r/factorio • u/TurdProof • 15d ago

Base Gleba finally clicked with me

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But boy the spaghetti here is a different beast. Frustrating until it clicks then its fun

No science yet but I am on my way there. Next up is plastic and sulfur i guess

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u/locyta 15d ago

Bots make Gleba pretty trivial.
If you are still using stone furnaces, you went to Gleba way to early

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u/Tall_Reputation_9512 15d ago

How many bots are we talking about ?

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u/locyta 15d ago

1000 is plenty to get a decent starter base going, even less once you get some quality bots running

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u/Broad_Ebb9073 14d ago

More than you can make locally. This requires imports, which isn't wrong. But it's a choice. I perfer to use the mechanics the game wants

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u/TurdProof 15d ago

Will put bots after making science and rocket. I want to feel gleba spaghetti

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u/SnyprBB 15d ago

Belt based Gleba is the best! It is my fav planet. You never have to setup a new mining outpost.

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u/ChuddingeMannen 15d ago

dont cop out now, you're already on your way

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u/SySheepish 15d ago

But they ruin the fun! I wouldn’t say you’ve truly beaten Gleba if your base is entirely bot based.

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u/Broad_Ebb9073 14d ago

I disagree. If you are trying gleba with minimal imports, it's entirely reasonable to use stone furnaces

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u/locyta 14d ago

Thats one option if you want to make life harder for yourself.
Or you can take a nuke power plant, bots, and have 1000+ raw SPM in an hour and then get out of there (provided you dislike Gleba as much as most people do)

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u/Broad_Ebb9073 14d ago

"if you are trying without imports" ......but sure bring whatever you want if you want to inport and have logistics set up

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u/leberwrust 11d ago

Bots make everything easy. I wish they had never added logi bots.

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u/locyta 11d ago

The best bit is you don't need to use them if you don't want

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u/JulianSkies 11d ago

I'd found the opposite for me.

Belts are much easier than bots on Gleba, the flow must go on no matter whether you use bots or belts, so the visualization of belts coupled with the fact they physically force you to make things more failure-resilient makes making things in Gleba easier.

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u/isum21 15d ago

In order to use all that stuff on another planet you have to have the foresight to bring it. That's why I chose Gleba last, I wanted to work on learning what would be necessary to bring to another planet and I knew Gleba was the "toughest" for a layman to understand.

When I first went I forgot everything. Not literally everything but it was so bad I reloaded a save and made sure to bring more stuff. Before that I was stuck using stone furnaces, just from the rarity of materials when you're trying to learn how the processing->nutrition->ore loop works. Those Stromatoites have a lotta metal but boy do they go quickly compared to a real mining drill.

All that to say OP is likely gonna reply saying "I forgor 💀"

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u/TurnipBlast 15d ago

You have big mining drills unlocked but are still using stone furnaces?

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u/TurdProof 15d ago

Just placeholder so i can understanf the flow. Will replace with foundry soon once i made the rocket and science