And in addition, I was able to decrease size to 75.6 tons now


So, I've been thinking:
If you move your crusher and a couple combinators to the side of the hub, you could bring your whole engine/chem plants complex upward by three tiles. This may bring the lower part of the ship in the range ...

Optimization for number of rocket launches is more important than weight in early game. It is waste to launch last rocket without full capacity utilization. My early ship was designed in editor to be about 80-90 tons but after optimization in real game it has grown to 100 ton, can reach any of the ...

But actually output is ice and just 20% of asteroid chunk..
And we have two other recipes where output product will be asteroid chunk

Actually it pretty ok for Navius-Vulkanus journey. The maximum speed is about 100, so no too much shots required.

Vulkanus gives enough solar energy to fly back immediately, but after reaching Navius maybe need to wait for a few minutes until Accumulator will be 100%.


And in addition, I was able ...

Because iron gear wheel - it is a recipy. If I want to make iron gear wheel, I can manually set it in recipy field. But Iron gear wheel will not runs if I set an ingredient signal (metal plate)

In case of asteroids, we also have different signals for recipy and for asteroid chunk itself.

You can ...

For example, it doesn't work with any other things, Let's try with plate of steel:
or this one: so it happens only with Crusher, which ruins the "default" logic

But it is not a recipe signal. For example I want to use advanced asteroid crushing process, but this signal could be overwriten just with item signal?
I believe it is wrong

Or I just want to check quantity of asteroids...

I have tried to make a smallest ship which was able to reach Vulkanus and go back to Navius without manual re-supply.

And currently my record is just 76 tons.

The restrictions are:
* Only standard quality items
* Modules 2 level max
* Ship should be self-satisfied - all supply should be crafted on ...

I believe it is bug, because Crusher runs the recipe on ".. asteroid chunk" signal, not only on ".. asteroid crushing" signal which is the recipe.

For example: It in some way ruins my logic with signals.