Foundations

[Awake]

I'm by no means criticising this amazing game, but I personally find 2x2 foundations a bit stingy

I burn through them very quickly!

Just wondered how others cater for high production of these items. For instance, I went through 1200 in a matter of seconds and covered only a small body of water.

[Pure Hostility]

You can use 1x1 tile and space them out to even a terrain. As 1x1 will flatten each tile surrounding it, so a total of 9 tiles. It is time consuming though.

[Wish Maker]

It's a mechanic that is frustrating at first, but gets less bothersome once you start harvesting soil from other planets. Don't forget you can increase or decrease the brush size with + and - respectively. 2x2 is just the default brush size. And you can also toggle whether you want grey or natural coloring.

[Awake]

Originally posted by Pure Hostility:

You can use 1x1 tile and space them out to even a terrain. As 1x1 will flatten each tile surrounding it, so a total of 9 tiles. It is time consuming though.

Thanks very much for the tip!

[Awake]

Originally posted by System Senpai:

It's a mechanic that is frustrating at first, but gets less bothersome once you start harvesting soil from other planets. Don't forget you can increase or decrease the brush size with + and - respectively. 2x2 is just the default brush size. And you can also toggle whether you want grey or natural coloring.

Thanks for advice

I'm only 30 hrs into this and still learning

[Awake]

I've been raising oceans in the hope there are unrevealed veins...

In particular, the tutorial mentioned rare nodes created by deceased sea creatures.

[Sin317]

I love foundations. I want to turn every planet into a Death Star :)

[Wish Maker]

Originally posted by Awake:

I've been raising oceans in the hope there are unrevealed veins...

In particular, the tutorial mentioned rare nodes created by deceased sea creatures.

I... do not remember this in the tutorial. I DO remember them mentioning that you can find rare resources from oceanic planets in distance systems though -- this does not relate to the starting planet. I've pretty much removed all traces of water and you earn nothing more than extra building space.

[Sin317]

I hope you left a little "lake" for your water needs ^^

[Wish Maker]

I built around my water needs. :) Besides, I'm on another planet now, and I'll save a bit of water for -- again -- other water needs. But mostly is mow over what I don't need to make way for my cybernetic empire.

[Sin317]

Originally posted by System Senpai:

I built around my water needs. :) Besides, I'm on another planet now, and I'll save a bit of water for -- again -- other water needs. But mostly is mow over what I don't need to make way for my cybernetic empire.

Now all it needs is Pollution, lol

[Wish Maker]

No thanks!

[Awake]

Originally posted by Sin317:

I love foundations. I want to turn every planet into a Death Star :)

Awesome!

Make sure you level the terrain, remove any trenches, and protect your thermal exhaust port!

[Wish Maker]

A good recommendation I read, and have used and can vouch for -- is take about 5000 foundation to nearest Moon-like planet in your system, turn your brush size to 1, and turn all of the creators smooth. You'll get lots of Soil this way, don't go home until you've for like 1000k worth, you'll burn through it FAST. It's like 7k per square of Deep Water - OUCH.

[blitzo the imp]

i only use it to terraform a small puddle so i can use it to build upon it. i dont use it to clear out the water reserves . i only do it to patch small holes.. i also dont think the developers intended the foundation function to be used as a mass terraforming tool ( hence the dirt pile feature)

i,m not that far in the game yet still on my first planet) so i dont know what planets have in store for me but the foundation tool for me is to clear small uneven terrain or water puddles

[DoomSquirter]

one of my first auto setups was making foundations. when I started learning to not think small I expanded a short distance away from my main area to make a much larger setup and removed the first. I was so sad that I showed up one day to find it stopped cause it filled the large chest. so I added 2 more on top of it in addition to another 3 connected afterwards lmao

always always always making foundation.

yesterday I landed on my desert mountain planet in my solar system with nothing but foundations in my inventory to make a ring of foundations at it's equator to collect about 2 million soil lumps. essentially, that world is my soil mining area.

I will pave the universe eventually