Because this community deserves more activity.
Today was spent setting up a basic Quartz/Silica factory, from one of the pure nodes in the giant Rocky Desert cave.
Got it most of the way done. Need to finish running power along the input belt line, finish enclosing the Depot wing, bring the road up to meet the building, setup truck stations, and color and light the whole thing.
Nice. I wonder what people do here strategy wise, say you have 4 iron nodes close to eachother, do you create a single factory that produces rods, plates and screws, or also derived items like reinforced plates and frames? Or do you split the iron nodes up and create separate factories for separate items? I love this game but this is still something I struggle with (and grass sticking through my foundations, we need a lawnmower in this game), mostly because I don’t know if my design choices will give me logistics hell later on.