Adds a new planet, Athos, which has an abundance of stone and diamonds, but not much else. You'll have to get creative if you want to find a way back off the planet using the existing resources.

Core Gameplay

Use crushers to access the trace resources hidden in Athos's plentiful stone deposits, and to break down diamonds into carbon that can be burnt for power or recombined into other useful forms.

The frequent earthquakes won't damage your structures, but they will toss stone up into the air, from where it might land on the ground or on your belts. You'll need to make sure your logistics are robust enough to handle unexpected stone showing up anywhere.

Roadmap Unlocks

While progressing through the recipe chain on Athos, several useful techs get unlocked even before you can craft the particulate science pack.
- Big mining drill (alternate recipe)
- Big crusher (from the Crushing Industry dependency, moved from Vulcanus)
- Alternate recipes for red/blue circuits, and electric engines
- Burner generator

Science Unlocks

After crafting the particulate science pack, you'll gain access to even more benefits
- Blast silo. An alternative rocket silo that takes advantage of Athos's minimal atmosphere to blast rockets at high speed right out of the silo. Required to get science to orbit, if you don't want to get rocket part ingredients delivered from anothet planet.
- Clockwork robotics. Since there's no water on planet, there's no way to make sulfuric acid for batteries. This just gives an alternative recipe so you can get a logistic network set up without importing bots.
- Stone melting. Convert stone to lava in a foundry, then cast it directly into bricks or concrete.
- Simple asteroid crushing. Smash asteroid chunks directly into stone, ignoring their other useful contents.

Compatibility

Works with Any Planet Start, but just with the bare minimum of changes required to allow progress. Early game is a bit of a slog.