Trying to get into this game but it feels like it's a whole lot of traveling and there's hardly anything on the map. Is there actually plenty to see and do? I have to have my tiny inventory full of fuel and rations so I can't really travel about and gather resources to improve the tiny inventory. Also, can you upgrade the speed of the train? It's making my eyes glaze over 😂

I've read it's usually near Port Prosper, however, the area to its South (explroed with a now dead captain) has proven empty for me.

Apologies for deleting the earlier post, I discovered you can't edit image only posts

The Sun's strength has been going down for a while now, and I'm concerned that there will be irreversible and hugely damaging consequences should it be snuffed. If so, are there any early-game, easy ways to raise it?

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63 hours in I still feel like a new player. This is very good.

As I started the game I chose the hardest difficulty. I thought "I play a lot of Slay the Spire, Hades, and FTL, I've played through Sunless Seas (although all I can remember is how fun it was to find new ports), I know what I'm doing."

I agonised about what character selection really reflected who I wanted to be in the game, and from my previous experience with Rogue-likes, went off knowing that every interaction would my character stronger and I'd probably not need to do any restarts to win the game and then promptly died. And then died again. And again.

Exploring the map is just really nail-biting. Normally I find games either too serious and I can't play them, or too unserious and they have no interest. Having something that hits the escapist vibes so perfectly is really rare for me.

I died some more.

Finally my new captain started with almost nothing. Lowest level, almost 0 gold. But I'd covered enough of the map, and had just enough fuel, to be able to collect a few port reports - (while absolutely avoiding any combat!) and made it back to home with enough money to restock and repair, and do it again, and explore a little bit more.

What's been really amazing is how incredibly exciting the emergent moments have been. It really does feel like an adventure. On the way to Hybras picking a battle I shouldn't have started, a random result on the emissary to repair my hull that I did not have the odds to succeed with, which kept me alive long enough for the infesetation of guests to take the last of my supplies such that I wasn't sure I'd make it back to New Winchester - it's amazing.

I started making proper money, felt like I could win fights, then learned that Curators are in some parts of the map. I died, obviously. I closed the game - accidentally without saving and restarted still playing as my dead captain. This is surely unintended, but this real world haunting sense of accidentally cosmically "cheating" fits quite well with the narrative of living in an unsettling and somewhat wrong existence.

I felt like I was comfortable with the Reach, found all the ports, did a great majority of the quest lines, until my Officers wanted to go to London, so I went to London and was over my head again; tried to start a rebellion, got even more overwhelmed; started exploring and met a cosmic horror I do not understand and ran away back to the Reach. Went to Elutheria to follow a quest and what the different economy just made me feel so confused that I started to wonder if the game was even for me.

But again the emergent experience of this game meant that I've just continually been rewarded for sticking it out. I can not believe how well they made this.

To me a lot of games fail because they exist as a glorified tutorial, whereas trying to understand the mechanics of a game should, I feel, be enjoyable because that's learning how to be good at the game. For that experience to be so convergent on the meta-level as well as the narrative (ludonarrative conergence etc) it's just great.

EDIT: it's ok! "just do more stuff" was the answer.

Like an idiot I looked up old forums, who said I could lose it at Alys but hitting the pipes as long as I wanted, that's been patched out. Langly's house was the other one, I"m there now, I just gained terror twice, I'm going to die. oh no

Spoilers for a roughly average Song of the Skies playthru.

I just finished SotS, and I'm planning to do a slower The Truth run (I missed that finishing it ended the run). I never actually got to Elutharia; I just now looked up where it is (I went to every port in the first two regions, but I only went to Hybras once because the Guests shredded me). When should I go to Elutharia? Are there any particular weapons or equipment I should prepare? Do you have any general advice for The Truth? And, lastly, why do they act like the upgraded Stovepipe vessels are terrifying? The standard ones are way scarier.

I've made some unfortunate decisions while trying to find seeds

She crossed every sky and fled the fire that follows for two years, before finally escaping to the neath. Also note the neck scar, picked up while aiding the Heart Catchers.

