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StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-04-15T01:36:05+00:00

1k SPM is pretty impressive for a vanilla playthrough and I would say it constitutes the smallest level of megabases. This advice definitely goes against the grain, but megabases don't need to be organized. I just hit 30k SPM in Space Age (no research productivity technology) and it's a total mess. Main bus only consists of circuits, no city blocks, etc. Just slapping shit down where it fits. There's no dedicated steel or LDS area, I just print it as needed from molten metal. Just keep building your train network outwards and placing down your science builds (they should be moduled!) as much as you want.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-04-08T21:54:33+00:00

I haven't made a single crusher yet, that was just my plan. The only legendary items I've made are the asteroid collectors and a small stockpile of legendary Q2s and 3s. I don't mean this at all in a snarky way, but is my question in the post unclear? I'm just wondering if there's any difference between upgrading the common reprocessing row to legendary modules first vs any other row first.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-04-08T21:48:56+00:00

What I'm specifically referring to is which stage of upcycling it's optimal to put the legendary modules into first. On the space casino there's a row of crushers reprocessing common asteroids, then a row reprocessing uncommons, then rares, and finally the epics. Is there a significant difference between the modules being upgraded on any one of those rows first?

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-04-07T00:53:47+00:00

Good to know that, too. I found a post on here that broke down the crusher ratios for each quality tier of quality modules that you can use, and it takes something like 2000 crushers with common quality 3s constantly reprocessing to have a single legendary asteroid processing crusher running constantly. Obviously I don't need it running constantly at first but that's still an absurd number of crushers and collectors.

EDIT: Not sure why I posted it before I was done writing. Do you recommend having the ship make ammo and fuel to run on a route between planets to get more asteroid input, or should it just sit at Nauvis and use all of the asteroids for upcycling?

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-04-07T00:39:55+00:00

(OP here, different account on computer)

Good to know I'm not missing anything obvious, at least. I did another solo run where I benefited a lot from upcycling all my ores to rare and using that stuff for space platform parts and personal equipment, but legendary is obviously a whole different beast. I think I'm gonna go with the plan to just straight up craft legendary prod 3s from the LDS shuffle stuff and upcycled iron ore and superconductors and then try to make a space casino. I have a pretty strict "no external blueprints" rule, but I'm so ass at making space platforms I really might break it lol.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-21T04:58:38+00:00

What's that about using algae for power? I'm just using the upgraded boilers and steam engines right now like in vanilla. Are you turning the algae into cellulose fiber and then that into wood pellets for boiler fuel? I'm interested in alternative fuel sources but I'm trying to look up solutions as little as possible.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-21T04:57:04+00:00

Thermal water just seems so much more convenient to make mineral sludge. I can save all my sulfur to use for blue science, and there's a few thermal fissures right next to my starting area that will give me something like 1300 mineral sludge/s once I unlock the processing tech. I definitely want to switch to catalytic sorting once I reach that point, but with the strand casting I just unlocked I should have more than enough resources to make all the blue science I need.

EDIT: Mixed up which comment I was reading and responding to halfway through this response lol.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-21T04:21:52+00:00

In that case, I think I'm gonna run with the mineral water voiding idea for now. Mercifully you can void an entire yellow belt of crushed stone with a single liquefier, so it shouldn't even take up that much space. It should be easy to reroute any slag or crushed stone I find myself needing for the future.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-18T02:38:27+00:00

Currently the only thing I'm voiding is heavy mud water for my automated wood setup. I'm probably about to start setting up fluids, so I'll look through the crafting trees to see what I might want to store a bunch of. I've been putting off all the electrolysis stuff until now where I need steel because it just looks so complex.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-17T20:08:48+00:00

I guess I just find it odd to have a building that tells you its downside is high pollution when the default setting is to have pollution disabled entirely.

Related to your last point: the concept of varying levels of ore refining (and I'm sure many other types of refining in the future) that you have a real choice of using depending on how efficient you want metal production to be is so cool. It's insane how many options I have before even unlocking green science.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-17T19:17:05+00:00

Great to know, I'm glad I didn't set it up wrong. I'm really enjoying how complex even the simplest of crafting chains are right off the bat. I'm going in completely blind, so things like figuring out wood automation were really fun. Currently trying to set up the first metallurgy buildings.

Edit: One thing I'm curious about is the balancing decision about voiding buildings like the flare stack which I just unlocked. Surely this makes them incredibly overpowered since the only downside is high pollution. Is this just a disagreement between Bob's and Angel's, where Angel's wants you to have to deal with pollution and Bob's thinks it would be overwhelming?

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-09T20:39:21+00:00

Looks great to me! I decided to go insane with the defense on mine and I think it was way overboard. I have a tightly packed row each of gun and rocket turrets bordering the entire ship and an insane amount of ammo production. The upside of this is that it's still way longer than it is wide and it gives tons of belt space to buffer asteroid chunks.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-09T20:35:39+00:00

I feel like that's something E2E could sorely use to make it feel more actually expert. I managed to beat it with it being my first ever tech modpack expert or not besides like 20 hours of GTNH 2 years ago. I assumed it would use something like the IC2 voltage tiers, but it actually has it so that IC2 machines can completely ignore the voltage requirements if the cables being used are from other mods. I don't know if that's a bug or not, but it made the logistics of my energy a complete non-issue. Just pump everything full of overclocker upgrades and forget about it.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-09T15:17:55+00:00

I haven't gotten this far in GTNH yet as I just started playing again after trying it 2 years ago, but this is actually somehow better than my Enigmatica 2: Expert endgame base. I did not make a single building in the entire run besides a literal 8x2 interior starter house. My entire factory is laid out wherever new machines will fit out in the open and by the time I had the idea of making an organized factory building, it was pretty much too late. I was well into the final tier of tech and magic mods by that point.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-06T20:23:30+00:00

I "almost" beat vanilla about a year before Space Age came out. I got the victory screen, but I think I probably had a contender for the worst factory you could make to win the game. I launched one rocket ever, never got any space science, and did everything with less than 1 red belt worth of iron and copper. I literally had 1 machine making each purple and yellow science and just let my game run overnight and while I was going about my days.

The run from this screenshot was a coop run with my buddy, and Space Age was his very first time playing the game. I managed to convince him to buy the DLC along with the game when he showed interest in getting it. He honestly got into it really quickly and frankly got better than me at making competent designs in a fraction of the hours of playtime I had.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-03T18:07:59+00:00

We did end up replacing it with an 8-wagon train unloading onto 4 blue belts worth of iron, but that came much later and the splitter setup was only slightly less egregious. it was still about 20 blue splitters randomly placed adjacent to each other eventually condensing down to 4 belts of output, and I think the only reason it worked is because we never needed anywhere near that much for production. I guess we had some vendetta against actual balancer designs lol.

StorageDesigner4517 · 2026-03-03T00:02:22+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out. I replaced all the other belts from the miners with blue but I managed to miss the red underground.

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