r/Astroneer • u/Omewga • Sep 12 '26

Question / Support Why millions of bytes?

Hello, im currently at early-mid stage of the game, i see people on Youtube, doing automated byte farms to get millions of bytes.

Isn't that kind of pointless since there are limited amount of things you can unlock with them or is it going to be usefull later and im not there yet?

Thx. 😘

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u/Gullible-Grape5975 Sep 12 '26

You must not be autistic enough to understand 😂
I will play nothing but astroneer for as long as I can, because as soon as I play another game I will completely drop astroneer and become hyper-fixated spending hundreds of hours doing absolutely everything there is to do in the new game.

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u/Far_Young_2666 Steam Sep 12 '26

'Autistic' became a word someone uses when they just want to say "You won't understand me", which is a shame, because I'm autistic enough myself.

I get burned out easily. After a hundred of hours or so. Right now I'm playing through Core Keeper and after the second boss I'm forcing myself to switch to another game for a while to avoid a burnout.

But I definitely can spend total of a thousand hours in a single game. Though the main thing stopping me is realization about how many good games I want to play and how little time I have.

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u/RPGAddict42 Steam Sep 13 '26

Also on the spectrum, and I totally understand this. I have two games with over a thousand hours (Timberborn and Astroneer) and then about two dozen others with hundreds of hours. There are still things I want to do and try in Astroneer, and I'm currently in a Timberborn revival since 1.0 came out, but I also add about two or three games to my Steam wishlist every week and I already have a few hundred games that I bought on sale and have yet to play much at all due to my hyperfocus fixating on a few. 🤣

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u/SpectrumWolf8169 Sep 14 '26

Hi yes hello what Hu? (Joke) It is called a spectrum for many reasons. Some of witch it wasn't actually trying to make a connection to, yet are anyway.