Hi,

Good job on the mod, I just wanted to temper expectations for other players.
There isn't any new supply chains except that you can mine asteroids on aquilo's surface (and in the ocean with floating miners), and to combat the cold you probably do have to use those red lamps in the screenshots. I chose to go with traditional heat pipes instead, which was arduous but eventually worked. The play ends up much more like on space platform, but with hand smelting and mining.

Thanks!

The main "new gameplay" in the mod is the thermal units (especially their use in mixed land-and-sea operations) and the associated restrictions in structure that come with building on the water; the general thought is that if you're starting fresh on Aquilo, you'll start with thermal dissipators to make kickstarting easier, move to heat pipes for your primary solid-ground operations due to finite initial lithium (continuing to make buoys for dredge-deposit mining and the mixed land-and-sea operations) and then as you make it to other planets you can start to mix in more dissipators again and potentially quality them up.

It's not a hugely-scoped mod, but it's not intended to be - the info page should (unless I goofed) document the entirety of the mod contents, so expectations should come from there.

I just want to reassure other players, after having launched a rocket from Aquilo with this mod, that I think this is pretty much exactly what an Aquilo start should aim to be. I very much enjoy that it stays true to the spirit of Aquilo, rather than just sharing a name with it but not being similar in mechanics.

Not engaging with the newly added heating mechanics is an... odd decision? Try a mix of heat pipe and the new heat lamps.

Personally I think it's more reminiscent of Fulgora, having to deal with mixed products that can create excess. I do miss a portable reactor replacement that allows for more usable personal bots.