Ice platform needs a shorter crafting time.

[kaijyuu]

Aquilo is overall pretty great, but the initial setup phase is excruciating. It's basically half an hour (if you're doing it right) of making an ice platform production so you have enough ice platforms to expand the ice platform production. Only when you finally get the darn things to post scarcity can you actually start building on aquilo.

The rest of aquilo is pretty much fine. You need craptons of things like heat pipes and concrete but those can be made off world. Ice platforms taking so long to make just slows things down for no reason.

[danbopes]

Have you played Sea Block!?

[Paradroid]

What does it matter what happens in a 3rd party mod? That's irrelevant.

+1, OP is right. Ice platform production is excruciatingly slow. It would be nice for this to be quicker. Especially because you quickly exhaust the ones you can get from breaking up ice formations, and it takes a while to have enough space to make anything in bulk on Aquilo.

[Nemoricus]

I do agree that it's slow in a way that doesn't make things more fun. Ice platform is a major bottleneck for getting things rolling on Aquilo, and ice platform manufacture being slow doesn't make things more interesting. It just makes things slower.

Also, comparisons to Sea Block are not flattering. That is a mod pack that is notorious for being slow to start, and rough for new players to get into.

[mouzy]

I can definitely see how it can feel slow but I think it would hurt the progression of Aquilo if it was much faster to make.

Aquilo is the final planet and I think how cramped it is at first helps make it feel like a really harsh environment. You get an island to start on, so you can build things initially without ice platforms, but you have to cram them in to a small irregularly shaped island and fit heat pipes everywhere.

You can expand it but it's pretty hard to do at first - not just because ice platforms are slow to craft, but also because it's hard to generate power there (so stamping down several speed beaconed assemblers making ice platforms is quite tough). Personally I felt like that encourages you to really try to fit as much on that initial island as possible.

Once you get a bit further and have reliable heat gen and fusion power set up, it's pretty easy to put a few beaconed assemblers on ice platforms and start making big organized builds. But I think the effort it takes to get there makes reaching that point more satisfying and interesting.

[nuhll]

Maybe more starting foundation? Like what you collect from rocks around that "starting island" I found every planet easy, but aquilo is the first where i literally stranded... and i cant fit crafting maschines anymore, but i guess main problem was that i was unprepared... (like i didnt know i dont have iron and copper there, or maybe ill find out later...)

but it should be the hardest...? Its the last content...