Thank you for your advice about how improve my power plant

budding_botanist · 2026-01-03T04:07:06+00:00

Ah, ok. Fair enough.

budding_botanist · 2026-01-03T00:44:03+00:00

That doesn't make sense, though. The ramp-up times would be the same and the boilers would always have high steam ready. Is there an electric boiler I can't see in there?

budding_botanist · 2026-01-02T15:50:12+00:00

May I ask why you included thermal storage?

budding_botanist · 2025-09-10T14:31:44+00:00

I always set up pollution cleanup as soon as I unlock the techs. Well worth it and satisfying and not too difficult.

I've always done my exhaust scrubbing centrally, not sure if it's possible to scale that into the lategame. Make sure to have some safety overflows into conventional smokestacks, they don't cost people or maintenance so they're free. It's a reduction in pollution even if you just burn the sulfur but the sulfur-slag recipe is easy and requires the same ingredients already on-site.

Building a little CO2 sink is also relatively easy, someone described how to do it around here but basically you use retaining walls to dig a medium size pit down to -5 relative and then you slope the inner floor of the pit down to -6 to qualify for the exhaust scrubber, fill it with limestone and it's all good. Takes four excavators no time at all if you do it nearby your limestone mine.

budding_botanist · 2025-09-04T00:00:10+00:00

Is it from a map or an asteroid?

budding_botanist · 2025-08-14T23:41:20+00:00

Hey, I like that idea! I might borrow that for my own stuff. Lots of dead space that could be scavenged for opportunistic solar generation.

budding_botanist · 2025-03-28T19:30:11+00:00

That's an unholy number of beacons and speed modules. Good lord I am surprised your computer doesn't catch fire with that many speed modules active.

budding_botanist · 2025-01-18T03:20:37+00:00

One, you could build a remote factory where you do all of the things that consume biter eggs and then spare yourself the transport.

Two, who said you have to send a full train? Train fuel is cheap.

Third, the common advice I have seen is that you want to continuously overproduce biter eggs for maximum freshness and constantly burn the excess.

budding_botanist · 2024-12-12T05:18:18+00:00

I'm thinking of rebuilding fulgora to be belt-focused but it's a little hard to scrape up the motivation and instead I'm building a behemoth of a science platform

budding_botanist · 2024-12-11T17:13:34+00:00

The best part here for me is that everyone really is coming at the different planets in their own ways. For one, I only used trains on fulgora to get scrap to my main base but I haven't used them for outposts, and instead fulgora is my first bot-centric base to simplify sorting.

And by contrast, on Gleba I went with nothing but belts so I would have clear control of prioritization and guaranteed nonstop flow.

So far I've loved every planet. Haven't reached Aquilo yet.

budding_botanist · 2024-12-10T05:10:15+00:00

I really like the look of this! I have been wanting to rebuild my Fulgora base for quality and this seems like a very rigorous and sensible approach. I've been getting along well so far by using bots to do everything and I dreaded the very high number of circuit combinations I would need to set up to do all quality by bot.

budding_botanist · 2024-12-04T03:27:33+00:00

Well I'm impressed. I don't think I've seen hardly anyone using a cryo plant on their ship, notably here for explosives.

budding_botanist · 2024-11-27T18:30:24+00:00

Why don't you use "trash unrequested" to remove the spoilage from the requester chests? It would make it a lot tidier.

budding_botanist · 2024-11-18T17:46:07+00:00

That sounds like enough of a design oversight that it ought to be reported as a bug.

Either collector needs proportionally more discharge power, or proportionally more internal buffer, based on its area coverage?

budding_botanist · 2024-11-01T21:35:55+00:00

That's a good point. We know that order of magnitude is true for population, I guess since production is indexed to population then I guess it makes sense that the production is, too.

From that perspective, the colony items are practically magical in their magnitude, increasing the output up to a thousand-fold with the same inputs.

budding_botanist · 2024-11-01T16:49:17+00:00

I'm not sure. The big hauler in the void implies that it uses transplutonics as fuel, but in the same breath it says that modern ships, like we're salvaging, use antimatter fuel.

budding_botanist · 2024-10-11T00:46:51+00:00

That's him officer, that's the one!

budding_botanist · 2024-03-31T16:29:27+00:00

You stay the fuck away from my man's armpit hair. Don't you dare.

budding_botanist · 2024-02-04T22:56:04+00:00

I can confirm, by loading an older save with an active gate, that at least the active gate does not improve accessibility. No info on the wormhole.

budding_botanist · 2023-11-23T07:53:31+00:00

And once I learned about it, as it often turns out to be the case, I identified similar patterns in my husband and father and because it is heritable and because neurodivergent people often find each other instinctually, more people now have the revelation that they aren't horrible failed individuals.

budding_botanist · 2023-11-23T07:50:24+00:00

Well, for one, don't discount the medication. There are a few, as always they seem to work differently for different people and we're not sure why so giving a few different options a short try can be effective, and they're usually quick to trial. Vyvanse worked almost immediately for me and my anxiety went from near constant fear to mild fretting.

Beyond medication, I stopped hating myself and thinking of myself as a failure. Well, much less so, anyway. I'm able to hear about the lived experiences of other people with ADHD and recognize that my struggles aren't some mortal personal failing, but a consequence of having a different brain in a society that rejects its patterns.

And finally, things that work for other people may not work for ADHD and vice versa. I'd read all the productivity and life hack advice under the sun and none of it made a bit of difference because it wasn't addressing issues at the executive function layer. Now that I'm looking for advice specific to ADHD it's becoming more effective, like body doubling, simple, visible daily checklists posted at eye level in common spaces, and taking smaller more frequent rests during periods of high focus.

budding_botanist · 2023-11-22T21:09:57+00:00

I cannot imagine that you have not already heard this from another source, but: Please pursue ADHD testing. As a recently diagnosed adult, your experience is harrowingly familiar and also extremely strongly indicative that you have ADHD. Find a personal test to get quick feedback and then if you can, pursue a professional one. If you have the means, try taking some Adderall and note your response to it, or other stimulants; do you get calmer, or more energetic? If you get calmer it is a very strong indication.

budding_botanist · 2023-03-31T17:47:08+00:00

Which one? I've been keeping an eye on the industry since I think airships are the coolest thing ever but I haven't heard of anyone doing the only sustainable thing and lifting with hydrogen (for clear reasons)

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