#factorio se

[mad-mathematician]

Been working on building out the blocks to feed my rocket science build. It has been very interesting to try and fit each production line in the smallest block I can, and then seeing how all these various sizes fit together like a big wonky puzzle!

At this point I have nearly everything ready for rocket science, I'm just waiting on my sulfuric acid block to be constructed.

While building, I was chasing down an oil shortage for a long time. I eventually ended up adding some offshore oil, which has worked out very well!

And funnily, I noticed while planning where my science will be consumed, I built up the rocket science block before the chemical science block xD

[mad-mathematician]

I'm going to space!!

I've checked, double checked, and I'm ready to send my first rocket into space!!

I'm headed for the asteroid belt, to grab The Canary first. Then I'm flying to NOrbit to get started with the Space part of Space Exploration!

Here's what I'm taking with me:

Enough to make a good few space science packs, plus enough materials and buildings to setup a good bit of infrastructure while I'm at it!

Some space intentionally left empty as The Canary can only hold so much cargo.

Excited to see how this plays out!!

[mad-mathematician]

I made it!!!

I made it all the way to space!!

Launching to Calidus Belt 1 worked out exactly as intended. I lost slightly more items than anticipated, but that's exactly why I brought many many more than I needed!

After fixing up the Canary, I was ready to fly!

On the flight back, I did encounter a slight hiccup. Even though I rebuilt to the same spec I have in other SE runs, I was taking damage! Asteroids were breaking through the laser defense, even destroyed a wall!! Why?

Because I'm playing without biters on Nauvis, I hadn't researched any laser damage upgrades xD

I stopped flying, let my Nauvis base churn through all the damage upgrades I could, and decided to use the time to do some upgrading. I noticed there were some spare walls and floors in a chest...

With some slight rearranging and some slight expansion, the Canary now has 1.33x the power production and slightly more power storage as well!! After these upgrades, I was easily able to hold 40 speed zipping around Nauvis orbit.

I'm pretty proud of this upgrade as well, because

ON THE DOT, 300 stress :D

Once I made it to the NOrbit platform, I had quite a lot of cleaning up to do, so I'll show it in 3 parts:

Let the "Space" part of Space Exploration begin!!

[mad-mathematician]

Did some more Factorioing! Got military science up and running, now I'm starting to build out more blocks for rocket science!

I'm excited about going block-based from the start! It's expensive to setup so far, but it's also been really really simple. A couple minutes in the editor designing a fairly simple production line, then attach some train stations and bam! Ready to deploy!

Going to be interesting to see how the base shapes up, how difficult it'll be to replace these builds once I have better tech. We'll see!!

[mad-mathematician]

Turns out, scaling up to make thousands of tier 3 modules takes a *lot* or resources lol. I've been expanding my mining operations, building out more solar panels, setting up production blocks for a good few hours now just waiting for the modules to be ready. After they're producing, next step is cryonite!!

[mad-mathematician]

Progress!!

Not a whole ton of one specific thing, but many little things have been completed!

I've automated blue belts!! Made a little factory building to spit out all the blue belts I could ever want, supplied directly off my train grid!

2. I bodged together a couple hundred speed modules! Made a quick little hand-fed setup to produce some when needed.

3. I setup a teeny tiny core mining drill setup to collect iron ingots!

It's horribly inefficient, burns off all the ores that aren't iron, doesn't have any speed modules, but it doesn't need to be fast or good because it only has one job, which will be obvious in the next point...

4. I used the vulcanite blocks in the NOrbit base and the Canary, combined with the iron ingots from core mining, to build all the production science packs I could before automating the science myself!!

It was a very hastily thrown together, hand fed, spaghetti mess of a build, but it served its one and only purpose: Unlock beacons.

You don't actually need vulcanite, or any off-world resource, to build beacons, only to research them. So with the research now completed, I can build as many as I want!! Which is important becauuusee...

5. I designed a vulcanite production line!!!

It's setup to output 30 cubes/s from only raw vulcanite, water, and oil. Stone and sand byproduct can be output at the top, or voided if needed. And the reason I went through all the hassle above, is because it's designed around prod 2 in every machine, with speed 3 in beacons around them, feeding onto blue belts!!!

I'm planning on flying to my vulc world, setting this up with local oil and imported water ice, then using the cubes to mass produce prod 3 modules before setting up my cryonite outpost.

Currently I'm in the process of loading up a rocket to fly to the outpost, will post more updates soon!!

[mad-mathematician]

I've setup rocket science!!

The block is online and producing, sending satellites to orbit!!

I've also built out some of the infrastructure required to launch cargo rockets! The silo itself, as well as a factory building to make rocket fuel, and a couple miscellaneous production lines to supply the rocket parts!!

Wide screenshot of my base, I love having chunk-aligned rail blueprints 💙

And a couple of my Starter Base™, which is still making most of the rocket parts as well as my entire mall.

Hopefully I'll be in space soon!!

[mad-mathematician]

Been a while since I posted, got the cryonite outpost nearly online!

Brought along a couple blueprints to help make the process easier, notably these two factory buildings:

The one on the left is a fully functional, power saving, 2x2 reactor, shoved into a portable MK3 Factorissimo building! Made setting up power very convenient.

The right building is a meteor defense ammo maker! It comes with this compliment inside it for easy building:

Just set the signal frequency, aim delivery cannons, and you're good to go!

Along with those buildings, this is my main staging area for setting up the rest of the factory on this world:

Uranium power production, train fuel production, a landing pad for when I need to send in more equipment, and a small bot network.

Now onto the meat of this world, the cryonite production!

Making cryonite rods is actually quite a simple process, so the design isn't anything too fancy at all, but I'm still very proud of how it came out!

This is build for 15 rods/second, and I think it's a very satisfying build to look at!

And then finally, here's a map-wide overview of the planet:

Within the next couple hours I should have utility science up and running! Wish me luck! :3