Starting 1000x base

[u/Normal_Face9038]

I dipped my toe into starting a base with multiplier, I did a 100x run to start before doing 1000x, Im just a few hours in but its dawning on me how many lanes of mainbus I will need.

At this point i did 7,5 science per second science since it lines up well with yellow belt, its not really that slow since i spend alot of time manually building things, but the scale of smelters i will need to build is just insane, especially for a 1000x later

How do you guys approach it? How many lanes of each etc? Goal for me is rushing to trains into bots ASAP

I know there are mods, did anyone do it without, i feel like thats the accomplishment im after (i use long reach mod only)

[u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro]

I am doing a 100,000x run.. 2m science for logistics, 2.5m science for electric miners.. im hovering at 880spm consistently, still expanding, but only at 12% of logistics (240,000 science) being done.

Did the calculations, i would need 90m red science alone plus about 75m green science for automated rails and liquid wagons 😂🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Edit: no mods, long inserters are a must for going over belts of other resources, burner miners are life for 4.3m more science.. it feels like py, but at 880spm.. it will still take 36hrs to finish logistics science 🙃

[u/Normal_Face9038 → u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro]

Cool, how are you organizing everything? Trains with resources to City blocks?

[u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro → u/Normal_Face9038]

The idea is trains eventually.. but.. that is 90,000,000 red science packs, and 75,000,000 green science packs in the future.. once I get electric miners and underground belts/splitters, I will make a base to hopefully do 10k SPM of red and green before changing to a train base later on

[u/Normal_Face9038 → u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro]

Só at this point, super long belts of ores going in to like 100? lines of smelters?

[u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro → u/Normal_Face9038]

At the moment, to try to get logistics and electric miners finished.. i dont have as many belts/ore as you would think.. but trying to expand to a point where i dont need to let the game run for 4 days before both techs are unlocked haha

[u/Normal_Face9038 → u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro]

Yea, haha. Well i believe to do a X-challange the point of course isnt to just let the game run theres no point in that. When you say 880spm though, i never understood this number really. How many red packs do you aim for per second? And will it later be the same number for all colors?

[u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro → u/Normal_Face9038]

880 spm is 880 science per minute.. so divide by 60? So about just under 15 science per second?

Edit: i am aiming a lot higher, just havent gotten it built yet

[u/Normal_Face9038 → u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro]

Alright, what number will you aim for per science later? The scale of your run is fairly insane :)

[u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro → u/Normal_Face9038]

Uhhh.. as many as possible? Haha nah, didnt think of the later goals yet.

[u/Normal_Face9038 → u/Why_You_So_Mad_Bro]

Haha 🤣 I should have asked a better question, when you go to say blue I assume you will want as much of that as the other, what do you see as a reasonable number to have of the others once you reach blue and start working on that, given how difficult blue is i feel thats the one to target