While planning your new ship you'll want it to make steal, explosives, and copper cable so you can make railgun ammo for the big asteroids because railguns do 10k physical damage and that's the one thing that the big ones are vulnerable to. Yes, you can barrel and ship fluroketone but have to cool it on site and you'll have to ship up extra because it's not a closed loop and you loose some with each process. Spidertron with explosive rockets handily kill the big stompers.
I discovered something I sort of knew the hard way. The heat towers can be used to run the heat exchangers and boilers and they produce heat for the heat pipes. What I knew but was reminded of though is that even when the heat towers have fuel and are putting out heat they have a power limit as well. My towers were full of fuel and I was making a ton of heat and should have been making steam like mad. BUT the steam turbines wouldn't run. It took me some time but I finally had an epiphany that YES they should be make steam and power BUT that I was asking for more power than the towers are rated for. Heat towers are rated for 40MW of output, that's not the same as their heat output. They were 800c but I had no power and couldn't for the life of me see why and then it hit me..... Inserters place fuel into the towers in the same way that they place parts into assemblers, so they don't completely fill it they just put in enough for double the recipe, so for heat it's only a few at a time.
@@JoMomma1973 Yeah, me too. Crashed the whole factory when I installed a Cryogenic plant and the power draw kicked on all the turbines and then they all shut down and wouldn't restart for love nor money from too much demand. Ripped it all out and rebuilt it on the fly.
All of the finite researches are complete! Now I have to design and build a big edge of the system ship. Fission reactors connections are an interesting Tetris puzzle.
@@JoMomma1973 Me either but I unlocked the tech so now it's just time to get there and do it. I'm currently building railgun turrets to build a ship with.
While planning your new ship you'll want it to make steal, explosives, and copper cable so you can make railgun ammo for the big asteroids because railguns do 10k physical damage and that's the one thing that the big ones are vulnerable to. Yes, you can barrel and ship fluroketone but have to cool it on site and you'll have to ship up extra because it's not a closed loop and you loose some with each process. Spidertron with explosive rockets handily kill the big stompers.
yup, totally looking into this... I didn't realize rockets wouldn't get the big ones!
😆 8:43 .... that inserter desperately attempting to reload the train
@@AnotherNullUser yeah! I did not think that through!
I discovered something I sort of knew the hard way. The heat towers can be used to run the heat exchangers and boilers and they produce heat for the heat pipes. What I knew but was reminded of though is that even when the heat towers have fuel and are putting out heat they have a power limit as well. My towers were full of fuel and I was making a ton of heat and should have been making steam like mad. BUT the steam turbines wouldn't run. It took me some time but I finally had an epiphany that YES they should be make steam and power BUT that I was asking for more power than the towers are rated for. Heat towers are rated for 40MW of output, that's not the same as their heat output. They were 800c but I had no power and couldn't for the life of me see why and then it hit me.....
Inserters place fuel into the towers in the same way that they place parts into assemblers, so they don't completely fill it they just put in enough for double the recipe, so for heat it's only a few at a time.
@@BoredBob oh good point! They do have a power limit. I'd forgotten that!
@@JoMomma1973 Yeah, me too. Crashed the whole factory when I installed a Cryogenic plant and the power draw kicked on all the turbines and then they all shut down and wouldn't restart for love nor money from too much demand. Ripped it all out and rebuilt it on the fly.
All of the finite researches are complete! Now I have to design and build a big edge of the system ship. Fission reactors connections are an interesting Tetris puzzle.
@BoredBob ah cool! I know I'm close, but not sure how close. Haven't made any Promethium science yet.
@@JoMomma1973 Me either but I unlocked the tech so now it's just time to get there and do it. I'm currently building railgun turrets to build a ship with.
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