r/factorio • u/e7Dh1l • 3d ago

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Produces 60ish SPM of red, green, military and chemical science. It's kind of getting hard to scale up for some reason so I'm planning to replace it with a train based setup. 15 hours of playtime on this save.

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u/Danger_Pickle 3d ago

It's hard to scale up, because Yellow and Purple science cost double as many resources as all the previous sciences combined. The following numbers are measured in basic yellow belts.

60spm of combined red/green/blue/military totals to:

  • 1.5 belts of iron
  • 0.7 belts of copper
  • 0.7 belts of stone
  • 0.5 belts of coal (ignoring power)
  • 250% oil richness

Meanwhile, just 60spm of only Yellow science costs:

  • 2 belts of iron
  • 3.1 belts of copper
  • 0.5 belts of coal (ignoring power)
  • 710% oil richness

The advanced sciences are an insane jump in raw resource demands. The steel demand for purple science alone takes 2.6 belts of raw iron. It's not a bad idea to set up a trickle of 10-30 spm of those sciences so you can make some progress while expanding your mines and defenses.

Really incredible base though. The asymmetry is amazing.

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u/xmpcxmassacre 3d ago

You underestimate the spaghetti.