I've been craving something like modded Minecraft but I want something different.
Things I like about it:
- So many resources
- Mix of magic, tech, farming
- Starting from scratch and incrementally improving my automation
- Setting up process chains (digital miner -> Mekanism ore quintupling factory -> smelter -> blocks -> storage)
- Finding weird "hacks". One that comes to mind is that, in the old Equivalent Exchange mod, a milk bucket was worth more EMC than an empty bucket (and then upgrade to a mooshroom/soup bowl once you get access to them). Set up a passive generator using this and just store EMC for a rainy day.
- Energy generation, strangely enough. Sometimes ties in with the previous list item as well - a cobble gen feeding a magma crucible, pumping the resultant lava into a magmatic engine used to be a reliable method of unlimited power.
But I can only do so many iterations of "place items in 3x3 grid, pull out result, put result into crafting grid with eight other things, repeat".
Things I've played or heard about:
All of the 2d "Minecraft clones" - Terraria, Crea, Stardew Valley, Junk Jack, Signs of Life, about 30 more
Trove
Terasology
Factorio (I don't like having all of the resources right on the surface like that but I do like the automatic crafting (make an advanced piece of machinery and it'll queue up all of its components, kind of like a fully-loaded Applied Energistics/Refined Storage system in Minecraft)
Novus Inceptio
Osiris: New Dawn
Grav
Way too many 3d survival games to shake a stick at