So I have iron ore, but like, what do I want to do with it?

Well, first thing I would say you do is you could build a trading post.

Now you do not need iron ore to build a trading post.

This is free.

You can just build this with no resources at all.

So the way I did that was I pressed B to open the build menu.

I clicked on the trading post tab, click on trading post.

There's a hologram.

And if I can't build somewhere, it goes red.

If I can build somewhere, it's blue.

And then I just left click again to build it.

Now I right click and right click again to just get back out of those menus.

And I have a trading post.

So let's see, what can we do here?

Well, we can research schematics.

So here we can choose, what would I like to research?

What looks useful in a factory?

Well, I think conveyor belts.

um would be useful if i hover over automated construction and click it you can see here that it's you know if i if i research this schematic i'll have access to constructors conveyor belts and conveyor poles it costs 25 plates and what this means is um if i click back on the inventory so this is now active if i click on the inventory there's a ship section here

And there's a timer here.

So in nine minutes and 18 seconds, this ship here is going to ship off and pay for a schematic.

And so the schematic cost is 25 iron plates.

So if I send 25 iron plates on the ship, I'll get the schematics required for constructors, conveyor belts, and conveyor poles back so I can improve my factory.

So how do I get iron plates?

What did I need?

I needed 25 iron plates.

Yeah, right here.

Okay, well, there's a workbench here attached to the trading post.

So here, there are iron plates here.

That's not what we need.

To do that, I need two iron ingots for one iron plate.

Okay, so let's click on iron ingots and I need iron ore for that.

So I can click that.

It's selected.

It's got the little blue thing there.

And then I just spam click produce.

And you can see I'm making iron ingots.

Now I have 10.

Now I can make iron plates from those.

Okay, so that was only five.

I need five, 20 more.

Yeah.

Okay, so then I'll just rinse and repeat that process until I have the plates required to ship.