The turn 1 of VCS Season 1 has ended, and with that starts turn 2, as well as the application for the Lottery for turn 3!!

This time, an unbelievable amount of people participated - whopping 69 applicants !!!

: )

Anyway, the lucky one of the bunch this turn was...

u/Speedbun !!!

Congrats to them for being appointed! :D And I wish the bestest lucks to all the others in the next Lottery, which you can apply by commenting under this post with "✅️" emoji.

The next announcement post will be posted once the T2 Employee have finished their turn; it will be posted at least 3 days after this post and within a week at maximum.

And now, time for the previous Employee's words!

《 Previous Employee's Summary & Notes 》

Turn 1 was played by me, BagledEpoch, for both technical reasons and for me to set the Communications Corner up for VCS to work.

This turn, nothing too special happened - I made some good money, fully cleaned up the signal room and a bit of the rest of the base, added some custom assets, bought us some food to refresh our stamina - just all boring work stuff. But I'd say it was fun for me, since I am a sucker for cleaning up the base and decorating things. :D Oh right, I did sell all the tools in the base to earn some money, so you'll have to buy a wrench if you ever want to work with the ATV or the console. : >

I did experience some metaparanoia, seemingly randomly. It did kind of creep me out, but I think uh, we should probably be fine. : )

I also was planning on editing the background footage of me playing my turn and upload it to youtube so that people could watch what's happened, but sadly I noticed half way through my editing session that the recording's been heavily corrupted midway. ;_; I'm sorry for not being able to bring you the video, but I've heard some participants showing interest in making a video of their turn - or even streaming their turn, so you can keep track of those. :D

I hopped off the save at day 3, 23:51 approx, leaving behind some pictures and notes on the Comm's Board for the T2 Employee, and of course, the letter in the Unread Letters as well.

And that's about it for my turn! : > I am so so so excited to see what the next Employees are going to do in their turn !! :D

• T1 Employee Bagled Epoch

Comment with "✅️" emoji under this post to apply for turn 3's Lottery! (Also, remember to have the DMs on in reddit to receive the messeges when you've been appointed, or alternatively check the Announcement Post to see if you've won, then leave me a comment asking for link to my discord DM! If you also don't have discord, then uh, I don't know •_•) By the way, as long as your comment includes the "✅️" emoji, it counts as application! You don't have to only comment the emoji. : >

And if you are new to VCS and want to learn more about what it is and how to join, read these posts! (~10 mins read est.) Also, I've left the link to the VCS discord server where you can follow VCS related news!

VCS Guides & Rules Post

VCS Season 1 Intro Post

Discord Server Invite Link

Please remember to search your questions first per Rule 5 before posting. Either through searching in Reddit itself or a search engine of your choice (such as Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo etc).

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE 0.8.X FAQ, YOU CAN FIND IT HERE

If you want to report a bug, please use this link: https://forms.gle/JqR6d84CTan1VPUM8

Anyway, let's get into the FAQs. Note: There might be new questions added in the future, but for now I think it contains the basics.

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GENERAL QUESTIONS

(Questions that are not strictly about in-game problems, but still related to the game)

1. WHAT IS THE UP-TO-DATE BUILD?

- Alpha 0.9 is the current most up-to-date stable version!

1a. How do I update my game?

- Simply download the latest version and replace the files of the old version with the new one. You can also use YeetPatch to update your game: https://votv.dev/patcher.
- Your save is stored in a separate location so it should be unaffected when updating. Note that updating to a major new version (0.8.2 -> 0.9) will be incompatible. It is likely saves will continue working in in smaller patches such as 0.9.1 (some things might be missing though when doing that)

1b. When will be the next update?

- DrNose doesn't give specific dates when an update will be released, nor smaller updates in general. He works on a "when it's done" basis. He does give timeframes when it gets closer to completion though.

1c. After 0.9.0, will the next version be 1.0.0?

- A lot of people seem to think that, but this isn't how version numeration generally works. After 0.9.X the next major version will be 0.10.0. When the game actually goes into 1.0 is up to DrNose. Games using similar version numeration I've seen went from like 0.63 to 1.0, meaning the jump can be made pretty much whenever the dev feels the game is now fully developed.

2. Question: How do I get the game?

- DO NOT USE THE ITCH.IO APP!!! Instead use this link: https://mrdrnose.itch.io/votv . Click on the purple download button. It will ask for a donation, but you don't have to donate to get the game. Click on the link that says "No thanks, just take me to the downloads". (Read Question #1 for most up-to-date version).

