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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? achievement in Surviving Mars

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Have a Dome populated by at least 50 Biorobot Colonists

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How to unlock the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? achievement

  • Daft IncarnateDaft Incarnate
    29 Mar 2018 30 Mar 2018 31 Mar 2018
    Biorobots are available after researching the Positronic Brain in the Breakthroughs list.

    Breakthrough technologies are denoted by the yellow anomalies with magnifying glasses on them when you scan a sector. These then need analysing by Explorer Rovers before showing on the research page.

    There are 55 Breakthroughs but only 18 available (randomised) per map (excluding mystery specific technologies). Through my experience 15 are scannable and the last 3 obtained by building the Omega Telescope wonder.

    Once Positronic Brain is researched you can build a Biorobot at the Drone Assembler for 5 electronics each (or 5 metal if you have the breakthrough that makes drones buildable with metal instead). That means 250 electronics (or metal) is required for 50 biorobots. You can order in electronics on shuttles in exchange for cash to speed things up but you still need to wait for a Drone Assembler (12 colonists for max ouput) to actually build them.

    An easy way to get them all in one dome is to quarantine all but one dome (or only have one) and they will fill it up. Bear in mind they don't reproduce or die of old age, buy can still die from lack of o2/water/food, chronic conditions, and suicide as well as have flaws and perks like normal colonists. So keep them fed, housed and happy. Jobs are not neccesary for happy colonists.

    They also have the Martianborn trait, so any research that applies bonuses to them apply to Biorobots making them extremely useful.
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  • CheshireMulishaCheshireMulisha
    04 Apr 2020 04 Apr 2020 04 Apr 2020
    The hardest thing about this achievement is actually unlocking The Positronic Brain breakthrough. I'd played around 8 games and hadn't discovered it once.

    Then I found this site - http://survivingmaps.com/

    Here you can find map co-ordinates based off resources, disasters etc. but most importantly you can specify a breakthrough and it'll then give you the map co-ordinates where you can unlock this tech! (Not sure how reliable it is but I got it on the 1st map I used)
    I played at 4S 110E and Positronic Brain was about the 3rd breakthrough that I unlocked.

    I recomend playing with fast scanning enabled (As well as other preferable options that don't disable achievements; fast rockets, extra production, prefab colony & extra applicants)

    Once you've unlocked it you then need to build the Drone Assembler which needs 5 electronics to make 1 biorobot (On the above map it also had the breakthrough to make them from 5 normal metal instead)

    Build at least 50 across your Drone Assemblers and then designate a dome for the biorobots. When you filter by traits Biorobots are listed under Perks. Enable it in a dome with at least 50 vacant homes and then deny that perk on all of your other domes and this should pop once the 50th moves into the dome!

    Edit: Just played another map from the website with Positronic Brain (5N 114E) and I discovered the breakthrough fairly quickly so the website seems fairly reliable!
  • lucasgodfalllucasgodfall
    26 Apr 2020 26 Apr 2020 26 Apr 2020
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