Thank you Earendel, this has been an absolutely unimaginable experience.
I was consistently and repeatedly surprised, very positively, throughout.
The fact that the mod adds much more than "just another 300 recipes", it adds actual meaningful and super interesting mechanics that really stretched my brain many times, and I enjoyed the hell out of that.
I am thoroughly impressed at the quality of the game design decisions that go into Space exploration.
I absolutely cannot overstate how much I appreciate that such a big mod doesn't attempt to do "all the mandatory things". Like adding the "obvious must haves" like loaders, inserter source/drop target customization, extending lengths of underground belts/pipes, adding overpowered weaponry or just adding more machines of the same type with tiers, "Machine Mk++". Instead it adds only meaningful, interesting things. Upgrades mostly aren't just straight forward, and introduce new and different problems.
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