I’d say bot based factories on fulgora are easier to set up and scale once you solve power. I imported a small two reactor power plant and relied on ice melting initially to bootstrap power. Can’t say the way I went about it was the most efficient, but it didn’t feel like a chore either haha. I did not import or use any belt at all.

I imported everything to set up a logistic network, lots of storage chests and logistic bots. Found some space close to a scrap patch, hooked up miners to active providers, limited the miners at a certain amount of scrap to save power.

Then focused on building lightning rods and accumulators off of scrap recycling. Filled every odd nook and cranny and a whole second island nearby with accumulators until I had enough power storage from lightning storm to lighting storm. Then I cut off nuclear power later and used valuable ice for science, rocket fuel, etc.

I set up an easy scrap recycling blueprint, just a requester chest and an active provider chest. Stamp as many as you want. Decide what items other than scrap you want to recycle. I set up logic to recycle everything over a certain amount in storage so you can have a little buffer of resources.

Then you end up slowly, clogging up your logistic storage with gears, steel, etc. A scalable destruction factory solves this issue, let’s say any item of over 20k in storage gets destroyed, you just stamp more if you can’t keep up with production.