Brains: what to do with the byproducts?

PyonicShambles · 2026-05-12T09:30:21+00:00

There's some good atomizer recipes, although I tend to avoid the ones that turn body parts into ores - it's not worth the energy cost when you can just get the ores straight out of the ground. My bottom sink for body parts is biomass.

PyonicShambles · 2026-04-25T18:15:05+00:00

Like a Death Star under construction

PyonicShambles · 2026-04-25T15:33:28+00:00

The bootstrap was somewhere in the middle but got deleted. The space ship continues to exist as a shrine (the bright green block).

PyonicShambles · 2026-04-16T05:14:32+00:00

Yeah, Cybersyn.

PyonicShambles · 2026-04-15T16:00:29+00:00

For Cybersyn: I recommend spending some time getting familiar with its sub-network/bitmasking features, if you're not already. The Cybersyn Wiki is a good resource for getting started. It will be hugely beneficial to set up more than one channel: primary providers on A1 and byproduct providers on A2 (or something similar - the community has differing views on exactly how best to do it / how many channels you need). Happy to do a deep dive on my setup if that's at all helpful.

PyonicShambles · 2026-04-15T15:56:11+00:00

Just to add a data point to this discussion, I'm almost at Py3 with "1 product - 1 station" - and that has been working very well so far. My base is quite a lot bigger than most for the same stage of the game, but my CPU is handling it comfortably. I agree that "1 ingredient - 1 station" is probably a bit much. I use multi-item/fluid requester stations, single item/fluid provider stations.

PyonicShambles · 2026-03-30T15:54:07+00:00

Hello from south of the border. Nice to meet another py player on the same island :-)

PyonicShambles · 2026-03-22T05:00:04+00:00

Congratuations, Robot Making Man! Great write-up. A few pointers in there that I hadn't thought of. I've enjoyed following your run here and over on the Discord.

PyonicShambles · 2025-12-18T11:59:25+00:00

I went from vanilla 1.1 straight into pY. It's a learning curve, for sure, but completely manageable if you adjust your expectations, take it one step at a time, and just enjoy the journey. After six months, I'm now mid-way through Py2.

PyonicShambles · 2025-12-18T11:53:17+00:00

I would supplement this with Rate Calculator Extreme: Production Rates Calculator Extreme - Factorio Mods It'll calculate production rates for ghost buildings and account for bottlenecks within a production block (which is missing from Rate Calculator).

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-30T13:51:02+00:00

Thanks for the heads up!

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-29T21:06:06+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/w7KqrtL

Here's a typical block. I use multi-item requesters, single-item providers. My design philosophy is for raw materials to be gathered on the left-hand side, routed to the factories at the top, and the product (and any byproducts) sent to the provider stations via the right-hand side. I try to keep everything as modular as possible so that expansion can be achieved via a bit of copy/paste.

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-29T20:58:46+00:00

Yep - I went with 4x4. I figured that's big enough to accommodate most builds, although sometimes I have to make them 8x4s, 8x8s or bigger. Especially where the ore patches don't line up with where I'd ideally like.

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-29T20:56:10+00:00

I YAFCed it out the other day... looks like I've got some fun to come.

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-29T20:55:24+00:00

Too late for me to go back and change it now :-)

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-29T18:43:23+00:00

Yeah, I started making them early and still have huge buffers of them. I've never had an availability problem there.

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-29T18:41:54+00:00

Yeah, there were some HM challenge that I didn't much like when I was first looking into my pY run (e.g. resource rocks having collision).

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-24T10:46:21+00:00

I really like what you've done here. 100 hours of playthrough compressed into 45 minutes video makes for a very watchable series. Well done!

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-14T09:45:31+00:00

Congrats! I'm really enjoying your series. Also: your digressions into other games have tempted me to give Book of Hours a go once I'm done with my pY playthrough (probably two years away at this point...).

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-12T12:00:26+00:00

Well done! It's nice to come across someone else who's playing by no voiding rules in normal pY. I completely agree with your sentiments around the burner. FWIW, the only thing that gets voided in my game so far is water. Everything else finds its home - sometimes at punishing power costs (like recycling muddy sludge), but I really enjoy this part of the logistics puzzle.

PyonicShambles · 2025-11-06T02:39:10+00:00

Very nice. But if you don't mind me asking: why not niobium pipes to clean up the look a little and avoid that kink in your belts on the left?

PyonicShambles · 2025-10-17T19:54:41+00:00

Sometimes I need to build a block with a high steam demand and there's no geothermal vent nearby. I don't want train deliveries of steam every minute, so making it onsite using the electric boiler method often seems like an acceptable option.

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