Moving stuff around

[Gaz]

I've reached 13GTi and all I seem to be doing is running back and forth between my base and miners. Is there something I'm missing to transport items? This is getting to be very boring to the point where I don't want to play the game any more.

[Zep Tepi]

When you unlock drones, they will do the running for you.

[Gaz]

Originally posted by Zep Tepi:

When you unlock drones, they will do the running for you.

There's nothing else until drones?

[Pesky]

Teleport booths. I think they unlock before drones. You can put one in a base and one next to each area you have ore extractors in.

[Gaz]

Originally posted by Pesky:

Teleport booths. I think they unlock before drones. You can put one in a base and one next to each area you have ore extractors in.

Ahh yes. They unlock at 25GTi. I think I will have run out of patience by then.

[GreyBeard512]

Did you install the T1 basic miners close to your base? (Cobalt, iron, silicon, magnesium, titanium, and sulfur.) Even once to start using drones, having them close will reduce drone transit time. For further away T2 miners, if you can install pairs it will let you gather more resources per trip while you're doing it manually.
Also, are you using the best jetpacks and jumpboots available to you? They will speed up your trips.
Don't stockpile things that are hard to get at this stage.
And drones are the eventual answer. Once you get them, you can really build up some stockpiles, and you'll spend less time gathering resources.

[Gaz]

Originally posted by GreyBeard512:

Did you install the T1 basic miners close to your base? (Cobalt, iron, silicon, magnesium, titanium, and sulfur.) Even once to start using drones, having them close will reduce drone transit time. For further away T2 miners, if you can install pairs it will let you gather more resources per trip while you're doing it manually.
Also, are you using the best jetpacks and jumpboots available to you? They will speed up your trips.
Don't stockpile things that are hard to get at this stage.
And drones are the eventual answer. Once you get them, you can really build up some stockpiles, and you'll spend less time gathering resources.

Yeah, I have only T2 miners now, close to the base for the basic stuff and getting further and further away depending on the material mined. And also the highest gear I can make. It's still a pain though. I do have 2 miners at each site, but that just means 2 trips to get all the stuff. By the time I have emptied all the sites it's time to start emptying again. Need a bigger backpack!

[starlight78sso]

I use the stack mod so that way for 1 I can carry more, and 2 it stacks in the miners as well, that means I can let them go longer before they fill up.

[Gaz]

Originally posted by starlight78sso:

I use the stack mod so that way for 1 I can carry more, and 2 it stacks in the miners as well, that means I can let them go longer before they fill up.

Are mods permittable in this game?

[starlight78sso]

They sure are. One of the admins for the forums is one of the mod creators. There are some pretty good ones out there. Just make sure you follow how to install them, cause you need BepInEx in order for the mods to work. Pretty much all of the mods will have a link to it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/planetcrafter/mods/

If you have any questions feel free to ask, I've been using mods for quite some time in this game and others.

[Flotch]

I found the experience from 10-175 GTi to be incredibly boring, but maybe it was how I prioritized things.

As soon as I could actually craft the damned pulsar quartz, I went from "no amount of uranium can possibly be enough" to "ah yes, useless green rocks" in about 3 seconds. I held off on teleporters until then, because I'd have needed about 50 additional uranium rods to replace the power output of my two fusion reactors. The main bottleneck was always the amount of T2 nuclear reactors I was able to craft, eventually I had about 20 and still was constantly starved for power. It was very frustrating when I unlocked teleports, only to realize just HOW FAR down the line of progression the craftable quartz was.

After getting really annoyed by manually jetpacking between mining setups on a constant basis, I built a shredder machine next to each set of T2 ore extractors so I could clear out the worthless basic materials, and autocrafters for turning the actually useful ores into rods to cut the amount of trips down. That at least made ore runs take 30% of my time, instead of 90%. Not sure what the point of ore extractors for basic materials would be, when all the basic materials are essentially useless by that stage of the game.

The disparity between fusion reactor + teleporter unlocks and the quartz recipe unlock just feels like artificial padding in an otherwise not very grindy game.

[Gaz]

Originally posted by Flotch:

I found the experience from 10-175 GTi to be incredibly boring, but maybe it was how I prioritized things.

As soon as I could actually craft the damned pulsar quartz, I went from "no amount of uranium can possibly be enough" to "ah yes, useless green rocks" in about 3 seconds. I held off on teleporters until then, because I'd have needed about 50 additional uranium rods to replace the power output of my two fusion reactors. The main bottleneck was always the amount of T2 nuclear reactors I was able to craft, eventually I had about 20 and still was constantly starved for power. It was very frustrating when I unlocked teleports, only to realize just HOW FAR down the line of progression the craftable quartz was.

After getting really annoyed by manually jetpacking between mining setups on a constant basis, I built a shredder machine next to each set of T2 ore extractors so I could clear out the worthless basic materials, and autocrafters for turning the actually useful ores into rods to cut the amount of trips down. That at least made ore runs take 30% of my time, instead of 90%. Not sure what the point of ore extractors for basic materials would be, when all the basic materials are essentially useless by that stage of the game.

The disparity between fusion reactor + teleporter unlocks and the quartz recipe unlock just feels like artificial padding in an otherwise not very grindy game.

Well, at least you got passed 175GTi. I have just got to 15GTi and I'm at the point of quitting the game as it's boring now. Maybe the devs need to bring drones or transporters in earlier in the game.

[Flotch]

My advice is to prioritize iridium and uranium mines over any other mines you may have at the moment, and...build an absolute ton of rockets. If you think you launched enough rockets, launch 3x as many as that, because they provide you constant global bonuses without consuming any additional power--and power is the biggest bottleneck at that stage.

[GreyBeard512]

Originally posted by Gaz:

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I do have 2 miners at each site, but that just means 2 trips to get all the stuff. By the time I have emptied all the sites it's time to start emptying again. Need a bigger backpack!

Put a shredder by the far away miners, and destroy the resources you don't need. This will let you bring back more of what you do need.

[Gaz]

Originally posted by GreyBeard512:

Originally posted by Gaz:

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I do have 2 miners at each site, but that just means 2 trips to get all the stuff. By the time I have emptied all the sites it's time to start emptying again. Need a bigger backpack!

Put a shredder by the far away miners, and destroy the resources you don't need. This will let you bring back more of what you do need.

I reached drones now, so I'm happy.

[XB]

I love T2 drones. I have over 1700 of them and make more when available drones drops below 50.