My planet hopper routinely transports Science(I make purple there too, but that’s by no means optimal), Drills, Foundries, Calcite to use the Foundries, Turbo belts (don’t forget the splitters/undergrounds), tungsten steel, and a bit of tungsten plates though they aren’t used as much as the steel.
If you’re having difficulty killing small worms, at least 100 poison capsules requires very little tech and should do the trick.
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Is it really controversial to say “framing superman as the threat we need to unite the world against to stop nuclear armageddon” is a better plotline than “I’m going to make it look like aliens attacked us, but in the goofiest way possible, with a plot device necessitating the existence of real psychics in a world that hitherto otherwise seemed to only have Dr. Manhattan as a genuine “otherworldly force””? Reading the graphic novels really threw me for a loop when that scheme was explained, lol.