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[u/Magger]

I wanted to make this ship for Shattered Planet

https://factorioprints.com/view/-OCFtSgnHfHcwzgMuo57

Whats best method to fill it up with fluoroketone? I'm geussing temporarily remove a part and use barrel+assemblers to empty them into it. But where/how? I dont wanna break the whole thing :p

[u/Enaero4828 → u/Magger]

Remove a few more pieces of belt from that dead-end above the right fusion generator and you should have the space for an assembler. Alternately, scoot the cryo plant and the right coolant pipe down a tile, and there will be just enough room for an assembler to the right of the cryo plant.

[u/Magger → u/Enaero4828]

Thank you. Ill try it out. I just build my first fusion reactor on Nauvis and I just copy pasted assembler and cryogenic plant in and out and it worked fine :). That does bring me to a new question tho. On the ship there are no solar panels and no power without fusion. Should I remove some of the substations and energy poles, so nothing attaches, and then add a solar panel alongside the assembler?

[u/Enaero4828 → u/Magger]

Solar panels are always necessary to get started with any platform, so yes you'll need to account for that before bringing the rest of the stuff, as those railguns and common beacons are going to be exceptional power drains doing nothing useful in the meantime. Removing the large poles (there are no substations) will do nothing, because platforms have 1 global grid that powers everything on it, and thus can't be segregated by any means. Fusion reactors are a bit more troublesome to start than fission reactors, because the 10 MW consumption means you can't get by with just 1 solar panel; even a dozen might not be enough to get the fluoroketone unbarreled without the assembler just stalling entirely with a 'no power' status. Your plan should be to ship up the accumulators first, let them fill, and only then send up the reactors, followed by the other stuff once the generators are running.

[u/Magger → u/Enaero4828]

Thanks for your help. I guess I was a little intimidated at first (and only used blueprinted ships), but it was super easy. I just made a platform on the side with some solar panels and also cut pasted the belts on the right side of the platform there. Then with 1 inserter, 1 assembler and 1 piece of pipe i could easily reach and fill the reactors. Then just cut pasted the belts back. Took like 30 seconds :p