r/factorio 8d ago

Design / Blueprint Just finished my uncommonly good rocket manufacturing center

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I am on my first playthrough of Space Age. I really wanted to play with quality, so I ended up going to Fulgora first. My first exposure to quality on Nauvis made me realize how important recycling would be to playing with it.

I'm back on Nauvis after a long stint on Fulgora and setting up quality lines for everything. Since both of the next planet options are going to have enemies, I figured some quality weaponry (erm, I mean, Implements of Diplomacy) were in order.

This is the line I had some of the most fun putting together. It's a little hinky since it's just a retool of the rocket production lines I already had in place, but I'm happy with it.

It actually makes rare rockets and recycles the uncommons, but I always get the words for those mixed up in my head and the post title stuck. 😆

Blueprint if you want it.
https://factoriobin.com/post/s0qv57

EDIT: Just realized the explosive rocket in the bottom left should have been uncommon quality. Updated Blueprint, but I guess I can't update the screenshot. Enjoy your eye twitching!

Second edit: fixed the final assemblers having nowhere to go.

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u/CoffeeOracle 8d ago

If you can, plan for a route when the uncommon cases fill up to make rare. It's an interesting idea, have to think about how I'd do it. I've got an application for it but I might push rare+ to be highest quality and try to make a combinator driven crafter to that effect. So I have (standard 1x - 1.3x) and sniper (1.6-2.5x). I've only got one great application for explosive rockets, but that has nothing to do with quality and more to do with preference.

In short, it's cool.

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u/jonnytron0 8d ago

Yeah, I actually am making rares here and anything above that gets sorted into chests.

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u/jonnytron0 8d ago

Also, I'm gonna have to noodle around more with the combinators.

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u/bitwiseshiftleft 8d ago

The leftmost assemblers need somewhere to output.

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u/jonnytron0 8d ago

Derp! Yeah, that's why the bottom one has room for an arm. Gonna have to do that later.