Design dead end before unlocking miners?

[Apathy]

I was playing the demo, just exploring the mechanics and was setting up a shop for more cash and more employees. I had neglected the main contracts (was on the step to do better ingots) and ran out of iron.

I see no way to purchase iron ore (even at a marked up price over what I presume is cheap mining) and the same seems to be essentially soft locked from progression.

I checked everything, but without having miners unlocked, I do not see a way to progress the story to actually GET to miners. Adding an option to buy iron ore (like you can wood) would alleviate this potential dead end.

[Shendun]

To get more iron ingots open management - click on the assistant and assign him to iron smelter duty. And he will collect iron ore stones from the nearby miniral depot and produce iron ingots. (you need smelter(s) to make ingots)
The 2 options to assign the assistant to carry ore/ingots is not possible.
(Most likely because it's a demo version).

[Apathy]

Ah, that's the one thing I did not try, assumed it wasn't possible due to not having the ore.

Thanks for the info!

[lifepest]

The transport ingots mechanic isn't practical in the demo, but the transport ore is.

it is a bit of a process though. these steps are necessary to transport ore.

1. build an ore crate.
2. assign an assistant to transport ore
3. select assistant and select edit.
4. select the warehouse to pickup ore, then select crate to drop off at.