Lacking cement and steel

[Woodthorn]

I am trying to build a cement factory (which needs steel) and a steel mill (requiring cement) but have neither resource. I've tried looking for if the neighbours trade it but so far I've come up with nothing. How do I proceed from here?

[solerei]

go back a few saves, there is a cement factory before unlocking steel. only the modern cement factory needs steel.

[Woodthorn]

No saves to return to. Am I stuck?

[Dave]

Originally posted by Woodthorn:

No saves to return to. Am I stuck?

You're stuck unless you can get exiles to trade. This happens if you fail to build the cement factory when you first research it

[Royce]

The game just simply failed at having any kind of explanation. Dave answers what he can but this is simply a lazy dev team. At this point i wonder if they know where it ends. Not sure how to put this but dates seem to come and go with little progress.

[Dave]

Originally posted by Royce:

The game just simply failed at having any kind of explanation. Dave answers what he can but this is simply a lazy dev team. At this point i wonder if they know where it ends. Not sure how to put this but dates seem to come and go with little progress.

It's not lazy. It's a VERY small dev team with limited resources. the devs that do work on the game work very hard 12+ hours a day.

This will eventually be fixed either by explanation or by allowing the player to build older buildings

Keep in mind that this is still an Early Access game that is not completed yet.

If we had a dev team of 50+, things would be very different

[Royce]

Originally posted by Dave:

Originally posted by Royce:

The game just simply failed at having any kind of explanation. Dave answers what he can but this is simply a lazy dev team. At this point i wonder if they know where it ends. Not sure how to put this but dates seem to come and go with little progress.

It's not lazy. It's a VERY small dev team with limited resources. the devs that do work on the game work very hard 12+ hours a day.

This will eventually be fixed either by explanation or by allowing the player to build older buildings

Keep in mind that this is still an Early Access game that is not completed yet.

If we had a dev team of 50+, things would be very different

Yes i am very well aware that it is early access. 6+ years worth. Keep in mind people start to wonder when deadlines pass.

[Dave]

Update: I was just told this will be fixed by adding a black market building where you can get advanced resources in case this happens or disasters destroy buildings. This will probably happen in v44 or v45

Here you can trade resources you have too much of for things that you lack

[Woodthorn]

Cool! Sadly I already started over, but I'm bound to mess up some other way eventually. Good fix!

[Emelio Lizardo]

Need a crafting building or simply the ability to build older buildings.

[Woodthorn]

Originally posted by Emelio Lizardo:

Need a crafting building or simply the ability to build older buildings.

It's been a couple of months since I played, but I'm relatively certain you can just build an earlier version of each building now.