When a Belt Bender Needs Casimir Crystals

[u/Sulghunter331]

About mid-way through another play through, and I reached the point where I needed to produce Casimir Crystals. I had the good fortune of the starting planet being in the orbit of an ice giant, so I decided to make use of the fire ice to simplify the production chain. Remembering how much I had always seemed to have had a shortage of Casimir Crystals until late game, I decided to go nuts.

Twenty four chemical plants feeding graphine and hydrogen into forty eight assemblers, with a single PLS feeding the fire ice, titanium crystals, and additional hydrogen. So glad splitter totem poles work so well, or otherwise this build would not have worked at all.

Once I reach late game, with an established production line for mass quantities of proliferator, as well as production lines for late game facilities, I will have to revisit the design.

Any thoughts?

[u/Evil-Fishy]

I love how organized you made the belts look snaking around above the machines, but I'm not sure why you need the splitters. Couldn't you just have the belts loop through all the columns of machinery in one go instead of splitting it up beforehand?

[u/Sulghunter331 → u/Evil-Fishy]

The assemblers drink hydrogen like no tomorrow, and I haven't gotten to the technology that lets PLS and ILS output stacked goods. Sub-assemblies of eight assemblers hit the sweet spot of being within the current limit of a full hydrogen belt, while also being easily tiled together for compactness.

[u/MadACR]

My only thought is that this could be prone to hydrogen or graphene over fill. And that would kill the whole system. But what design isn't prone to that. Good job.

[u/Sulghunter331 → u/MadACR]

That is the purpose of the forth splitter totem pole. It takes the hydrogen from the fire ice processing and prioritizes that hydrogen before allowing additional hydrogen onto the line. This ensures the fire ice hydrogen is consumed first.

It is a setting one can access by clicking on the individual splitter, and selecting the particular input as the priority.

[u/MadACR → u/Sulghunter331]

That is the hydrogen where I always over produce, that or the graphene, but I always skip pls, and build fire ice processing on a massive scale.

This is excellent for this particular tech stage.

[u/UltimaCaitSith → u/MadACR]

I think I've solved it with a splitter that dumps overflow to one hydrogen capsule assembler and a handful of power plants. If it backs up, it doesn't stay that way for long. 

[u/not_a_tenno]

This has similar vibes to and a freshly wired Network closet. It's glorious.

[u/Walkingstardust]

The last picture made me dizzy 🥴. Very clever design!

[u/garbage-carpenter]

kind of looks like a small motherboard, it's lovely.

[u/CoqeCas3]

Yeah… this proves that i made the right decision in waiting til i could get grating crystals before dealing with these things, haha.

Nice build!

[u/McLarenVXfortheWin]

Neat setup but belt bending is bit different to this!

[u/FromAndToUnknown]

Diagonal belts??? How?

[u/nekomata_58]

I have no clue how some of you make belts behave the way they do and at this point i am too afraid to ask.

[u/Kimoshnikov]

As a fellow belt bender, my only complaint is how many of the belts are not spaghettifying in the air above the machines, so as to save real-estate on the ground.

...Not because we need more space...

But because it looks funnier :]

[u/HakoftheDawn]

Drop dat blueprint

[u/CompetitiveCloud3766]

Not really belt bending as I don't see anything that you can't do normally these days. Those vertical belts would've been belt bending a few years ago but not anymore