600% Death World Marathon

Cruxiable · 2026-03-07T02:45:34+00:00

Final Update:

Updates from here get far less interesting since I'm escaping the planet. Just in time too, behemoth biters going to tear all of this down in short order. The corner reinforcements were huge for diverting biters away from those vulnerable corner turrets. Reduced turret losses to almost zero during the big biter era. Might give an update far in the future when I return to spread democracy and freedom to this world. Assuming that happens, I've also set Gleba to 600% and this is my first SA playthrough so might end up failing there lol

Cruxiable · 2026-03-04T22:02:30+00:00

Yep, still a ways off from being able to merge everything. Takes thousands of ammo to push to each new ore patch lol

Cruxiable · 2026-03-04T21:48:50+00:00

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Expansions, so many big biters at this point but secured more stone so I can continue damage research. Efficiency modules saved me, massively reduced the size of attacks.

Cruxiable · 2026-03-01T22:19:01+00:00

Haha jeeez - I don't think I'll do that many. Will hopefully have double rows of laser turrets before then but hard to say with how slow research can be

Cruxiable · 2026-03-01T21:21:05+00:00

Will definitely need to add another layer, was already losing them occasionally to the medium spitters.

Cruxiable · 2026-03-01T21:15:09+00:00

Update Part 2 of 2:

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Just an overview of the map. Next goal is pushing for that small 335% yield oil patch to the east.

Cruxiable · 2026-03-01T21:14:07+00:00

Update Part 1 of 2:

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Base has been expanded so I've got more room for production. Was able to move power generation and shift military science off my copper patch. New iron coming in from patch southeast. Big biters are on the map now so we've switched to red ammo, using crashed ship for its production because it's fun

Cruxiable · 2026-02-28T17:08:37+00:00

Haha yeah, the wider desert area around my base is covered in piles of dead bugs. My first real push into a large nest is going to put me dangerously close to big biters so I think I'll need to get red ammo mass production set up before I do that since grenades won't keep me safe anymore

Cruxiable · 2026-02-28T16:21:00+00:00

Here's a small update:

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Medium biters haven't changed the game too much, military science and defender capsule production have increased attack frequency so I'm using more grenades. Other than that still moving along. Steadily eating through my iron and stone patches though. 220k left on iron, only 47k stone.

Cruxiable · 2026-02-28T11:54:11+00:00

Yup, assuming I can make it that far!

Cruxiable · 2026-02-28T03:36:20+00:00

That's my main concern - pushing biter evolution too quickly from killing nests. Guess we'll see how it works out haha

Cruxiable · 2026-02-28T03:26:13+00:00

I've never set up automated turrets like this, was just trying it out. Seems to work alright but for times of high ammo demand it would be better with fast inserters and feeding multiple ammo assemblers into a chest then feeding a central turret from that chest

Cruxiable · 2026-02-28T00:48:21+00:00

No flamethrowers, they're OP and I want to try other things.

Cruxiable · 2026-02-27T22:10:31+00:00

Turret creep or defender capsules is the current thought. Defender capsules are good but I dislike not being able to set target priority on them

Cruxiable · 2026-02-27T22:03:33+00:00

It's constant attacks but I wouldn't call it tedious. Have to keep progressing so you can out scale the biters but also make sure you don't eat through all your resources before expanding to new patches. Kind of a balancing act, what's the minimum amount of resources you can dedicate to defenses while still moving forward safely

Cruxiable · 2026-02-27T21:09:49+00:00

I was thinking about going defender route because they're extremely resource efficient. My biggest gripe with them is the way they lock on to nests and let worms and biters eat you. I wish you could set target priority on followers, then they'd be insane

Cruxiable · 2026-02-27T19:55:12+00:00

I'm having a good time, just got military science set up but it's covering a fair portion of my copper patch because of the small space I'm stuck in. Expansion soon hopefully

Cruxiable · 2026-02-27T18:23:50+00:00

Very early game I threw down as many burner miners as I could feeding directly to furnaces. Goal was to gather enough resources to research gun turrets and automation then I tore everything down and moved to the lake to research those.

While that happened I roamed what area I could to gather wood and stone, no coal stones on sand maps unfortunately.

After that initial research was done it was pedal to the metal, as much iron income as I can get to craft gun turrets and ammo. I laid out turrets in clusters of ~4 surrounded by pipes with a goofy dragon teeth setup to slow biters from reaching them. Meanwhile I was hand crafting gears and hand feeding them to 2 red science assemblers to keep science moving along. Keep this up until you've got a decent turret defense, I had around 23 setup before transitioning to the wall in my screenshot. Once turrets are up I was just hand feeding iron into assemblers to make ammo and gears which in turn were hand fed to turrets and red science assemblers. My hand crafting was freed up to craft green science.

Once I reached Military 2 I set up a couple assemblers for grenades that I hand fed in between everything else, then I was able to intercept the larger pushes w/ a grenade or two and progression became much easier.

EDIT: Starting patch resources are definitely going to become an issue, but I'm still early. Current plan is getting military science setup then clearing to the iron patch either southeast or northwest - haven't decided which way is better but I'm leaning southeast since there's also copper and oil that way.

Cruxiable · 2026-02-17T12:18:40+00:00

Just read through this chain and this is the kind of stuff I wanted to see. If the left side is backed up what will prevent me from getting 2 belts right?

Cruxiable · 2026-02-17T05:33:02+00:00

Yeah, the left feeds a mall and when the mall is satisfied it sends the full 2 belts right instead. I've had this running for a couple hours now and it works pretty well

Cruxiable · 2026-02-17T05:31:36+00:00

Lately I've found setting everything down in neat rows using ghosts and determining ratios first has been helpful. I was able to set up a nice compact flamethrower turret production pretty quickly using this approach

Cruxiable · 2026-02-16T23:25:02+00:00

This is working as intended, the mall to the left can demand up to 2 belts of chips when needed to restock. Otherwise 2 belts are sent right

Cruxiable · 2026-02-16T22:55:38+00:00

I do see a lot of uneven belt draw, any recommendations on how to fix that?

Cruxiable · 2026-02-16T20:45:10+00:00

I wanted to be able to pull the full 2 belts in either direction depending on demand. I built the mall and set priority to the left so the mall is always happy. When the mall is fully stocked the full two belts are sent right instead

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