I love this idea, but my gameplay was not "fun", even for an early alpha.

• Icons are far too similar to one another, making it impossible to tell what I actually have in my inventory. What's a machine? What's fuel?
• Initial progression is quite unclear, early techs seem to "unlock" things that are already unlocked from the start (such as the crafting machines), making the main path difficult to make out.
• Weird mining times on resources and crafting times on machines. Please don't. There is no reason for an ore patch to have 44% mining time and drills to have 55% mining speed, and the ore yields 1-2 items randomly. If 1.2 items/s is your target balance, just have the drill work at 1.2x speed, ore at 100% time and yield 1. Similar issue for crafting machines, with some at 0.8 speed and others at 0.85 speed, it just doesn't feel good.

For these reasons I stopped my game, but I'll be checking back on this mod to see how it progresses.