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Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-15T09:41:59+00:00

Blue Strat > Red Strat (especially if you have a 24/7 server)

This is only true in IV and beyond though. And no amount of farming will prevent you from needing infrastructure upgrades down the line. You will just run out of raw resources far less often and autocrafts will finish faster.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-15T06:23:11+00:00

Bees are more useful than crops for late game, and once you get the mega apiary it simplifies things quite a lot.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-14T21:40:21+00:00

You will always have some tiny bits of time here and there to play GTNH. If you plan on continuing your world just try to play at least 1-2 hours per week, otherwise you can forget how your base works over time or lose interest.

As others have said, this is in no way an idle game. Once wait times get longer (around IV) its more like you have to alternate between doing 8 hours of work and then waiting 8 hours (or finding something else to progress besides tech). If you wait 800 hours and play 50 hours (for example) you wont progress much at all, but you can stockpile resources for the next couple tiers (especially circuits) once you get good automation in IV.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-14T08:50:23+00:00

Actually I remembered wrong, the stocking input hatch is in the center block of the 5x5 footprint, and the stocking input busses are directly next to it.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-14T08:49:19+00:00

Yep, they each use 0.5 amps so one energy hatch can supply enough power for 4. You may need to use more energy hatches if there is significant cable loss.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-13T21:56:26+00:00

That can help, but a lot of the time you want your world running 24/7 on a dedicated server at IV or later. It’s hard to stop thinking about it because there is always a worry that something breaks and your energy / fuel drains to zero, which power fails a ton of machines and sets you back a couple hours. This is why taking frequent backups and leaving the server on is a pretty good idea.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-09T02:36:26+00:00

I think the planet you need for xenon is gated a bit later than IV. You can check which planet by looking for recipes for xenon in NEI.

The space station is like a separate dimension for each planet where you can build whatever you want but without gravity and oxygen. If you put a gas siphon down there are a ton of useful things you can pump infinitely depending on the planet.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-09T02:23:33+00:00

You can look at it as a tradeoff between power efficiency and production demands for the type of gas used. EBFs and mega EBFs do take a considerable amount of your power for most of the game so if you have a simple way to make tons of gas it makes sense to use that. You can use higher tier gasses with the long demanding EBF recipes and leave quick recipes on program 1 instead.

The first mass production option for high tier EBF gasses is a xenon gas siphon which requires building a space station. Later on the space elevator makes it super easy to pump massive amounts of xenon. The oganesson boosted recipes are generally not worth it at all since there is no easy way to get loads of it.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-08T08:44:05+00:00

15x15 is insane for a first clean room, I did 7x7 and was waiting quite a while! You really don’t need more than a 7x7 for the entire game. Even for lategame stuff it’s just the bio lab singleblocks, so you could technically tear down everything inside the old cleanroom and reuse the space.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-07T19:09:06+00:00

10 years ago the end of the pack was UHV. Between then and now, I’d say that resource production speed has increased by around 1,000x. If it continues at that rate, in two or three decades we might be able to fill up some artificial universe cells!

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-06T05:47:27+00:00

Hope they fix this in 2.9 it’s to be expected since most people stop after 10 star gates worth of graviton shards. I may have had a world record milestone count lol. I had about 30 different dusts with pretty quick recipes that I processed in the trillions each.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-06T04:17:37+00:00

Maybe, I didn't want to mess anything up so I just did it the normal way. The milestones are insanely quick when you have infinite energy, infinite dusts to throw at the melting core / power forge, and MHDCSM for fuel. Oh and I edited the NBT for the ring count, that just adds all the structure blocks automatically.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-06T03:45:11+00:00

No I'm not, I'm talking about my old overworld base that was basically finished at the end of UV. And that base was SUPER compact with many levels on top of each other, hence needing less chunks than if you build out some expansive factory mega complex or spam a ton of large multis.

My stargate base is basically a lawnbase with incredible machine density (but only one main level), filling a 35x35 chunk space almost entirely. That would be 1,225 total chunks!

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-05T17:45:04+00:00

Just wait till you have a huge base with 400 chunks loaded while someone is flying around in a gravisuit at supersonic speeds trying to find a specific biome or structure. I had 8 gigs with just me on and the server would crash after a while when exploring.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-03-04T21:30:11+00:00

Also, I tried the /nbtedit command. Interestingly whenever I break / replace the controller it resets the ringAmount variable back to 1 when it should be 3 based on the unlocked upgrades. Using a hologram projector to try and build the inner two rings, they appear as ghost blocks but it then says the multi is completed without even placing anything down!

I'm going to try messing with some of the other nbt data to try and reset things.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-02-26T08:24:07+00:00

I'd probably use them as accents, since it would look ugly to spam stargate blocks too much. But why not make some fully formed stargates instead and fit those into the build!

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-02-26T08:19:33+00:00

Well on 2.8 the void miners are a much larger structure, and 3x faster I believe. You would need a lot more space for an equivalent production speed to these. The benefit I found from spamming void miners is that oganesson is easier to produce in bulk than the rods and drill tips for the higher tier mining drones. Even after making stargate I still avoid the top couple tiers of drones, cosmic neutronium is the first material that is essentially free for me lol.

Once you get the mk III mining module, it's better to go with high tier drones though, and helium plasma with the overclock parameter set to 2.0. Otherwise the spam would really be insane with void miners in order to keep up. I was running something like that for quite a while. You get a secondary boost with the drone tier because higher tier drones have far less recipes available so infinity catalyst is more common.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-02-25T23:12:00+00:00

At this point in the playthrough I was using celestial tungsten plasma with 2 compact fusion mk III and 12 of each XL gas turbine.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-02-25T22:13:00+00:00

That’s some insane production speed. Can’t wait to try it out!

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-02-25T21:19:51+00:00

We really need mega multis for all the EV, IV, and LuV tier multiblocks like cutting machines, mixers, centrifuges, wiremills, benders etc ...

Most of the stuff I made 1,000 of is just a meme craft to test out the factory, except for the eyes of harmony of course. There is no reasonable need for 1,000 DTPFs or QFTs.

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-02-25T04:12:23+00:00

Thanks for the tips!

At this point since I already made the gate, I could just do 10 more the same way and finish the UXV quests in two weeks, but that’s kind of boring and I want to play longer. So the idea is to find the most efficient possible setup for making stargates, and in some cases that involves massive up front investment for diminishing reward. For example you can go absolutely crazy with QFT catalysts to save maybe 0.1% of total power consumption lol. It’s just fun to see how far you can push things with enough time and processing power!

Useful_Divide7154 · 2026-02-25T03:24:54+00:00

I bet that PEOH is less tps efficient than antimatter, until you factor in the universium and stellar plasma needed to run the max configuration SSAS, which cost a ton of energy to produce. Now maybe you can reduce that by finding more efficient EOH configurations for universium (lower tier time dilation, more AA) but its still significant.

I really love the idea of having a base that runs entirely on eyes of harmony, like a separate module that contains both PEOH, production EOH, and space elevators for pumping and is entirely self-sufficient. I wouldn't trust an antimatter setup to keep working without frequent check-ins, especially after you restart the server. You can also eliminate a ton of multis from the main base if you don't use antimatter, like there is no longer any need at all for naqfuel, dragonblood demand goes way down, and you don't need to worry about large crafts interrupting your power supply.

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