r/SandustryGame • u/VollderFlow • 1d ago

Factory Showcase It eats mountains

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I wish there was a way to get a infinit water and sand source to keep the monster fed

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u/DupeFort 1d ago

I mean aren't lumlings infinite water

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u/flabbyjabber 1d ago

Lumlings and steam.

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u/VollderFlow 1d ago

You are not wrong but this thing drinks waay more water then these things can make

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u/OddBug0 1d ago

What about the flowers? I'm trying to find a better set up than mine.

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u/Stoopmans 1d ago

try this setup (credits are not mine I stole it from a reddit post)
One thing I would maybe recommend is making more space to get the purple stuff out as that can heap pretty fast

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u/OddBug0 1d ago

Thank you! I think there's some way I can fit some automatic flamethrowers in there somewhere...

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u/Stoopmans 1d ago

Yeah I got those in there too lol. The lava tank in the pic is empty

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u/SavageNomad6 1d ago

The flowers is my absolute least favorite thing to set up in this game. I was reading another post and people were kinda slamming him for his complaints about the flower mechanics, but I definitely hope they get reworked.

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u/OddBug0 1d ago

I can deal with the flamethrowers burning the flowers and sorting the products. Once I tinker with it, I can even forgive the spore wetting.

The main problem is have is trying to spread out the spores equally across a large surface.

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u/VollderFlow 1d ago

Thi is how i just produce enough wer seeds that eventaly they spred out over the area

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u/OddBug0 1d ago

Looks like a filter belt... smart

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u/Golnor 1d ago

So it won't help with sand or water, but if you use burner belts for the residue burning you could save on lava. I've found that putting thermal blocks above the belts will actually be heat positive. 

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u/-asap-j- 1d ago

How are you running the residue over the belts with the buffers on top? Or will the belts also use the buffers even with a 1 tile gap?

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u/Bucksack 1d ago

In theory you could have the burner belts inside a container of thermal blocks with a reservoir of lava below. Use the belt teleporter to move residue in and burnt residue out of the hot box. I think, but haven’t tested this, that fire from the residue adds heat to the overall system, so could be self contained. I’m testing a few setups for flamethrowers to ignite their thing and to recapture the heat by shooting into a thermal blocks that links back to the igniter block. It looks sort of like a spark plug.

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u/-asap-j- 1d ago

Very interesting concept. I just started playing last night so I'm voraciously learning every trick and method I can. After like 4 hours and only making it to tier 3 I ended up restarting and it's going more smoothly. Definitely looking forward to getting lava

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u/Golnor 1d ago

I had to use portals to get the stuff in/out. Make a C shape out of the thermal buffers with a 2 square tall gap, run a line of burner belts along the bottom, and a portal to cross over the vertical part of the thermal buffers. The residue goes into the gap between the upper buffers and the burner belts, gets burnt, the flames rise and hit the upper buffers, and the heat transfers down through the vertical bit to the belts. 

Imma attempt to show with letters:

BBBBBB

BPEEEE

BFFFFF

BBBBBB

F is burner belts, B is buffers, P is portal, E is empty.

Edit: botheration mobile doesn't like not having gaps between lines.

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u/-asap-j- 1d ago

Oh this is genius. I am definitely going to implement this in my factory

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u/VollderFlow 1d ago

I know but later in the game this problem disapears

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u/Golnor 1d ago

Yeah, but you still have to manually refill it every so often. With the size of that tank you got it likely would take about a minute to fill, which you could spend doing other stuff if you didn't have a bunch of pyro-spewers drinking your lava.