Bioplastic?

[City Builder]

If I've run out of bioplastic before the processing plant has been built, is it game over?

Apparently I need one more to make the tunnel to the processing plant (which is actually built, just not the tunnel to connect it). So I've got no more bioplastic, is this game done?

Thanks

[Beep!]

You can build the landing pad and trade for bioplastic if you still have enough metal (I don't think you need bioplastic for the landing pad), but it may take some time.

[Fanible]

Probably game over, but if you really wanted to try, you can destroy some already built objects and/or buildings, that aren't an immediate priority.

[Ninjaneer]

dont build large buildings at the start of the game they will cost alot of bioplastic and metal

[eMYNOCK]

if you don't need one or the only bot you might have just scrap him... will give you 1 BP and 1 Metal... this little guys will die after a few days anyway.

[dholland]

The buildings you absolutely need at the start are solar, collector, water, oxygen, airlock, canteen, biodome, dorm, mine, processing plant.

On every one of the 4 planets, you can afford afford very large solar, large collector which will power the rest at medium size, and just the 12 slot large biodome.

You don't have to get a very large solar, you could try just large, but I really don't recommend smaller external buildings. Your second power can be large solar because you have to produce the metal and it could take a while.

The 4 slot medium biodome is pretty hopeless unless you need it for a challenge with no incoming colonists.

You should also be able to get the landing pad, but don't go mad and only put in components that you absolutely need -- you don't need to fill the entire biodome and you would need another medium water before you did that.

So probably you put in too many components that use plastic or tried to build several large internal buildings or just too many medium buildings. For example, there's not enough supplies in the colony ship to get (and power) much more buildings than I mentioned, so you have to wait for storage, lab, sickbay, factory until you have a second round of externals (solar, collector, water), although you may not need more oxy if you had medium and made it a hub.

You only need 3 bunks in the dorm at first, and one meal maker, fountain, plant, screen and large table. You need 2 metal for starch and ore machine in processing plant, plus mine and some starchy veg, then you can produce and make more metal and plastic.