One Small Step for Me

[Miner (level 1) crafted!]

For a moment, Theo just sat still in perfect silence, his eyes closed as he pondered over this one moment.

'This is but one small step for me,' Theo thought as he slowly opened his eyes and locked his eyes with the nearby, exposed parts of the mineral, iron vein. 'But it's the first major breakthrough for my growth. As of now…'

Theo gulped his saliva down as he slowly approached the place before summoning his building overlay.

On one hand, it felt extremely ordinary. On the other hand, though…

Resource acquisition. Automated craft of everything necessary to keep expanding. Then, automating the building process itself.

Those were the three major steps that permeated through every kind of factory game.

First, one had to take the task of getting resources removed from the equation of what had to be done by hand, for it was the biggest time sink of all, one that was also easiest to completely abolish.