Originally posted by Mirthosium:

The game gets to a point where I copy stone/iron/food from another save to give myself unlimited resources. I would rather not do that, but I find it gets tedious doing it manually with the current weight and storage limitations.

I LOVE satisfactory and in that game you work your way up to where you can automate resource gathering. I would like this game to implement that.

I'm thinking we craft miners that require a lot of resources making us manually farm them for a while until we have the resources to build the miner. We have to setup defenses to keep them safe. They will produce a set amount per hour/day so the more we have up the more we get per hour/day. This way we are encouraged to still go out and explore and build as many miners as we can.

You still need to travel around to collect all the resources. So getting a big ship and friends with their ships will make things faster and easier.

Some resources may require workers, and we can charm/train/tame certain NPCs to work for us to help gather. That could be another alternative instead of miners, but I think a miner would be easier to program. A machine that just spits out ore every so often.

In Satisfactory you can build containers that link to the miners. I think for this game it would just have a built-in container to limit items being loaded in the world via it dropping them all over the place.

What are your thoughts?