The settlement cannot place an underground pile on demand because research must unlock the design first. Early inventors generate science, while later observatories expand that capacity as advanced systems demand larger research reserves. Production also moves from logs to planks to gears, so knowledge and manufacturing capacity have to develop together. Advanced infrastructure therefore depends on research capacity and the workshops that supply its components.
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Building research capacity before advanced infrastructure
An underground store cannot be ordered on demand: inventors, observatories and a logs-to-planks-to-gears production chain must create the capability first.