Come on down to the beautiful Bliss Hamlet!
Bliss Hamlet is a premier beachside resort and one of the top vacation spots on the rim! Full of top notch recreation, dining, housing, and vistas, Bliss Hamlet has something for everyone!
Recreation
No matter what you enjoy doing, you’ll find plenty of ways to have fun here at Bliss Hamlet. You can play horseshoes on the beach or toss around a beachball and then take a nice soak in our oceanside hot spring. Play some roulette or slots at Bliss Casino or watch the latest blockbuster at CineBliss.
Bar Bliss is stocked full of the excellent beer and alcohol made right here by the Bliss Brewing and Distillation company. Although best known for our flagship double-aged whiskey distributed across the rim, we produce a wide variety of premium small batch alcohols like gin and tequila that are also available at Bar Bliss. Even if you’re not a fan of drinking, Bar Bliss offers a variety of drugs such as yayo and go-juice and it even has two smoking lounges stocked with smokeleaf joints and cigars,
Outdoorsy types are welcome to spend their day with our beloved Count Karlsen training our majestic elephants and fishing for mako sharks.
Dining
Our wonderful cafeteria here at Bliss Hamlet is the pinnacle of fine dining. Head chef Fedon’s specialties include gunkanmaki and gourmet spicy salmon chowder fit for an emperor. For those on a budget, fear not! We have a variety of options for all price points, from nutrient paste and pemmican to lavish grilled shark and several more options in between.
Housing
We have three different housing options available so it’s guaranteed to fit your budget. For the ultimate experience, rent out one of our deluxe cabanas that are right on the beach. There’s nothing like waking up to a beautiful sunrise over the ocean! For a more budget friendly option, we also have several beautiful hotel rooms available for rent. If you can’t afford housing at all, you can even stay at our hostel free of charge. That’s right! Our shared sleeping space is available to everyone, at absolutely no cost to you.
Location
The charming Bliss Hamlet is located on a peninsula at 17.81° N, 3.42° W near the Smallhippopotamus Sea. It’s less than a day’s ride (on elephant back) from the twin imperial cities of Panopolis and Septum. Also nearby is the Nothern Ithlanlanbo town of Salt Flat.
What are you waiting for? Load up your pack animals and start caravanning this way! Because you deserve this. You deserve Bliss!
I’m pretty happy with the way this colony turned out so I thought I’d share.
I know this part may be controversial, but I’m not a big fan of struggling to survive or playing on hard difficulties or even combat in general. I just like to build happy little (mostly) peaceful villages. Especially after installing the Hospitality mod, these types of colonies have been my main style of playing.
Sometimes I start a colony with a really specific idea in mind regarding the ideology, xenotype, biome, etc. but this time I kept it pretty simple. The only thing I had in mind was that I wanted a colony that was really into fishing. I have had the fishing mod installed for awhile now, but it was always just a little side thing and never my main source of food. So I created a very simple ideology that consists of just the Fishing Culture meme from Vanilla Ideology Expanded.
For the colony location, I obviously needed a tile that includes water. I could have used a tile with a river, but for a hardcore fishing colony a coastal tile along a sea or ocean seemed like a better fit. As soon as I saw that location on the peninsula, I immediately knew that’s where I wanted to be. Water on three sides of the colony was perfect and there were several trading partners nearby. Year round growing with a temperature range of 60-93F (15-34C) so extreme temperature was never an issue other than a few times really early on when heatwaves caused some minor inconveniences. I’m always happy to see granite and marble available (and it also had limestone which I used for anything anything that didn’t need extra hit points or beauty).
The colony name actually came from me just clicking on the Random button a bunch of times. It was totally perfect and I accepted it without any hesitation. Another serendipitous moment came when I was building the fish temple. I hadn’t planned on having a fish temple when I started the colony, but when it came time for me to build a temple I decided to branch out and do something a little different from my usual rectangular buildings and went with the fish shape instead. Then when I went to place the ideogram and kneel pillows, both of which were just the random defaults I got when created the ideology, I realized they worked perfectly as the eye and fin for the fish. I can’t imagine it looking as good if it had randomly assigned a different ideogram or kneel sheets or pews. When I went to build the throne room later, I couldn’t figure out how to make the furniture look good inside the whale which is why I ended up just building it as essentially two separate sections.
Also I loved the way the two meteorites at the top of the map make the peninsula look like a wispy spirit. I like to think of him as the spirit of the peninsula.
Full mod list:
Somewhat ironically, it seems like this list doesn’t include the mod that I used to export the mod list.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1545126946
lol what’s your load time like?
I just tried opening it twice and both times it loaded in a little under two minutes. I would have actually guessed higher because it definitely feels longer but really it’s not too bad.