Finally have almost all the blueprints for the road worked out. Made a bunch more progress on the road, with them. Although, I encountered a few mistakes that I had to quickly run back and correct.

But I was able to build out the road in quite a few directions, an in particular, the whole way to Copperworks.

Of course, I then encountered the prospect of building out this whole shipping/trucking lot by hand (the edging in particular), so I ended up creating a handful more blueprints for that concept.

But with the lot built, all the truck stations in place, and a successful efficiency audit, Copperworks is fully complete.

I ended up doing all the beltwork here, after my wife wasn’t happy with her first draft, that took up quite a bit more space.

While I was doing that, though, she ran off and built a new factory for Reinforced Iron Plate and Modular Frame.

We debated on the technical design for quite a while. It was actually an entirely new exercise, for me, since I’m used to building factories based solely on full utilization of raw resource nodes. But, with this factory, there AREN’T any raw resources. We’re free to ship in whatever we want with trucks.

Ultimately, I think we’ve proven that the Ironworks and Copperworks factories we’ve built, to be able to truck resources out to all future factories, are really not gonna work that way. They just don’t have enough output volume to produce later products. We dedicated almost the entirety of our Screw production (yeah, I know, we regret that as well) just to this factory, with plans to just make Screws on-site anywhere else that needs them, and we’re STILL only managing to get about 20/min RIP and 5/min MF here.

I’m trying not to let sub-optimal factories bug me, though, learning about why some ideas don’t work is still success.