Starting out pain-free | Songs of Syx v65| Hardest Difficulty - Ep1

hello and welcome I'm starting a new series here from with the game songs of six my plan is to rank everything up to the highest difficulty I will not select any titles which make the game quite a bit more easy and then show you more as a proof of concept that even on that difficulty it's not that hard actually you can do it I can do it maybe let's find out just a few points up ahead I'm recovering from a cold so my voice might give out at some point and be even worse sounding than normal which you wouldn't know if you have any wishes if you're even watching this just let me know and I can accommodate that my plan is to record this first session without any Cuts just rambling like a madman I don't like reading of scripts so English is also not my first language so you have to suffer through quite a bit if you're willing to as you reward you get to see me suffer through this game at the hardest difficulty so to start this off I'm going to show you the setup which is going to be quite quick I will try to not put too much thought into it just to show you that you can probably make any start work in this what we're going to do is we're going start a new random game and then plop this up to hard Plus+ I don't know why there is isn't the hard there's normal then there's hard plus hard plus plus but hey let's go with it the God of this game which is named Jake has provided and we take it okay now it's loading the world map not yet we have to select the species we're going to take the insect boys because the insect boys have one thing that we like very much and that is low demands we can make them happy quite easily and happy people become more people this is the title screen I've unlocked quite a few titles this title screen is new in the version 65 um and some of them make the make the game much more easy like this one just gives up gives you 20% bonus to all the production work buildings but of the name gives you 1,000 knowledge which is a huge Boon and 45 people at the start which actually would be quite the drawback when you play on this difficulty the other titles are also very nice you can select up to five from them but if you start the game for the first time you have nothing of this unlocked and that's what I'm going to take with the added benefit of playing on the hardest difficult I'm not going to impose any other additional challenges on myself because I'm just going to show you that at this difficulty it's possible to play and if there's demand for it and you want me to add some crazy weird challenges to it we can do that now I'm am also not going to put too much thought into picking the perfect starting location what we need is a temperate warm climate because the insect boys they like it warm and moist and we need a lot of mountain insect boys love the mountains and we need some trees and I think we found the perfect spot it has trees it has even a river which we actually don't need but it has a lot of wood and a lot of mountain so I'm going to click this now it's generating the whole political landscape of this world which is random every time I'm not going to look at it too much care and go and now it's generating the actual map we're going to play on and that is the more important part but I'm also not going to regenerate it even if I don't like it just because that would make easier okay looking at the map looks quite all right actually quite a bit less Mountain than I would have liked but I think we can do it and in the spirit of keeping things hard and not regenerating I'm just not this looks a fine spot we can dig into the mountain over here we have of those delicious delicious meat grubs we can eat there's also some other stuff nearby which we don't need but we wood and we need Mountain I'm going to plop it here over here now we have our 10 people and insect boys and the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to set up City Center give them a big half so warm and the most important part we need Place put our stuff Warehouse which I'm going to build Mountain maybe make it smaller put some crates in I'm going to play this a bit faster than I usually would just so it's not too boring for you guys larger I also don't have any templates for all the buildings just because a new player wouldn't so I'm going to show you the experience a new player would with playing this on the hardest if okay this is actually the most important we want our our little stockpile to be up as fast as possible what I'm going to do is I'm suspending the other jobs I'm going to let those guys build they have some Stone and wood from the GetGo but I'm also going to give some orders bar some trees so we have more wood and N GA gathering stone is not needed because they will dig through this mountain they get a lot of Stone from doing okay I'm going to set up a few other things and then immediately disable them so they don't get built too quickly sorry for the frantically hopping around here I'm not quite used to explaining what I'm doing which is probably a bad idea if you want to make YouTube videos but hey here I am okay we have a speaker we need something for our drink the health well then we will need something where they can go eat which is a food stall there a you can debate about going big for the first uh right from the get code so you have it for later or you can go small so they don't have to build too much I'm opting for the smaller version right now just so they can get it built more quickly then we going to disable those jobs just so they build the stock path what we also need because we have the harder settings is we need to immediately spend our livestock which we can do with a little meat grub build it like this and the place over here course they need a place a spot to go in then we can build our gate here which we can't because small now we can build our gate over here we can build a Hut in there so they produ it yeah that's they don't they don't actually need additional maintenance because if it's built inside a mountain I don't think that counts also need to disable this job okay and now we can go fast now we can