Belts Feed the Guns
The core loop closed this week: ore in one end, tracer fire out the other, zero clicks from me.
The whole point of Arkwright in one sentence: your belts feed your guns. This week that sentence became true. Ore rides the line into a smelter, out as ingots, into an assembler, out as ammo, onto a belt, into a turret, into the dark.
Watching the first fully-automated defense hold a wave with zero clicks from me was the best hour of the month. The factory defends itself. You just have to build the factory faster than MONARCH builds the machines.
STATUS: full auto-defense loop holding. It's a factory game after all.