Great Starting Coal Setup
Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2014 7:11 pm
So I’ve played a few 9.0 games to well into the oil refining stages and each time I have not had a lot of bitter attacks. So I decided to make a more challenging setup. I put the biters to max. Enemy Bases: Freq – Very High, Size: Very Big and Richness – Very Good. (Not sure what richness does)
The only other settings I changed was to make stone fields small and Iron a little richer, since you use so much of it. See screenshot of starting settings.
What happens on the world creation, I get all desert…as far as the eye can see. Hardly any trees…
That’s when my brother, we’re playing the same save, showed me this great starting setup to mine coal.
And it worked great. I don’t think any other start would have worked here.
You build 4 drills, two coal inserters and one wooden box. (that box uses a lot of wood to create, when there is no tries…) You have two of the drills insert into the other and the last to into the box and then the inserters back to the original two drills. See screenshot. This works great. All you have to do is feed the two inserters every now and then and you have endless coal.
If anyone would like to try this challenging start, I’ve attached the save of the very start. It’s really a lot of fun.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8b68i1qxvh4qk3/9.1_Start.zip
The only other settings I changed was to make stone fields small and Iron a little richer, since you use so much of it. See screenshot of starting settings.
What happens on the world creation, I get all desert…as far as the eye can see. Hardly any trees…
That’s when my brother, we’re playing the same save, showed me this great starting setup to mine coal.
And it worked great. I don’t think any other start would have worked here.
You build 4 drills, two coal inserters and one wooden box. (that box uses a lot of wood to create, when there is no tries…) You have two of the drills insert into the other and the last to into the box and then the inserters back to the original two drills. See screenshot. This works great. All you have to do is feed the two inserters every now and then and you have endless coal.
If anyone would like to try this challenging start, I’ve attached the save of the very start. It’s really a lot of fun.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8b68i1qxvh4qk3/9.1_Start.zip