Derelict ship, grimacing planet and other troll events (2024)

Spoilers ahead!

So, there are those events and projects that rely on luck to work. The purpose of this thread is to help people get the best outcomes.

So, some questions:

1- when the derelict ship project gives good outcome instead of making your science ship blow?
2- does the event that creates the "from beyond" ship always create Unbidden crisis later?
3- what affects If the grimacing planet project Will be succesfull? Because I hate wasting 200 energy... And losing a 6 Physics resource.

People can add their answers and questions here, If someone looked the event files I would be happy.

Beagá said:

1- when the derelict ship project gives good outcome instead of making your science ship blow?
2- does the event that creates the "from beyond" ship always create Unbidden crisis later?
3- what affects If the grimacing planet project Will be succesfull? Because I hate wasting 200 energy... And losing a 6 Physics resource.

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1 - The good outcome is ridiculously rare (probably why there is an option to ignore this particular one), but it's basically "Everybody survives and you get some experience". Not really worth it. Besides that, I don't think there is a way to make it more likely to succeed.
2 - Nope, they're unrelated to eachother. But the ship looks cool so I like to get that anomaly. I don't know of any special interactions if you have that ship when the Unbidden arrive.
3 - Exactly what Robotkiller said: Save the game at 95% completion, then reload until it's habitable. Might take a while.

Beagá said:

2- does the event that creates the "from beyond" ship always create Unbidden crisis later?

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iirc it simple decrease the MTTH of Unbidden, other crisis might still happen earlier and prevent Unbidden from spawning.

I'd like to add the ancient terraforming equipment event to this list. Dismantle did nothing and still have the permanent negative modifier making everyone unhappy, and active it is just pure RNG and encourage save scumming. :/

yiome said:

iirc it simple decrease the MTTH of Unbidden, other crisis might still happen earlier and prevent Unbidden from spawning.

I'd like to add the ancient terraforming equipment event to this list. Dismantle did nothing and still have the permanent negative modifier making everyone unhappy, and active it is just pure RNG and encourage save scumming. :/

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Ancient terraforming isn't so bad when you're an extremely adaptive hivemind as you can ignore low hab in most cases, but the occurrence of mutants is too damn high.

yiome said:

iirc it simple decrease the MTTH of Unbidden, other crisis might still happen earlier and prevent Unbidden from spawning.

I'd like to add the ancient terraforming equipment event to this list. Dismantle did nothing and still have the permanent negative modifier making everyone unhappy, and active it is just pure RNG and encourage save scumming. :/

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Dismantle will give you the first terraforming tech for free, if you don't already have it.

JodelDiplom said:

I had the ancient terraforming equipment and got a free transformation into a Gaia planet from it

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It can also turn you planet into a toxic world or unleash hordes of mutants to conquer it.

It's a bit gamey, but when Derelict Ship project is completed, I have my scientist jump out of ship after getting the xp, so we just lose our science ship, with no survivors.

Now is not the time for fear. Crew going insane and ship blowing up happens later.

ranma100 said:

It can also turn you planet into a toxic world or unleash hordes of mutants to conquer it.

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Build a bunch of defense armies before triggering it.

Me_ said:

The ship from From Beyond is in no way connected to the Unbidden beside using their ship design. It's the (completely unrelated) Wonderlust event chain that makes Unbidden spawn faster.

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I've never seen that event chain in my 672 hours of playing. What triggers it?

ranma100 said:

It can also turn you planet into a toxic world or unleash hordes of mutants to conquer it.

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What happens if the mutants win?
Does it create a new species like the underground civilization event?

AlazkanAssassin said:

What happens if the mutants win?
Does it create a new species like the underground civilization event?

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IIRC, it just becomes an occupied planet and you have to take it back.

Can also become a different planet type - turned my (whatever was habitable, can't remember) into an arid planet, forcing my pops to migrate. Gaia not guaranteed, alas.

Mitchz95 said:

I've never seen that event chain in my 672 hours of playing. What triggers it?

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It's one of the random starting events. Like the deep space probe retrieval event. It has a 1% chance of occurring at the start of any new game.

ComradeIan said:

IIRC, it just becomes an occupied planet and you have to take it back.

Can also become a different planet type - turned my (whatever was habitable, can't remember) into an arid planet, forcing my pops to migrate. Gaia not guaranteed, alas.

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I once had it make my planet turn Acidic. Said it was clearly meant for an ammonia-based life. Interesting, as the game does not feature any ammonia-based sentient creatures, much less ones that would be scientifically advanced.