is a kind of hammer powered by aggbys so you can make it really big but also pretty light. it looks a bit like one of those giant fake inflatable hammers. you know from carnivals. i mean i never went to a carnival. but i''ve seen them on tv. and there''s always a kid with a giant fake inflatable hammer. well that''s what #1 has now. big old hammer on her head. she can whack stuff with it. useless for construction. i mean that thing destroys. but yeah. superhammer. believe it.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.


    also did some fiddling and upgrades. 12% speed increase and 3% better power efficiency. look i know these are just boring numbers but this stuff is real. all those passive skill boosts add up you know.


    #4 continues to trundle home. that guy went faaaar


    had another look at my shield. still got that heat thing going on. heat pulse wave. problem is it doesn''t actually do any protecting. just really discourages anything from getting near me by means of fireball explosion. so what i have to do is ugh i know so effort but there''s no way around it because what i have to do is invent yet another power source. can''t use antgutgems because those things are too weird for regular protecting shields. need something else. so i''m over here researching like basic battery principles and it''s so boring and normal. once you''ve made a battery out of a gem you stole from a giant ant''s guts it is very difficult to go back to mercury and silver and stuff. that looks like the direction i gotta go in though. well not so much the mercury. that stuff is toxic as flip.


    maybe just get a whole bunch of potatoes and zinc and copper


    just kidding


    or am i


    silver. need to find silver. then i can make batteries for days. or gold would be good too. get some nanowire going. maybe i need to go loot a jewellery store or something. good news is that i can get all the nitric acid i need from all this ant blood i got sitting around. need to build a thing to extract it but that''s no big deal. another option is some kind of biobattery. can ant blood be a battery? why not. why could it not. no good reason. ant blood could totally be a battery. don''t tell me what i can''t do. you''re not my real vampire dad.


    still got that weird feeling


    like what am i supposed to be doing?


    there''s definitely something


    but oh well


    i got science to science