okay, having played through, some feedback: the tiny box bounding the game is the strangest thing, and the fullscreen button isn’t a practical solution, especially since a lot of things take a fair bit of time and someone might want to switch over to, say, discord. or at least keep it visible.
‘provides’ to me implies something is being gained, but in a large number of recipes you are trading a capability for itself, to no net benefit, or actually losing capabilities in net. more than once i accidentally lost my only source of a capability because i overlooked that it was attached to something strange (disconnect and welding are both weirdly arranged for sources). a clearer indication of losses would be nicer.
i kept expecting to get something to help with tiny and large, since they’re so slow, so i was surprised nothing turned up by the end.
criticisms aside: i love the shape of this, and it’s clear even partway through what the final payoff will be, and although getting a whole chain of “auto-search” providers is a slight letdown as you’re narrowing in on the goal, there is a tangible sense of “yeah i’m gonna fly”.
in a hypothetical larger game, an unfolding mechanic that uses this to get to ever increasingly higher tier sources of salvage would be neat, maybe work your way from a tony-stark-in-a-cave suit to something a bit more refined.