go really fast because this game is on the on the normal speed it's very very slow we start to build it we can activate a few other jobs but there's this handy button over here if you if I press this uh the the game runs at 25 speed 25 speed would be okay for most part but especially on this difficulty there will be a few parts where the game is hardly moving at all because I have to be very methodical and slow and if I press press this button again it moves at 250 times the speed and that's more like it our starting food is running out but we can start to cockp some stuff which is a especially important when it comes to Stone and wood and whenever we need food there's our delicious meat grubs over here we just go and hunt a few of them and then we have food for the next few days this Edition is new in this version uh before you couldn't hunt them you build a hunter and they would go out and hunt those the animals around the map uh Jake the developer has changed this and now the hunter just goes off map and magically spawns meat so it's a bit more sustainable but he said the intended thing is to hunt in the in the early game and I found out that this is actually quite uh a good idea so I'm just going to do as the developer says and I'm going to hunt my meat in the beginning like this what we're also going to need are some houses for people okay yeah we need to First have them somewhere actually so we Stone and we're going to be here so we have enough space for 30 people with way more than we have now future proof for the next few days need to keep a an eye out for my food because we don't produce any food right now ume six a day which is one of the difficulties uh we selected in the beginning is that our people need and one problem is also that normally the spoil rate for stuff so over time stuff just deletes all of your stock piles is 100% but since we cranked it up to hard plus plus the spoil rate is 150% there's a few ways we can make this better over time especially with technology but right in the beginning is Harsh so for the next few years in the game we just G we're just going to consume everything we produce and not stockpile anything at all they're building the houses right now the food stall is there and now yes they have started to hunt and now we have food for 27 days which is actually a big lie because the food will spoil faster than we can eat it so this is definitely not 28 days so what I'm going to do now is I have to give my people room in the mountain so they can build stuff bu then I will also need some over there and they can activate this job hope I have some livestock left yeah I'm is there so now they start digging out this thing and then they start putting Livestock in it and then they just breeding those delicious meat grubs ulti crawlers are they called and then we start producing food which is not that bad because we can't hunt forever especially not if we want to grow the city from 10 people to like a thousand later [Music] on what we also doing all the time over here is we're producing Stone every time they dig out one of those tires a few Stones Get produced and those stones even on the hardest difficulty they basically don't spoil at all so we can build a stock pile of those stones and over time we can use those to trade and then we just buy the stuff we need what I'm going to do now I'm going to plan out a few digging jobs for my people so I into mountain now we have a speaker we have a well half op people are happy we have 100 food our first our first insect boy got crazy and now we can crank this up a bit I have to keep an eye on this number if this number gets too low I need to kill a few uh delicious meat grubs again and most of the degrading here is actually from consumption and not from uh from spoilage and not from consumption at least I think so but you see the 250 time speed is quite nice we have we don't have enough wood to build this right now so we need to terraform f a few trees here this needs 700 wood we have 66 Wood right now more we have 600 stones on the other hand and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to show you my no not now going first have to finish fin this building otherwise my livestock is going to degrade without me having having any okay that was not enough wood need more wood also the meat is running out and meat grops my stockpile is full of stone there should still be Stone lying around somewhere also quite a nice map actually I look at the fertility I have quite a few fertile patches over here which is nice okay now they're building perfect as soon as they finished building yep they did just Slaughter one or two of those btic crawlers and now we have the herders in here working animals and they are tending to them and once they're finished tending they put in another animal and so forth and so forth until they're full sadly we only have space for five Baltic rollers which is not a lot but the more important number is this here we produce 0.5 uh 0.3 livestock a day so we can build more Bal call readers okay now I'm going to show you the most important strategy of this of this play through we're going to the world map we're going to look at our neighbors which is actually only one o we're going to diplomacy we're going to say hey you want to trade with me they're going to say no I need 168 and so hey you want to trade with me and I give you exactly 18 stones for it and they say yes and now we have a trade agreement so what I can do now is I can just sell them all my stone and then say okay you want to give me 8,300 something and now we have a bit of money and this money we can later use to buy other stuff food situation is okay Stone situation will go down shortly once they take the stones I've just sold what we can do now is we can make our insect boys one of which has already died great start and we can tell them hey you want to put some stones in your house to make you happy and they will do just so and then we will immediately start the production on our next multicolor bre the main thing on this difficulty is you have to over produce over produce food at all points because if you don't overproduce the food you're