I apologize if this has been answered, or is obvious in game, but I'm very confused as to how to make the machinery work together. I can build the conveyor belts and use the interpolator to move ores from the drill to the conveyor belt. At that point, however, I'm unsure if it's necessary to build an entire line of conveyor belts, or of we can use the interpolators to have them teleport a short distance. If you can, how do you get those to work? I've tried several configurations, but I'm unsure if it's the distance, or if it's their directionality. I'm also unsure what "short" means in this game, given you can collect mined materials from your drills 20+ feet away.
There's just a lot of machinery that doesn't make sense in terms of how they work together. I'm also unsure what happens with the elves that you've purified. So far, I just have a floating, naked elf that is doing nothing.