Isthmus Fortress v2 [0.14]

[ira]

An "isthmus" is a narrow piece of land with an ocean on either side. It's also my favorite build environment.
Hope you enjoy the build. Would love to hear your comments or pointers to any pretty factorio builds.

Isthmus Fortress II

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This may be a bit reminiscent of previous builds I have posted:
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The main base is an isthmus connected by train to resources on the main land.

Main Base

Main Base Map

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World Map

World Map

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My factory often defers to the existing landscape. Especially when it comes to solar panels.

Solar Field Peninsula

Solar Peninsula

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Solar Field Path

Solar Field A

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Solar Field Inland

Solar Field C

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The base launches a rocket alright, but it's not optimized to crank them out continuously.

Rocket Launch

Rocket Launch

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From the earliest point the the game, the main bus was structured.

Main Bus

Main Bus

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Fluid Management.

Oil Processing

Oil Processing

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This is one of my more decadent off-base supply depots.

Copper Depot

Copper Depot

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[Keplergamer]

Nice base man, thanks for sharing. Lovely world map.

[JimBarracus]

Very structured base, I like it.

One Thing: I would build walls on the three landstrips to protect the whole area and dump all the turrets within your base.
The landstrips are quite narrow; easy and cheap to protect and you would save a lot of energy.

I wish my base would be so structured.

[ira]

Thanks! For a "structured" base it can be helpful to pick a grid unit defined by power poles and stick with it, only breaking your grid for highlights and exceptions. Over time you tend to develop standards for the placement of elements which provides for visual consistency, as well.

One Thing: I would build walls on the three landstrips to protect the whole area and dump all the turrets within your base.
The landstrips are quite narrow; easy and cheap to protect and you would save a lot of energy.

A reasonable thought, but efficiency wasn't really the prinary goal of the turrets. They also surve mentally/aesthetically to define inside vs. outside, civilized vs. undeveloped.