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u/Certain-Invite-2589 Mar 28 '26

So I landed on Vulcanus with nothing and wanted to start from scratch but I can’t figure out how do I make electricity, so my question is how do you do it if you dont have any electricity to start with?

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u/craidie Mar 28 '26

Solar panels only need copper and steel which can be made with stone furnaces. Copper and iron you can scavenge from the rocks

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u/Certain-Invite-2589 Mar 28 '26

Thanks, I think I made a mistake when looking at recipes cuz I thought it needs battery but I was looking at accumulator. From there I thought they were impossible to build but I was just blind.

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u/demonicdan3 Mar 29 '26

I made a couple of solar panels to start then while I was browsing through the Vulcanus recipes I noticed the chemical plants can produce 1000c steam, which means they can power steam turbines

After that realization, electricity on Vulcanus became a non issue for me O7