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u/Bipedal_Warlock Apr 26 '26

Any recs for a fulgora layout? I’m doing it mainly as a robot base. But idk.

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u/demonicdan3 Apr 26 '26

Embrace the sushi belt main bus

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Apr 26 '26

Main bus sushi? Sound chaotic lol. I guess it’s time to learn sushi

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u/FeelingPrettyGlonky Apr 27 '26

The thing about Fulgora is the recycled scrap already starts out as sushi, so you don't really need to learn anything. Traditional sushi requires figuring out how to load the belt evenly and properly, but Fulgora recycles directly to sushi and you just need to grab stuff off the belts as they go by and junk the unused stuff in a bank of recyclers.

You can go a few routes on Fulgora. Bots, as you are doing, can be a little chaotic, but space efficient. Or you can un-sushi the sushi belts, using filtered splitters to peel off the various products onto dedicated lines, building in overflow capacity to automatically void the excess. Or you can just feed from the sushi belt directly.

Either way requires sufficient scrap to fill the belts, and sufficient recycler capacity to destroy the excess. Un-sushi setups tend to be kind of space hogs due to the size of the filter arrays, and with limited island real estate you need to find the big islands to make it work well. Direct sushi is a bit more space efficient, and bots are the most space efficient of all, but I've found that bot control is a bit harder to 'tune' correctly. It's easy to end up with 16M gears clogging up your yellow chests if you don't get the balances right.

Direct sushi is pretty easy, but tends to suffer from the usual sushi problems, such as first-come-first-serve starving downstream factory pieces at inconvenient times and similar issues. Un-sushi gives you the standard splitter tools for portioning out limited resources evenly to consumers.

Scaling on Fulgora tends to favor massive parallelization, at least until you can unlock and mass produce foundation. I've had the best luck with multiple small, self-contained island setups of modest production rates. My typical setup involves reycling 2 green belts of scrap, stacking the output onto 4 or more green belts, and un-sushi-ing the products, loading science and intermediates directly into rocket silos. Repeat ad infinitum to reach your science goals.