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[thisguy3086]

there, i beat factorio

i won, there's nothing else to do even

genuinely i have to start another run to get other achievements

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How many Factorio engineers would need to live a cycle of constant and instantaneous death to hypothetically supply the factory with iron?

When you respawn, you are given a pistol, and 10 yellow magazines. Unfortunately for these engineers, their pistols will do them no good, nor will they help us. It's the magazines we want.

1 magazine is recycled into 1 iron plate.

Engineers take 10 seconds to respawn, and, again, spawn with 10 magazines.

For this scenario, we're going to assume that the engineers are deathly allergic to grass (just like their players), and die upon contact with Nauvis, and are immediately stripped of their items, tossing the pistols into the trash, and their magazines into recyclers, giving us a rate of 1 engineer death every 10 seconds, which should equal 1 mag per second which equals 1 plate per second.

Assuming that a normal base needs 4 full red belts of iron, and we have the convenient ratio of 1 engineer = 1 plate per second. 4 Red belts = 240 items per second, meaning you would need at least 240 constantly dying engineers to supply your base with iron.

Not including the steel.

[thisguy3086]

Remember to hydrate fellas.

[thisguy3086]

Hey that's not how the song goes

On the stairway to heaven, there is a message. "TURN BACK NOW. IT IS BETTER DOWN THERE."

[thisguy3086]

After an unreasonable amount of procrastinating, Vulcanus is done! Definitely the easiest of the planets. I'm mostly surprised with how little I had to make in order to get both the science and the rockets, as well as automated foundries and big mining drills. Because Vulcanus has infinite molten metal, I am completely confident in the small base I made on it. Now to fix the wriggler infested Gleba base, and the scrapless Fulgora base. Fulgora will be fast, so I'll fix it first.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but to handcraft all 20 million green circuits, even assuming you already had all of the copper wire and iron plates beforehand, it would take you over 2,777 hours.

20,000,000 circuits / 0.5 second handcraft time = 10,000,000 seconds

10,000,000 sec / 60 sec = 166,666 2/3 minutes

166,666 2/3 min / 60 min = 2,777 7/9 hours

apparently they added new achievements with space age, which means for a brief window my achievement page is implying i have crafted twenty million green chips without ever building an assembling machine

[thisguy3086]

apparently they added new achievements with space age, which means for a brief window my achievement page is implying i have crafted twenty million green chips without ever building an assembling machine

[thisguy3086]

Unfortunate update: Gleba is dead. It ran out of power, causing the laser turrets I was using to contain the egg production to very quickly combust into pentapods, and they ate everything. Gleba is gonna need a fix soon. Or not. I don't need Gleba researches right now

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Might as well turn this into a planet review.

Gleba was not the worst. I came in with my trusty rocket launcher and hundreds of rockets, killed anything I saw, and did the science (killing everything did make it a bit annoying to go get pentapod eggs). For now I'm shipping in rocket materials. I'll make a real base later... Probably... But I got the important researches already; Biolabs, Rocket Turrets, Spidertrons, max level belt stacking, and some extra explosive damage.

I also went to Fulgora. I really love the idea of Fulgora and it's extinct civilization, but that's a topic for a different time. Electromagnetic plants are handy as hell on Nauvis, and the recyclers make quality gambling much less painful. I have a little bit of science, but the Fulgora base is not great, constantly jams, and has only one belt of scrap input that is rapidly dwindling. I will definitely need to come back sooner than later.

Now only one of the starting trio remains. Ironically the one that most people would go to first, Vulcanus. Will update when done with it.

[thisguy3086]

the uninstall button

reblog with your favorite rust feature

[thisguy3086]

and nuclear trains. And little flying robots. And death spider robots.

They should replace the United States' expansive car centered highway and road systems with conveyer belts and inserters.

[thisguy3086]

They should replace the United States' expansive car centered highway and road systems with conveyer belts and inserters.

[thisguy3086]

Gleba was not that bad. It's easy if you kill absolutely everything immediately within a 5 mile radius. Spoilage is kinda annoying tho

[thisguy3086]

I love games like Barotrauma because you always get absurd stories from them. Like, what other game are you going to be able to get put on trial for finding a password to an armory just for the sake of finding the password and watching your buddy get beaten to near death for also trying to find the password meanwhile your dumbass manages to smooth talk your way out of actually severe consequences?

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If only Uzi had an angry motorcycle sword, too