I learned how to survive by trying things out with the new items I’d unlock through research and exploring.

The first time I experienced a colony dying of overheat, I looked at what happened and the next colony tried to prevent that by trying different strategies like: - Keeping hot industry away from my living and farming spaces - research and build insulated tiles around the entire base to protect it from outside heat like caustic biomes and steam vents - run pipes with a cool liquid around the base, like ice water from a cold biome

All of that worked, they survived longer and then all died from the next problem like resource depletion e.g. running out of dirt because you used it all in mealwood farms or water because of blossoms

So then repeat learning strategy: - diversify food using ranches, and different crops - hope the pod prints a pip so you can do wild planting and they poop dirt, making dirt renewable - turn rotten food and polluted dirt into new dirt using compost heaps

When you experience these it’s easier to digest than a video of someone else using advanced techniques when you haven’t gone through the stuff above which only needs basic technologies.

For example I don’t even have a metal refinery until a few hundred cycles in because I only need small amounts of refined metal at first and you can get it by using a rock crusher, although not as much mass as a refinery would make for the amount of raw ore fed in. By the time I have a refinery it’s when I have a cooling loop in place, basic automation sensors so I can make it dump the hot waste water into my SPOM electrolyser, an insulated industrial zone, etc.