in nei you can look up info about underground fluids. salt water on the moon is 0-200L and I'd recommend going for around 75% of the max value so that way you're unlikely to deplete the whole thing. by digging down at the corner of these fields you can scan 4 of them very quickly
actually you get the most out of bauxite and ilmenite by doing special processing lines. it's best to do them for additional bonus materials that are difficult to get in general like gallium 21:33 I don't recommend using a thermal centrifuge unless that's the only way to get the bonus output you need. it's the slowest part of ore processing and the most power hungry as well. in that example thermal centrifuge is >3x slower than the regular one but they give the same output. but like I just said with bauxite it's best to do the special line anyway. you can see there's a mixer icon above the regular processing lines which means there are special recipes for bauxite in the mixer (that's what the quest should tell you as well)
you might start smelting hundreds of aluminium dust you got from bauxite which might take a very long time to get done but just like with steel there's a better way: with carbon. you need alumina though. you can turn raw aluminium into alumina using silicon dioxide in an lcr. you also get raw silicon back which you can turn into solar grade silicon for wafers. in theory silicon dioxide is infinite because... you can figure out it yourself using nei if you want or keep reading: you can get infinite amounts of cobblestone with rock breakers or more vanilla methods. then forge hammer cobble twice to get sand, then turn it into glass (arc furnace), then macerate and centrifuge it
Man I have loads of alumina from my dirt to alumina set. I will be looking into this for all of this aluminum dust I have. Dude thank you so much for all of your tips!
in nei you can look up info about underground fluids. salt water on the moon is 0-200L and I'd recommend going for around 75% of the max value so that way you're unlikely to deplete the whole thing. by digging down at the corner of these fields you can scan 4 of them very quickly
Oh thanks for the info. I never thought to look at nei for info on the fluids.
actually you get the most out of bauxite and ilmenite by doing special processing lines. it's best to do them for additional bonus materials that are difficult to get in general like gallium
21:33 I don't recommend using a thermal centrifuge unless that's the only way to get the bonus output you need. it's the slowest part of ore processing and the most power hungry as well. in that example thermal centrifuge is >3x slower than the regular one but they give the same output. but like I just said with bauxite it's best to do the special line anyway. you can see there's a mixer icon above the regular processing lines which means there are special recipes for bauxite in the mixer (that's what the quest should tell you as well)
I’ll be honest I didn’t even read the quest… shame on me.
I will be doing this from now on. Thank you!
you might start smelting hundreds of aluminium dust you got from bauxite which might take a very long time to get done but just like with steel there's a better way: with carbon. you need alumina though. you can turn raw aluminium into alumina using silicon dioxide in an lcr. you also get raw silicon back which you can turn into solar grade silicon for wafers. in theory silicon dioxide is infinite because... you can figure out it yourself using nei if you want or keep reading: you can get infinite amounts of cobblestone with rock breakers or more vanilla methods. then forge hammer cobble twice to get sand, then turn it into glass (arc furnace), then macerate and centrifuge it
Man I have loads of alumina from my dirt to alumina set. I will be looking into this for all of this aluminum dust I have.
Dude thank you so much for all of your tips!