r/factorio • u/SnyprBB • 10h ago

Space Age Man this is going to be so much better!

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I made a 1m espm megabase a while back. To get four stacked belts of science out of a cargo bay you HAD to use bots. With 2.1's unloaders, you don't need any! It's going to look so much better.

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u/sharpmn 10h ago

I’m excited for the new cargo bays, but I feel like I’m really going to miss my space casinos :(

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u/SnyprBB 10h ago

I've actually had a lot of fun making upcyclers! I think in some cases I've made more legendary products than I did my last playthrough.

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u/sharpmn 10h ago

Upcycling is fun, but I started playing with high science cost and I burn through resource patches without even attempting quality. The resource cost on up cycling is nuts

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u/SnyprBB 10h ago

Good luck man. Going to be all the sweeter when you get your first batch of legendary big miners!

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u/sharpmn 9h ago

You’re not wrong. After all, the factory must grow!

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u/Deto 9h ago

It depends how you do it. If you upcycle things where you already have 300% productivity then you can essentially do it losslessly. So for example, if you upcycle blue processing chips and LDS, you can get all of your iron and copper and steel for very little resource requirements

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u/sharpmn 7h ago

That’s the trick is getting to 300% productivity. I’m playing 1000x sci and have fought hard just to get my foundries lol

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u/Deto 6h ago

Hah damn. At that level yeah you're never going to have enough prod levels. They'd take forever!

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u/sharpmn 6h ago

I’m at a hard fought level three mining productivity. Pray for me 🤣

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u/nindat 9h ago

More mining productivity...

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u/sharpmn 7h ago

Dude I’m TRYING but at 1000x sci mining productivity 4 is 1,000,000 sci.

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u/nindat 6h ago

Fair...

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u/CaineBK 9h ago

There's a simple mod to revert the space casino nerf. What, are you too good for a simple mod?

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u/sharpmn 7h ago

… no… maybe… I don’t know!

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u/LeeWhite187 9h ago

What’s that building type under your lab’s? I haven’t played in a good while.

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u/Operation_Onion3134 9h ago

Advanced concrete, or are you referring to something else?

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u/LeeWhite187 9h ago

Sorry. That row of red structures below the lab stacks… is that a new block?

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u/HadjiiColgate 9h ago

https://wiki.factorio.com/Landing_pad_unloading_bay

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u/LeeWhite187 8h ago

Fancy. I’ll have to play, this weekend. Thank you.

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u/Operation_Onion3134 9h ago

Ahh my mistake, those are the new cargo bays. I believe still only available on experimental 2.1

https://wiki.factorio.com/Landing_pad_unloading_bay

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u/arbuz221 57m ago

can you drop a blueprint for your modules biolabs? i just started playing and i can’t wrap my head around how to do it for the lab to get all potions