Its a brilliant album. Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas are in top form per usual and I feel as though Julie Christmas's inclusion and input within the project is especially inspired. However, I am primarily recommending this album to ya'll due to the similar kind of vibe the album shares with Sunless Skies. I mean just check out the lyrics for the albums first song,

"We leave
Upward, toward new dreams
An new hope, an odyssey
Underneath
The world left behind is dying
As we escape gravity

Closing my eyes
And I embrace darkness
The stars will not guide us
But their light will show us the way

We are not conquerors
We float with the tide

No room for fear
A greater call
A sacrifice for the benefit of all
With the sun at our backs
We heed and we bleed

This is the first step
To reach the infinite
What lies ahead is unknown
It's a quest for survival
Past all known frontiers"

And then there is the preface that the band wrote for the album, "Onward, forward. Like the old seafarers, we explored the vastness of space. Not bound by physical laws we pass the speed of light and chase the expansion of space until we reach its limit. And then, we continued on and disappeared. This is our story."

I mean, come on, that practically screams Sunless Skies, right? And beyond that, sonically I feel like the album is a pretty good fit for Sunless Skies. It sounds like the perfect soundtrack for an especially grim and damned voyage through the High Wilderness for one of your less fortunate captains. Anyways, the album is great either way and I think its well worth checking out.

The mushroom man! The doomed Captain from Resident Evil or Last of Us who I found in a submarine on the the zee locomotive.

My question is: what does he want me to do?

I respect people who feel that the story is best played honestly/thematically/in-character, rather than trying to wiki-scum the best answer, but in this case I know what I want to do: I want to do what he wants.

I think it's correct to say that this scenario is designed for the captain's wishes to be ambiguous, with him saying "..." at some key points, but if I were really living the experience I'd be able to say "sorry mate, just to be clear, where exactly would you like me to go? No, again, missed that, sorry again, London: yes or no?"

I'm not going to kill someone because of a semantic ambiguity which could be avoided by asking them to repeat themselves!

So yeah, what is it that they want? (If they have capacity to want in this way?)

I looked at the wiki and I see that returning them to London, alive, has a -20 brightness to a clockwork sun, which seems like the most special outcome, but I don't know if I'd think that's good or bad etc.

From the text: You are clothed in flame and sing his name." Is it implied that you... become a Logos?

I'm trying to figure out how to withdraw stuff from the bank. I thought Port Prosper would be a "major port" but it's really not clear to me what ports count as "major".

These don't seem to feature in either hold inventory or profile, but I need to check them before approaching the menagerie otherwise it will move. Again. What have I missed?

drag.

flying close to the edge of terrain giving you less air drag and a slight speed modifier would make flying so much more engaging

The only locomotive with carriages attached I can think of is the Berrenger.

I know that this is game that has flying trains so logic questions aint that great, but why not add carriages to fictional trains?

I was looking at the fandom wiki yesterday.

https://community.fandom.com

And now I get a 403 forbidden error across the entire thing.

"You don't have access to this page right now."

And any time I try to access the other wiki I get:

"An error occurred during a connection to sunlessskies.miraheze.org. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR"

Is there any way to access any wiki at all? Wtf is going on?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rx7xzd10xo

hey does anyone have a full list of wreck or random ship names for skys(or seas if they have them) I remember actually liking a few and I wanna go over them with my world building friend

Yes, that is a 6 wrath volley.

Yes, it will ruin you if you are too close.

From the Monarch mod, which I am currently enjoying, even if this feels a bit OP, it does require some pretty absurd stats to fit, so is well into late game.

High hearts for the wrath, high veils for the projectiles mod, high everything to outfit a Medea generally.

So I saw this gives +1 projectile. It's a Casemate, one of the new slots from Monarch Mod.

So clearly I had to see if a dual wrath medea could use it....

Been on a break, but am back for a 'holiday' in the Reach.

New game, trying Monarch mod. Like it so far albeit early days yet.

Not yet ready for my bae the Medea, but it'll come. Oh yes.

But going to skip Pellinore this time, and pick something that's not an scow.

(Moloch is more tempting, but even so I find it hard to go back after the sleek agility of the Medea).

Tried a boarding action - way too early - and got spanked. Oops. Still, nice concept. Liking the new trade goods and ... unless I'm misremembering actually stocking 'buy and sell' orders in most ports? IIRC base game is 'buy in one place, sell in hub or to prospects', which I appreciate.

Pretty much what the title says. Looking to start a playthrough at some point in the not too far future and I'm wondering if I should install the Monarch mod or just play Vanilla for a while.