going to starve to death next dimensions here and then we can make our gate over here again Hut on Hut is not enough need a h and whatever this should be okay 1,000 wood this is going to take a while so we let the first migrants come in four people just joined our village welcome to pain and suffering for the rest of your life life which is positively short because our insect boys over here have a lifespan of at maximum 50 years so it's going to be to it's going to be a short and very painful life but hey could be worse it could be I don't know work in the mines which will take a few until we ni okay need to clear out a bit more of this mountain we have enough enough living space we have food whenever we go low on food we hunt what we can also do because our insect boys they are quite liberal when it comes to the human of the food so what we can do is I'm just trying to find where it is we can build a cannibal and just slaughter them I mean not while they're living that would be cruel but we can once we have corpses we can eat those corpses or at least produce meat out of them may four cannibals should be enough give them some workbenches cannibals love their workbenches I've seen all those horror [Music] movies 3% stay happy okay in the meanwhile we can let in more insect boys food situation good getting new Stones also good because stones are money oh here they are digging we'll need quite a lot more wood once this is finished but until then we can just let it run on 250 time speed things are looking good so far I mean we just started out we have our next deranged person or don't know inst person but we make our people very happy so we can let in more people why are you not this and now we are an eir oh I think I forgot to give the exess to the mountain so they actually cannot build it which would be a problem because now we have enough people that we need free houses also since we have more people we're going to need more food so the next rubby boys are going to get SED so we definitely don't need three cannibals honest enough I don't actually know if it works as intended but I think once some some of my inhabitants die instead of going to the graveyard they come to the cannibal and then they get budget for meat but I haven't done any testing to find out if this is it's actually true what I know is that my people actually when I go to environment like cannibalism so I thought I'm going to give them some beat diet which consists of their own brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers yeah loyalty is decreasing that's not a problem fix quickly the only thing we really got to keep an eye out in the early game is that we our people don't start starving to death right now we taking 14.5 food a day we're producing 4.75 food a day so we're producing way less food than weum the the problem is what's not calculated in here actually is whenever we go out and we hunt this is also one of the most important Mechanics for this playthrough slave we're going to rely heavily on slaves some of you might sign now and think oh that's how he doing it how he's doing it yeah I'm cranking everything up to the highest difficulty but I'm going to use all the the gifts Jake has given and slaves are definitely one of those gifts don't quote me out of context please but they make the game much more easy cuz they have very little demands and they excel at the different work he just going to have to quickly suspend this job so they actually go hunting now we are full on food and we can activate this job again we also full on Stone let's go out into the world diplomacy sell him all my stone wants to give me 7,550 for it I say thank you you're becoming great friends over here another thing I'm desperately going to need I'm just remembering is actually a janitor because one of the difficulty settings makes it so our buildings degrade much faster and as I can see on my on my stock pile that one is also is already starting to degrade quite heavily so what I'm going to to do here is make a Vitor station where they can work and where I can provide them with the utilities they need to work because it is already 27% degraded I don't know if it has any effect on on warehouses but on other buildings it has quite a profound effect this building as I said can't actually degrade there's no not even a degrade a degrading indicator anywhere even though it gave me a tool tip in the beginning that uh the way I designed this uh room it will need more maintenance which was just a lie or false tool tip okay fre generators is fine and what they are going to do now every one of these red dots is a spot that needs repairing so they're now going to head out and start repairing these spots over here and the problem is some of those spots need uh need special materials so over here you can see this spot to repair it it need St and one of the difficulty settings is robustness and I've cranked it up to hard Plus+ and robustness makes your buildings degrade faster or slower depending on if you have it or not so my buildings uh degrade 150% faster right now which is right now not a problem at all but it will turn into a problem in the long run but as you can see right now we already tripled our population almost we're doing fine the food situation at the moment is quite easy those uh Baltic crawlers they breed faster than we can hunt them so I think up to like 50 population we're perfectly fine with this also my insect boys are quite happy because they have the expectation of 0.07% fulfillment and at the moment they have 0.17% fulfillment which is mostly due to the fact that I'm giving them all the stone they want for the furniture what we're all also going to need in the long run is more horses of course so I'm digging into the mountain over here making a Bas I'll also try to make the city not too ugly which is easier said than done but I'm trying to give it my best also I will not not be building any roads at the moment I will start when I have the appropriate Tech and I will go immediately into stone roads cuz if I start building dirt roads now with the with the difficulty settings I've chosen my half of my Workforce would probably