Infrastructure

Infrastructure carries the lifeblood of your colony and is the first step towards human habitation. Drones lay down pipes and cables to transport resources to sustain your colony and maintaining the network is crucial to the survival of your colonists, buildings, and the colony.

Resources
Exploitation and manufacture of supplies constitutes the bulk of your infrastructure. Resources are either gathered directly from Mars, or later manufactured in resource production buildings - most commonly from other resources. They keep the Colony operational by being used for life-support, construction and building upkeep.

There are two types of resources; grid and non-grid. Grid resources use Pipes and Cables for distribution, while non-grid resources have to be moved around with Drones or RC Rovers.

Grid
The following is an advanced resource.
 * Electrical power is used by nearly every structure you may build. Power usage can be reduced or removed and power generation can be increased, through research.
 * Acquired through vaporizators and underground deposits, one of the most important basic resources.
 * Necessary for your people to breathe. Produced by farms and MOXIEs.
 * Used to refuel rockets and shutles and manufacture polymers.

Non-grid
The following are basic resources, used as resources for the manufacture of advanced resources or as basis for most buildings. The following are advanced resources, imported or manufactured in Martian factories:
 * Primary building material. Ubiquitous utility.
 * Second base building material, also used to manufacture machine parts.
 * Export good and resource for making electronics.
 * Used to keep your colonists alive.
 * Advanced maintenance and building material, necessary for all the advanced buildings.
 * Essential material for the creation of domes and other advanced buildings.
 * Used to build and maintain extractors, factories.