Dunno, by the moment I get to Plains, I usually set to build a new main base somewhere nearby - I only build one "main" in the Meadows early, and other biomes have small outposts with a gate leading to them. Thus, I can collect all the reasources from all the outposts I've built before, and that supplies me with pretty much everything I'd need to build up.

I also take breaks from the building to think about how I want to make the next step or what else would I need, and meanwhile I mine/harvest other resources, and with all the associated gear and tech, together with marking everything marginally useful on the map, it isn't all that much effort to get them.