summer tree
every time i try to make one i have too many requests n shit going on with my bots and not enough resources and i dont wanna do it by hand and i dont have the space on my radar and all this bullshit that seems like it would just be easier to restart but every time i do the exact same thing happens
how do you make a starter base that can fuel the production of a non starter base
wraith wagon
Starter base should have the essentials. Stuff you need automated because the items are required in large quantities.
I designed mine by taking a blueprint from someone else, then adapted it. It comes in 2.5 stages. Screenshot shows the first one. Second stage adds more Iron processing, Steel, Bricks, stuff with Steel/Bricks, and everything else required early on (such as pipes). Last stage merely upgrades to Storage chests.
(don't mind the slim assemblers, it's from a mod)
I have seen "starter" bases that included pretty much everything and the first four science packs, but those bps are too big for my liking. Hard to fit in the starting area.
Instead I moved more advanced materials into their own set of bps, grouped by "themes", such as railstuff, military, modules, production science, utility science, nuclear stuff, ...
plucky verge
You might be going too big too fast, what scale are you leaping to/from, if you try to jump to too large a base from too small a starter base you need to either make the starter one bigger first or scale more slowly
But letting the base bots work away in bits and pieces while going to get new resources with personal bots is the general loop
unreal patrol
Having some sort of end goal always helps me. Then it makes it easier to break down into smaller and smaller goals which feel rewarding to complete each one
Also with regards to bots taking time. While a new section is being built I normally go off and make another outpost or clear biters and set up defences at the same time. Don't just stand there waiting.
summer tree
You might be going too big too fast, what scale are you leaping to/from, if you ...
its complicated, will send picture
this is my starter base
that little part in the middle is making everything with iron/copper/stone
when i made my first parts of the base i didnt make it smelter expandable
so the part inbetween the middle and the bottom is for smelting
but i never made anywhere to SEND the smelted items
left is copper i believe
and bottom is coal
i had a coal crisis fueling my power but i fixed it somehow
inbetween the top left and middle as well as the far right are for oil
the oil is processed at the former
bottom right is solar
bright blue is power
i dont have uranium yet
that cluster of white (bots) is autocrafters
all autocrafters
and the thing where you have a blue chest going into a crafter that goes out to a red chest
just to create shit i dont wanna route a bunch of stuff to
its super unreliable
this is
my starter base
that i grew into a disheveled adult, incapable of sustaining another
barely even sustaining itself
i believe this is the biggest, while not being the most advanced, factory i have ever created
biters off btw
summer tree
Starter base should have the essentials. Stuff you need automated because the it...
so just make this but big enough to sustain large scale constant construction?
unreal patrol
I would recommend you get nuclear set up first. You're going to want a large amount of power before scaling up
charred prawn
Every base starter or not needs 3 things: power, resource collection, resource processing
You want to be able to do each of these things at scale, in that order.
For power, setup nuclear power and have a design that you can cope paste to immediately scale
For resources, you're going to want to have it be READY to be drained. Way more miners than you need, way more furnaces than you need.
For the final step of scaling, you should have dedicated crafters for expansion materials. Bots or a bus with chained production works fine.
A key point of scaling is that you will scale the inputs and exports. While mixed belts and trains can have their purpose, it is easier to have a train simply deliver one item, and have it be routed properly on-site
wraith wagon
this is my starter base
I don't think this qualifies as starter base.
For me, a starter base is the first actual blueprint one places. It should provide the capability to build the factory that wins the game. In my case, that's a target of 30 spm. Don't need much to achieve that.
Remember, it's built at the end of the burner phase, where one does not have the production levels of a megabase (rather, the crafting speed of a single engineer). If you want to "sustain large scale constant construction", you might want to design a mall/production hub that can do it (and is built with the output of the starter base).
summer tree
whauh....
summer tree
I would recommend you get nuclear set up first. You're going to want a large amo...
how much cause like rn i have 2 or 3 rows of a fuck ton of coal rn
unreal patrol
Depends what your goal is. If power isn't a problem right now for you then start somewhere else
summer tree
Depends what your goal is. If power isn't a problem right now for you then start...
basically to build like
another one of these
more of this
and just like
giant rows of materials
like some mini megabase type shit
unreal patrol
I suggest you learn some basic ratios and also get better train loading and unloading stations before heading towards a megabase
But seems like you're progressing to where you want to go. So what's the problem?
wraith wagon
another one of these
that is technically offtopic 