Maybe someone already mentionned this, but shotgun are incredibly more ressource effective than regular ammo, at least vs low resistance (eg vs nest, which you can hit with all your pellets). Along with inferior DPS and the relatively low crafting time of shells, it perfectly fits the theme of an a...

Witout a method to measure heat you don't know how much the reactor has cooled down yet though, as that depends on the factories power consumption. So you'd need an above average sized buffer tank/accumulator to measure when the plant is completely shut down. Actually, you can just observe what edg...

Clooney wrote: Hello. I´m playing the Seablock Challenge, and its running fine. But now i have a problem. The Basic Farm and the Bio processor has no recipes

You need to research Desert Farming (or Temperature/Swamp farming) to actually get recipes.

mrvn wrote:Poll: Where do you get your oxygen from for making sulfuric acid?

Byproduct of dirt water electrolysis to produce slag, I also use the vast amount of hydrogen to produce synth gas which is ultimately turned into rubber, resin, plastic and naphtha.

It surprises me to have never seen it being suggested, It's been suggested lots of times. But turret creeping isn't considered a problem these days. The change which made regular bullets deal 5 damage instead of 2 and took away turret's damage multiplier means you can just go SMG down nests (when b...

There are two kinds of recipes, the ones where seeds can be multiplied quickly (like Binafran) and the other where the seeds multiple slowly (like Nilabergine), generally the slow-multiplying crops yield about 3x as much energy per farm (and the seeds don't multiply that slowly in the context of a S...

The only layout I can think of is like this: ##### ##### ## ## ##### ##### If you repeat that (overlapping the edges) using roboport to deliver to the hole you get slightly more neighbor bonus than 2xN. I have no idea how you'd get the heat out fast enough though, 2xN is already fairly thermally cha...

For seablock, at least at the beginning arboretums are a limited resource as you need to explore to find them and you probably already use them for power producing untill solar Farming is an extremely viable way to generate power and almost the same tech level as Aboterums, so there is really no pr...

Defenders are useful until they start shooting at a Big Worm, Big Biter or Behemoth Biter. Low tech weapons struggle against end game big biters. That's not really a problem. It's the same reason you don't use pistols and yellow ammo all game long. Defenders aren't all that low tech, they are darn ...

(maybe not quite Big or Behemoth Biters though). That's the problem really. Defenders are useful until they start shooting at a Big Worm, Big Biter or Behemoth Biter. Then you have a bunch of defenders achieving basically nothing except soaking a little damage I used to really like Defenders I can'...

Probably the best criteria for Oil and Uranium is extraction effort rather than energy value. Unfortunately, this is super hazy for Pumpjacks, but I feel that in the current version of the game 10 oil generally requires slightly less extraction effort than 1 ore, given that a pumpjack is often produ...

Overkill is pretty important factor at least before "Big" enemies. Things only die in an integer number of shots and excess damage from the killing shot is wasted. For example, laser turret always kill small biters and spitters in exactly 1 shot regardless of upgrades. Small spitters die i...

Hint: Paper 1 and paper 2 are closed loops (with a slight loss in certain materials == pulping liquor/energy) I know the pulping recipes are, I'm talking about the bleaching recipes, there are no recipes to turn Sodium Hypochlorite and Sodium Carbonate back into Sodium Hydroxide so they have to be ...

Would it help to make the paper process more of a batch process and leave the actual paper bleaching as it is? Would come out more like the plastic chains then The first thing is that the Bob's recipe is too good: raw wood -> wood -> wooden board both being 0.5s and taking productivity modules, too...

the paper chain is way to weak they have to be multiplied by a lot. something like 8 or even more. Yeah, the productivity is okay (about twice as much wooden board per raw wood as the bob's recipe) but it's sooooo slow and complex. There is also the option to create wood plates from cellulose fiber...

Except for the people who are all for infinite range upgrades. I don't think that's so much the problem as it is for the potential for infinite research... I don't think the system is set up in a way to disallow infinite research for this specifically. It makes sense to cap the max activation range...

Changing that maximum range means every entity with force on the map has to re-activate chunks around it which isn't going to happen. What if the chunk activation range were precalculated based on the maximum possible range for the turret (with all upgrades), but the turret can only actually fire a...

one small note, when you first get the tank, and do not also have weapons research done, the weapons are extremely weak and may feel like they are not worth the time. Not for the Machine Gun. +100% damage, +50% firing speed and 20 range are not weapon stats to scoff at. The wet noodle launcher and ...

The composter building is responsible for making compost, it's basically an automatic building like an electric furnace, but instead of converting ore to plates, it converts organic items (like brown algae) into compost.

The tank in the game is pretty bad atm Tip: The Tank is not a battering ram. It's a mobile weapons platform with some ability to crush enemies, its weapons are unsurpassed until atomic bomb is unlocked. The two sustainable ways to use the Tank are to drive evasively while machine gunning or cannoni...