Expanded Industry

Don't worry, this is not the 1000th "give us ingots back" request.

The request

But one small point of criticism I always had of Space Engineers is that you basically need a advance smelter which is 2x4x2 blocks, a advanced constructor with is 2x1x1 block and some form of power so let's take a large reactor of 3x3x3 blocks and you are basically done with the game, you can build everything.

The problem

And the fact you go from the survival kit to small smelter and small constructor to large smelter and constructor, you can be there incredibly fast if you know what your doing.

And this completely removes the engineering problem of needing to build factories or even a station as you can easily fit that in any small/medium sized ship.

This creates a situation where in a few hours (and I am generous here) you have reached end game with basically nothing to do other then creating flavour as you can build everything.

The solution

Now I don't expect space engineers 2 to go full factorio on us (even though I wouldn't mind if it did,) but a bit more expansion of the industry would do wonders and this is why I never played Space Engineers without the Industry Overhaul mod on. My request is give us multiple steps and multiple machines instead of just one that can build all so there is a reason why you have to build a station or a factory. A plate press to make different plates. These plates can then be passed to a roller to create pipes, and a cutter to create fan blades, those pipes and fan blades can then be passed to a third machine to create turbine parts. And that is just one recipe, some might be longer other might be shorter.