Another quick question, are laser turrets sufficient without a mix of other turrets? At least fairly early.

It's the organising and properly putting things in the right place for the belts that I struggle with. I'll figure it out in sandbox though, I'm sure.

Perfect. Is it worth it to experiment in sandbox and figure out how to make a mall by yourself? I got a blueprint off the internet but frankly I had to modify it so much to fit my needs I basically just made a new one. Malls seem really confusing.

Ah, alright. Thanks for the info on both the nests and about the threads.

Thanks for the info everyone!

Anyone got some nice, calm instrumental techno that is available on soundcloud? The Factorio OST doesn't get old, but I'm still interested.

My current iron patch is running dangerously low. Should I prioritise it or oil?

Alright. I need to set up a railway for the oil that's really far from my base, so it's probably a good idea to set up an outpost for the iron first (as I'm running dangerously low on it, and will need to get iron creation running again before I set up any other outposts. After that, I'll finally ...

Is it worth the resources involved to get a roboport network up and running as soon as you can?

Just wondering. Also, is it worth creating a railway system for a resource patch that's roughly a radar's base range away from your base?

Alright. I assume taking out the nests is worthwhile too?

Why?

Also, didn't even see that mod til now. Thanks! It looks pretty great.

Thank you! The best part though? While I was freeing up the oil, my radars found a deposit for coal, copper, iron, AND stone very, very close to my factory!

Exactly 69 turrets survived.

Turns out... mixing was not needed. A few laser turrets early destroyed the NESTS in a matter of seconds. It was this easy the whole time. (I know this will sound dumb, but I didn't realise when I got the mod lasers did that much more damage)

This allowed the turrets to be densely packed and belt fed that was automatically resupplied. And mixing in some laser turrets (provided your electrical grid can handle it) would be good due to their longer range.

Thank you. I don't know why, but all this time I never considered building an ...

Update: found a patch that isn't in direct proximity with biter nests. Problem? There are at least 100 biter nests between it and my base. All around any way I could set up my rail sytem.
Edit: there is no way in hell this save goes anywhere if I don't figure out how to do some SERIOUS damage to ...

It's official: resource patches without biter nests next to them do not exist in my save. I can find over 100 biter nests without even finding one resource patch. It is that bad.

The biters are a radar or two's area away from each other, all 10-15 nests. What the hell is up with my seed?