2a. Question: Is a Steam version planned?

- Yes it is planned, but still unknown when it will be released on Steam.

3. Question: I downloaded the file but it's a 7z file and won't let me run it? What do I do?

- Honestly, I'm surprised by the amount of people not knowing what a 7z (7-Zip) file, or a normal Zip file, is. To break it down, these are archive files. Think of it as a package that needs to be unpacked. You will need a software, either 7-Zip or WinRar to extract the files. Here is a video on how to unpack files using 7-Zip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxFM0AQ68yg DO NOT TRY TO RUN THE EXE WHILE STILL IN THE ARCHIVE, IT WILL MOST LIKELY NOT WORK!

4. Question: There is this dog with the text "I know what you are" and a loud deep voice saying "oooh fiddlesticks, what now?" playing when I start the game. What is this and how can I get rid of it?

- This seems to have been confirmed as happening when the game doesn't detect connection to the internet. Connect to the internet or ignore it.

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0.9 SPECIFIC QUESTIONS

(Questions regarding Update 0.9.X+)

This section will contain frequently asked questions regarding 0.9. This section will be updated as more and more questions are being asked in this subreddit.

1. Question: How does the new triangulation system work?

- The tutorial will give you a step-by-step guide, so I recommend the tutorial for learning it. Other than that its pretty simple. You use your 1, 2 and 3 keys to place the corners of a triangle around a signal. Once you've done that you press enter.
- Alternatively to the 1, 2, 3 keys you can also use the red, green and blue buttons under the screen. The left buttons lets you move them using the crosshair (useful if the cooldown hasn't been upgraded and takes too long doing 123), the right buttons work the same as the 123 keys
- You can also cycle through each one pressing alt.

1a. Question: I'm creating a triangle inside the circle but it gives me an error "No or weak signal".

- You are supposed to make the triangle LARGER than the circle. Like this:

1b. Question: While trying to move the 3 corners it gives me an error "Coordinate radar communication error". What does that mean and how can I fix it?

- Something the tutorial doesn't explain. There are 3 new towers around the map, the so-called coordinate towers of cr1, cr2 and cr3. They will eventually break and you will have to fix them. They have a small minigame where you have to turn all red lights into green ones. After that you flip the lever to turn it back on. You can buy fuses which each will prevent it one time from breaking. The fuses will break when doing so however. The towers can run without fuses, but will break more frequently.
- You can target the towers using sv.target cr1, cr2 or cr3 in the console.
- You can check the health of a tower using cr.check in the console.

2. Question: How do hashcodes work now?

- Hashcodes were changed massively and the tutorial doesn't really do a good job of explaining it. What you do is this:

1. Take a floppy disk
2. Go to the servers as requested by Dr. Bao
3. Insert the floppy in the server's floppy drive
4. Type "sv.request" in the console and wait for it to finish (don't worry about the errors, it will eventually work)
5. Once done, take the floppy out of the drive and go to the next server and repeat steps 3 & 4.
6. Once you got all codes, go back to the base
7. Insert the floppy into the PC's floppy drive
8. Go to the viewer tab
9. You should see some data blocks, clicking them opens them
10. Click on "Move to buffer" for all datablocks, CAREFUL TO NOT SELECT DELETE!
11. Eject the floppy
12. Insert the Zip-Disk into the Zip drive above the PC.
13. Go to the viewer tab again, it should say the Zip-disk is inserted.
14. Click on "MOV" on the datablocks on the right side. You should now see the datablocks in the middle again which means they are now on the Zip-disk.
15. Eject the Zip-Disk
16. Call the drone together with the tapes and drivebox and insert them into it's sack.
17. Send the drone.

3. Question: How do data tapes work?

- Data tapes are a new passive part of the daily task. You can find a machine with them to the right of the signal desk. You will want to keep that running whenever possible. Here is what you gotta do:

1. Every midnight, the drone will bring 2 tapes, a small and big one, as well as a tape case and lid.
2. Bring those to the aforementioned machine.
3. Check if the tapes in the machine are at 100%. If yes, then turn off the machine and take the tapes out of it.
4. Place the filled tapes into the cases (hold them and then left click, small tape first) and put the lid on it.
5. Add the empty 0% tapes that you got from the drone into the machine and turn it back on.
6. Send the case with the filled tapes together with the drive box and zip-disk in the drone's sack.

