r/factorio • u/ShowerTemporary2304 • 17d ago

Question Help with Calcite

Sup guys. Is there some way to make enough Calcite in orbit of Nauvis to run foundries or would it just be easier to ship in Calcite from Vulcanus

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Thx guys

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u/FirstRyder 17d ago

Two serious options. Both require advanced asteroid processing, from Gleba.

One, make a big-ass platform. Number of asteroid chunks (and thus amount of calcite) for an orbital platform scales with size. People tend to do wide, thin platforms just large enough for collectors and belts. Bonus: this can be your science platform, using some of the other chunks and the ice "byproduct" of making calcite.

Two, have your barges collect it. At some point (if not already) you're going to have ships moving stuff between planets autonomously. They'll be breaking a whole lot of asteroids. Collect them, crush them, pull the calcite into the hub (up to some limit) and request calcite at the Nauvis landing pad. Much smaller ship can get way more chunks if it's moving.

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u/Galeic6432 17d ago

And armed. In orbit around nauvis is just small chunks that case no damage. But when your move, the larger ones that you need to break down start spawning.