I always try to do belt bases, as I prefer them. Gleba is damn near impossible. I tried to at the start but the spoilage and nutrients are just too much to handle for me. Bots to the rescue!

  • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Surprisingly Gleba is where I’m using the least amount of bots.

    I basically turned everything into sushi belts and it hasn’t been too difficult to split the spoilage off.

    I haven’t really scaled up yet though, just making enough science to fill a rocket every once in a while for now.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    My ramshackle base on Gleba is a weird mix of sushi belts and excessive bot use. Without them my design would break down.

    And don’t be concerned about energy. The Gleba recipe for rocket fuel is super easy and you can easily use it to supply multiple rockets and a setup of heating towers + turbines. It’s enough to provide power to hundreds of bots and dozens of tesla towers.

  • HeckGazer@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I love hearing about this perspective. I 100% agree on bringing bots to every planet but found gleba to be the most belt intensive (not using the most belts but using the most belt tricks).
    I think I only used bots to handle saving restart spoilage and removing eggs on factory shutdown/resuppling the initial one on startup

  • PigStyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 hours ago

    Na, use direct insert, with belts feeding. Hardest part was the egg handling, ill post screenshot of my science when I get home

      • RustyNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        A few things to note:

        • spoilage inserters should always be placed on the same belt as the last inserter that needs it. It prevents situations where the spoilage inserters still have fresh items while the machine inserter has spoilage
        • heating towers are better at egg disposal. You can even get some electricity back!
        • it’s better to have centralised nutriment production for your factory block. A bioflux to nutriment biolab could easily power both sides with less wastes
      • Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        10 hours ago

        Not to be pedantic but thats a displayshot and not a screenshot. ;)

        Anyways your setup is much much nicer than the pile of spaghet I left on gleba to be overrun by stompers.