Once you arm your person with fishing pole or other, you have to click around where you want him to stand to do the action... which, for me, involved a lot of random clicking...
to the right for fishing,
to the left for...
...
..
.
Shoveling
I can't get deep enough to get Titanium so I can make the Engineering upgrades to my cooling/protection so I can get deep enough to get the Titanium I need to make the things to get it!
ARGHHHHHH!
Ya gotta throw the letters INTO the transmute vat (into the green liquid)...
Level 17 seems to get hard fast, it seems... but I may just need to go to bed...
And here's my "Up The Stairs" solution:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2028300
Looks like a guy trying to crawl up drunk... Maybe for a cheezburger up top? Oops, he knocks it off...
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