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Cake day: November 21st, 2025

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  • If you play on steam, and want to try a very easy-to-load set of mods that completely reworks the whole game, check out the progression mod pack. (Link is for the 1.5 version since you don’t have odyssey, there’s a 1.6 version as well and I think there’s a link for it on that page)

    It’s around 1,000 mods, many of which are compatibility/patch mods, the authors of them worked closely together for compatibility, and they have a community-driven mod sorting tool to reduce errors. You can single-click to add all and follow the directions to have them properly sort for best experience.

    I use around half of the mods on that list, very much recommend. You don’t have to have all of them enabled if there’s content you don’t like or whatever.

    I do mostly sandboxy base building, rather than accomplishing main objectives, so I frequently have hordes of kids running around my base (highest pawn count ever was 86, I just sort of let people do their own thing and accommodate them). The first bit is kinda annoying, but growth vats for newborns are great if you can’t spare people for feeding and play time :)







  • Fun fact: now that the probes are in interstellar space, they are finding that the universe is full of ……stuff.

    For example, voyager 2, back around May, hit a weird pocket of, they think, plasma. Possibly built up on the edge of the heliosphere like a ship displaces water, or possibly a huge cloud. It changed the course of the probe. So that’s fun and alarming!

    https://blog.sciandnature.com/2025/05/voyager-2-just-turned-back-and-confirms.html?m=1

    Also when they crossed the heliopause (the “boundary” between the magnetic sphere our solar system is in, and interstellar space), they hit a termination shock multiple times each, meaning the heliosphere probably expands and contracts. Neat! Unfortunately we only have two data points so no idea if it’s the same everywhere. And the heliopause, it turns out, is thousands of degrees (30,000-50,000 kelvin), but there are so few particles out there, despite the solar wind pushing stuff away from the sun, that only the sensors picked up the high particle energy, no significant heat transfer happened. Probably why they haven’t suffered failures from ablation, there’s just not much out there.

    Edit to add:

    Apparently a faint signal was detected from near where voyager 1 is now, earlier this month, and it was a weird planned transmission TO voyager, like a ping! Holy shit that’s neat!

    https://www.ecoportal.net/en/voyager-1-receives-ghostly-signal-nasa/14167/

    And another edit for funsies because I found an article from 1993 about the first evidence of the heliopause 15 years after launch, and I think that’s just swell.