Tertius wrote: Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:36 am And you don't have solar energy near Aquilo, so solar panels are (in my opinion) not sufficient any more

You have plenty of solar energy, 60% of the baseline (Nauvis surface output). My Aquilo ship runs on solar.

You don't have solar energy past Aquilo, that's where I switched to fusion power.

This means that asteroids can be used as a backdoor to mass amounts of high quality iron, stone/concrete and plastic.


I was re-reading the OP to see if the discussion has drifted to far away from the main thread, and i couldn't help but notice this error !

There's no stone on asteroid ...

There is a slightly easier way to guarantee that you only ever put one cell in. Set up your reload condition on one inserter set to remove the spent fuel cell from the reactor. Wire a circuit to the inserter, reading hand contents. Wire that to the inserters that put fuel into the reactors. Give ...

There is a slightly easier way to guarantee that you only ever put one cell in. Set up your reload condition on one inserter set to remove the spent fuel cell from the reactor. Wire a circuit to the inserter, reading hand contents. Wire that to the inserters that put fuel into the reactors. Give ...

The power draw to keep different things warm is at least documented in the wiki. It's not as simple as the number of tiles occupied.

When I was planning out my Aquilo base, I set up a spreadsheet with estimated numbers of different things and the heat loss for each of them so I could figure out the ...

Best I've jury-rigged is to just have a cargo condition for each individual item > 0. This seems like I must be barking up the wrong tree, I'm wondering what a less hacky approach might be.


This is pretty close to what I do. I have a series of ORed groups of AND conditions, one of which is the ...

4 lvl 3 legendary quality modules (again, you are unlikely to have those too, as they need quite a lot of legendary holmium to make)

I have those.

They come from a combination of a Q3 module upcycling plant on Vulcanus and initially running some superconductor upcycling on Fulgora. The latter ...

What are you making that consume that much iron ?


I was making L3 assembling machines. Their baseline requirement is a little more copper than iron, but the copper is mostly in the form of cable where I have a big productivity bonus while the iron is a mix of plate (no bonus at all) and ...

My asteroid processor will make calcite, iron, and coal. When any of them max out (currently calcite, because it was so massively efficient at making stone that I capped my stone and bricks pretty quickly), they get re-rolled for something that isn't maxed out. Seems pretty efficient overall to me ...

One hack I found out is that if you make quality plastic, you can aslo make quality structures. If you make them in fully prod mod foundry and then run it through recycler, you'll get quite a lot of legendary copper.


And a smaller (but still nonzero) amount of legendary steel.

Get your LDS ...

I've read numerous times that production modules are better than quality modules, as well, but not really enough to understand when or why.


I don't think it's true that they're unconditionally better in all cases. There is some detailed math on the wiki on the best division of productivity and ...

If you want to get to Aquilo faster, you can ship massive amounts of explosives to a platform (I think they're 500/rocket). It's massively more efficient than shipping rockets. My Aquilo platform makes all of its rockets using explosives launched from Nauvis. Something like 800 explosives is plenty ...

Secondly, I am not sure about getting less than 25% back... how about a recycler 3 that is slower but gives 33% back?


That would require lowering the max productivity limit, which is currently +300% to limit recyclers loops to returning exactly their inputs (otherwise you would have recycler ...

I don't see any walls. A double wall will keep biters off of your turrets. My edges are double walls backed by gun, laser, and Tesla turrets (with arty to keep the spawners well outside of the pollution cloud), and my defenses run indefinitely on their own.

I keep spares of turrets and walls in ...

If you can make the science quickly enough (within the spoil window of the eggs), there's no need to do it (or all of it) in Nauvis orbit. Prometheum science doesn't spoil, so you can keep it in the platform hub until you get back to Nauvis. If you head back out from Nauvis with chunks left to ...

I think something like this might be great for clearing forest for a diagonal rail line. It's easy for me to do cutting for horizontal or vertical, but diagonal is a pain.


As a big fan of Rail World map, I'd strongly agree with OP.
After a mine depletion,
- I just want to:
get my electric mining ...

I was searching to see if anyone else came up with a way to only turn on fusion reactors when they'll get the full neighbor bonus, and this is the only thread I found 🙁
The way I'm doing it is by limiting the fluoroketone.


I would be interested in seeing a blueprint of this. This was ...

Well, when you consider space age sold over a million copies and you pan around a bit on that map, that actually means almost nobody beat this game proportionally o.o. Which isn't necessarily bad if a sandbox game has a lot of content.


Some of that may be time related. It took me something like ...

Somebody already mentioned Coal Synthesis, but if you don't have that you can also send explosives up, they have a rocket capacity of 500 IIRC, then you can use iron from space mining to make the rockets on the platform. It's how I get rockets on Gleba before coal synthesis.

Even with coal ...

NineNine wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 1:25 am The natives on Gleba don't seem to expand like the biters on Nauvis

They definitely do expand, and to me it looks a bit like biter expansion, though perhaps not as frequent.