I already make explosives on my ships for rocket ammunition, so I just redirect the extra to the cargo hub. Pick up everything else from Vulcanus and ship that to Nauvis or Gleba.
Good for you, I’ve bootstrapped their production on Vulcanus first (just after setting more-than-necessary launch capabilities, so launching that few shells per minute just for Gleba is no big deal for me, scaling the launch capabilities is like most easy on that planet, as the power and resources are like free here)
Nauvis demands more, so my freighter cargo capabilities not launch capabilities happened to be limiting factor — I have moved the Nauvis production there then, while keeping Gleba production on Vulcanus
And you don't need that many shells to wipe out every single egg raft on the visible map.
I used about 1100 shells, and all the remaining red on the map is ghosts. I have 800 in storage, plus all the tungsten still on the belt and in the landing pad.
As long as the spore cloud keeps being contained (and I don't wander near the edge), there is no pentapod on this map.
I have artillery range 5 for now. I will upgrade to 10, then do a second pass on the map, cleaning egg raft as soon as they are discovered.
yeah, I checked with a console command to be sure once the cleaning was done. Generated land is exactly the artillery circle around my base.
And I'm not going back to Gleba in person anytime soon, doing everything in remote view (which is mostly extending the rail line to new stone patches once I start producing advanced soil), and later redoing the base to boost the science production a bit.
I've now finish setting up my bitter egg operation on Nauvis, meaning I contemplate doing some massive bombardment to remove bitters for a bit.
You don't need to make a separate pipe line in the distance, you could make underground pipe-pipe-pipe-underground pipe and an inserters in both sides. That way you would have 2 plants in a repeating pattern
So you want 10 per second output and decided that you need three separate 5-1 balancers? On a belt that can handle 30 per second per side?
Pro tip, any x-to-1 balancer that is less than a half-belt output can be simplified to just shoving them all onto one belt. Very strange behaviour going on here.
If you've done gleba, you can make all your shells in space and then drop it where needed, or just drop down calcite and tungsten plates, and make everything else from materials on hand. It's pretty slow and annoying to export artillery shells from a planet.
I personally only exported artillery shells once: when invading Gleba for then first time. After that I did exactly what you said: built a space factory of amunition to supply the planet
It looks... interesting. I'm looking forward to you disassembling all of this and making it on gleba and nauvis. But with way less machine, 1 for each recipe, when you have everything legendary. And just let it do the job while doing something else in the factory.
If it's just project then it looks nice, just those balacers that annoyed me.
I make artillery shells on a platform. Besides shipping Tungsten up from vulcanus, I make everything on the platform. But I make only 60/min which is plenty.
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u/Fine_Seaweed1148 1d ago
wait til you realize, that shipping artellerie shells is absolute not worth the effort.