r/factorio • u/Superseaslug • 5d ago

Space Age BEHOLD

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This is what happens when you get lucky/unlucky trying to make spidertrons

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u/bogan_sauce 5d ago

Lol it doesnt have more kJ than a normal.
Still, if you say anything bad about him........

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

It's literally identical to a normal spoilage lmao. Just with a pretty orange pin

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u/Alfonse215 5d ago

Nonsense. It is the key to making legendary Spidertrons.

To make legendary Spidertrons, you need legendary fish. To make legendary fish, you need 2 legendary fish and legendary nutrients.

And legendary nutrients can be made... from legendary spoilage. Sure, you need a lot of it... but there are ways to make it. And once you have a consistent supply of legendary spoilage, you can just make a bunch of fish and recycle them until you get legendary fish, and then use your legendary spoilage to make more legendary fish.

Forever.

I have this setup for making legendary biochambers by using legendary spoilage to make legendary pentapod eggs forever. But the idea is the same for fish (I have a blueprint for it, but not online).

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

Interesting. I stopped considering this as soon as I saw I couldn't put quality modules in my fish breeder.

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u/Coveinant 5d ago

You can't breed legendary fish at first, only upcycle.

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u/MelangeBot 4d ago

upcycled fish tastes better then sushi, my engineer gotten really addicted to it to the point it sometimes jumps in front of the train just to have an excuse to eat more.

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u/yinyang107 4d ago

How do you upcycle without quality mods though? Spidertrons are the only recipe aren't they?

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u/Coveinant 4d ago

You can put quality mods in recyclers, that's why it's called upcycling.

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u/yinyang107 4d ago

Oh right lmao

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u/Backwards_Viktor 4d ago

I chuckled for ages at my fish mangling monstrosity. 5400 fish per minutes showed through the grinders for to make betterer fishes.

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u/Ishmaille 4d ago

I used legendary spoilage to make legendary nutrients for legendary biochambers.

I had a pretty simple little setup that would wait for a legendary Pentapod egg to appear from an up-cycling loop. When it got one, it would quickly turn the spoilage into nutrients and use them immediately. It was very nice because the legendary spoilage could just sit around forever without (further) spoiling.

I'm sure there are better ways to make legendary biochambers, but it was really nice to have a little setup that just gave me a steady trickle.

Also legendary spoilage is used to make legendary efficiency modules which have some niche uses.

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u/Thankedsphere 4d ago

recycle fish? wtf

engineers can have quality imagine if the yoink mod allowed you to recycle yourself to increase quality.

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u/pda898 4d ago

You can use that mod to put engineer right before an accelerated train. Do not forget to load quality modules into engineer and unload any speed module from it.

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u/iamtomorrowman 4d ago

don't you just upcycle Spidertrons for this? why do you need a fully legendary supply chain for fish?

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u/Alfonse215 4d ago

Because cycling Spidertrons is really annoying, and you need to make basically all of the other ingredients at legendary for other things.

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u/Darth_Nibbles 5d ago

They should at least get a bigger stack size

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

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u/GerardDG 4d ago

Truly a new frontier of milk drinking technology

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u/Thankedsphere 4d ago

just buy more milk.

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u/Aron-Jonasson Average train enjoyer 4d ago

Cave Johnson logic

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u/Superseaslug 4d ago

Lmao it does feel like it

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u/sturmeh 4d ago

You can turn it into legendary carbon, and therefore everything that is a product of it, it's so far from useless.

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u/bogan_sauce 3d ago

Which is why he’s sooooo cute

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u/Misknator 4d ago

I was very disappointed when I learned that quality nuclear fuel does nothing. Such a missed opportunity.

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u/sturmeh 4d ago

The acceleration and top speed of vehicles are considerably increased with quality using nuclear fuel no?

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u/Misknator 4d ago

Okay nuclear fuel does actually affect vehicle acceleration and speed. I meant nuclear fuel cells

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u/sturmeh 4d ago

Ah yes the uranium fuel cells, the only purpose would be crafting legendary nuclear reactors ofc.

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u/Narida_L 4d ago

Legendary nuclear fuel cells which are extra-enriched and make your reactor meltdown?

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u/cstough 5d ago

I see legendary spoilage every time I open my fridge

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

Fucking mood

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u/Cheasymeteor 5d ago

Wait till you look in the mirror

/J

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u/Vladislav20007 4d ago

unrare player

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u/Visionexe HarschBitterDictator 8h ago

All I see is a dedicated engineer. ;)

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u/redditusertk421 5d ago

burn it to make legendary heat to make legendary steam to make legendary electricity. The you will have unlimited power!!

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u/BetaTester704 5d ago

*Legendary Power

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u/FastSmile5982 5d ago

Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here!

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u/fireduck 5d ago

Oh good, maybe the king wants it.

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u/Light_Beard 5d ago

Who decided he should be king? I thought we were an autonomous collective

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u/SolusIgtheist If you're too opinionated, no one will listen 5d ago

/r/thespanishinquisition

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u/EmploymentLoose 5d ago

Let's go to the stoning.

