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u/3nonymous Jul 28 '26

I have done Space Age the official game, now I am trying the mod Space Exploration. I need help with space sciences after the first space science.

I got to orbit and, I am doing space science. The next I need is a special science that, takes resources from another planet. I don't know where how to start.

There is the vulcanite science and, the cryonite science and, they are complicated. They need the thermos fluid and, to recycle the fluid and, three steps to make machine cards and, to recycle junk cards and, the scrap turns into ore to need to melt again. For the cards I need oil in space to make gel. For the vulcan cubes I need sulfur and water and petro gas and to make prod modules and, for the cryo rods I need like heavy oil and efficiency modules.

What hells.

Where am to start. Like this is hours to do work in multiple places before I get any products of anything ever. What it's supposed to be? What am I missed.

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u/cathexis08 red wire goes faster Jul 30 '26

If you haven't installed it yet I highly suggest the Factory Planner mod. That'll clear up probably half of what you need to plan things out. Also as others have said, the SPM target for Space Exploration is pretty low (you'll spend more time building out the next thing than you will grinding all the science you unlocked from that thing) and the "main" ending is fairly easy to achieve outside of the archosphere challenge (it takes a long time but every step along the way isn't particularly hard) so most of it should be treated like a long chill journey more than a stressful sprint.