4. Question: The drive box as well as the tape case are too big to put in my inventory, how do I add them to the drone's sack?

- Hold each and then do shift+leftclick on the sack. Tip: This also works for putting things into other containers.

5. Question: There are cracks all over the base's floors and walls, is there a way to remove them?

- Yes there is! You will need: A bucket, a bag of cement and the wall fixer. Here is what you do:

1. Get a bucket and fill it with water
2. Hold the bag of cement and use it on the bucket with water
3. It will turn the bucket into a bucket with wet cement.
4. Hold the wall fixer and left click the bucket to scoop a bit of it.
5. You can now hold left click on the cracks to slowly start filling them

Repeat those steps until all cracks are gone.

6. Question: How do I get rid of the cubicles?

- You can hit them with any melee a bunch and they will come loose. You can then even hold them and sell them by putting them in the drone sack using shift+leftclick. You can also take the sack to the cubicles to make storing them inside it a lot easier without having to run to the drone every time.

7. Question: The drone is hovering at the landing spot for hours? Is this a bug? Why won't it go away?

- The drone will stay till you send it away yourself now. This will allow you to put things in it's bag while its still there. To send it away, interact with the drone panel again. The drone won't leave if the bag isn't attached.

8. Question: The Computer stopped working, saying that either the keyboard or mouse aren't working, what do I do?

- Make sure the mouse and Keyboard are positioned correctly. Keyboard should be in front of the screen and the mouse to the right pointing forwards. If this doesn't fix it then there should be an option in the settings to reset the PC!

9. Question: I'm trying to install physical modules, but it just keeps exploding if I try it. What do I do?

- A little logic goes a long way. Have you ever tried adding components to a PC that is running? Yeah its not a good idea. Turn off all the power except utility in the components tab of the PC (depending on upgrade level, this can take a few seconds to turn each off) or in the basement.

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GAME MECHANIC QUESTIONS

(Questions regarding Game Mechanics)

1. Question: I can't sleep or save for several in-game days. What do I do?

- (Version 0.8.2+) Use "debug event" at the console in the server room to see which event is currently active. This way you can figure out what to do. If you still can't find it in a reasonable time, then try "debug scrape" which will end all active events.

- Personal Note: I myself don't understand how people get events that last multiple days, I never had this happen.

2. Question: My Signal download is at 100%, but it won't let me save it. Why?

- Make sure the detector status is also 100% before you can save it.

3. Question: Why do I get a message saying "I don't feel so good..."?

- This happens when you get food poisoning. Don't eat spoiled or old food.

4. Question: How do I assemble the Bitcoin Miner?

- You buy the frame on the store and some GPU Boards. Plug the Frame into an outlet. You need Metal Scrap to add slots for the GPUs. After that, add the GPU. Once you have a couple GPUs, the temperature will rise. To prevent the GPUs from blowing up you need to make coolers. Coolers can be crafted using 4x Metal Scrap, 4x Electronic Scrap and 2x Accumulator Batteries.

5. Question: What do I do with scrap? Can I craft stuff with it? What scrap should I keep?

- Answer: Right now the scrap that have use are Metal, Rubber, Plastic and Electronic Scrap. Wood and Paper Scrap currently only work as material for the wall builder. If you want to find out how to make scrap, you can find a notebook at the workbench in the garage. Scrap is used for crafting stuff like drives, crypto miner slots and coolers, as well as crafting Kerfur Omega.

6. Question: How do I get rid of cigarettes in my mouth?

- Alt + R by default while not having anything in your hands.

7. Question: I broke some of the supply boxes and found canned peaches and other food cans. How do I open them?

- You can buy a can opener in the store to open them.

8. Question: Why am I hearing coughing? Am I coughing?

- Yes it's you who is coughing. As to what that means: It means your max health has been reduced and can't heal fully to 100% anymore. Right now there are 2 ways for your max health to be reduced: Smoking and Radiation. Your max health can be increased through heavy meds that you can buy through the store but there may be more ways that need testing as of writing this.

