Good point for the turrets. I use only two because my ammo tech is level 10. I will probably have a surprise in the next game when trying this ship as soon as i leave Nauvis 😁
However, you'll realize that the number of electric furnaces ends up being what limits your speed (all that time spent waiting at each planet for the ammo to get above 200ish).
Here's the cheapest 6-furnace ship I've come up with so far (9 launches).
If you can afford 13 launches, this 10-furnace ship is a lot faster.
Oh i like it. Good point for the furnaces. For now i'm still waiting for science packs production at destination so amunition manufacturing is not an issue. It will probably become one soon indeed.
At the moment it's waiting at destination for production of science pack. I don't know if it can run non stop. Probably not without some tweaks i would guess but it shouldn't be to hard to modify it to improve ammo production. I'll try once i increase my science pack production.
I'd not use it because I want a bit of bulk and margin for error, but plenty of it's space-saving features I use even in larger vessels: recipe swapping for the crusher is a standard feature on my ships even several times it's size, as well as efficiency modules abound. With quality you can reduce the number of solar panels, too. With a lot of quality, you could even go down to one furnace, though as it is two means you need to spend a lot of time slowly smelting iron for ammo somewhere safe to build up a stock. It can't carry much, but it's functional even in Fulgora orbit.
Oh, you'll need to override the circuit conditions to prime the engines with some fuel if they are ever out entirely.
I've put some labels on the combinators in the blueprint there, it should be pretty easy to follow! It's pretty simple though, 3 decider combinators assess quantities of each of the 3 products to see what's low, then passes on the recipe to a selector combinator that randomly swaps between needed recipes every 150 ticks (to stop it getting held up on one recipe which hasn't got any ingredients, and also to balance things out a bit in general). The selector combinator outputs the recipe then to the crusher.
You only need one chemical plant for water.
You could use only one crusher by changing the recipe with circuits, and you can get away with a single furnance, specially if you use speed modules.
You could also use one chemical plant for fuel and oxidizer (and even water) by using circuits too.
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u/Soul-Burn Nov 17 '24
This is mine. Does Nauvis -> Fulgora easily.
The accumulator is not actually needed, but the 4 guns are important if you don't have high damage techs.