Waste rock

[Buckshot]

When this game first came out, I bought it and had a load of fun with it. I guess it was EA and I lost interest in it, but just recently started playing again, due to a Youtuber getting me interested again. A lot has changed since then. Ive gone through almost the whole tutorial I think and I have started a new savegame. A lot of this game came back to me but some things seem new. My question is: Is there a purpose for Waste Rock? Its starting to pile up and I dont know what to do with it. Any help would be appreciated.

[Orpenda]

Hi,

With the rock waste you can, for example, fill in the craters on the surface in order to make the uneven terrain cultivable. You can also build ramps to possibly reach higher levels.

greetings Orp

[Jon_Smith]

Waste rock is actually a pretty well balanced resource. It adds a penalty to many buildings and generally becomes another thing to manage.

Early game, as mentioned, it can be used in landscaping. That being said its use it rather limited and contrary to what Orpenda said I would strongly suggest again building ramps that require waste rock since its adds a lot of time to building that ramp, instead place ramps that have a waste rock cost as close to zero as possible, ideally ones that have between 0-50 excess waste rock in them, they'll be done much faster.

So, further into the game you'll unlock some extra techs. I'll add spoiler tags so you can decide if you want to learn about them already.

Waste rock can be used as a consumable resource that you burn in large processors to raise global atmosphere levels, the only other way to raise it is via expensive planetary projects at 1% a time so its well worth doing.

The other, more classic use is in a small factory that converts waste rock into concrete which can be super handy late game.

You'll tend to find that often you end up with huge piles of waste rock until late game when you can start to clean up.

There are also a couple of mission sponsors with unique buildings that use waste rock. India can convert waste rock into metals and Brazil can convert waste rock into rare metals.

[boneys26]

Early game my maps look like my kids bedrooms, mid game is like their bedrooms after I've told them to tidy it where they just move the mess to one dumping spot, late game is like the kids room after my wife has been in a tidied it.. neat tidy and you can't find what you're looking for. Welcome to mars, Home edition.. lol

[Buckshot]

Thanks for all your useful comments. It is appreciated. This game is so addicting, even though I know this game is already many years old. Is this game pretty much finished or are Devs still adding to it?

[NotThatHarkness]

Originally posted by Buckshot:

Thanks for all your useful comments. It is appreciated. This game is so addicting, even though I know this game is already many years old. Is this game pretty much finished or are Devs still adding to it?

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