I need skill POINTS and CIRCUIT BOARDS ! [S2 E2] Occupy Mars: The Game 

The medium circuit board in your pod is for the workshop. You're supposed to have enough materials in your starting pod on medium mode to build your workshop

They were supposed to have made some engine improvements. I would definitely be focussed on your base building, but more importantly, be more focussed on your exploration. Stay within the known and named areas. It's a massive area anyways. The less random generated map, the better!

You can also scrap a lot of architectural features such as fans and so forth inside and outside. benches, lockers, even cables can be scrapped.

Top priority is getting a battery. This lets you have plants, as you can power the base at night, and let them grow. The plants, once they mature, make interior oxygen for your base.

I know this is an old series and it's only episode 2 but I'm loving it so far

One thing you never really need to get is the oxygen scrubber. it uses a circuit board, and the oxygen thing in the capsule can refill any bottles.

make an extra grinder when you can. Keep a lvl2 grinder when you can upgrade to lvl3. this way you can scrap stuff inside bases using your lvl2 without accidentally grinding the base itself.

This looks like a really cool game. I will get it someday

I agree the heartbeat can be annoying.

Skip the Co2 scrubber for now. The ONLY reason for it is to fill Co2 cartridges to clean the Solar panels, and that isn't important until you already have plants growing. Oxygen production? Not an issue as soon as you gets plants growing. Each plant produces 0.29L/hour. A full incubator results in 5.8L/Hour.

You'll want to have 2 torches, 2 Jackhammers, and 2 grinders. Even with the lower durability drop of ranks 2 and 3, you'll still need 2 most of the time

Hey, Dark, you ever played Farm Simulator 22? It's free on PlayStation plus this month, so I downloaded it on my PS5. Pretty engaging sim game, I have to say!

It would be nice if they can make it so you can fix up and use the old abandoned bases.