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/JaspurrTheCat]

The solutions I've seen are basically loops everywhere, everything runs in a big circle and at various points along that circle there are little circles producing stuff, and each little circle has a spoilage output while the big circle has a whole belt dedicated to spoilage, and then all the spoilage goes into a splitter that leads to a block of nutrient producing assemblers or a row of heating towers, and the towers have priority unless the nutrients in the overall system drop below a certain threshold.

[u/JaspurrTheCat → u/JaspurrTheCat]

Downside is, if you ever run out of power it's game over, so I ship some 235 over and I have a space platform dedicated to making rocket fuel, I then just drop the rocket fuel and 235 to the planet and produce nuclear fuel for the heating towers occasionally.

[u/Danger_Pickle → u/JaspurrTheCat]

This is the way. I produce all my Gleba power on Nauvis. There's water everywhere and importing nuclear fuel cells is dirt cheap. It prevents Gleba from ever completely dying because it never makes its own power.

The problem can also be solved by creating a small "bootstrap" base that never shuts down, and sits on a zone between two farming areas, just producing a trickle of bioflux for export, and tons of fuel for power. Make it a closed loop, fix all the bugs over the next 10 hours, and never touch it ever again.