Can I suggest making the hives require construction maintenance by decreasing 1 HP every x time (or use the vanilla machine breaking mechanic). Currently you can build as much hives as you want and up to a point they will generate infinite jelly at no cost of labor, thus becoming free money instead of just surviving.

Will you support the double door mod? https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3223646936

I do have plans, sorta, for caves and water/coast in relation to power options. But if you're talking about in the desert, it would be just vanilla-based power like wind turbines or solar panels.

Thermopiles from ZARS Thermo were kinda cheaty, and now there's much more options from other mods. I left the Crystal Gens in for the arctic as it is part of the actual gameplay.

since the artic have their unique power system/crystal, will u add another on your other mod?

I might turn it into a completely separate mod considering I detached Mineral Water from Mineral Dust. So now a general purpose use for Mineral Dust has to be created. Either be it the old med packs or a drug. If I can't think of a purpose then it'll be back to pulling raw partial resources from the sieves themselves without using gathered mineral dust.

If that is what you concern. Let component and plasteel craftable early on but resource and time consuming, i believe some old mod done this. In my current ice sheet run, i edit trader arrival freqnency to fill up this resource gap.

We shall see. Headcanon wise it didn't feel right pulling components and plasteel straight out of the ice, and in the desert there are outcrops of resources and trash. If anything I might do something for the ocean/coast lovers due to my recent playthrough of Extreme Desert on the coast is really really really hard.

Also update incoming to balance the small hives.

So, will you planning to add sieving system? i think that is one of an important feature.