I Had To Make A Factory Inside My Factory!! | Foundry Ep 16

[@lainverse]

5:49 Someone forgot to check the numbers before building again. This is an overkill. :) Well, at least more is not less, and having smelters and crushers that never have any job to do is better than starving assemblers down the line. And it looks busy, I suppose. Like there's an actual large-scale production, even though you feed it 320 ore a minute in the best case. Personally, I made wafers on Telluxite side since you only ever need Telluxite for that (at least for now), and they are ridiculously compact unlike the ore. 640 to 5 a minute, so the cargo ship moving them around spends literal hours on the landing pad waiting to unload. 7:52 Reminder: You can build vertically. Process on one floor, send away from the next. :) Funny how bus approach kinda got forgotten and abandoned at some point. There's something resembling liquids bus, but solids production is in chaos now. XD To be fair, I end up making myself a spreadsheet at some point just to figure out how much of everything I need to support my science production. Spreadsheets are the endgame of all factory games. -_- And in case you want to compare the chaos, I can share my save on Discord after you finish this playthrough.

[@Krypt0nite]

Haha yeah I was going to keep track of numbers but slowly decided to use this olaythrough as learning and I’ll be more particular on my next playthrough 😉 Yep the bus system was going well until I realised I didn’t prepare for the scale early on and then decided I really didn’t want to spend hours moving everything so now I’ve gone for chaos …… lessons have been learned though Maybe once I’ve learned everything I might take your offer of sharing the spreadsheet and might do a rebuild through a livestream series 😁

[@lainverse]

@@Krypt0nite BTW, you have to research Pipeline and Blast Furnace ASAP. Not because you need them, but because devs fumbled tech progression. Fracking Tower requires Fracking Liquid and Fracking Liquid requires air as one of the components. And the Air Intake is bundled together with the Blast Furnace right now. -_- Hopefully they'll fix this in the next major release when they expand on tier 5 and release tier 6.

[@Krypt0nite]

Ahhh yes I remember hearing about this im in the process of getting them done in 👍

[@dmb198302]

Not sure if you are concerned with preparing for robots, but i maxed out a single line of robot production and it uses 64 CPUs/min plus however many science V you want to create.

[@Krypt0nite]

I’ll be honest I am a little concerned, I haven’t been planning for it but I realise it’s something I need too, some rearranging might be due 😅

[@lainverse]

29 science a minute is your limit if your only source of firmarlite is that single line of robots (as I recall, it's 32 robots per minute). And it should be, considering drones production is much more resource heavy than robots. Robots mostly consists out of firmarlite itself, so you gain 40 from every robot produced (-160) and sold (+200). To get the same 40 firmarlite bars by selling drones, you'll need 2-4 times (different per resource, but all numbers are higher) more basic ores and olumite... and the latter is _very_ finite even with high levels of pumpjack upgrades.