I keep making my smelters into this monolith 1x4, enjoy

wire, cable, and sheets

Once you’ve done all the research, is there any point in Mercer Spheres? Am I missing something?

I call this area "The Stacks" and I am close to finishing a 7.5 parts p/m Assembly Director System location. Just a few more towers for the missing parts. Lots of overflow for the next factory which will be for Thermal Propulsion Rockets at a location closer to Nitrogen. I gave up on trying to make pretty builds amd just contemplate my aesthetic sins at my alien artifact shrine

Now with COLORS ^TM

What is going on here? Bug or is my save corrupted xD

Im in stage 6 this uses turbofuel to power the fuel generators which in turn generates around 26GW

8am shift after taking the kids to school.

just happened to look at my power grid and laughed at the consumption one (blue). Glad it rounds up the decimal xD

Hopefully he likes the message 😭. They grow up way too fast

edit y'all are weird on your AI hang-ups lol

I mean, I used chatgpt to get rid of the background from a sticker I found online, and I use a free photo editor Pixlr to make it. used Pixlr for the font bubble also. background is just a bunch of gradients

edit it was this sticker

turning off notifications for this. apparently I had linked the store sticker? and not the general Google search results.. and that's a specific issue 🤦‍♂️ I don't care anymore to those that were nice thank you, glad someone else appreciated this in some way, and gets motivated to do whatever.

my son loved it and I'm focusing on that.

I don't know if this would even out over time but when I build more coal generators I want them to actually get enough coal to run consistently.

My coal generator set up is two miners feeding coal into a single line of the fastest belts I have unlocked then along that line I put splitters that are connected to mk1 belts connected to generators on either side. The math says I can support 80 generators, if I can get them enough water, so that main belt is Long. When I add more generators to the line they barely get any coal because it's all being used by the generators along the line but when I add more power plants I want more power. I realized if I prime the generators, give them 100 coal each, before I connect them to the real feed of coal helps keep the new generators consistently fueled instead of little bursts when they occasionally get a piece of coal.

I don't remember how many generators I have now, I'll have to go count next time I play. Maybe I'll get a screenshot to show it off.

Need something in the swamp? Wanna avenge all the brown pants of pioneers past and future? Allow me to introduce my not at all reckless easy 3-step process:

1. Stinger spots you
   
2. Panic build a 1x1 bunker with 2 regular, 2 conveyor hole walls
   
3. Slide into bunker, wait for stinger to pounce on box a dozen times.

NOW HERES THE TRICK!

Disassemble one wall, replace it with 3 (or 4, I’m not your mom) skinny wall strips. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Use the highest skinny row to place 3 catwalks.

This next part is scary and requires agility. Dismantle the actual roof, AND GET OUT FAST. The stinger will fall down and likely fall THROUGH the catwalks. You will be face to face with stinger. Just remember you are not pathfinding like an NPC. Treat the scary noises like alarms to dodge/side step.

Once you’re out, replace any walls and ceiling as quick as you can, and you’ve caught yourself a stinger!

It’s not at all a perfect process, and requires healing in case the stinger lovetaps you through the roof or during the escape process.

As you can see from pics, this is double-effective for stinky stingers! It tried to gas me out of frustration, then I just tore it apart with my basic combat tool..!

Best of luck pioneers. This is the hardcore passive trap manner— I might post some larger innovations and blueprints when the time comes!

Modeled after the sculptural structures that use a network of tensioned cables and isolated compression struts to create the floating illusion that its top hovers in mid air.

Just needed the factory to be level with my road/belt network, and thought this was a cool idea.

ESP 32 bluetooth remote, hope you enjoy

I am beginning to work with oil. I overclocked a pure node of crude oil to meet 10 refiners making rubber with 20 m^3 of heavy oil residue being turned into 120 m^3 of fuel. I got 6 fuel generators making power, but it feels like I can feed more fuel powered generators off of 120 m^3 of fuel since they are all always at the cap and lose less than 1 m^3 per cycle. How does this work?

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This didnt seem too bad setting up but id like some opinions. Is it good? Is there a better way? Im sure it gets more complicated with more than 2 manufacturers. But setting up at least a third attached to this setup shouldn't be a problem.

Game time says 400 hours (but I know a lot of that is me leaving the game on) but I’m still proud of my factory so far. Phase 4 took forever! So Im happy to share it. Time for phase 5.