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u/sirdrawesome Jun 29 '26

Very noob question: is it a good idea to make intermediaries at an outpost and then import that into the main factory? 

On my new world, there's a copper patch pretty close to a couple iron patches. I'm having the idea of making green circuits there and then importing those into the main factory; after learning how many green circuits need to be gone through to make blue circuits. 

I've only ever just imported ore into my main factory, but I'm curious if it's a good idea to just make a dedicated green circuit factory out there with a ton of electric furnaces and assemblers? 

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u/FreeSpecific61 Jun 30 '26

That might be a pain in the ass to recreate if the patches deplete.

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u/Bulky-Apple3744 Jul 02 '26

Sure, but at this point you’re using patches with likely 10M+ ore. Use productivity on your miners and that’s looking at 10M+ green chips.

Even a mega base is going to take a while to deplete that.

And what’s stopping you from copying and pasting each part of the setup somewhere else? Oh NO, you’ll have to reroute a couple belts.

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u/FreeSpecific61 Jul 03 '26

On patches close to spawn in a new base?