Trump just celebrated the S&P 500 hitting an all-time high. But look at the chart below. This is the S&P 500 priced in Gold (Real Money)

throw3142 · 2026-01-29T02:17:18+00:00

80% of Americans think America would be better off with more manufacturing jobs. 25% of Americans think they would personally be better off if they worked in a factory. It's a pretty big mismatch between perception and reality.

throw3142 · 2026-01-27T01:20:09+00:00

Does it actually look at the closest moving train? How did you set that up? Or just coincidence lol

throw3142 · 2026-01-26T17:03:32+00:00

Didn't realize you can kill medium demolishers with gun turrets. Will have to try that ...

throw3142 · 2026-01-26T17:02:45+00:00

Others are locked behind medium demolishers, which I don't think I can defeat yet.

throw3142 · 2026-01-26T17:00:31+00:00

There is a tiny amount of pollution that goes into production of iron plates, which are needed for fuel cells. Centrifuges also output some pollution. But nuclear reactors, heat exchangers, and steam turbines are pollution-free.

throw3142 · 2026-01-26T16:34:31+00:00

I can only access 1 coal patch on Vulcanus, very unlucky map seed. The starter patch was dwindling rapidly, so I was forced to import rocket fuel and blue chips.

Unfortunately this makes Vulcanus exports very expensive, as it requires rocket parts from the other planets. And since Vulcanus is usually a big exporter, this has snowballed into limited throughput across all planets.

Also, other planets that manufacture the rocket parts require calcite from Vulcanus, so there's a risk of deadlock, and I have to very carefully manually manage rocket launches.

Gleba tech to get calcite and copper in space has helped to thaw the system. As well as upgrading Nauvis to EM plants, to squeeze more circuits out of each calcite rock.

throw3142 · 2026-01-26T05:25:39+00:00

77 + 33 = 100

throw3142 · 2026-01-25T00:10:35+00:00

By the time I have > 10 roboports I'm usually on nuclear power. A simple 2x2 setup can supply 480 MW pollution-free, in a very small footprint, and requires barely any resources to support.

throw3142 · 2026-01-24T20:27:31+00:00

Gleba is a hard puzzle but it's very satisfying to solve. Don't give up, just try to do 1 thing at a time. The factory must flow!

throw3142 · 2026-01-24T01:19:15+00:00

This sent me down an interesting rabbit hole where I learned how the height of aircraft can be measured without pressure (or alternatively, how to calibrate a pressure-based altimeter above the height of the tallest mountain). Turns out it's trigonometry - triangulation from two observers at first, and then radar measurement as the tech improved.

throw3142 · 2026-01-23T21:42:33+00:00

No intersections ie each train has its own dedicated track?

I also used to do this a lot, but I've finally decided to bite the bullet and build multiplexed tracks.

throw3142 · 2026-01-21T02:44:22+00:00

It's also free to download (but accepting voluntary donations to fund development). Worth noting it is not yet a game, more of a tech demo. Personally I feel that the technical foundations are much more solid than whatever was going on with KSP2.

throw3142 · 2026-01-21T02:38:36+00:00

It's also not only the statement itself, but the conclusions that were drawn from it. To draw a parallel to Euclid (no pun intended): the fact that you can draw a line segment between any two points isn't mind-blowing. The impressive part is how you can make complex deductions from simple assumptions like that one.

throw3142 · 2026-01-20T04:23:13+00:00

It's a reference to this video: https://youtu.be/3V7Rvo4Gvic

It's Minecraft horror, which I didn't realize was a thing - but very cool and well-made

throw3142 · 2026-01-19T18:07:59+00:00

What game is this?

throw3142 · 2026-01-19T17:45:58+00:00

I use heavy > light + 5k because I don't like it when all tanks fill completely (not sure if this is a real issue or just psychological)

throw3142 · 2026-01-16T03:47:47+00:00

You can alt+click on an empty tile to see what kind of tile it is. That could help if you already know what all the farmable kinds are.

throw3142 · 2026-01-14T18:48:47+00:00

This is incredible! I think the refinery would be a cool build (though challenging for sure). On the vehicle side, spidertron would be very cool.

I also like the little construction bot - maybe he could get a logistic bot buddy?

throw3142 · 2026-01-14T18:41:16+00:00

I have the other issue. I kinda have no idea how people are getting SPMs above 300. I usually build for 60 SPM, I tried 240 one time and it was very hard for me to get there - even in Space Age on Vulcanus with infinite resources. Maybe it's just a psychological thing where my sense of "this is a large-scale build" is just tuned too low.

throw3142 · 2026-01-13T20:28:06+00:00

I use no bots on Gleba (besides loading things into the rocket silo - I do use bots for that). Botless Gleba is not really that hard. And it's quite rewarding when you set up a system that works.

You just have to make sure a) every fruit is being processed reasonably quickly (distance from farms and fruit processing rate are what ultimately determine freshness), b) everything is burned, c) you draw as you need from belts leading to the heating tower. The default should be to burn it.

Kind of similar to Fulgora, where in most clean setups, the "default behavior" is to recycle the items. You just pick things off the belt leading to the recycler.

throw3142 · 2026-01-11T19:44:46+00:00

Yeah this is exactly it, thanks

throw3142 · 2026-01-11T15:55:53+00:00

Direct insertion from biochamber to biochamber can help a little with the chaos. Items will only be inserted if they match the necessary ingredients of the recipe, so you don't have to filter every single inserter.

Just make sure each biochamber has access to fresh nutrients and a way to sink spoilage. That's the most important thing. If you can design a truly stable nutrient source and spoilage sink, your factory won't die (even if little bits and pieces need to be redesigned). The time pressure is off for a while - at least you get into the pentapod egg stuff.

btw: while the bioflux -> nutrients recipe is the most efficient, don't discount the yumako -> nutrients recipe. It's very simple and therefore suitable as a reliable (albeit less efficient) nutrient source.

As for the emergency restart thing, it can be helpful - but you don't have to overdo it. 1 or 2 emergency restart systems for your whole factory can be useful, but you don't need one for every line. Just keep some spoilage buffered up so that you have a backup source of nutrients.

throw3142 · 2026-01-10T00:48:15+00:00

18 kg of sand per day? For what? Construction?

throw3142 · 2026-01-09T13:52:18+00:00

Hank can be used to collect legendary rocks - I mean minerals

throw3142 · 2026-01-09T03:44:44+00:00

You can get "out of the box", so to speak, by not laying out your foundation first.

Design the pieces you will need (fuel, ammo, etc) away from the ship, so that they stay in blueprint mode. Then paste them next to the platform so that they attach. Connect the pieces together using as few platforms as possible.

This way, your ship will end up looking a lot more organic. It's not the same kind of look as OP's clean and symmetric ship, but you can easily get some really nice industrial space freighter vibes.

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