I'm having fun with this game, but it fails at the automation part: Most items and sparks you need for one thing only: Quests. For quests you need anexorbitant amount, and later you will never need them again. Also building automatic transportation across the mountains is very complicated, so for the most part it is best to have a small setup for building materials and for the rest simply carry a few stacks of the materials over via waypoint and then wait until the production is finished. I do like the exploration part and the spark handling, though!
