One small silver lining to brutal is very little stuff to move around and organize. Build only the minimal things you need to survive. By day 40-50, you can start to relax.

Brutal is definitely doable, but you have to go ULTRA minimslist. NEVER go outside during day, live in a 1x1 space just charging batteries (via swapping) for several days until you can get a vaccum work area, hydroponics rush is necessary to generate your oxygen, trader rush can come second to extend oxygen use - as traders are RNG based, you risk your entire playthrough if you do trader before hydroponics - ultra low power setup so you never need heavy cable - and if you do everything perfectly, you can get up to 80 potato plants going to give you the oxygen you need to become self sufficient and not ever need a trader - but a handful of mistakes (priority errors or wasted projects and time) is more than enough to kill you. You should not stream your first vulcan brutal - you WILL die many times getting your priority list correct and realize actions you do which slowed you down getting your way to full cool water production.

Haven't tried standard for Vulcan yet but have been playing brutal mode and from what I see its like "Standard" is living in a high dollar resort and "Brutal" is stuck in the middle of Death Valley