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112 lines
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# MinetestTycoon
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Explore the world, invent technologies, develop products and services and
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become Minetest Tycoon, selling them to the natives of the world and,
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possibly, other players as well.
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## The story
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You are an interdimensional explorer with a team of scientists you hired to
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help you with your quest. One day you and your group of scientists were doing
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an experiment with a new type of exploratory base hull which aimed at
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exploring worlds with "strange physics" (as some folks in your team used to
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call it) more safely than with the way used until now. The idea was that your
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base will maintain a tether to your homeworld so you can evacuate you and
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your team if things go south while exploring.
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The experiment [went horribly wrong](lore/disaster.md) and the tether
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connection to your homeworld was lost. What made the matter worse is that
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even the data uplink leading back to your homeworld was also lost. As a
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result, you and your scientists ended up trapped in one of these worlds with
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this "strange physics", without a way to reach your homeworld. Additionally,
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you know that no one in your homeworld knows your location or whether you are
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alive or not, so you are on your own. Fortunately, you
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with your team already had a few avatars for the world that was your
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destination (and you actually ended up there), so you have a chance to start
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exploring the world, which (at least for now) became your new home.
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So, now you are only with some basic equipment to allow you to connect to an
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avatar and begin exploring. And with a large group of your scientific
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friends, all waiting in hibernation to conserve the resources of the base
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(food and energy). You are now on your own. Can you find a way to survive,
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thrive and, possibly, find a way to bring your people and all the lost teams
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of scientists home?
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### Your new home
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The world you ended up in was on the radar of the scientific community of
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Arepol for a long while. Rumor has it that dozens of science teams
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were lost in this world as they tried to explore it. As a matter of fact,
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one of the goals of your base hull project was to create a base facility that
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would allow you to find these lost teams and bring them back home. All that
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is known about them for now is that they are not dead, they are hibernated
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as all the base hulls they used are designed to hibernate them when they run
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out of resources needed to sustain themselves in the unhibernated state.
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Additionally, some little information about the world discovered by these
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lost scientists was obtained by a remote datalink. This datalink also allowed
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you to obtain an approximate location of some of them but the accuracy of
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that data is rather limited. The rest of these teams did not have a locator
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in their equipment so their location could not be determined but you do know
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that they all are alive.
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From the data the previous expeditions collected you know that this world
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has its troubles too. Something is trying to take it over, kill all the
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inhabitants of the land and sea and pollute and corrupt everything. One of
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the reasons why you chose to come here and bring your extensive kit here is
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to liberate this poor world from the clutches of this monstrosity. After all,
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your experience at the Big Bad Research Company tells you enough about
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slavery and opression that you can feel with the creatures of your new
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homeworld.
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Your first task is to find food, water and fuel for your base. Your avatar is
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equipped with information system that can be used to obtain information about
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known things as soon as you point at them. Once you find enough food
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### Physics
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The world is what is scientifically accurately called "large scale quantum
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grid space" world. All the matter inside the world exists in "chunks", each
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of which has fixed composition and fixed mass. Most of these chunks also have
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fixed size and shape. Therefore these "chunks" are called "crystals" even
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though some of them don't have a fixed shape and most of them don't resemble
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what is commonly known as a crystal at all.
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These quantum crystals can be in three states:
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- "static matter" which forms the quite static elements in the world,
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positioned within a quantum grid with cells of 1x1x1 metre (hence "large
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scale quantum grid")
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- "free matter" which are freely moving objects ("freely" as in "positioning
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not restricted by a grid")
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- "vapor", which exists in some sort of parallel plane with a much sparse
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grid of 2kmx2kmx2km.
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Each piece of the static matter exists within cells of a grid of 1x1x1 metre
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cubes and each cell of this grid contains exactly one piece of static matter,
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which has a fixed shape. Even flowing liquids are subject to this bizzare
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behavior, making them extremely volatile in the flowing state.
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Some crystals have holding space which can hold other crystals. Some
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(contained inside another crystal with a holding space). The fixed
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matter
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Dictionary:
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node static crystal
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object free crystal
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(none) vapor
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inventory holding space
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stack multicrystal
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## About this game
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This is a role playing game for the Minetest Engine, with limited lives and
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semipermanent death. The semipermanent death is administered by respawning at
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a different starting point and revoking ownership of constructions you did
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with your "previous life". The death is semipermanent because if you manage
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to find your old site, you can revive the people there and recruit them into
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your team.
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One of the interesting mechanics is that you have two stomachs, one is the
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stomach of your avatar
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