Start-of-game compact combined minimart+research

[Italian Cuisine]

This runs red & green science, plus fills chests for

• Inserters
• Yellow belts
• Gears
• Green circuits

which let you hand-build early game items quickly.

The first phase is fed from manually filled chests:

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Once you have enough belts and make a single underground belt, it can start to feed itself:

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Then it's off to the real mall & balanced science while this grinds...

[sniderthanyou]

This is pretty great! Early-game designs are often so much more interesting than late-game ones to me. I especially like how this one evolves a small bit. Thanks for sharing!

[Ranakastrasz]

Pros: Builds a bunch of useful stuff early in the game.
Cons: Looks like a banana... Or something. It looks irregular at least.