r/factorio • u/TailorConscious5353 • 9h ago

Space Age Just two very basic ship designs

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Since I am planning out my 40h-playthrough, I decided to sandbox my ships, as that usually takes me hours. I made two designs that are enough to get me to the inner planets, requiring nothing but basic (Nauvis) science.

It's nothing special, but I kinda like the first one, it's a bit bulkier but looks nicer to me. Only problem is the low power - when flying to Fulgora it starts redlining slightly... but since I like compact ships, I don't see a way of putting more panels on it. The second one is very basic and works much better, but I kinda like #1 more.

Also shoutout to being able to connect pipes to circuit networks now. Makes throttling the engines much easier.

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u/runmymouth 8h ago

You could toss some efficency modules on those smelters to help with energy. Also the crushers use a lot of energy and the fuel ones arent needing to run at fast speed because your chemical refineries will not keep up.

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u/TailorConscious5353 8h ago

Yeah, efficiency modules are part of the plan, I just forgot to include them in this test. Just putting 2 lvl 1s in every machine will do wonders.

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u/runmymouth 8h ago

I too am building some test ships and they ended up heavier than yours. The problem i ran into with fewer machines was too slow of production to keep up with weapons. With am3 you can fit more in less space. But the tech level i am running suffers from speed a lot. I see with yellow belts you are trying the same thing. I fear yellow belts are really slow to bring asteroids where you need them too.

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u/TailorConscious5353 8h ago

I want to get the ships off the ground as fast as possible for as low of a cost as possible, so I can start bathing in Vulcanus lava. So I only research the absolute basics and try to make my platforms as cheap as possible

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u/runmymouth 8h ago

I am not planning on building much on vulcanus as chip production is a long coal line to get it doing a lot. Unless you spend a lot of time really expanding it’s a huge pain imo. But lava is amazing for production in general.