Planet Crafter: Planet Humble - Blue Sky, Clouds and Rain Stages

The Barren stage took awhile, what with exploring the world and only building a couple of T1 or T2 machines. These next few stages went by in a blur! 

 Blue Sky Stage

Main Base at start of the Blue Sky stage

The upstairs Biodome

My first priorities are: I need more storage, a communications antenna and more drills to boost pressure. Aluminium is a bottleneck. I'll go to the Sandy Basin and get more bauxite and convert that to aluminium. I built the drills at my starter base in the Osmium Caves so as to not clutter up the area around my main base. The terraformation index started going up pretty quick. Then I built the advanced crafting station (to upgrade my backpack and oxygen tank) and started working on the biodome. Oxygen started going up quick and then I unlocked the grass spreader which helped increase oxygen even more and suddenly I was at the Clouds stage!

 

Clouds Stage

The rocket launch platform

The biodome and grass spreader used up all my power so I had to fix that by building some solar panels before I could build the rocket launch platform. Then I unlocked the nuclear power generator, so I went to the Uranium Cave to collect uranium and uraninite. Before I could even build the nuclear reactor I had reached the Rain stage and unlocked the atmospheric water collector!

 

Rain Stage

Raining in the Osmium Caves

It started raining immediately when I reached the Rain stage. I finally built my nuclear reactor and atmospheric water generator and next aimed to start launching some rockets, but I needed rocket engines and they required uranium, iridium and super alloy. Fortunately, the uraninite can be converted into all three, so I went back to the Uranium Cave to collect more. I built the T1 GPS rocket so I could view the map, then I went looking for blue crates over near the Colosseum. I found lots of blue crates, plus super alloy and an entrance way to a massive underground cave network that I call the Underworld. I could easily spend days down there exploring, but with a limited supply of air, water and food I don't want to get lost, so I'll wait until later in the game. 

Underground Bunker in the Osmium Caves closed cavern

I was exploring the large closed cavern in the Osmium Caves and found an underground bunker. Part of it was blocked off by data servers that can be deconstructed with a T2 tool (which I don't have yet). I'll have to come back and explore the rest of it later, but there was also a nuclear power generator I could deconstruct and reconstruct to connect it to my power grid.

Another Volcano entrance

I found some bean seeds so I have replaced all the eggplant seeds in my food growers because beans give more health. I went back to the Volcano to get more iridium to make iridium rods for an ore extractor (I found another entrance as well, but I think it's a one-way entrance - jumping down some cliffs that I'm not sure I'd be able to get back up). I could have just got uraninite to convert into iridium, but I like the Volcano - it's such an interesting area. Now I need osmium for the ore extractor and the biolab so I'm off to the Crystal Valley. I should really make some agility boots or the jetpack for faster travel. I reached the Liquid Water stage just as I collected my first osmium crystals.