Vulcanus spawn

[visual haven]

closest tungsten spawn is in destroyers territory 😦

[daring condor]

More ouch since you havent built up bullet damage

[visual haven]

yea

and i cant bring uranium ammo yet because i fucked up my main base design

it wasnt nothing advanced and rocket silo isnt in drone reach 😦

and i cant expand it because i dont have roboport automation

[daring condor]

I misunderstood. I had the idea you used a mod to start on Vulcanus.
Either way, you could do poison strats.

[livid ermine]

looks totally fine to me lol what's actually wrong ? you definitely dont need uranium ammo on vulcanis 😉

[spark dock]

im pretty sure that is always the case

[waxen viper]

I was in the same situation starting on vulcanus. First I used a blueprint to put down drills and chests using personal robots. When the demolisher coming close I take all my stuff and leave the place empty

Then, I use a nuke to kill my first demolisher importing some dark gray uranium to vulcanus 😅

[waxen viper]

I imported enough dark grey uranium to make 5 nukes and I didn't need more so far

[spark dock]

i mean; like 70-100 turrets with piercing ammo will do the trick for, at least, up to medium demolishers

[young parcel]

I also started like this, I think it's intentional. Lava, coal, sulfur and calcite is all you need to start with. To get my first tungsten i just did excavation missions, plomp a few miners, bring it all to a chest, lookout for the worm, and escape with your ores before it gets to you.

Even if you die, the items stay there so besides the broken buildings you didnt have the time to recover you should be absolutely fine and come out a little bit on top every time

or do some crazy turret strat, not sure why people push on them so much though. All you need is a tank and like 20 rounds of REGULAR tank ammo, that does it for a small guy easily

[livid ermine]

that's really funny

[visual haven]

i did 10 turrets with uranium ammo, destroyed it in 3 seconds, lost 70% of ammo

[cursive socket]

Personally I went with an unholy amount of turrets and mines against small demolishers. Much later medium+ got the railgun to the face treatment.

[wheat zealot]

I thought it was an "Any Planet Start" mod related thread, lol. I've rarely seen a part of the patch being in the starter area, with some lucky seeds. All you need with demolishers is pipes and poisson capsules. With pipes you can lure demolishers to buldoze the cliffs for free, and then you make him turn into a knot and throw capsules at the center, running and dodging around to keep him circling in the knot. 25-40 capsules and 1-200 pipes will ensure you have a cliff-free and worm-free area.

[visual haven]

i just found out that my main base can survive 30 mins on batterys

i rely on nuclear power and forgot i disconnetced the uranium proccesing. base survived like 40h on built up uranium a35 and 238 until it fullly ran out

[young parcel]

just how many accumulators did you have and how much is your usual draining? I feel like I have a few 1000s of them and my ~400MW base just eats through them in minutes when testing

[young parcel]

you gotta have a huuge accumulator farm, no?