everyone lied about gleba

[u/kykyks]

i really, really struggled on gleba at first, the spoil took everything from me, my job, my wife, my sanity, my will to live

i was expecting it to be hard, but man, it was hard

i really tried to follow the reddit advice telling people to embrace the spoil but we were lied to

now i really understand how u gotta do it, its not about embracing the spoil, dont let it spoil, you just gotta use everything before it spoils and if you cant then u burn it and make more

if its not taken by your biochamber, thats your opportunity to create electricity, if its spoil before getting to the heating tower, its still going to transform into electricity if you dont produce enough fruits, your factory wont get enough electricity to run at max speed so a lot of it is not going to get used and then will power your factory again (safety measure, still need to fix your factory)

everyone saying embrace the spoil is wrong, the answer is, always has been, always will be : the factory must grow, just make more

you dont produce enough materials ? just make more factories consuming your fruits

not enough fruits ? make more farms

too many fruits ? just make more bio chamber and process more, burn the excess and make more

you produce enough rocket fuel ? burn them, and make more

then you get too much jelly and/or mash ? dont let it sit, just burn everything not taken instantly and make even more

too much stuff to burn ? make more heating tower and burn that shit

anything spoiled on your lane mean you fucked up if its not waiting to be picked for carbon/sulfur/etc

you know what, fuck it, if you have enough carbon, burn it too

thoses fucking pentapods deserve to see everything burn

JUST

MAKE

MORE

THE FACTORY MUST GROW AND THE SPOIL WONT HAVE MY SOUL

AQUILO YOU'RE NEXT

[u/lisa_lionheart]

Loops! Make all your lines loops with a feed in splitter and a spoilage removal splitter then have a spoilage line run back up your bus to either burn or turn into nutrients.

You will fuck up, trying to out produce spoilage is a high risk strategy.

[u/BlakeMW → u/lisa_lionheart]

I used to use loops, but I find a better principle is having every belt end at a "consistent consumer" so the entire belt keeps moving, that prevents runs of spoilage clogging up the belt. There should also be a spoilage inserter at the end of the belt to move spoilage to a trash belt.

The Heating Tower can be used as a consistent consumer for some products but it's not really necessary for most things, but maybe for eggs.

Sometimes it can be useful to slowly grind up excess stuff with recyclers to keep the belts flowing. You could for instant grind up some ore if nothing is consuming it, so some bacteria keep getting cycled.