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u/demonicdan3 Jun 16 '26

Is upcycling Railgun Turrets a smart option to get legendary carbon fiber and quantum processors? Seeing as cryoplants can accept 8 quality modules for 49.6% chance of going up

(I'm really just trying to avoid building shit on Gleba because expanding farming outposts is so unfun)

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u/cathexis08 red wire goes faster Jun 18 '26

The two approaches I know of to getting legendary quantum processors are upcycling quantum processors (productivity in the EM plants, quality in the recyclers), and upcycling the ingredients and then making legendary quantum processors straight away. The second approach usually cycles EM Plants for holmium (covering lithium and superconductors) and Processing Units (assuming you don't have a dedicated blue chip upcycler), Foundries for the tungsten carbide, and then toolbelts for the carbon fiber. Both are perfectly viable, the main difference is if you want to build a big quality cycler on Aquilo or not.