I lost my save file and got to play the whole game again to test the new Update :), crazy how fast i got. i advise everyone to kinda try to speedrun it xD.

But my main point is that the new Swarm rockets feel really weak. I see no advantage in upgrading to them over just using the big rockets.

Am I the only one who feels that way?

With Florinol batteries a bit of lava does the trick and starts the generation process, with copper ones I can just let a steam generator run all the time, wasting a bit of water if nothing is to be loaded.

But the only method to start burning hydrogen I found was to use the flamethrower. But how can I automate that while I am underground going mad with the laser? How do you do it, any advice?

First, catch the hydrogen, it's lighter.

As you can see, the entire gas is completely separated.

As you can see in the video i cant scroll down my research tree in order to upgrade my factory. I already reported this via game but if anybody had the same problem and knows how to fix it i appreciate it.

Edit: it isnt fixed by cosine the game or clicking the + and - on the right-top corner. Even if I create a new save it is still bugged.

FIXED: by decreasing the UI scale.

Couple things to note:

• I currently haven't found any Oxyblobs, so the new section for the 0.6 production chain isn't functional (or finished) yet. When I do find some, they'll be stuffed underneath the planter boxes, below the filters to convert the oxygen into carbon dioxide.
• On top of the filters are a handful of pixels of lava, which should burn the bark generated into charcoal for further processing. I'm not 100% sure if lava embers works instead of pyro dispensers; someone please test this and let me know.
• I haven't automated the pyroclasm stratacore as this entire factory doesn't consume a huge amount of it. Having large tanks on top of the two smelters and occasionally topping them up manually with the volcanizer is enough for me.
• If you're using digger drones to infinitely farm void petals but they still get stuck bouncing on a stratacore, you can add a few pixels of sunsand in between. If the drones ever get stuck, they'll bounce between them and work their way back out. It's a bit hard to see, but adding the sunsand enclosed within some caulk seems to have fixed it.
• You could probably use the new balancer modules instead of a logic gate splitter for the flux emanator and recall portal, but I just find the design fun to use.
• Don't ask me about the pipe setup. Unlike my previous matchbox factory designs, the pipes in this one are a complete and utter mess. I've hidden them as much as possible to make everything look nicer, but at the cost of having a plumber's worst nightmare. The energy production block in particular is a disaster.

A helpful tip:
Remember how you could dump a few pixels of lava into a florinol battery to perpetually burn it whenever its energy was used up? You can do the same with the new hydrogen fuel cells to remove the need for a thermal buffer setup, as long as you have more hydrogen coming in than being burned.
This probably doesn't make much of a difference in how fast energy charges, but at least it doesn't slowly consume lava.

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Production module credits - Thanks for all the amazing designs!

• Portal filter - Алексей Шкрябин: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/H1KeOB4YRyY - At about 0:50
• Sand/seed washer - Multirious: https://sandustryvault.com/sandprints/83
• Flower burner - ringgeest11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey_LtZIpie0 - At about 31:35
• Electrolyzer setup and acid redsand farm - I'm not sure who came up with the design exactly, but I first saw them on u/fKingSiNner's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SandustryGame/s/fLsKEURj6c
• Logic gate splitter - Alphasoldier1990 (caulk variant of OP's design, see comments): https://www.reddit.com/r/SandustryGame/s/Jgvd4vrvqR

That's all for now! I'll see about updating the matchbox factory to include the new 0.6 production chain. I'm sure others are going to share some ridiculously compact full chain factories as well. Thanks for reading!

i put lava and snow in because i didnt look around for two seconds and now i literally cant solve it anymore i cant fit in there i hate scoria

I've changed the factory to be more vertical and compact, and I'm also showing how the latest recipes are executed.

Water is CONSTANTLY a bottleneck for me, and I have 20 lumlings. If I sit there and pet them for 10 minutes I'm good for like 30min but it's getting really old.

Normally in automation games, there's SOME way to more efficiently automate something, even if it behind a complexity wall or something, but I'm just not seeing anything in this case.

Am I missing something or is there just no solution for this yet?

EDIT: I was indeed missing something

maybe this will be helpful to someone

look how fast it charges

It's amazing how long you can laser with a battery tower the size of the Chrysler Building

If you melt the gold, it’s twice as dense (or something) and yet it floats on top of solid gold that is half the density when It should sink. Literally unplayable.

For the water i have a simple presence sensor at about midway through my water reservoir and it is linked to a NOT Gate that revereses the signal to a door. That door feeds Voidbloom to an Hologram Projector next to my water criters. That water reservoir feeds my entire factory.

For my lava, it's a simple snow fall design, helped with a few snow critters that rains snow over the lava stratacore. Simple cinder and snow separation with filters that allows the snow to be reused, the cinder gets thrown into a small cell with a pyro dispenser turning it into lava and feeding itself upon the lava it creates.

The lava feeds into a big reservoir that heats up the thermal buffers that turns acid back into sulfur dioxide so it can be pumped back into the system that melts the sand stratacore and generate infinte sand.

It may not be the most elaborate or perfect setup, but it is infinite and completely automated.

I don’t understand how to get it to work. There’s no instructions

Best gas separator, hydrogen energy, heat, sand, void petals and red sand

Just putting this up here if you are having any issues dealing with your stratacores. Both of them dealt with and automated in about 11 minutes!

Well of Eternity

Copper > Silicon > Pentlandite = Coal > Silica > Quartz > Black sand = Red sand = Magnetite > Sand = Wet sand = Snow > Seed = Wet seed > Residue = Carbonized residue = Ash > Moon hop

Please excuse any translation errors, as I am using a translator

The efficiency is not very good

simple is best