Try the demo first and try to find out a way to automate the plantgrowing-part of the game. In my opinion there's absolutly no way to do so. Which means, this is not really an automationgame or at least not a kind i was looking for.
In general it's not bad or at least has potential. Here's some stuff that make no sense for me:
Collecting gold and energy:
The amount that fits into 1 square is so tiny, that your biggest task will be "where to put all that stuff". Sure, you can stuff it underground somewhere, But for me that's not really fun to constantly change the conveyors route to store the stuff underground somewhere.
Automation (again):
Every building with potentiol to automate stuff needs either heat or water. Heat from lava (which is consumed over time) and water. Cryo-gun spits out snow out of thin air, then you melt it...the steam goes in the air and down comes water. Automation impossible, because the snowmachine DOESN'T produce snow out of thin air and you can't make steam via automation (maybe a bug, don't know).
Again...how is this an automationgame if you have to get water this way every once in a while?
Also, no filters for "grabbers", so i can choose what kind of pixel the grabber should take. Even if it had a filter, the way some stuff always ends up on top will give you the next headache.
Last but least...what is goal of the game going to be if (full) automation is impossible? The "story"? Collect artifacts underground? Get red sand to research everything to max?
Find out where to put all your gold and energy...that must be it. Dear dev (should you read this): that collection system of yours (imo) looks and feels bad. You'll end up with huge areas of gold and energy, therefore millions of pixel/fluids (which are really annoying with their constant movement on the surface). Most likely ending up in the use of extreme amounts of cpu or gpu usage i assume. This should be the first thing you should change imo. Send the stuff to space / produce something make the stuff smaller...i don't know. SOMETHING. After that, take care of the automation part. Especially the plant part.
