FluxWerks

A long-range scan found a temperate, oxygen-rich, unoccupied world. You are the preparation unit, sent far ahead to raise an industrial base, survey the planet, and transmit everything home. The orders are simple. But a scan taken from that far away does not catch everything, and the closer you look at this world, the less empty it seems.

Every block in the world can be mined, moved, or built over. Strip-mine a mountain with excavators, carve a bunker into deep rock, or build a platform across the open ocean and a tunnel underneath it. Water, oil, lava and acid flow through the world and react where they meet. Water on lava makes obsidian. Water on hot ground boils away. Volcanoes erupt for real, and lava does not care what you built in its path. Waste heat does not just vanish away. It moves through the blocks around your machines, so how and where you build matters as much as what you build. Pipe the heat away, or turn it back into power.

Build dense assembly lines from belts, inserters and pipes, and cover long distances with cargo drones. Copy any working section of your factory as a blueprint and stamp it anywhere. You touch the world through a nanobot swarm. Point it at terrain to clear it, at resources to harvest them, at a blueprint to print it. FluxWerks has no enemy factions, but the planet keeps score. Pollute the air heavily enough and something dormant in the soil might awaken...

Cross deserts, jungles, tundra and volcanic wastes, and dig into cave systems. Scan for ore straight through solid rock. Points of interest are scattered across the world, with story background to uncover.