Island colonies?

[HeikoFennec]

I've confirmed you can plant rockets on an island and move it, so that means they'll aesthetically be good colonies. I'm not wrong am I?

[Tachyon]

I don't think of them as colonies, just places to mine. I'm towing 4 at the moment and mining them as I travel.

[HeikoFennec]

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I don't think of them as colonies, just places to mine. I'm towing 4 at the moment and mining them as I travel.

The smaller ones? In any case I do note that it's rather difficult as things progress past the initial self-sustaining setup.
Particular is layout, it takes quite the planning and grind to move on to adding astronauts to the crew. On that note I cannot say I'm too thrilled by the transport bots sitting around in spite my setting up orders.
Still, a good game for chiiling

[Tachyon]

Originally posted by HeikoFennec:

Originally posted by Tachyon:

I don't think of them as colonies, just places to mine. I'm towing 4 at the moment and mining them as I travel.

The smaller ones?...

No the very big ones. That way I can mine all the resources I need as I travel along. I currently have 4 towing with me, and one of them has, amongst other useful stuff, 47,000+ Carbon on it. I think my fuel needs for making power are sorted for a while! :)

EDIT: I gave up on the Transport Bots. They work as a pack rather than individually, so you can't have a few over there gathering a particular item and a few more elsewhere gathering different stuff to transport. The AI is a bit wonky too, plus they only carry one item in their claws at a time as they have no inventory space as such.

[TankHunter678]

One of the problems with transport bots is that they will only actually do their job if there is less than 50 of an item in the thing, so I only made 1 just to automate food being delivered to the canteen.

[feenixfire]

I've attached 2 big ones to my base and am going for a 3rd. you can move them with you

[Tevirik]

I've just started my first engine and what do I found in very close proximity : A small island full of aluminium ! Yeah baby

[Dirtycocks]

Originally posted by TankHunter678:

One of the problems with transport bots is that they will only actually do their job if there is less than 50 of an item in the thing, so I only made 1 just to automate food being delivered to the canteen.

You can increase the number of items they bring past 50.

[Uzumati]

You can set up multiple storage containers and set amount of bot and what is delivered to each. Not ideal but works.