Factorio Space Age - Ep.21 Piecing Together Gleba Science

Taking a first look at the improvements to what is already the BEST GAME EVER!!! This Gleba stuff is complicated. And time-sensitive. And icky.

[@BoredBob]

You are correct sir. Valley Forge was one of six American Airlines Space Freighters carrying the last of Earth's various biomes. Starring Bruce Dern, which incidentally was filmed on the decommissioned aircraft carrier U.S.S. Valley Forge. I made a garbage loop belt that runs through everything and inserters clean out all the spoilage onto it and then it loops it back to the nutrient makers. Eventually you can make your own iron and copper bacteria and of course it takes nutrients to make. If you take a chest and put some eggs in it and let it time out you can see what happened to my pocket.... After that when I found the science to make eggs I said the exact same thing, why would I want to make them?????

[@JoMomma1973]

Nice!! That's actually the first science fiction movie I remember seeing, even before Star Wars. I was imagining some kind of sewage belt that would pull spoilage, so I can totally see that belt working. Now I just need to get the rest of the process sorted! lol I could also see spoilage being used to fuel the heat towers. Heat towers seem to be the "sink" for Gleba...

[@BoredBob]

@@JoMomma1973 Yes it seems to me that the towers are your void after you have too much spoilage to turn into nutrients but because that isn't always going to be the case I think as far as power goes they are more supplementary than primary. I placed a filtered splitter (spoilage priority X) on the end of all my belts as well as the inserters to take from out of my machines that way anything that goes bad waiting on the belt doesn't stop up the system flow. The nutrient machines won't use their own product to power them but I put them in pairs side by side with dual inserters so that they feed each other. It seems like you are going to have to have 2 belts (a garbage belt and a nutrient belt) or maybe a split belt running throughout the whole factory to make things run. Good practice for when you get to the ice planet I guess and have to run heat pipes to everything to prevent them from freezing.

[@BoredBob]

@@JoMomma1973 Oh and quick reminder. Once you actually get your nutrient production up and running well, bio chambers come with an automatic 50% production bonus so you'll get better than even seed production etc if you use them where you can in place of assemblers.

[@JoMomma1973]

@BoredBob ahh, awesome. Only just now did i get seed production going. Parity is tough but I think I'm doing it with biochambers. I'm using a ton of bots.