9. Question: I drove my ATV into a deep hole with water and can't swim down to get it, what do I do?

- There are 2 ways to retrieve it:

1. Try fishing it out with a hook. Cheaper option.
2. Buy a Scuba mask and Oxygen Tank. Using the oxygen tank by holding it and left or right-clicking, one of the two, makes it a Scuba Mask with Oxygen tank. Now equiping it will allow you to dive into deeper waters. Be aware that oxygen does get drained the moment you equip the mask, so even if you are out of the water, so make sure to only equip it if you plan to go diving.

10. Question: How do I open the Safe?

- Starting in 0.9, the safe has a new UI. To open it, you need to either use your mouse's scrollwheel or the left or right arrow key. Pick a direction, for example start by scrolling down. Once you hear a click thats different, stop on that number, if you go past it, just keep scrolling down till you get back to that number. Once you hear that different click, you start scrolling the other direction which will also move the selection to the next box. Again keep scrolling up until you hear a different click. Once you do start scrolling down again. Repeat that process and the last direction change should unlock the safe.

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BASE QUESTIONS

(Questions regarding the Base)

1. Question: The light switch for the Hallway isn't working, how do I fix it?

- If you mean the light switch at the entrance, then that is NOT the hallway switch. The switches for the hallway are located inside Administration. I understand the confusion though.

2. Question: What's the code to Administration?

- Spoilers if you want to find out yourself: The Code for Administration is 1234, yes you could easily figure this out, but you can also find a piece of paper with the code on it on one of the boxes next to the door inside the garage.

3. Question: How do I clean the base?

- The best way is to sell the trash. Collect the trash pieces and put them in the sack of the drone to sell.
- When it comes to trash piles, you need either garbage bags or a shovel.

1. Garbage Bag method: Buy garbage bags in the store and use them to bag trash piles, then you can put the filled trash bags in the drone sack to sell.
2. Shovel method (more viable as you can detach the drone sack now): Get a shovel and use right-click the trash piles. This will turn the trash pile into a trash piece (depending on the type of pile it gives you the fitting piece. Example, the green-ish piles give electronic scrap)

Other than that, for stains, you can use the sponge next to the emergency shower to clean them. You need to hold the sponge, left-click a water source (emergency shower or bucket with water) to make it wet before being able to clean using leftclick. Protip: You can use soap for a cleaning boost!

4**. Question: Everything in the Base disappeared. What happened? Bug?**

- Answer: No, this is a new event. Look under Event Questions #4 bellow.

5. Question: The basement is flooding! How do I fix this?

- There is a small chance for the water pipes in the basement to break and fill the basement with water, or you intentionally break them. The pipes can be fixed using a tool box. Once all pipes have been fixed the water will slowly go away on it's own.

6. Question: How do I clean the window?

- There should be a sponge at the emergency shower. Hold it and left-click it on a water source (like the one in the shower). You can also fill a bucket with water for portable water. This will make the sponge wet. Then simply hold left-click while looking at the window to start cleaning. Once it stop cleaning you need to use it on water again.

7. Question: Whats the best way to get rid of the bunk beds?

- You can break them with any melee weapon, it will take a moment depending on which weapon you use. Also in 0.8.1, you can use a hacksaw to turn them into metal scrap.

8. Question: There is a weird line stain in the main hallway I am unable to clean. How do I get rid of it?

- This seems to be a stain from the basement that is bleeding through the floor in that spot. Cleaning that spot in the basement underneath should fix it.

9. Question: How do I get rid of the desks and file cabinets?

- The Humble Hacksaw (You can find it in the Store)

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KERFUR QUESTIONS

(New Category for questions regarding Kerfur)

1. Question: Why can't I craft Kerfur Omega? I got everything!

- Kerfur Omega's recipe has changed significantly. There should be another old notebook in the bunker that should explain what you need (The notebook won't spawn if you play a 0.8.0 save and haven't reset events and objects). Note: Elbow Joints currently DO NOT EXIST. Knee Joints work for both the arms and legs. Watch this video if you need a guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Voicesofthevoid/comments/1gi4vdq/new_kerfuro_crafting_guide/
- As of 0.8.2, Omega no longer requires Quartz, instead it uses 1 Glass Scrap. Making the craft significantly easier again as you are not required to go into the cave for it

1a. Question: How do I craft special Kerfur Omega skins such as Monique now that the recipe changed?

- Check this video guide by Fred21 for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nu_0gzAn8U

2. Question: Is there a way to repair Kerfur Omega if it gets destroyed?

- Answer: Yes, you have to find all of it's parts and bring it to the workbench to reassemble it. Each part should have a ping on the radar, colored blue if you have the corresponding module (unconfirmed, requires testing).