need to be janitors and they would be repairing constantly that's not a hassle I want to have so I'm going to move a bit faster dig it out which has the added benefit of producing a bit more Stone over here there's a lot of stone which we can use later to sell what I can do for an example to show you is we need 58 Furniture to upgrade this stock pile I'm just going to look what he wants for 58 Furniture okay he wants 21 1,000 I think we can do that 400 then I'm just going to my stone not make him throw in a bit of meat and we have the furnit we need what is happening right now when I buy something when I sell something it just magically disappears out of my stock P when I buy something a caravan starts from his City Center and walks all over to mine and the Caron from mine walks to his and then our trade is completed since I sold some food better get hunting again reg fine I think this is the Caravan coming in delivering furniture and once we have the furniture we can upgrade and now we can store much more food much more wood and much more Stone all of which we're going to need the scale in this game gets quite crazy so we starting out very slow over here uh later on you can have C this with like 20,000 people is about the maximum you can achieve easily I will definitely not play that long into this game because it just turns into a slug all the difficulty settings really do is they make it a lot slower and a lot more you have to be a lot more methodical to go through it they don't make it that much harder actually with one two three four uh one two three four so over here and I've actually all up plus I will do put and then I can build long horses once it's dark okay speed it up again my people are working some of them are going crazy some of them are dying all is well okay now we getting some Stone because my people start to carry all that stone that they just mind into storage we need a lot more wood to finish this and what we can do with all that stone is we can get some money 22,100 the prices are actually dynamical so every time I sell something it the price price goes down a bit and later on that will hurt quite a bit but we won't be selling stone for all game this just for the beginning to make it easier to buy furniture for example we can produce Our Own Furniture later but the way I'm doing it right now is bit easier also when you go hunt the btic Coss are the best they give the most meat and as far as I've seen there's no possibility for them to actually hurt your people if you hunt other things they can bite back and kill some of you which is also not that big of a problem because you can just let in more immigrants right now 11 people want to join this [ __ ] hole but in the long run can hurt okay we need more horses for more people so we are going to produce more L houses over here and then we can let in more people what we also could build is a market but that need Fage let's build they 14 Furniture I think we can manage that my big Baltic Coral breeder is getting buil I'm just going to enable one pot of livestock in my stock pile so they can put it there leaving it out in the cold as they do over here later on I'm going to remove this bicolor beer once the big one is up just so we can readjust the workforce but as you can see we are making progress so far doesn't seem impossible the only thing that's a bit different is I wouldn't hunt as much I would maybe grow stuff which you can't do on the hardest difficulty in the beginning you have to hunt actually because the year it it takes one year for stuff to grow and in that year some people are going to starve you just don't have enough food in the beginning could just immediately go go into into planting crops and waiting for them to grow how much wood they're going need one important note which is one of the biggest tips of this play through you're going to see once materials are put into a building like here you see there's like 547 out of 1,143 wood in here right now that actually can't degrade so if they put wood into a building waiting to be constructed these materials they don't degrade and that is one very important part I think I've just hit the microphone sorry if you heard that okay the long house is already I think we can go for some more immigrants let all in now we are at 40 people later on there's some other difficulties once you reach a certain threshold which is this one pronx 75 people that's the point where people from outside can come and radio Village but I'm going to show you that that's also quite an easy fix for that one so we don't have to worry about it too I think enough wood now loyalty is going down they feel less happy the more people you have the more uh the more happiness is required and they are having a problem with something W is okay speakers is okay hars is okay yes I could give them a stage oh yeah I need okay I need to research that and not give them a stage but I can give them a market just going to trade with my good friends over here say hey give me 15 chairs want 5,500 for it yes sh are on the way and then they can build the market the market is also service my people demand and the Baltic crawler is built what I'm going to do now I'm going to trash this building so they can work over here and they have space for 17 btic crawlers over here which is quite a bit better than one we had here what I'm going to build over here is a little Carpenter which I'm building a bit bigger in the beginning just so I can later scale it as I want it it like this okay looking good could have could even put more in there don't need to and we're not going to build uh let them work there immediately my insect boys are quite bad at everything crafting but I'm also going to change because I simply like looks this I'm going to move the half of here may better then I can remove this one okay what else is there in the immediate proximity so half an hour in 40 minutes in I'm going to take a look at my map which is uh actually Pro tip you should do that before so not a lot in my direct vicinity there some clay over here but since I had no deposits on the world map all my deposits on this map are quite terrible so when you