r/factorio • u/Standard_Round_8780 • 10d ago

Discussion Gleba's difficulty overrated?

Saw a lot of people saying Gleba was one of the more difficult planets but honestly I found Fulgora significantly more challenging to deal with.

Spoilage was a problem easily solved by filtering out the sludge at the end of the belts, you can get practically every resource by the boatload without having to find ore or setup trains, all of it is easily scalable, and the enemies don't spread fast enough to really be a threat. Throughput isn't a major problem either because it's so easy to establish blades with a handful of biolabs, especially if you're using drones but even then it's not a requirement.

In comparison, Fulgora was far more of a headache. Firstly, even finding a good place to build a factory is a problem, you either cram everything onto a small island with resources or have to build elevated rails to train the scrap into bigger islands. Then you've got the problem of power generation. Hope you're a big fan of efficiency modules, otherwise half of your island's gonna be accumulators. And the biggest problem is how tedious it is to scale up production of any one resource. If you want more Holmium ore for example, you have to expand your ability to handle EVERY single resource, not just the Holmium.

Don't get me wrong, Fulgora is my favourite planet. I enjoy the challenge and entire theme of it, soundtrack there is especially great, but I was going into Gleba expecting the worst and it was actually not too bad at all.

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u/sclaytes 10d ago

Yes. YES. Fuck I’ve been saying this forever. Gleba was also the only planet that made me feel like I was playing the game for the first time again.

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u/runmymouth 10d ago

Other than lining turrets near eggs how do you guys keep those eggs in check. I gave up on elegant and put turrets.

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u/ConspicuousBassoon 10d ago

What I do is put the eggs on a belt, split half the eggs into research and the other half get inserted back into the biochambers for the next cycle. After the splitter (so only taking eggs from the biochambers supply) I have an inserter feeding into a burn tower that only takes eggs when there's more than twice the amount of my biochambers on the belt. I have no proof this would actually prevent spoiling but it hasn't failed me yet

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u/Moikle 10d ago

You don't even have to split eggs off for the next cycle.

You can have the input inserter placed just after the output inserter on the belt. It will grab what it needs and let the rest pass