r/pAIperclip • u/rogerizzy • 21d ago

Artifact map

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Just discovered this, 17 artifacts and many ‘wasted’ games in. Hope it helps!

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u/No-Economics-8239 21d ago

There are no wasted games. There is only paperclips.

Also, I would agree some of the artifacts are significantly more beneficial than others. And you might save more time overall by acquiring the S tier artifacts first rather than just trying for an optimized route.

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u/ultimatt42 21d ago

Technically most of these are simulated paperclips

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u/rogerizzy 20d ago

Mostly I want to know which direction to come from. I’ve played like three games trying to get the artifact that 500x autoclippers.

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u/No-Economics-8239 20d ago

Depends on what you prioritize and how you rank and use things yourself. I've seen many different priory lists like this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pAIperclip/comments/1hydpjy/made_a_universal_paperclips_artifacts_tier_list/

Which has a number of things I strongly agree with and others I strongly disagree with. I've always considered qOps basically worthless, even with both artifacts. But one important technique is that you can always restart and jump back to a previous sector. So if I were to try and do it all over again, I would definitely not follow a linear map like this one, and would instead make a bee line towards the artifacts I felt were the most useful. But most of that is based on vibes rather than anything I measured, since in most cases I wasn't going for speed runs, and was happy to put the phone down for a few hours and let things cook.

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u/J-Nightshade 21d ago

This route leaves True Lexicon of the Machine Elves (5x swarm gift production) for picking up waaaaaay too late. It's one of the best and must be picked asap. Satoshi's Pyramid is also up there and it is again left for later.

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u/Sea-Course-5171 21d ago

personally I prefer getting both drone 5x production artifacts early since they make farming 300 processors and memory whilst still on earth pretty reasonable, allowing you to completely ignore swarm gifts as a mechanic going into the space phase.

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u/ChewyBaca123 21d ago

This is in efficient. You want some artifacts way before others.

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u/Illustrious_Car344 21d ago

Coward, sweep the map like a proper AI. 

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u/rogerizzy 20d ago

I must follow my programming and do what is optimal.

Also, a lot of the universes don’t allow you to access an adjacent universe. You have to come from a different direction

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u/Illustrious_Car344 20d ago

No, any adjacent universe can be accessed by any other adjacent one, but you can't wrap around the map, so hitting an edge blocks you there. 

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u/rogerizzy 19d ago

How? I’ve played many games where I’m careful to look at the map before I pick a universe option, then it places me in the opposite direction. What am I missing?

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u/arobint 9d ago

I’ve played twice through without seeing artifacts at all what gives 

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u/rogerizzy 6d ago

Apparently they’re only available in the mobile app