In Get Rich Efficiently, you are given $1000 and a small amount of land which contains valuable gold. You must figure out how to start a mining operation to extract this gold in the most efficient and compact manner possible. But beware, it takes power to export this gold to the rest of the world, and so you must be careful to keep your power from running out. In the beginning, you will only have solar panels, but as you progress, you will gain access to steam engines, and will eventually be forced to set up the infrastructure needed for them. Filling the world with solar panels just won't cut it once you have too many mines for them to keep up with.

A Decent Mining Operation:

Controls

Left Click - Place whatever you have selected

Right Click - Destroy what your mouse is over (Gives you half your money back.)

(Pretty simple, right?)

Basic Tutorial

First, place four solar panels in a line near a patch of gold and run power lines so that each solar panel is adjacent to a power line. (Most everything can interact with a power line on the 8 tiles surrounding it.) Power lines only connect to each other in the 4 cardinal directions. Place a mine on a gold tile, and connect it to your power network. The "!" should disappear when the mine gets power. If you hover over it, you can see the mine's progress and power consumption. Other machines will behave in a similar way. You should start seeing gold be added to your inventory while the solar panels are generating power. Solar panels are useless at night. Placing a gold seller beside a power line will start to sell gold from your inventory for $10 a piece. 1 of these can keep up with two mines. Be careful, to sell gold you need power, so if you run out of power, you won't be able to sell gold. You now have a basic mining operation that will mine and sell gold during the day. Now the rest is up to you. I suggest adding another mine. You may need more solar panels to power it. Good luck.

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How to use the steam engines

As almost every single comment so far has mentioned that the steam engines are confusing, I may as well talk about how they work. Pipes are used to transfer fluids and behave similarly to power lines. Boilers take coal from your inventory, and when fueled will heat your pipe network by 20 degrees each. They don't connect to pipes on their bottom face. Steam engines are what make power, and require 100 degrees of temperature and 10KL of water each. Water's standard temperature is 20 degrees with no boilers, therefore you need 1 pump and four fueled boilers for the first steam engine, and 1 pump + five boilers for each additional one. If there isn't enough power or fluid available, a machine simply won't run.

Tools/Languages Used:

• Code: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• SFX: Chiptone, Audacity
• Icons: Photoshop CC

I plan to continue developing GRE, so if you have any suggestions, let me know!

Updates

• Fixed boiler price mismatch (Thanks @brazmogu)
• Made Power and Fluids easier to read from pipes and lines.