What are you supposed to do when you land on Moshine without Foundry which is craftable only on Vulcanus without having automatic remote crafting on Vulcanus set up? Do I seriously have to build and launch a rocked while sourcing ALL iron by HAND MINING rocks that are somewhat scarce on the surface? Seems like overlooked thing tbh. Foundry should be craftable on Moshine imo.

Or give the planet a briefing page where you recommend bringing at least one Foundry.

Not really an oversight, the assumption being: planet unlocks after the foundry and electromagnetic plants, at this point in the game, you should have automatic space routes set-up, so bringing a foundry and a plant isn't crazy. Also, I lay out the whole production loop on the mod page.

But I don't think it's inherently a bad idea, I'm pondering it, and added a poll to the discord to gauge whether it's a good idea or not to add a foundry recipe.

Here if you want to participate in the discussion, poll is 5 for and 2 against so far

https://discord.com/channels/1309620686347702372/1337535208957677579/1427371270013718702

To be clear I don't think that needing Foundry and Plant is the problem at all, I think that that's pretty cool. I just think that there being literally no way of knowing that before landing on Moshine and being locked out of traveling anywhere else is the problem. Briefing would've solved that. Or adding a recipe. Either for foundy or for making plates from molten iron (maybe super ineffective compared to using a Foundry to incentivize it heavily anyways). Like with normal crafters and water with very bad molten iron to iron plate ratio or sth I dunno, that just came to my mind.

I play Space Age with ton of planet mods as an exploration game, not setting up large scale fully automated production on every planet (yet), don't think I'm alone but of course I can't back that assumption with any actual data.

That is roughly where we are landing with what the problem is.