Basket tries the rail chain signal on a live grid, takes the tank against the southern nests, builds a solar panel cell, and puts a new defended block up north.
Basket learns to drive the tank against enemy bases, builds a smelting block fed by trains, fixes the coal line, and finds four oil refineries sitting idle.
A nest blocks the rail grid, so Basket tries grenades, a rocket launcher and explosive rockets, places a first beacon, and finally clears it with a tank.
Basket shows off a base that grew between episodes, then builds rail templates with walls, turrets and roundabouts and drops the first ones down for the robots to build.
Basket gets blue science made on a line that still needs batteries and red circuits carried in by hand, researches requester chests, and lets construction robots build a new wall.
Basket builds the parts for drones by hand and by assembler, gets the first construction robots flying from a roboport, makes repair packs and finds that the next step needs blue science.
Basket finishes the red circuit line, fights off attacks along the wall with more turrets and an ammunition line, then pipes up sulfuric acid and gets batteries made.
Basket adds a row of steam power, guards the oil with turrets, gets plastic and solid fuel out of a small oil setup, fills out the labs and finds the road to drones needs batteries.
Basket rebuilds the new smelting block with coal down the middle and long handed inserters, researches bigger power poles, adds a turret line and tears up the drills on the iron patch.
Enemies reach the base: Basket puts up turrets and walls, swaps in steel furnaces, defends against an attack from the north and starts a separate smelting block.
Basket sets up turrets with their own ammo supply, adds rows of steam engines until power runs ahead, starts on walls and turrets made by machines, and meets the first enemies.
Green science is the goal: Basket builds green circuits, an inserter line and four green science assemblers, then runs short of power and adds more steam engines.
Season 2 opens on a new map: burner drills feeding themselves coal, a first belt of iron and copper, steam power from a small lake, and the first red science made by machines.
Basket builds the rocket silo, untangles jammed trains at the roundabouts and has robots feed the parts in, then launches the first rocket and finishes the game.
In a recorded catch-up, Basket shows off robots and blueprints, adds accumulators to the solar fields, fights jammed roundabouts and fits armor with a personal roboport.