I'm going to wait for that one to leave Early Access. I've been burned too many times.

It looks like they have some world randomization coming up in 1.2 so you can't just cheese the game by knowing where all the good stuff is before you start. I may have to jump back in with a random world once that patch is done.

It gets a lot better when you get rocket fuel for the jetpack, but yeah it's a hassle. I stopped trying to play it the "right way" and just did whatever was easiest. I did end up having to design a pretty intricate storage system, but other than that, most of the phase stuff I did haphazardly. The stator/rotor/motor crafting was especially obnoxious.

I started a base really organized at the base level and just kept building layers on top of it, and each layer got progressively more chaotic and disorganized because I was so ready to be done with it.

Yes I have played it and finished the final phase, I used really long conveyor lines and pipes instead of dealing with trains for the most part. I finished in about 140 hours.

You don't need trains for nuclear, just pump some water up from that lake (and there are geysers nearby you can pump from too) and find the nearest uranium vein to convey from. The uranium is a little bit of a hassle to route to there iirc but it's worth it. Make a huge platform on that upper shelf, set up like four nuclear plants to gradually bring online, and have the waste go into a giant container stack far away.

That's making me want to play this again and start in a different area, maybe the desert part in the northeast.

The autistic thing is to mess with trains, but you're better off doing the grug thing and making insanely long conveyors and pipelines for the most part. Maybe have a small train line for the oil field that's a little further off, to bring plastics in.

For nuclear, there's a big ledge above that basin area in your screenshot that can be cleared and turned into a nice nuclear spot. There's uranium nearby-ish that you can pipe down on conveyors, and the radiation won't interfere with your main base down below.

Ooh that's a good game. You found the best place for a base, too. Clear out those trees and start mining, then set up some long conveyors from nearby for the stuff you don't have.

Soviet-tier propaganda attempt

> any accounts pretending to be me, isn’t me. I won’t ever come back.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA yeah right, that's your signature move.

You'll be back.