I’m knee deep in a swamp doing math for aluminum production: three miners pulling ore means I’ll need six pumps for water, so that I’m pushing out about 420 cubic meters of alumina solution per minute, and I figure a holding tank here as a buffer would be good, so I slap one down and climb up on top of it. That takes me above the treeline, and suddenly I realize the sheer scale of what I’ve organized and built in the last 50-some hours… Read more.