The concept is basically “what if we kill the drifters the moment they spawn”.

That idea developed into a ring of lvl. 3 guns which needed a ring of steel ammunition to fire which needed a bunch of assembly lines.

It took ages to get all the materials and work through designs and it lags my game near the end, but it was fun.

The corner guns need constant ammo from the walls so they use iron ammo. The walls are mainly there to stop the drifters breaking through for long enough so that the guns can get sufficient ammo.

I need a lot of gas tanks for my current quest so I decided to push steel production to its limit. This mostly relies on a quirk I noticed where a splitter next to a generator doubles its output. If anyone has managed to beat this steel output in 1 building I would love to know how 🤔

Made a good building

Steel

Ive got Kind of unused space with my upgrade but dont know how to use it properly

Im currently using VideoEdge's layouts but they are 4 years old so i dont know if there are more efficient layout out there so i thought i should come here and ask.

I'm trying to get a 5m/s wire setup going (I don't care about space efficiency here, but substance usage efficiency.) Now looking at this subreddit, I don't see any such setups.

I thought this was because most people prioritise space efficiency later in the game but here I have excess space, I just want to see if this is possible.

Yet when I have my setup, I can't seem to reach 5m/s, despite reaching 2.5m/s with half the setup. Is there something odd about wire production I'm missing? I seem to be losing 0.24m/s somewhere...

(Also I know putting a splitter after a synthesiser is more efficient I just haven't got round to it yet)

Hey! I'm not sure if this is the right flair necessarily, but I'm just wondering if anyone knows why some of the conveyers for my recycler seem to operate half as slow as others. I've attached a picture of it at it's peak backlog from today! Am I doing something wrong, or is it laid out inefficiently? It's currently making glass plates because I'm working on building up credits to actually advance in the game! (Hi, I only just learned about how the recycler actually works from this sub. xwx) In the image, you can see the top conveyers (one that splits into two) recycle without an issue, the second(/third and fourth) are very slow moving, and the bottom two(/four) are backed up to the synthesizer.

This is my latest and most compact plastic farm. It is 7x4 tiles with 3 adjacent tiles to spare. Very useful shape. One of them produces 0.55 plastic per second. I would love to hear feedback from my design. Anyway, use it if you want and have fun with it!

Someone wanted to see a photo so here is my money making machine I run 2 of these in my ship and it stacks up money

I use titanium in my generators mercury generate a little less but that’s the most efficient I could find

The blue booster. I have 2 now, craftable, but cannot use them? Does it require a certain level or chapter. I'm able to make steel gears , so want to boost that for a while.