u/spiper01

Spent an hour afk making concrete since the base I setup yesterday didn't have enough processed. 4th base in Ara, Moor. 1 on each planet for now.

Takes ingots, plus hydraulic actuators from the chem factories, and produces a large solar panel.

3 farms, 5 chem factories & 5 power plants. It will power all my bases once it's all running.

Also, I built a small ship to gather brine from the ocean. I forgot how fun it is to fly a small fast ship.

Smelter for everything except copper & aluminum which are at another base in the same system. Separate storage for every output.

The grind & progress blockers has finally done me in. It needs to have slowly paced progress instead of a wall at 10k. That way it takes longer but continually grows. I'll try again closer to release.

Pipes work great since they auto connect and curve perfectly with the rails.

First pic is the completed structure. For now anyway. 2nd is a close up of the supports. 3rd is a closeup of the hypertube placed in the center of the top spiral. Dropping all the way to the bottom. Last pic is the blueprint scaffolding I used to create it the main spiral.

The main blueprint just snaps together. No nudging required. The only part that wasn't blueprints is the rail itself. That goes quicker than the rest since there are starting & ending points in the blueprint. The top part has the rail included and auto connects.