Gia's ship designs | Factorio | Page 1

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 8:22 AM

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Thought I'd compile these here

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Manta v0.4

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v1.0

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Horseshoe crab

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Jellyfish tentacles

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Whale ready for outfit

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Jellyfish v1.0

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Basking shark mid-outfitting

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@spice valve @uneven badge thought I'd put them all in one place

spice valve Feb 2, 2025, 8:29 AM

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Dang those are some cool ships!

spice valve Feb 2, 2025, 8:30 AM

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tropic rose Jellyfish tentacles

W thrusters 😨

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 8:30 AM

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^.^

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Jellyfish middle

uneven badge Feb 2, 2025, 8:36 AM

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keep posting them in main too 😄

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these are great tho

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 8:46 AM

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ok

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<3

uneven badge Feb 2, 2025, 8:47 AM

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<3

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 8:50 AM

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@signal anvil @languid fern @lethal plover

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@neat mesa @tulip fractal @golden gyro

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@zealous finch @winged gyro @ornate anvil

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@glacial flower @wooden wind

winged gyro Feb 2, 2025, 8:53 AM

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"space has no fish so ill make my own" - Gia probably

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 8:58 AM

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XD

languid fern Feb 2, 2025, 9:03 AM

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It's.... beautiful

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 9:05 AM

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<3

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 9:40 AM

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zealous finch Feb 2, 2025, 9:57 AM

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yes Gia, I´m wondering about the ping

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oh yeah, your ships, sry

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yu´re kinda insane for your ships

wooden wind Feb 2, 2025, 2:11 PM

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Wonderful ships

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you should post blueprints to go with them

ornate anvil Feb 2, 2025, 2:12 PM

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Don't feel obligated to share your blueprints though, they are your creations after all

wooden wind Feb 2, 2025, 2:24 PM

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if you share your BP, there is a chance someone else will build it for their space fleet

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space ships are the BPs most frequently requested, after all

neat mesa Feb 2, 2025, 6:09 PM

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amazing

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think jellyfish is my fav still

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 6:17 PM

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📎 message.txt

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Go for it

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improve it

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finish the looks if you want

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I'd love to see them in use somewhere else

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There's also this modular design for a bootstrapping ship, I'm kinda done with it for now, not sure if I'll ever use this design again so yeah

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📎 message.txt

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 6:22 PM

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ornate anvil Don't feel obligated to share your blueprints though, they are your creations af...

Yeah, but for me, as an engineer, seeing my creations in use by someone else, that's achievement

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Be warned, there's a lot of crap in that BP book

ornate anvil Feb 2, 2025, 9:03 PM

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Hey with that attitude, I might publish my set of min size (for practical use) common quality ships that I've been cooking up

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after I field test then with early game damage bonuses in space rush save lol

tropic rose Feb 2, 2025, 9:18 PM

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Do it

tropic rose Feb 3, 2025, 8:13 AM

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people can use/upgrade them, just show me

tropic rose Feb 3, 2025, 10:01 AM

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few more bits and bobs

tropic rose Feb 3, 2025, 10:23 AM

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Me, just designing the next ship: -lemme do a quick tile count-
Me: OnO

spice valve Feb 3, 2025, 10:28 AM

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tropic rose Me, just designing the next ship: -lemme do a quick tile count- Me: OnO

now thats a lot of tiles

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54k

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pretty roomy

tropic rose Feb 3, 2025, 10:30 AM

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Too much really, it's only the EoS/promethium ship

tropic rose Feb 3, 2025, 1:30 PM

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More upgrades to the basking shark

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I added in a bunch of foundation makers since this crraft size is good for being built from one of my smaller bootstrappers

winged gyro Feb 3, 2025, 2:26 PM

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i suppose foudnations are just steel and copper so entirely possible to make in space

tropic rose Feb 3, 2025, 2:29 PM

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Yeah, cba faffing with launching up to 1k rockets

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Not when I can have these guys make stuff

tropic rose Feb 5, 2025, 2:34 PM

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It's getting there

wooden wind Feb 5, 2025, 2:35 PM

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calamari damacy

tropic rose Feb 5, 2025, 5:09 PM

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She moves!

languid fern Feb 7, 2025, 9:56 PM

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woaaaaaah

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Giant squid

tropic rose Feb 25, 2025, 10:04 AM

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New game who dis'?

uneven badge Feb 25, 2025, 10:43 AM

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yayyy

tropic rose Feb 25, 2025, 11:10 AM

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zealous finch Feb 25, 2025, 1:04 PM

