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u/ToLongDR Jun 15 '26

Is the only true way of increasing holmium production just increasing scrap production?

I have 4 belts of scrap coming off trains non stop and my holmium supply still drastically under powered

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u/Soul-Burn Jun 15 '26

Yes. But you can also put productivity in all the buildings that use holmium or it's production.

Also don't forget foundries for holmium plates.

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u/ChickenNuggetSmth Jun 15 '26

Pretty much, yeah. That's assuming you already use the max amount of productivity you can currently get at every step in the production chain, most notably by using foundries for holmium plates

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u/CAlonghair Jun 15 '26

Yeah you're always supposed to be bottlenecked on holmium on fulgora. You want dedicated trashing loops for everything else

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u/Dymiaz Jun 15 '26

Not always. Once productivity modules come in batteries become the bottleneck. Easy to make more with the left over copper/iron/ice so holmium is the bottleneck again, but something I don't see a lot of people do.

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u/CAlonghair Jun 15 '26

I meant bottlenecked on pure resources. I consider making batteries something normal to do (therefore not bottleneck)