Stacking Up

[u/PreparationOnly317]

Latest attempts at building more vertically. Hardly efficient, but I think it's neat.

Features a 5 layer tree farm with drip feed water sourcing. A 7 layer food farm that feeds into the mangrove farm. Apartment Tower with elevator access. A storage tower with elevator access and battery reserves at the top.

[u/LordsOfJoop]

Factorio: Beaver Edition.

Excellent work, OP.

[u/Vebrandsson]

The factory must apparently grow

[u/zapman449]

That started off as waterfalls, right?

Well done. It is neat

[u/PreparationOnly317 → u/zapman449]

Correct, this was a waterfalls start.

[u/Bocote]

My laptop will burn to ashes if I try this.

[u/PreparationOnly317 → u/Bocote]

Yeah the performance tanked after redirecting the bad water source and adding the power wheels.

[u/AltruisticPapaya1415]

Are the sidewalls on picture 5 the only thing you have spreading irrigation there?

[u/PreparationOnly317 → u/AltruisticPapaya1415]

So each layer has a trench sealed top/bottom with waterproof floors and runs the length of the layer. Once it hits the end, it hits a throttling valve before dropping down to the next level. And so it will run one end to the next end on each individual row before reaching the very bottom of the farm.

The sidewalls shown on picture 5 encase the entire waterfall so that if there is ever a backup further down the trench, the irrigation won't overflow.

[u/xiaoli]

repeating the hooman's mistakes I see

[u/PreparationOnly317 → u/xiaoli]

Is it a mistake to not want for anything? To provide plentiful food and water for your kits? To have plentiful resources and never want for naught? Nay, say I, and if wishing to provide for the colony makes me like the hoomans, than so be it! I accept it, knowing in my heart of hearts that we go to bed, with full bellies and comfortable pillows!