Ever hear the phrase different strokes? For me, my early game is LONNNG cause I like to build up, farm, do the quests till I get an AA, setup dust automation, dig ALOT of dust out to feed it, go build and pretty-fy my base, not die, and build up alot ALOT of resources via that automation. I do setup a manual cobblegen but not really use it that much. Thus, as I said, no need for an automated cobblegen for me at start tho it helps alot that I'm getting stones by the boatload. I've got food and teching it up. Horribly inefficent? No. Not a speed run. So, no. it isn't. Most of this long early game is due to the fact that I hadn't till recently actually gotten very far with Pneumaticraft but now that I've played with it more, not so scared anymore since after you get the laser things, it does speed up processing things quite a bit. If I ever need you to come over and play minecraft for me, I'll pm you. Till then, I'll play it the way I play it as others play it the way they play it.