Factory game that ate three hundred hours
Got the first iron-to-screws-to-reinforced-plates loop running without manual input. Watching it tick over automatically never gets old.
Belt management is already getting complicated at tier 2.
Finally off biomass burners. Coal power took way longer than expected — the water extractor placement alone cost me two hours.
Base is sprawling but mostly organized. Phase 2 milestones done.
The aluminium research chain is genuinely brutal. Six different machines feeding into one output, and I’m still manually ferrying some resources.
Loving every minute of it.