I’ve completed this game only once, and unfortunately I used some QoL mods like farther reach, YouTube tutorials about main buses, and no biters. This was back when space age first released yet I don’t have the DLC.

Because of not having a threat against me, I’ve always had the mindset of perfecting ratios in every aspect of my builds. I spent hours just trying to get my 48 furnace columns to work before I even made stuff, thinking it was okay (obviously not thinking about it now), or getting solid belts of everything before I move onto the next product.

I want to play the game on normal difficulty with biters, yet obviously I can’t perfect my buses when I’m just starting out.

So my questions are:

- How many automated furnaces do I need to start out with?

- How should I deal with biters early on before I automate walls?…