After recording several episodes ahead, I have become sufficiently annoyed to quit playing the mod. Reason: I need water for antimony extraction. Water is not so simple. Can I use a tank car?` NO. It's locked behind antimony production. Can I use a barrel? NO. There are no barrels in the mod. Can I pipe it for dozens of kilometers across the landscape? Yes, but I would need to add pumps and that is far too annoying. It is also "too much" to have to build a new water plant at the antimony patch because of the solid byproducts and the need to shoot the chest every now and again... Factorio is about automation, and having to shoot chests is not automatable...
An additional and completely illogical thing: chain signals are also locked behind antimony.
I do not understand why we are denied these basic building blocks of a factory. It makes zero sense to me and is incredibly frustrating. Just makes the player experience terrible. It's like telling a person to write a novel and removing all vowels and the letter "r" from the keyboard...