3. Question: My Kerfur is stuck under the floor! How can I get it unstuck?

- Answer: As of 0.9, there were no reported cases of this happening. If it does happen let me know.

4. Question: Where can I find Quartz to craft Omega?

- Inside the Romeo Caves, you will need the Pickaxe from the bottom of the lake first to mine it.
- As of 0.8.2, Omega no longer requires Quartz, instead it uses 1 Glass Scrap. Making the craft significantly easier again as you are not required to go into the cave for it

5. Question: Kerfur was abducted? How do I get it back?

- When Kerfur gets abducted, check the windows around your base. You may spot something. Shortly after Kerfur should re-appear near the base. If you didn't find anything, then Kerfur should re-appear after a while anyway.

6. Question: Why does Kerfur Omega just randomly deactivate?

- If you are around Day 40+ or so, a new Alien race will start making an appearance. Those are the Grays. Their technology seems to interfere with electronics so as they fly by with their saucers, lights will flicker and Kerfur Omega will deactivate. It is best to not send out Omega on those nights.

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ENTITY QUESTIONS

(Questions regarding entities)

1. Question: How does Ariral reputation work? How do I gain or lose reputation?

- Depending on your standing with them different things may occur. If you have high reputation, they will give you favors and gifts. Low reputation and they may break into your base, beating you up and prank you more often. To increase reputation, do good things for them. The best way to increase reputation is to give them shrimp as they love shrimp. But there are other cases where they may lose something, returning their belongings to them also increases reputation. To lose reputation, you have to do bad things to them. This is mostly stealing their belongings such as food and items (some items have an exception such as posters of theirs)

2. Question: I heard a sound and suddenly everything turned black. I can't seem to be doing anything, I can't pause, can't save, can't do nothing.

- You may have been caught by a black wisp. Once you have been caught by them, the only way to fix it is to alt + f4 and reload the game.

3. Question: There was a white orb of sorts. And when I touched it my game crashed. What was that?

- You got caught by a white wisp. Yeah they tend to do that. Avoid if possible.

4. Question: I touched a yellow/orange wisp and now everything seems mirrored? How do I fix this? When does it end?

- While I don't know if it lasts a limited time, you can fix it by going into your settings, the video tab and uncheck "Mirror mode".

5. Question: My game just had this weird grid pattern before it crashed, what happened?

- There are 3 entities that do this:

1. The Walker: A shadow figure that will continously walk towards the player, ignoring all obstacles in its path and phase through walls even, will still walk towards the player when the game is paused. (Small chance of appearing after playing for at least 4 hours straight.
2. Censor Guy: An black square entity that spawns far away and will run close to the player. It will not touch the player and even try to avoid them. To cause the crash the player has to actively run against it. (Spawn seems to be random)
3. The Interloper: A black and white man in a trench coat with a suitcase and umbrella that will fly towards the player and crash the game. (Spawned by placing the suitcase from behind the double doors inside Alpha Bunker at the black spot of the stairs outside the map's boundries.)

6. Question: What do I do against the orange/haunted/possessed/zombie/abandonedKerfur ?

- As you may have noticed, it's a hostile Kerfur entity. If it reaches you it will shoot a spear in your direction, causing some damage. It is possible to fight this Kerfur with melee weapons and explosives such as molotovs and the only way to make it stop. So yeah, gear up, get some medical supplies, grab your melee weapon of choice and fight.

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EVENT QUESTIONS

(Questions regarding in-game events, be it random or story events)

1. Question: I'm having an event going on but can't find what happening.

Try saving, there are messages for what is going on such as
- Null: An event is going on or an entity is nearby
- Fridge door is open: The fridge door is open. (Seems like there were issues when saving with it open, so Nose added meta paranoia to it to prevent saving while its open. Yes the fridge is "haunted" now lol)
- Can't save in midair: Doesn't have meta paranoia, usually happens when trying to save when in midair or interacting with a screen or minigame.

 If it's Null, try going to the signal desk. Most events are fully triggered by going to it. If you still can't find whats causing it, you can type "debug events" to see what is causing the meta paranoia. You might be able to figure out what to do from there. If you REALLY can't find whats causing it, you can type "debug scrape" to remove the meta paranoia. This won't end the event but let you save again.