look at the world map had I drop down my city over here I would have quite a bit more clay down here the filing quite nice so all my deposits in here are quite bad so here we have stone also 30% and what it does is just a multiplier so normally one person produces like five stones but since the fertility the deposit fertility the wrong word since the deposit is only 30% they produce 30% of a [Music] worker so the carpenter is being built they're still using wood shop for them we have food for 22 days which is big fat lie we are producing some food oh yeah now once this building is finished it tries toy everyone which we don't need don't want care okay next steps what we're going to need with this furniture we're producing now is we going to have to advance we're going to have to advance our s hiic and since I my insect boys they're good at some things but science is definitely not one of them I'm going to build a big Science Station uh one smaller just trying to get all rid of all the yellow triangles so it not doesn't take Direction sorry here here so I don't want to pay more maintenance than is needed I can looking good no BS me sorry that my fu okay what I'm going to do now I'm going to build a huge science science room which will later be stocked by our slaves which are going to be human slaves because humans are really good at science insects are really bad at science triggering me quite a bit this of here I don't think it matters if they have to walk all around or not so what we're going to need here is 70 Furniture this is going to take a while but since all the furniture There producing is going directly into here it doesn't degrade burage is also one of those things that degrades quite fast SE 37.5% per year it's not good we only have three animals here where's all my livestock did it all degrade this is going to take a while until it's full until then we're producing one 10 the food we need so what I can do also I can plop down the fruit farm and produce them the insects actually they don't like food uh fruit not one of the preferred types of of food but it gets produced quite uh it grows really fast you can stockpile it up and then it's just for your people now we can speed it up again my people the insect the garemi as they called they like meat and fish fish we could get over here maybe later but the problem is fish is very inefficient so it would have to to feed my whole population I would have like I would need like half my population as fisherman or Fisher box which is not something I can do without making the game even even more of this log okay we need some fruits to get the farm started what I'm going to do is I'm going to buy those that fruit here SES here you can give me 100 food not that expensive, 520 for it4 I'm sorry here take it now a caran is coming in in here all the the furniture we're going to produce which is uh whooping 1.4 per day going to be put in here and that will slowly build will take a while as I said all the difficulty settings really do is make it a lot smaller uh a lot slower to play once again hunt some bugs safety get some rocks so I can buy food if I need it then we're going to to wait for the next slaver which has already gone missed him now the fruit farm is being built and it's being worked on we have three people left all work which is too little this time I'm not going to let everyone in would be a bit too much too soon new title and now we're going to wait a [Music] bit he we getting Stone that's nice how's it looking with our buildings are doing fine job so I think that is a first a good first look into this we stable we expanding we've grown from 10 to 44 Garis so I think for first episode that's quite enough and I think you see where this is going I don't even know if I want to make a full series out of this I can I will edit it down a bit in the next episode but it's just just a slow step by step going forward and it it's not really that different from playing the game regularly on normal difficulty it's just that you have to be a bit more methodical about it and use the trading system a bit more which gets harder on the the the uh the larger my city grows the the more difficult it will be but the problem is once we build the laboratory and we get some science we can put the science into exactly those points we made harder in the first place we can take into maintenance which lowers our gives our robustness buff so we don't have to repair as much and we can take into spoilage which makes our food spoil less less frequently so what we can do here is we lower the difficulty again so if I have enough science I'm just moving towards the same thing most people play on anyways the only real difference is that the world map is going to be a bit more aggressive which gets canceled out by the fact that I can't amess that much wealth because the spage is higher and I have inflation so my money goes down all the time so the aggressiveness doesn't come into play that much and if some someone attacks me I can just sell a few things bu mercenaries and then fend off that attack which I can show you if there's demand for it but I I honestly can't even imagine that anyone watches this thing to the end I've just rambled on for 50 minutes right now to show you that even on the hardest difficulty it's actually not that hard you you just have to be a bit M also gemia quite easy to pleas in the beginning of course it would be harder if I picked another race but even then it's not that bad because even if I pick amas or or the lapis I can just export the thing they are good the lais actually I think is quite easy because they are really good breeders so I just make more more more breeding spots and more H Hunter early on and then things are looking quite Rosy but if you've made it this far I'm proud of you I love you I don't know why you did that but thank you maybe we going see each or hear each other goodbye

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Keywords: Songsofsyx, Songs of Syx, gameplay, Let's play, hard

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Length: 50min 12sec (3012 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 03 2024