Technically it's an ideology playthrough :) - fun to make this one - be sure to check out the mod list if you want to try it out - fantastic work by the modders made it possible

I like to think Seymour wore his chopped off toes like a talisman. A constant reminder of what he had lost.

Finally we see the ideology memes reach their true potential.

Aaah so this is cannonically leading into the high on luciferium supersoldier playthrough.

Damn, I don't even need to look up at the screen when drawing on my tablet while watching this video. Your voice and your explanation are so good that I understand what is happening without looking at the screen. Thank you for keeping me entertained while working.

This guy is a poet.

"Even without my toes I was a savage killer." nice quote from AA.

One of my favorite challenges was a scenario I custom made for myself inspired by Mad Max. In the scenario creator, there is an option to disable sowing.... You start solo with just your dog as a companion. Cannibals and psychopaths everywhere. With moisture down, and heat cranked high? This desert world was hostile. It was a very interesting challenge. I should update it for 1.3 and reshare...

Hey! That's me! As a bald and bearded geologist, this feels very close to home.

I do miss those long challenge series like the ice biome challenge. But i do see how all the actual time and gameplay has been edited down for convenience.

Seymour: *Looses two toes in a battle* "A small price to pay for salvation."

Clearly this is Dwarf Fortress, and you should have named your first colonist "Urist".

Finally, a City of Ember audiobook by AA

"It's always a satisfying experience to watch..." AmbiguousAmphibian. Edit: Well hell, thanks ya'll. You too AA. Have a good one!

Are we just gonna ignore that he took luciferium at the end of the challenge to grow his toes back?? Luciferium is literally the equivalent of a drawn-out suicide. How's the dirt-poor mountain man supposed to support an expensive & rare drug addiction? A second episode would be impossible because he'd die in a couple of days like 99% of scenarios...

You know what? I had just found this channel recently, and was absolutely captured by the Project Zomboid videos that had initially been recommended. Now, on my birthday, you upload yet another masterpiece. Though it may be through sheer coincidence, and though this comment may be lost to the recesses of the internet, I cannot help but say thank you, universe for the gift of the ambiguousamphibian.

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

This is amazing I'd love a preset mode or challenge mode to generate underground only maps. This sounds lots of fun to try.

1:43 "On the second day, I began to strip mine the walls around me." *branch mine Strip mining is when you dig/mine downward from the surface in thin layers, or "strips," at a time until you get to the minerals you're looking for, then fill the hole back in when you're done.

2:20 You have yourself a small place to sleep with a rock for a pillow while the fungus happily grew around you. A True Undergrounder.

The prequel to the Luciferium Super-Soldier we never knew we needed.

By the way you can hide sealed of paths by using dev command 'refog' to keep that unblemished cave aesthetic.

this man is able to accurately narrate and descibe the entire journey and emotions of the story in the arithmetic tone and it was an enjoyable experience

"In the words of Lewis Carol, I went galumphing back, O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" So random, so great.

These types of challenge videos are def my favorite, just watching you get through a completely fucked situation and then somehow manage out of it (or fail entirely) is entertaining as hell.

These stories are more beautiful than any poems and literature in my life. A possible idea for a challenge: Can you get to space without ever using electricity?

The best way to listen to these videos is imagining its an audiobook. Purely magical.

"it was better sleeping on the gravel and I'd be down here for a while" .... You sleeping on a bolder ????? LOL

When there is no storyteller ever mentioned, it's ambiguousamphibian who does all the narration. You know it must rhyme somewhere, but it's always halfway there. The satisfaction is there, almost. I truly appreciate the effort, almost.

This is like if welyn made rimworld videos, absolutely amazing.

I like that, occasionally, I’ll learn a new world through these videos, due to the somewhat artful style that he speaks in. Today’s word was Fastidious: 1) Especially particular, critical, or demanding. 2) Requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy.

Your intro perfectly explained what I love most about Rimworld. I regularly refer to Rimworld as my "ant colony game" when telling people who dont play about it

You know you're a good storyteller when you give your viewers a sense of nostalgia by the end of a 14 minute video..

No "Hello?" My dear Amphibian, don't leave us hanging like that. I for one like to say it alongside you.

love when you do Rimworld stuff

Easily the most entertaining Rimworld player!

O FRABJOUS DAY!

I love how the Stoic community seems to love Rimworld, Bannerlord, and Kenshi. I feel like i am home, thank you sir.

I love how this video is both a fun entertaining romp for rimworld vets, and a how to survive your first few days in rimworld for newcomers. Bravo sir, now enjoy your time with the upworlders!

Kinda fun to see Hakuja and Gray beating a muffalo together. They both were in my colony. Hakuja was a cannibal, Gray was a Bloodlust Psychopath. Married, both have psychic harmonizers. Giving +10 to +20 to every colonist. And that helped me stabilize my colony since ideology wasnt a thing yet. Good times.

