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If phase 3 is too complicated, I've got some bad news for you...
If you're having fun, just play the game and take it one step at a time and before you know it you'll have everything done and working. If you're putting it off because you aren't looking forward to it and it feels like a chore then go outside and do something else with your valuable time.
What has you demotivated?
The making of the complicated parts, im sure that its not that bad, im leaning towards just doing it
Hate to say it but it doesn't get any easier. Taking care of these parts is like an appetizer to phase 4.
If it scares you, know that you don't have to make factories for it. My way of doing phase 1-3 space elevator parts is to just make a big storage of the required materials and feed them into assemblers placed on the ground next to the space elevator.
Its really strange since I just made a giant nobelisk factory and it was fun. I dont know why I dont wanna do these xd
Maybe because you can have a practical use for the nobelisk, but the space elevator parts just get shot up the space elevator?
An approach I find helpful for that is to look at each part you need and list out the subcomponents. Then only think about building what you need for just one subcomponent.
It's easy to get overwhelmed when you look at complicated recipes but really, it's just a bunch of smaller recipes in a trench coat.
Don't make them, automate them!
The word 'factory' roughly comes from the process of cutting a complex process up into simple parts. So change your perspective - every complicated part you are trying to make, is just a bunch of simple parts. Keep taking it one step at a time and you'll feel satisfaction after every little milestone :)
Phase 3 doesn't have to be automated.
You can make a setup near your elevator that starts with a series of industrial storage containers. You need steel beams and pipes, modular frames, wire, rubber, computers, rotors and reinforced iron plates. You can do deliveries with your truck every half hour and it won't take too long to finish.
Assuming you have a small setup for computers, motors and heavy modular frames already (you only need 100 of each except motors which require 1000), the setup will be up to 6 assemblers and 2 manufacturers.
The trick to phase 3 is just to get started on it. First a few assemblers for versatile frameworks to start churning. Then a modular engine setup. Before you know it the number of things you need to finish it starts decreasing rapidly and you realize it is not a huge task.
Break things up into smaller parts. It isn't 1 project, but e.g. 20 smaller ones.
I thought Phase 3 completion was a bit daunting too when i imagined setting it all up to be automated etc.
What helped me get it completed was just setting up some individual machines off to the side of everything else that produced it very slowly.
Id put all the raw materials into a storage container and let it pump into an assembler and make each part as needed. When i thought of integrating this into everything else i also thought of making an entirely new factory in another part of the world.
Using a tool to calculate everything for you is a big helper for me. Had the same problem before, it made me lose interest in the game at some point in phase 4. I started new playthroughs each time. Like 3 times. One thing I made is taking my time a building a mega factory specifically for phase 3 because the parts will be needed for phase 4.
I tend to play the long game, make a factory to build something, go to another, explore to find hard drives (getting spooked by spiders in the forest), build a train network (I find it very very satisfactory). Easy to get lost in the task at hand, once you automated enough you'll see it's not that bad un the end.
And if you're really put off, well maybe you need to stop playing for a while, you'll want to get back to it.
About half way through, the game stops being about basic survival "go gather some x and then do a few crafting recipes" and starts becoming "how organized are you because you are going to have to add 15 more 'go gather x and craft' to your routine"
Planning is key, whether thats a tool like the production calculator or drawing it out by hand or making your own spreadsheet, everyone at that point has to either make a plan or just give into chaos. It becomes only the kind of game you want to play because you can do it either way.
I would assume you have all required items already stockpiled or just need to wait to get them. If not, just set up a single manufacturer/assembler to automate them, you aren't trying to speedrun Phase 3 here. With that in mind, just place down a few manufacturers/assemblers getting fed by storage containers for the space elevator items and switch the recipes. It doesn't have to look good as it is temporary and will be dismantled after completing Phase 3. Anyway, these are the items you need:
Versatile Frameworks:
1250 Modular Frames
15000 Steel Beams
Modular Engines:
1000 Motors
1000 Smart Plating = 1000 Rotors and Reinforced Plates
7500 Rubber
Adaptive Control Units
750 Automated Wiring = 750 Stators and 15000 Cables
500 Circuit Boards
100 Heavy Modular Frames
100 Computers
I would recommend starting with Versatile Frameworks since you probably already have a huge amount of Steel Beams for mk3 belts so you can start stockpiling Smart Plating and Automated Wiring which you probably don't have enough of already since they aren't used besides the space elevator. Also, I would speed up cable production for Automated Wiring if you don't have a lot of it lying around. I would definitely not recommend making dedicated factories for these parts as you need a lot more of them for Phase 4, which is optional and you don't need to do as it doesn't unlock any new tiers.
Do you have production of the normal parts used to make them? Motors, computers, HMFs, etc. If you do, you can hook up some ad-hoc production to make just enough parts to finish Phase 3, which is something a lot of people do. Dedicated factories for Elevator parts are not really necessary until Phase 4.
If you do not have production of the normal parts, you should probably do that first. You are going to need those parts.
Just got through phase 3 this weekend the problem is all the parts you are trying to unlike are the parts you want to make a big factory. Want manufacturers you need heavy modular frames, to make heavy modular frames you need manufacturers!?!?!
A while back I wanted to try a no hand crafting run. It is actually impossible for this reason, I thought you might be able to find parts at the crash sites, but there are none of the parts you need. Maybe the item shop, but I don't think you get it early enough.
You can find heavy modular frames at some crash sites.
you can find them at a LOT of crash sites. definitely viable to do a 'no hand crafting' run. not sure where he looked but someone totaled it up on the wiki theres like 400+ hmfs at crash sites
I forget what part it is, but the part you can't find isn't HMF, I was just using that as a previous example.
This is an architect game not a factory game, you can't beat it by just using automation. You need to use hand crafting or the item shop.
Automate
Start with the main part and decompose the amount of assembly needed to automate them, then when you reach the ore layer, connect everything. Or just bulk produce the without automation.
Or just go play a different game. Why people force themselves to play this game when they stop enjoying it is beyond me
Take a break, come back for 1.0
Phase 3 is definitely a challenge, but take your time, it's not a race. And with 1.0 coming if you fell like you will want to restart your save, you might not want to do it all again. And yet, with the experience you already have you will probably do things differently and be more efficient during your next playthrough. Also don't forget you can litterally grab a couple resources to make the basic machines for a little local production, pack your bags and set off on the other side of the map to start from scratch, on your already existing save, without removing your current factory.
What are you currently having fun doing?
it's not too bad once you understand fluid mechanics and ratios. i will admit that's where i hit a wall