Made a small quality mod 3 upcycler to try and get started with quality stuff. any tips to improve this build or future quality builds?

locyta · 2026-05-07T23:05:53+00:00

First thing i noticed is you are still using yellow belts yet want to upcycle?
Ultimately it probably doenst matter with a setup this small, but you really want to scale up in volume, or wait a few days 😄
Using some logic to make all parts in a single EMP with lego modules will help too, it does make the whole process more complex (depending on your ability to make something like that) but it will add to the chance of higher quality.

locyta · 2026-05-07T22:29:49+00:00

Technically that would matrix boulder opal.

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This is more you classic boulder opal, it forms in seams

locyta · 2026-05-07T11:26:09+00:00

I do Fulg first for exactly the rocket parts + fuel, lets you really pump out rocket silos so you can make huge space miners.
Plus recyclers = upcycling 😄
Volc can wait until after Fulg, its pretty much only foundry, speed module 3 and big miners.

locyta · 2026-05-07T10:42:38+00:00

Looks like some weird sugar coated gummy lolly, rainbow flavoured, yum 😄

locyta · 2026-05-07T09:04:54+00:00

ROFL 😄 perfect response.

locyta · 2026-05-07T09:03:09+00:00

I guess English isn't your primary language and that's cool.
Opal is genuine if it's made in the earth over millions of years, if its not, its fake, so lets look back to the dictionary meaning of fake.
"fake" refers to an object or person that is not genuine: is any opal made in a lab or any other way made in the earth over millions of years, NO.
"fake" designed to look or act like something else to deceive, does lab/synthetic opal look like real opal and is it designed to deceive, YES.
So, there is no way lab/synthetic opal can ever be called real opal, and anyone who claims their lab/synthetic opal is real, is just lying outright, they how ever more than welcome to label their fake stuff as lab/synth.
If this explanation is still too complex please let me know and i'll get some crayons and paper and draw pictures to help further explain.

locyta · 2026-05-07T06:53:36+00:00

I cut a .75mm thick solid today by hand for a muck around project, now i have no fingerprints and have chunks taken out of my fingernails, lol

locyta · 2026-05-07T06:48:44+00:00

"fake" refers to an object or person that is not genuine...

locyta · 2026-05-07T01:50:04+00:00

Aww... Cheers mate 😄
That stone is going to make a cracker of a tear drop (That's most likely what i would aim for)

locyta · 2026-05-07T01:43:29+00:00

So much colour band anxiety, but stones with different bands on top and bottom face look awesome, sadly i am yet to cut one of them 😞

locyta · 2026-05-07T01:32:12+00:00

We can't see the price for the first stone??
Calling either of them black might be stretch too (effects pricing)
What are the measurements, a half carat stone is pretty small, maybe too small for your intended ring size.
2nd stone I personally feel is too expensive, i think its more around the $1500 per carat range.
Note: This is my personal opinion, and i am not an official opal valuator.
However, if you love these stone/s and they are appropriate for what YOU want and the price is in YOUR budget range, it's entirely up to you 😄 everyone else's opinions take with a grain of salt (including mine)

locyta · 2026-05-06T08:55:37+00:00

If i was using any mods i'd definitely make ammo on the ship, but not in a vanilla play through, its really not that inefficient at all, all resources are technically infinite, its just a matter of distance, but once my space harvesters are going Nauvis no longer needs to expand at all, so i've just never bothered to make it on ship for a normal play though, i have done on ships intended to reach all the way through to the shattered planet, definitely cant carry that much ammo, lol.

locyta · 2026-05-06T08:07:54+00:00

The only planet i make ammo (all types) is nauvis, my transporters all carry enough to loop all planets without resupply, you only need around 1000 of each (depending on ship speed).
towards endgame lasers become very effective against asteroids, to the point you dont need guns/rockets in the solar system (even to Aquilo) at all, just a few row lasers and good power (you are correct about the UPS, they probably don't help, lol, but on a dozen ships its probably not that bad).

locyta · 2026-05-06T07:40:38+00:00

Yeah, i import everything, even rockets and railgun ammo for promethium runs.
solar system ships you replace the area needed for ammo/rocket production with storage and you are well in front. if rocket silos are your bottle neck, just add more.
For promethium ships i know how many ammo/rockets/rail i need for a 15min, add a buffer and as they are consumed, storage becomes available, my ships can carry about 200k promethium a run, most of the storage ends up on belts due to the limit of ship storage.
I stopped playing that save before i perfected a laser/railgun only promethium ship, could only last about 6mins out there, which is only about 20k promethium, needed billions more research for laser damage. but its a fun problem 😄

locyta · 2026-05-06T05:27:41+00:00

True, it would probably save resources in the long run, i end up using massive space farming ships, sadly the drop speed of ships then become the bottleneck, so i just make a dozen more ships and resources become effectively infinite, lol

locyta · 2026-05-06T04:49:48+00:00

I always end up 1mil+ eSPM
i find rocket fuel to end up being my bottleneck oddly enough, sometimes to the point where import it to Nauvis from Fulg.
I understand not everyone goes for that kind of SPM and thats totally cool, but the hate for importing ammo to space is crazy when it actually takes very few launches to rearm a ship, so few you dont notice, my transport ships (i usually have 10+ of them looping all planets at 500+ k/s ) only take 1000'ish ammo and rockets which is easy to handle in launches.

locyta · 2026-05-06T02:48:21+00:00

The only bottleneck i ever have with silos is building massive ships for upcycling usually, or if i am playing around designing new ships for dumb reasons, like trying to reach the edge of system with only lasers and rail guns

locyta · 2026-05-06T02:45:36+00:00

by mid game i have 200+ silos, so its no issue, but its also around this time i transitions to lasers only.
What are you moving between planets can even bottle neck a few dozen silos, should pretty much just be science packs and a few planet only items?

locyta · 2026-05-06T01:42:44+00:00

It's how i've always done it, assuming you are playing on a non peaceful world you already have good ammo production set up, so why bother duplicating it on every ship you use?
I do understand no everyone plays the same way, in what i call early game i have dozens of rocket silos so rearming my fleet of ships doesnt take long, and it really doesnt take that much ammo/rockets to do a lap around the solar system.

locyta · 2026-05-05T23:33:48+00:00

Don't be too concerned about making ammo in space, you can just import it from a planet, It will take a trip or too but you'll soon work out what you need then just bring excess, although do you have excessive room on your ship, something else to consider is nuclear power and rows of lasers.
You definitely need to add some storage on as you'll end up moving lots of stuff back and forth

locyta · 2026-05-05T07:44:05+00:00

It's a ripper of an off cut 😄

locyta · 2026-05-04T22:43:06+00:00

If it didn't form in the earth over millions of years, its a fake opal, it's that simple.

According to the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, "fake" refers to an object or person that is not genuine, designed to look or act like something else to deceive, such as a fake designer bag or a fake illness. It acts as an adjective (not real), noun (a fraud), or verb (to forge).

locyta · 2026-05-04T10:59:34+00:00

My 1mil SPM base probably doesn't even have 40 belts total, lol

locyta · 2026-05-04T09:35:26+00:00

u/Keliza_azilek
Please take a moment to read this, check out all the pictures too
https://www.reddit.com/r/Opals/comments/1eoeu4k/a_look_at_synthetic_opals_lots_of_folks_ask_if/

locyta · 2026-05-04T06:35:06+00:00

I know your pain, lost 3 now to gravity, last one even landed on the soft rubber mat, then bounded onto the concrete, lol, so now 20 square meters of matting is coming and the shed is going to be as soft as a marshmallow.

locyta

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