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Cubism achievement in Surviving Mars (Windows)

Cubism

Complete The Power of Three Mystery

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How to unlock the Cubism achievement

  • branstoneboybranstoneboy
    16 Apr 2020 17 Apr 2020 17 Apr 2020
    As of writing this, there is a method to unlock all achievements using mods which can be downloaded in game. I thought I'd write the requirements for those who want to earn the achievement themselves.

    When starting a new game you are given the choice of which mystery you want to play with. Here you'll want to chose the first mystery, "Power of Three". At some point during game play a mysterious black cube will appear in one of your scanned sectors and you will receive notification of it. This can happen at anytime but it happened for me around sol 30. To begin with, the cube won't do anything and you can't interact with it but later they will begin to replicate - initially from the point of where the first cube appeared and later from other locations. Various notifications will pop until you get Breakthrough research available called "Dark Spectrometry". This will allow drones to destroy or harvest the black cubes.

    For the next stage to happen you will need a concrete extractor. Several sols later you will get a notification as a black cube has appeared inside the concrete extractor and destroyed it. You should immediately get another Breakthrough research available called "S.H.E.P.I.D." which prevents the black cubes from replicating inside your structures. Prioritise this as until this has been researched there is a risk of more black cubes appearing inside structures but I can't confirm whether they affect anything other than extractors.

    The next part of this mystery took me 15 sols but after several more notifications you lose control of several drones and they begin making a structure from black cubes. It took one sol to create it and when finished the mystery should end with the cubes no longer replicating and unlocking the bottom of one of the research trees. For me it was the Omega Telescope, needed for another achievement, but I don't know if it's the same research each time.

    Overall this mystery took until sol 60 to complete, it was virtually risk free and it is impossible to fail. You can also use the harvested cubes to build statues which look kind of cool.

    I hope this helps, if you have any questions or criticism leave me a comment below :)
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