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always nice to see beautiful ships

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so much nicer than my first ship which is meatball base for shattered

spice valve Feb 26, 2025, 11:11 AM

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tropic rose

w dolphin, looks like it is wearing body armor

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 11:12 AM

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lol

wooden wind Feb 26, 2025, 1:03 PM

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tropic rose

that is beautiful

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 1:04 PM

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Thank you <3

wooden wind Feb 26, 2025, 1:04 PM

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I’m surprised there’s no quality buildings in those screenshots, as it seems like it would be necessary for such a small ship to function

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green undergrounds might open up a small slot for a cargo bay, maybe

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the bilateral symmetry just looks good

zealous finch Feb 26, 2025, 1:15 PM

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It all depends on efficency and speed, a slow ship doesn´t need as much as a fast one so lower production requirements, neater design and more possibilities to make it beautiful.

zealous finch Feb 26, 2025, 1:15 PM

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wooden wind I’m surprised there’s no quality buildings in those screenshots, as it seems lik...

Wait, there is one quality building, the beauty of the ship is top quality

wooden wind Feb 26, 2025, 1:24 PM

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If it functions without any quality, that is optimal, because then you can always make the ship regardless of your quality situation.

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And you can obviously upgrade the ship into quality if you have it

uneven badge Feb 26, 2025, 2:33 PM

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tropic rose

I keep saying that Vulcanus needs a lava fish

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now it has one

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 2:57 PM

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nice

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Turtle time

spice valve Feb 26, 2025, 3:34 PM

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tropic rose

yooo that looks sick

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turtle

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 5:17 PM

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I wonder if she’s done a hammerhead yet

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 7:08 PM

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I haven't

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yet

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 8:06 PM

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"marine animals in space" is such a great concept whenever it comes up in any work

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 8:36 PM

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zealous finch Feb 26, 2025, 8:37 PM

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now we have our hammerhead

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 8:38 PM

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@worldly tree

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 8:42 PM

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that was damn quick

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 9:11 PM

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Thanks, but it was a fairly simple design tbf

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The worst part was routing

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Hammerheads are really slim, even for sharks

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 9:19 PM

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question is, what other marine lifeforms have distinct top-down profiles

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 9:19 PM

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I've been struggling with the same question

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 9:20 PM

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if you really want something out there, you can do starfish and/or brittle stars, and for an extra challenge make them not linearly symmetric

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 9:21 PM

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I've thought about the stars

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Not symmetric is possible but a pain

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Since I have to design 50% more ship XD

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 9:21 PM

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haha that's true

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 9:22 PM

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And also, the stars aren't the distinctive when converted to a factorio view

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And more appendages is just a massive pain as I found out with the jelly and the squid

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though the squid wasn't as bad

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Come to think of it, the jelly is also somewhat asymmetric too

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 9:24 PM

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here's a more exotic fella

tropic rose Feb 26, 2025, 9:25 PM

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Not much space for thrusters though

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Dolphin and blue whale size comparison

worldly tree Feb 26, 2025, 9:44 PM

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oh are you doing these to scale??

tropic rose Feb 27, 2025, 5:45 AM

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Nah, just happened that way because I wanted a smaller ship so I went with dolphin

tropic rose Mar 1, 2025, 9:44 PM

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So I guess, kinda?

zealous finch Mar 1, 2025, 9:53 PM

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you could do them to scale, bigger ones for massive storage/reaching into the depths of space and small ones for interplanetary logistics

tropic rose Mar 2, 2025, 10:08 AM

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zealous finch you could do them to scale, bigger ones for massive storage/reaching into the de...

I kinda do that to an extent anyway tbf

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But it's hard enough to find something I want to create let alone make it appropriate size

zealous finch Mar 2, 2025, 11:03 AM

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yeah, doing the blue whale only leaves a few options, mostly giant carrier or a shattered planet ship but not much more

tropic rose Mar 2, 2025, 11:41 AM

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Casino

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It's a filterfeeder

zealous finch Mar 2, 2025, 11:44 AM

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completely forgot that that´s now a thing in factorio, still feels like stuff out of this movie

cinder tinsel May 7, 2025, 12:21 PM

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tropic rose Me, just designing the next ship: -lemme do a quick tile count- Me: OnO

Please call this one the "Gamed Squid"
Apologies for the old-as ping

uneven badge May 9, 2025, 1:25 AM

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zealous finch completely forgot that that´s now a thing in factorio, still feels like stuff ou...

what movie is this?

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