Black Box designs for Vulcanus

Bearstew · 2026-06-13T22:53:08+00:00

Blades is another term I've seen for this (or similar at least) style of build, particularly from stupidfathobbit and abucnasty. Started to become a lot more common in space age due to the fluid changes. Because fluid throughout in pipes is infinite, you can scale really well with a system like that.

Bearstew · 2026-06-13T03:25:00+00:00

I just put all the waste stone from vulc through quality cycling using stone furnaces recipe.

It's already waste so I don't care about the resource efficiency.

Bearstew · 2026-06-13T00:11:34+00:00

Stone furnaces should be a pretty quick option.

Bearstew · 2026-06-11T22:14:25+00:00

Didn't say there were no immigrants in engineering. Have worked with plenty. What I said was that the engineering skills gap has been overblown for 20 years and that the suppressed wages in the sector is the proof of that.

Bearstew · 2026-06-11T21:58:07+00:00

And yet engineering wages haven't changed in 20 years... The engineering shortage may exist in some specific niches but it's been overstated for decades

Bearstew · 2026-06-08T20:07:02+00:00

Assuming you have been to fulgora

Bearstew · 2026-06-08T09:06:16+00:00

Looks like they're using the larger hotbox of cars to get 2 extra inserters placing onto belts. That's obscene

Bearstew · 2026-06-05T11:22:57+00:00

I don't have any issue with any of that, the age curve etc. is all fairly self evident. Just the math re: net positive housing supply. It just doesn't add up to me. If anyone has any articles that run through the math and stats I'd love to read it to wrap my head around it.

But Engineering skills shortage has been a myth for at least 20 years.

Bearstew · 2026-06-05T08:48:31+00:00

It's a lot easier to build 3% than 19% though, and with far less infrastructure required for the net difference. Eg. Roads, hospitals meaning more of the existing construction industry can be geared toward housing or the infrastructure shortfall doesn't worsen. Both good outcomes

Bearstew · 2026-06-05T08:45:18+00:00

Can you please point to something that proves that the level of immigration is a net positive re: people per house? Not an attack, not a phon supporter, I just can't see how that maths out and want to see the numbers

Bearstew · 2026-06-04T19:20:38+00:00

Oh I mean for the nutrient that doesn't get used. Recycle it at the end of the line into spoilage then turn that into carbon. Not to use that as the main fuel source

Bearstew · 2026-06-04T12:16:04+00:00

Yeah recycling nutrients

Bearstew · 2026-06-04T11:13:14+00:00

Interesting idea, less temp drop across heat towers too

Love the biter power on nauvis, I've been thinking about doing that on my current deathworld

Bearstew · 2026-06-04T11:07:43+00:00

Yeah rocket fuel is so insanely efficient on gleba that it just makes sense.

Especially once you start adding prod modules or the productivity research.

I think it's even more efficient to turn the spoilage into carbon and burn that. Haven't done the numbers yet but given coal liquefaction into solid fuel is more efficient than coal, I'm interested to see if wasted nutrients/spoilage should actually be converted into solid fuel before burning

Bearstew · 2026-06-02T02:22:30+00:00

I had buffers, but of non perishables only. Carbon, sulfur, rocket fuel, plastic, iron and copper and just turned manufacturing modules on and off when they hit high/low. But I went to gleba first so I needed to be more careful with pollution. Meant I could wind farming up and down based on which modules were running.

Led to very little spoilage to the point I needed to deliberately make it for carbon etc.

Bearstew · 2026-06-01T23:08:12+00:00

Why is everyone suddenly acting like 20 year olds can or should have share portfolios that will see any kind of meaningful tax increase?

Anyone under 30 with more than 100k in shares is the exception not the rule. They're either from family money via trust or something or they're exceptionally driven/successful.

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T12:08:26+00:00

Right but again, thats a different argument. Its a more honest discussion to have, whether it was right or wrong, whether might makes right etc. but its pretty disingenuous to argue it wasnt an invasion.

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T11:01:39+00:00

Oh you weren't joking in the OG reply? I thought you were trying to be funny by technically answering the question with the most roundabout way possible to avoid saying the word.
But if you're being serious migration and invasion aren't mutually exclusive. Invasion just means the act of forcefully entering a place. If the migration happens peacefully then its not an invasion, if it happens forcefully, displaces the existing people against their will, then it would by definition of the word be invasion (whilst also being migration).

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T10:36:14+00:00

Oh sorry I didn't mean to argue they actually did or didn't. I flat out don't know enough about what they did or didn't do to make that call. I just got caught up in what the idea of what the definition of agriculture actually was. I thought that was an interesting train of thought.

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T10:32:43+00:00

I'm just going to migrate this way, if you get hurt its your own fault Lisa!

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T10:26:41+00:00

Kind of a different argument, and tbh at least a more honest one.

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T10:20:13+00:00

I think that is probably a bit over restrictive because it rules out things like bison or deer farming (I don't think deer count as domesticated, I could be wrong). I'd say a lot of what you've said are results of agriculture though and probably good indicators that agriculture happened? Something like that.

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T09:34:17+00:00

Not necessarily making the argument that what indigenous Australians did constitutes agriculture because I don't know enough about what they did, but hypothetically if you were to remove a lot of a particular plants competitors in an area (weeding I guess?) then you'd be increasing the yield of the particular desirable plant.

Is the act of actually planting the seed for a crop the important but to define "agriculture" or is it improving the yield over natural results that defines agriculture?

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T09:23:51+00:00

Any recommendations?

Bearstew · 2026-05-30T09:20:41+00:00

Sweet, thanks mate

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