Every vanilla playthrough of mine follows a rough progression: get to blue science with spaghetti, organize a bit, and then get bots all with my initial ore deposits (maybe a few trains to the closest other ones if needed). After that, I build a larger, more organized base with a comprehensive train network from scratch in another location and then work to finish the game.
I assumed this was the norm—or close to it—but I’ve seen people just progressively expand their initial base at spawn until they beat the game. I feel like I could do it differently just because I have less experience and hence less foresight into what I’ll need as I go, but I’m not sure.
What do you guys do? How come?
Augment my spaghetti first base with resources from far out, usually by daisy-chaining bot hubs and then having them build 1000-tile conveyors.
Eventually I switch to trains but I make one of the abandoned mines the train hub to reuse the conveyors, since my spaghetti doesn’t fit trains well.
Now that space age is released, the other planets get proper trains and efficient layouts, while I slowly move to supply nauvis with materials from off-world. I basically use nauvis as a depot and research planet once I have a good foothold on another…