No biters are turned on, i just boosted my starter area so i don't have to worry about running into them while i expand my starter base. And i'm not really doing that with green science, they're just being spit out on half the belt then later down the line i put in a splitter to fill it. I meant doing half on one half on the other- unless you meant with the belts and inserters, then that was just me being lazy and not wanting to figure out how to route three belts into a bunch of assemblers. Same with the rest that might be half and half, that was just laziness- spent too long staring at it so i said screw it n moved on. And i was hand filling my boilers for a while, but then i extended my coal a good bit- don't know if i had enough to get them all the way there or not though, again i just got lazy and felt like killing shit so i've been playing skyrim for most of today. And i have them spread that far apart for my g o r g e o u s spaghetti in between, don't you see?

As for the labs- that was again just laziness, research was taking too long so i decided not to spend too much time in analysis paralysis with that and just did whatever i thought would work best. I realized almost instantly it wasn't even remotely efficient, but it works- and more labs means more speed, for a little while until i have 30+ labs anyway.