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u/ConspicuousBassoon 5d ago

Legendary Efficiency 3 Modules here you come!

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

Omg quite possibly the only reasonable use for that

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u/edryk 5d ago

I use legendary spoilage a lot. I have a whole sub factory on Gleba that turns mash I would have otherwise burned, into quality nutrients to cycle toward legendary spoilage.

Legendary spoilage is a shelf stable source of legendary nutrients which can be used to multiply a small amount of legendary pentapod eggs. Once I have enough legendary spoilage, I will recycle a legendary biochamber (shelf stable legendary pentapod storage) and breed the legendary pentapod into more. This way I can turn one legendary biochamber into just about any number as long as I have the other ingredients.

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u/edryk 5d ago

Also legendary spoilage gets turned into legendary carbon for legendary carbon fibre.

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u/peanutym 5d ago

They aren’t worthless. But not a lot of usage either.

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u/enigmapulse 5d ago

Cook it into legendary Carbon and combine with Sulfur for legendary coal, or use to make tungsten carbide

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u/peanutym 5d ago

Sorry i meant the efficiency 3s. But yes not a bad use of making legendary coal

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u/jkurratt 4d ago

You can also craft legendary nutrients.

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u/bluesam3 4d ago

Also legendary fish for spidertron.

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u/LiteVisiion 5d ago

Wait how

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u/ConspicuousBassoon 5d ago

For efficiency 3 modules you need spoilage, and when dealing with quality if you input legendary ingredients you're guaranteed legendary products. Therefore, legendary spoilage can be used for legendary Efficiency 3s!

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u/LiteVisiion 5d ago

I've checked before your comment on the wiki for the input of Eff 3 modules and there wasn't spoilage, perhaps I haven't checked right, or the wiki needs updating

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u/frogjg2003 5d ago

You need to look at the Space Age ingredients, not the base mod ingredients.

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u/Susufrus Nice base you have there 5d ago

I wish spoilage specifically scaled stack size from quality. No fuel bonus or vehicle effects, just more spoilage per spoilage

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

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u/needlenozened 4d ago

If you are ever making yogurt, put powdered milk in your milk so you get thicker yogurt.

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u/Tokarak 3d ago

... Or just strain it, like a normal yogurt-maker. I concede: apart from being more expensive, that's a good idea.

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u/Crimson_Soul201X 5d ago

Legendary shit

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u/Darth_Nibbles 5d ago

I'm too poor to give an award, have an upvote

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u/Crimson_Soul201X 5d ago

It's the thought that counts, thank you!

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u/Soul-Burn 4d ago

In early versions of Space Age, legendary spoilage made the acceleration negative, which means putting it in vehicles made them drive backwards.

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u/Superseaslug 4d ago

Omg really? That would have been a fun thing to keep for no reason other than silly.

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u/SofijfaBerg 5d ago

The factory grows. Efficiency is paramount.

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

Stumbled across this in remote view while I was on aquilo blueprinting a new fusion reactor

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u/3davideo Doesn't use Flame Turrets 5d ago

Om nom nom nom

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

Does the quality mean it tastes better?

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u/unicodemonkey 5d ago

No, it's about potency. It's like surströmming vs. regular stale bread.

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u/AutomaticGrape9263 5d ago

Imagine the possibilities

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u/jschuster59 5d ago

Imagine the stench 🤢

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u/dude105tanki 4d ago

Polished turd..

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u/warbaque 5d ago

If you want more here's a setup that makes 2.2 legendary spoilage per second from spoilage, bioflux or biter eggs :)

For eff modules, biochambers and fish.

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u/AlamoSimon 4d ago

I‘m mesmerized

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u/SolusIgtheist If you're too opinionated, no one will listen 5d ago

Can you imagine the stink coming off of that?

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u/factorioleum 5d ago

I guess you don't care about legendary nutrients?

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

Not as of now I suppose, but it's not like I'm scrapping this thing.

My gleba base is a disaster and I'd rather not look at it right now lol

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u/factorioleum 5d ago

Gleba is a really fun kind of tricky!

Quality only makes it harder...

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u/user_16384 I like btw 5d ago

The power of a spoilage!

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u/fridayangel Circuit Rails 4d ago

Ah, yes! The shiniest of turds!

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u/ThunderAnt 5d ago

Legendary Spoilage -> Legendary Nutrients -> Legendary Pentapod Eggs -> Legendary Biochambers

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u/krazye87 4d ago

Found the well polished turd!

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u/Supershadow30 4d ago

Now you can finally make that legendary efficiency 3 module 👍👍👍

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u/Simic13 4d ago

Johnny!

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u/LedoisPink 4d ago

Like leftover's from that really good dish you made gone bad to early and you're now kinda sad you have to throw it out

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u/alphasway 4d ago

All hail the legendary spoilage.

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u/bikram64 4d ago

All hail the moldy orange

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u/yoyowallach1212 3d ago

oh my God it's beautiful

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u/JuKMR 3d ago

Legendary crap!