Minegistics is a building game with logistics networks, power grids, towns and trains.
In your starting inventory you have collectors, power plant, rails, trains, a market, a town, and some coal.
To get resources you need to place a collector on top of a node and power it. (Collectors can collect wood from trees when placed next to a forest.)
To produce power you need to supply a power plant with coal or wood for fuel. Buildings within range of the power plant will be supplied with power. Open your inventory and click the power button to see information about your power grid.
To make money, you will need to place a market and town and connect them together with rails and a train. Supply the market with goods from a collector, factory, workshop or farm. These items will be sold.
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I can see that this game can become a really fun sim game
I would love to see some more-detailed models, and more things to do, and better explanation of what to do, but this is already a neat thing to mess around with
Great game, great potential
Ok, so clearly I'm the first reviewer to see the content of this game now that it is, actually, a game.
It's an automation-centered idle factory game, with:
It's fairly balanced. I tried to upgrade a fairly long rail pathway, and it took a bit of time, as I ran out of money after spending most of it on power rails. I had to wait for my now partially upgraded track pathway to give me more money (at a now faster-on-average pace). This seems to be good.
There's a few (mostly minor) issues I have with it, though.
Lastly, to the dev: Great job on not giving up. Lots of new game developers, if they saw so many profoundly negative reviews on contentdb, they'd give up. You didn't and your game is much better because of it. Keep it up!
This is Train Tycoom
I love how this game works it is like train tycoon games but it is in minetest and cubic. This reminds me of model trains i had when i was small but a little more interesting like tycoon games. I like how powerplants power the town and extractors which can be placed on ores which is good. But i have seen small bugs like train going offrail. Already feels fulfilled but much more amazing with more feature and inventory improvement.
Semi-automated power generation is the furthest you can get
Minegistics (MG) is a (WIP) casual building game focusing on logistics. Overall, a solid foundation for a game but not enough content to have much fun with it.
Limited progression: the "endgame" is reached very quickly, since there's not much content yet.
Limited logistics and automation: Automation is impossible due to factories being clogged up and there being no way to mitigate this. Logistics so far is just putting together duplexes between buildings. Warehouses don't even function as a distributor...
Excel in its theme: great work on making the models and the particles. Together with debug textures it actually felt like it's building towards a theme. a depressing 1900s polluted air industrial zone sure, but I like that art direction. i hope the maintainers continue to build on the coalpunk feel.
Missing quality of life: Digging rails shouldn't be time consuming.
Meta
I'm impressed with the updates MG received after 2021 Game Jam
Suggestion
Tin + Meat/Fruit = Canned Food