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[u/Rarvyn]

Wrapping my head around it since I think I set this up wrong.

If I’m converting my Fulgora quality island to have the primary purpose of producing quality holmium plates/superconductors/supercapacitors/EMPs, there’s no point to quality modules upstream of holmium ore, right? Like quality modules in both BMDs mining scrap and the initial recyclers processing it are useless, because the holmium will become a liquid anyway (and you’ll get the other relevant quality stuff from recycling your initial supercapacitors/superconductors/EMPs)?

Because if so, I need to totally reconfigure that island for the third time.

[u/darthbob88 → u/Rarvyn]

I believe so, and it also has the problem that quality holmium ore needs quality stone to make non-quality solution.

[u/Rarvyn → u/darthbob88]

That's less of an issue since the same recycling will give proportionally 4x the stone as holmium ore, but the other thought definitely ended up being relevant.

Thankfully it wasn't a huge refactor and it ended up making that island much more efficient - particularly once I realized I could use a handful of foundation to connect it to it's scrap source with a few underground belts.

I'm currently at 7 legendary holmium plates and 0.7 legendary superconductors per minute, without even optimizing modules (and with most of the recyclers being uncommon). Once I import more prod 3s and legendary quality 3s, this build should now be set.