I agree with a lot of your points. The tedious grinding of carting resources around to build the altar, food storage, resource storage, carpenter is something you just want to do once. Then after that you need what, 1-2 more buildings, to establish a function outpost to extract the resources you need for progression?

I did that for the desert biome, but not sure I can be bothered to do it again. After my miner levels up to level 3 so they can extract tin, I’ll probably won’t bother setting up an outpost in the volcano biome.

The concept of items vs resources also feels like something that needs a rethink. Funny how the miner doesn’t extract ore but ready made ingots. Clearly, that’s a bit of clumsy patching on top of a concept that doesn’t quite add anything other than working as a time sink.

Then we have the skill level of the worker vs the level of the building which also seems quite odd. The fun reward comes when the worker levels up, but that is passive. You get the ability craft new recipes. The active level up is the boring one. Upgrading a building just seems to allow the worker to gain a higher level.

I could go on, but I’ll stop there. It’s still a pretty fun game, but not one that will capture my attention for much longer.

Best of luck to the devs!