10/min is pretty freakin’ impressive, as far as HMFs go. The one I have planned won’t be hitting that mark until I get Mk5 belts.

I saw the plastic, yeah. Couldn’t tell if the other was caterium or copper. That definitely will give a higher yield.

Nice!

Is that running on just plastic and copper? Intuitively, I would’ve expected you to need more machines than that for 9/min. Or are we heavily overclocking?

Saving.

One of these days, I’ll actually play with trains.

How DARE you! :P

Heh, I didn’t even consider that. It doesn’t feel missing, to me. Also, not sure how you’d make a proper one anyway, unless you’re really good at beam sculpting.

Love it. Great look.

I haven’t actually BUILT out any real roads yet, but my wife and I are planning to, and were doing some blueprinting and planning. We had a lot of trouble trying to build figure out inclines. Is that something you had trouble with as well?

This is an EXCELLENTLY-detailed build. Me, I have trouble coming up with interesting details for a build that don’t some how derive from its functionality, but with this, there’s just so much FLAVOR. You make it look very natural.

The progress is the juicy part, though!

Gettin’ there ;)

Hah! Little bit.

Not to mention how power-expensive they are.

Ahhh, okay. I can see the double tubes on the other side of each one, now.

Your ability to tolerate such spaghetti while also building distinctly non-spaghetti buildings intrigues me.

Also, what’re all the little boxes with the green and pink lights?

Always, yes. Great build concept. Looks like 11 Fuel Generators running on 100L/s of Crude Oil?

Seeing the process is definitely the more fun part.

Before Satisfactory, nah, I can’t think of anything nearly as chill, unless you count Factorio with the right custom settings.

Shapez and Shapez 2 definitely fit the bill, though, as others have mentioned, I only discovered them recently, when Shapez 2 released into EA.

I waited to actually start “proper” building until unlocking everything in Phase 2. I’ve heard others recommend waiting until Mk4 belts are available, so yeah, it sounds like you’re taking a good approach. It does make it a somewhat annoying grind to go BACK and re-do all your early factories, and forego progress for so long, like I’m in the progress of doing.

I mean, you can see the archway in several of the shots. That’s the Grassy Fields, the “easy mode” starter area.

No fluids anywhere in this particular build.