How Hard is it to Beat ULTRACUBE?

The word "Cube" was uttered 222 times this video.

thank you so much for playing my mod! May your calcium be forever in just the right quantity

43:02 "There is very little practical use for happiness however, and it's mostly a waste product. We need some, but to ensure that my factory doesn't come to a halt due to excessive joy, I need to bottle it first and then release it as steam." This is one of the greatest out of context quotes I've ever seen. You could write an entire dystopian science fiction novel around these two sentences alone.

Factorio God: I hereby give you this cube with infinite power Factorio engineer: ok what do I do with it? Factorio god: Boil water and make inserters

"There are more important places for the the cube to be than inside my car." >stranded on an isolated planet >away from pesky neighbors and inconvenient pedestrians >with a car that can go 300 km/h and smash through anything You were handed paradise, and you spit on it.

The Factory reminds you that the Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.

Honestly I admire the sheer balls of the mod to allow the player to irrevocably deadlock themselves at the eleventh hour is they FUBAR the cube reconstruction. I mean you can obviously have backup saves (and given the nature of the game and what it's asking you to do you'd be silly not to drop a manual one before shattering it) but the fact it's at all possible creates the biggest "oh shit" moment I think a Factorio mod can manage.

IN A SINGLE ROTATION OF THE EARTH SPHERE, EACH TIME CORNER POINT ROTATES THROUGH THE OTHER 3-CORNER TIME POINTS, THUS CREATING 16 CORNERS, 96 HOURS AND 4-SIMULTANEOUS 24-HOUR DAYS WITHIN A SINGLE ROTATION OF EARTH – EQUATED TO A HIGHER ORDER OF LIFE TIME CUBE.

"There's very little practical use for happiness and it's practically a waste product." That seems like my bosses motto

Having your main and pretty much only limited resource simply be “the cube’s time” is just hilarious and I’m impressed someone was creative enough to make something like this.

With Seablock, Dosh was playing as a Techpriest on some former water world. Now with Ultracube, he's playing a Chaos Heretek, complete with bottling emotions, creating chaos spawn tendrils, and having to figure out how to fit a cube back together using a thousand broken pieces. 11/10, would fall to the dark gods again.

Every turn in this mod was a left turn and I wasn't prepared for any of them. It starts off pretty tame with making matter and processing metals that's all straightforward, then you get to stuff like... Intelligent Calcium? And bottled consciousness? And you go like "Okay sure, consciousness like a computer AI thing I guess?". But then you get to emotional decomposition and bottling joy and you're just lost in the insanity-

Ah yes, the mod where you're stuck on a CPU (single-core for a lot of things, too) and your job is to write the scheduler and peripherals.

CUBE

the production chain of calcium into intelligent calcium into bottled consciousness into bottled anguish into ectoplasm into haunted batteries into 400 MW of power is insane

Holy shit, I haven't thought about Look Around You in years. I had a friend whose father was a teacher, and he used to show episodes of that to his class with a completely straight face. "Look around you." *Shows some leaves blowing in the wind. "Look around you." Shows a couple sitting on a hill, and then a ball bouncing down a road "Just look around you. Can you tell what we're looking for yet?" Shows people playing football in a park, a kite blowing in the wind, a young woman reading a book, a man juggling "That's right. We're looking for ghosts!"

24:00 >dies >conscience is contained within a small flask >inserted into a robot to place rails for the rest of your infinite existence Might be a horror mod

It's incredible that every mention of the Cube™ in the subtitles is properly trademarked. It's that sort of attention to detail that keeps people coming back.

putting this on in the background and tuning back in 50 minutes later to hear "the cube can store up to 40,000 tendrils" paints a good picture on Factorio mod progression

Space exploration: haha you have to deal with all my stone byproducts good luck!! Ultracube: hold my calcium