A touching story in under 14 minutes with outstanding narration, classic amphibian.

Should have used random randy for the absolute amount of pain and masochism

BTW, ambiguousampbian, if you didn't know prior; there is a built in vanilla tool in rimworld that allows automatic reconstruction of any claimed building in your colony. Lets say you build a wooden chair. A pawn breaks said chair. This function will automatically add that chair back as a queue, as if you had placed it manually and your pawns will rebuild said chair. To find this function look at the bottom right of your screen where you can select different overlays such as room quality. It is the hammer icon next to the automatic home zone creator. Or under your selective play speed.

This has the makings of a really good mod. You could call it "Vault Survivor". Basically your character was sealed up in a pod in the middle of a mountain to survive a nuclear war. But a earthquake buried the complex and then the back up power on your pod ran out well before the world had recovered. The win condition for game is establishing a glitter refuge (all techs researched with fusion generator, energy to matter fabricator, and cloning vat built) with 10 nonmutant pawns.

this is the most amphibian geared playthrough I've ever seen. the neat little holes in the wall. everything laid out. the fact that it's pretty much literally an ant hill as he calls them all the time. congrats on living your dreams, AA

This was a spiritual journey, and it touched me deeply

this was without a doubt the most entertaining rimworld video i ever seen. its among the best videos ive watched overall the last couple of months, amazing job

A general tip: if you must build a stone door, hold it open. They're extremely slow to open and close, even the autodoors.

I Started Rimworld after seeing your playthrough and, oh god, i was waiting one with the news extensions

I love the random poetry that happens in your videos. Also please more underground playthrough

I truly love your narrative prose and as always the video was a pleasurable experience to watch. Thank you for all the great hours of entertainment. Cheers.

"With the insect jelly filling my belly" What a poet!

Imagine the spore lung this guy woulda got stuck in this cave with all this fungus and no airflow out if he'd never found the natural cave lol

hey just wanted to say ur my new fav youtuber and i look forward to everything you post, I enjoy watching your rimworld playthroughs at 6am before i have to head into work :)

The episode of Futurama that you got that name from absolutely destroyed me. It's still my favorite episode ever.

I just started this game yesterday and it's amazing. I am thinking of writing "Colonist Logs" where I detail my journey after each session. This was such a great video to watch. Great work. Goals.

"My only problem is that there's never enough content." - Micah.

I wake up to silence and pitch darkness. It doesn't take much to grasp (literally) the severity of my situation. I've been thrown - entombed - in a tiny cell, surrounded by stone and earth on all sides. There don't seem to be any seams in the walls. I have a terrible suspicion come to the front of my mind. To test it I grab a chunk of stone I've felt myself kicking, and start banging on the walls. Each strike shifts the suspicion towards certainty - I'm surrounded by many meters of solid material on all sides. Despair overtakes me. --- I'm not sure how long it takes me, but I eventually regain some of my composure, enough to take stock of my resources. Those are scant. There's ten metal cans - probably canned meals, no doubt left by my jailors as a cruel joke, to prolong my suffering. On one of the walls I manage to find a tiny bit of fungus sticking out. I've heard some kinds of fungus could be edible, so I might try and plant those around me to keep me alive when canned food inevitably runs out. This raises my spirits considerably. But for fungus to sustain me I would have to plant a lot of it, far more than my current habitat can hold. I will need to dig out more room. I shudder at the amount of effort I would have to expend for that - but it's the only choice I have. I grasp around, and on one of the walls I find a rock that seems not too large from my side. I claw at earth around it, and manage to get the rock loose. Armed with this most primitive of tools, I continue digging in that direction with grim determination. --- It's been... two days, I guess, although there is no way to measure the time here. I've slept twice, and have expended two of my precious cans. Half of one of those I've wasted trying to open the can with the "tools" I had, before I've managed to break one rock to get an edge fine enough to cut through the tin given enough force. The tunnels are coming along. There's no light at the end of any of them (figures), but I might just have enough space for the fungus that I won't starve after all the cans run out. The bit I have found is growing remakably fast, so fast I can seed the tunnels almost at the speed I'm digging them. I've tried a bit of the fungus and didn't encounter any adverse effects. That doesn't mean there aren't any - we'll see what my stomach says when this fungus will be my entire diet. The lack of light is getting to me. What woudn't I give (not that I have much in here) to see *anything*. To see someone else. --- Its been ten cans and some fungus. Fungus edible, but there mightbe some effects after all. Or itmight be isolation and darkness getting to me. Digging is repetitive, brings repetitive thoughts. I cant get away from thinking of seeing another person. Seeing their eyes blink their mouth smile their arms move their... --- Cans and fungusandfungusandmore fungus. Dig more might be light might see dig more see more see eys se mouth digmore seemore arms dig seymour butts dig see...

