I remember thinking years ago that a "city builder" was too specific a term for a gaming genre and didn't mean you had to build a city. Honestly, I was expecting something like SimCity 4 where all the chemicals flow through veins and were abstracted away as just part counts per time rather than simulating every particle like Cities Skylines. Seems LifeCraft is closer to Factorio's game loop though. Still good, though different than what I was imagining.

I love it

I would love to see a weird Bio-Chem elective taught using this game as an aide alongside shorter excerpts which explain what the structures in this game really look like, how they really function, some additional functions and how they're constructed, etc. Basically using this game as a "landing point" to get the base ideas familiar, but they using supplements and lectures to expand on it. I remember back in High School when I took AP Human Geography I was playing Tropico 4 at the time. I *SUCKED* at that game, couldn't beat it, kept putting it down for a few weeks then coming back until I lost all control again. I also wasn't fully getting most of the concepts in my class. What was weird was that I was getting further and further into the game each time, and I thought it was just me getting better at the game. I was also getting better and better scores on my tests, but just thought I was studying harder. It wasn't until I saw the different zone models for settlements (like... the 2nd-to-last Unit for the year) that it all *clicked*. I realized that class was all the stuff from the game but in theory, and the game was all the stuff from the class but simulated. Ended up going from a B- in the class to an A by time I finished (and aced the AP exam) and I literally beat the campaign the week of the final because I was using it to study. *Tl;Dr...* Games are super valuable study tools if they are based on facts/research and are used as supplements for the material. I lived through it accidentally and think this game would be perfect for a college-level elective in Bio-Chem.

"everything crawls along microtubules and (almost) nothing diffuses" is very weird but most/all of the recipes are real chemical reactions!! And yeah I've felt like this has been a long time coming. Not a professional, just a nerd who reads into things out of interest.

This is incredibly useful to know, thanks!

@@archerkid02 There is a tech that needs to be researched. It unlocks a thing a called Kicker that will allow adding items to a tube in the middle.

@@TitoRigatoni So it works exactly like a belt, you need a splitter to feed multiple belts.

Yeah and very easy to remember if you think of a cell as a city for what all the parts do.

Well eukaryotes don't do plasmids generally so unless your highschool biology class went into "crazy things bacteria do" that's understandable

@@GyroCoder oh, the game itself is boring. Refunded.

“Tunnelling through flesh, wouldn’t that be painful?” My head thinking about the veins and muscle spasm… yea sometimes

I’m surprised as a game that is build like a cell there is no “powerhouse of the cell” 😂

No idea what a vimentin is but would be funny if there’s another episode for this game and potato just learn how to pronounce and what everything is for ; for that video😂😂

​@@ryuuzumakiwolfno mitochondria are in this game. In game terms it's a specialized terrain, and you build an electron transport chain and atp synthase in there. It's cool.

I think the crux of the problem is that these are the actual names of the objects. Biology was founded using latin, and was not developed with "ease of use" in mind. It's very clear that this game is meant to gamify the functions of biology, to make them significantly more accessible to the average person. Changing the names of the objects just because they are hard to pronounce and scary for some people to look at isn't going to anyone any favors. That said, I could see a kind of sub-label, for objects in a particular class, which should help with the confusion.

They should take a basic biology class

But a tube is not a belt. If you're not interested in what's going on that you'd prefer wrong names then why would you play this? Just to chug through another automation game? It's better to just play modded factorio if that's the case

Ya. Let's stupefy a Game based on science because people have no education. Perfect solution.

Life is really tedious.

@@LordDragox412 _That's deep. It's only 2nd Jan._

It certainly takes a while to get the automation fully online. They actually added a lot more early game automation options over time, but while they are powerful in their simplicity, they're really just band-aids to give you a bit more chance to focus elsewhere.