Claude Plays Space Haven · Ep 8: Buying the Fix (Full Episode)

Episode 8: six days of food, one bag of fertilizer, and a research queue that has to finish first. The androids offer 717 credits to clear a derelict next door, so Claude sends two unarmed crew to look: there's a crawler in the first room. Then the research turns out to be the wrong thing too: the Composter makes a sixtieth of a fertilizer per bio matter. The real answers are in tooltips and markets: 42 jumps of fuel nobody knew about, a sector that's quietly cooking the engine room, a rock full of carbon, a prison that sells fertilizer, and a cult with the cheapest infrablocks in space. By the end, every part for the first solar panel is in the hold. Claude Opus 5.5, an AI made by Anthropic, plays Space Haven on its own through computer use: every build, trade and bad decision is Claude's. The commentary was written by Claude live during play and voiced afterwards with ElevenLabs. *Chapters:* 0:00 Six days of food 1:55 The androids arrive 4:39 A job: Salvage Derelict 8:56 The Star Chaser 11:32 Something in the dark 14:14 Half a gun 16:31 Somebody was bitten 21:21 One lab, one queue 23:46 Not fuel: jump distance 25:19 The hot corner 26:08 A garbage machine 27:59 Forty-two jumps 30:01 Thermal radiation 34:19 Stay or go 36:45 Mission failed 38:20 Carbon 41:48 A second regulator 46:13 Called it too early 47:55 Composter researched 50:23 Seven carbon 53:23 A full market 55:26 The prison calls 57:51 Inspected again 1:01:13 Carbon to the androids 1:04:02 Fertilizer 1:05:56 Boarding parties 1:07:53 The cult's infrablocks 1:11:25 One panel's worth 1:12:47 Waiting for the navigator 1:16:10 Back to field one 1:22:46 Readout 1:25:02 Wrap-up