As always an intriguing well narrated adventure. Your videos are what got me into Rimworld in the first place

I really like these! we need more of this :)

This made me realize i would love if we could make specialized tools. Like picks to boost mining skill, or plows/hoes to boost farming, or a loom to boost tailoring, etc. Side note: how did you start with plantable mushrooms?

You talk in a manner which is simply admirable, i truly can not comprehend how you weave the words in such ways to enthrall my feeble mind.

Would honestly love to see the general way you set up these series, especially your sea block one and this!

As much as I love these more concise videos. I miss the series style

Good lord, this could have easily been a whole series! Not just a barely 15minute video! Enthralling, great stuff!

Oh every time I hear that reflection on the jabberwalk. Makes me smile truly a great day

AA always surprises me with creating new & interesting Rimworld challenges, when I think there couldn't possibly be a new idea for a challenge out there.

Seymour, with his crazy excavations. Amphibian's gonna need his dedication. When he sees Rimworld's famous complications, there'll be troubling times tonight! SEYMOUR!

Much like the Allegory of the Cave, we are metaphorically chained to the cave wall. AA is true enlightenment.

Oh this looks fun. I want to try an underground start now too.

This is why I love Rimworld A story told by a passionated and original player... Love it

Is this gonna be a series? Personally I really enjoyed this.

"Only in isolation can we truly appreciate the finer things in life."

Only 5 mins in, but I must say that it is flat out impossible to dig a space if you are completely enclosed, because there is nowhere for the earth you remove to go. Also, you'd suffocate pretty fast.

I greatly enjoy the style and cadence of the story telling you use in your rimworld videos

“Even without my toes i was a ferocious fighter”

I still prefer the multi episodes series where we enjoy seeing your thought process as it comes the situations

I really, really love these Rimworld challenge playthroughs, so here's an idea: - Scenario that gives you a new man in black every three or four days, start with only one colonist. - As large a map size as possible. - Executing, banishing, and the like are all forbidden. - Go for the base game build a spaceship ending only. - Your mission is to battle overpopulation and starvation to get to the spaceship ending with as few deaths as possible. Perhaps increase the challenge by making it so that the spaceship must have enough cryosleep capsules to bring everyone? Could just make it at least a certain percentage of your population. IDK if there's any limit to how big you can make your ship in the base game.

Honestly, if you were going to lose any of your toes, one of the big ones is definitely the worst.

Is anyone else bummed at aa's new narrative style being so serious? I liked AA because of the humor. This is like an English professors lecture...

AA i hope your doing well, i enjoyed this video, but miss the more episodic centered game play stories. your story telling skills are unmatched. i find myself narrating my own game playing like you did. Although with less success

It's always a satisfying to watch your videos embrace all the memes out there to their full potential. Jokes aside though, I simply love anything you upload.

I just want to let you know, your videos always make me calm. Thanks for all these subtly inspirational videos!

This is all cool and stuff, but, where does he get oxygen from? Where does he ferry out the excavated material? What? A computer game? Nah man, you gotta account for this stuff, this is Rimworld.

Writing for the voiceover is too good for a RimWorld video. I love it

youre too good AA, i wanna see you try a horribly difficult challenge (not saying this was easy). I wanna hear the panic in your voice, i wanna see you scrambling in terror for a solution, i want you to accept failure only to turn it around thru sheer force of will and emerge victorious when all hope was lost

these videos keep me inspired and hopeful, i hope one day i survive something as difficult as this scenario

I’d love to see you do a full play through like this!

Imagine someone wrote an inspiring book about a guy trapped in a mountain.

I had a playthorough in which I kept an insect nest safe, for farming food in scorching heat before getting an AC and grow lights, and even long after, until some "allies" barged in and destroyed it. Needless to say, I was not pleased at the loss.

Not gonna lie I've rewatched this a ton, it's shit like this that i subbed for, it's truly hella good. Thank you for making these and i hope you enjoy it as much as i enjoy watching it.

For areas filled in with rock, you can reset fog of war to hide whats behind the first layer 11:18. Pretty awesome video so far

Reminds me of Minecraft when beds weren't a thing. On new games, I would harvest as much wood and tree saplings as I could on the first day and then go underground for a LONG time. I miss those fun times.

I do love your videos, they have a compiled, and enriched content to them, which means they take a lot of time to produce, but I love them so, I would wish for more, if it were possible.

Honestly I love the rimworld content but am most looking forward to the next big series on it.

I find it interesting that you've started shifting your narrative perspective from 3rd person to 1st

Makes me want to play Rimworld again. It's like those past Dwarf Fortress games I played a while back except in rimworld format.

I needed some good entertainment after this hurricane. No power for 3 days. Keep up the great work, entertaining and engaging as always, Good ensnaring music.

I would love to see a survive and thrive series of this. Plus, this felt more like a escaping the mountain episode.

Survives to the end. Takes a lethal drug to restore lost toes...