[kortex]

Throw the first one away. Especially when starting a run, plan on throwing away the starter base.

I learned this trick watching AntiElitz speedruns. He'll build a manual bootstrap "factory" (really just mines and smelting) to get plates, then build a very-polished-through-iteration bootstrap base which builds all the development essentials - circuits, arms, belts, ammo, etc. That's used to build the real base.

[zentiggr]

That sounds a lot like the old Gentoo stage 1 / 2 / 3 build system...

Makes me a little more interested, in general.