design-and-architecture

[grim vector]

How many hours in total do you have in the game? Approx? If I remember correctly, you‘ve been one of the first users with amazing round builds during like U2/U3

[rain plaza]

let me check

30d 9.5 hr on EA, 33d 14.25 hr on Exp. + ~96hr on the beta "weekend", so.... ~1600hrs? Maybe 5-15% of that is "idle time" though, for what it's worth

Not sure which builds, but I did do a couple couple of pretty huge builds, and this is the third version of this turbofuel plant build, I posted the first two on the subreddit

[rotund hedge]

How my factories start, signs with the numbers appear, then I see how to fit the building in to the chosen spot.

[grim vector]

Thanks. I will check reddit if I remember the original version

[rain plaza]

this was the last version

first one. 1st one was 25GW, 2nd one was 50 GW

this was my megabuild that Update 1 came out during the middle of. Belt lifts made the vertical logistics much easier...

lol before windows existed

Anyway, sorry for spamming the channel with my old builds 😅

[steep ocean]

Nah they look cool

[rotund hedge]

Don't be sorry, keep right on posting, I love seeing different designs, even if they are old builds, always something to get inspiration from 😄

I need to put overflow sinks in my aluminium refinery, it turns out the whole place reacts really poorly to downstream lockups.

[grim vector]

Haha, sometimes I miss those days with all the belt tower designs trying to go vertical in a pleasant way. Unfortunately, no one seems to be willing to adapt old concepts to current wider building techniques

[rain plaza]

Yeah, belt lifts are just so much more efficient in so many ways that it seems silly to do belt spirals anymore

back when oil came in barrels

[rotund hedge]

The floor holes for the lifts also made for much tidier & compact lift bundles.

[grim vector]

still waiting for those ceiling conveyor poles and ‚wall holes‘

[rain plaza]

You can put wall power connectors on the ceiling?

[rotund hedge]

Yeah, I've also put them on the floor.

[rain plaza]

That doesn't work, does it?

[rotund hedge]

It does.

In use here under my turbo power station.

[rain plaza]

ah ok it works if you put it on a pillar

or a frame floor

but not a foundation

[rotund hedge]

I delete the pillar afterwards to leave the power socket on the floor, I only found a handful of applications where it's useful though.

[rain plaza]

yeah

if I ever need to transmit power vertically through a floor I usually do a power pole with a wall outlet exactly opposite and then you can't see the power line

[onyx echo]

[jk] power sockets are completely useless because i can neither paint them, nor use E on them to see power network statistics and thus have to build real power poles somewhere anyway

[rotund hedge]

I overbuilt power hard enough to never need to bother looking at the stats, If I manage to crash the grid then I have a huge backup ready to go.

[rain plaza]

I do wish that we could click wall outlets to see stats

[rotund hedge]

It would be a useful Qol change.

[sinful zenith]

This took me 6.5 hours. In one sitting. Good night guys!

[rotund hedge]

I found a use for part of the aluminium refineries basement, emergency overflow sinks to prevent the whole thing locking up again in the event I say shut down the production plant or at least try to reroute any alclads & casings.

[paper robin]

pretty unnecessary but I saved 3 mergers doing this. Lmk if there's a more efficient way to merge a line of outputs

[charred oar]

I stick the wall plugs between wall panels to go vertical so its all hidden..

[rain plaza]

That's a good way to do it. I usually end up wiring vertical runs on the opposite side of the wall from wherever I have floor boundaries

[shrewd bolt]

just started this build and am actually so excited

[wraith valley]

Woah. Looks very grand.

I love the sense of scale such a huge hall gives

[shrewd bolt]

Its facing the waterfall so I'm trying to make it grand, only going to be producing ingots here.

[paper robin]

iron factory built, 1 out of 5(?) done

any finishing touches I should add?

[grizzled wing]

anyone else like to support their pipes? looking for ideas that might not suck as much as this

[wraith valley]

I think why it looks a little off is because you have a very girthy beam supporting just a single pipe

[grizzled wing]

I tried some skinnier designs but nothing ive found yet looks good with the stackable pipeline

[wraith valley]

Hmm

Perhaps the pillar could go overtop the pipe

So that it surrounds the default support

Like just extending it upwards a bit

[grizzled wing]

that actually doesnt look bad

[shrewd bolt]

yeah, have the pipe go through a wall type pillar might look good

yeah, that looks good

[wraith valley]

Reminds me of the monoliths from No Man’s Sky haha

[shrewd bolt]

also, it seems that the pipe is not perfectly straight, that might help as well

[shrewd bolt]

facts

[grizzled wing]

oh yeah, i gave up as the starting height for the extractor and the building it goes to are real close in height, but i just figured out how to do it and forgot to fix it :<

[shrewd bolt]

LOL, yeah, just make that straight and continue the stone going up past the pipe and I think that looks sick

[grizzled wing]

also toyed around with running the power in there without the metal pillar

[wraith valley]

mmmm pipe bus

[shrewd bolt]

love pipe and conveyor bus

is there anyway to be more percise with walls and corners and stuff like this, it just wont go in that corner like I want it

[wraith valley]

Road barriers?

Or pillars, just anything that doesn’t have 1/2m grid snap

[grizzled wing]

i swear beams might just be the best tool for building

amount of snaps it creates is incredible

[wraith valley]

Based

[grizzled wing]

does it look better with a wall hole?

[waxen crow]

Something to break up the dark pipe and pillar is needed yeah

You could do it by changing the pipe colour?

[grizzled wing]

Currently I color the pipes according to what is in them

the wall holes are a pain in the ass to line up though

idk

ok it's a lot easier with a single junction cross to stick out both sides

unfortunately even with everything snapped to a foundation it still clips through the pillar on 1 side randomly

[waxen crow]

I suppose you don't use mods?

[grizzled wing]

not yet, no. definitely need a mainly vanilla experience the first go around

[waxen crow]

If you do, MicroManage can scoot it over a touch

If not, you could put a beam parallel to the pillar and very incrementally slide a pipe connection exactly where you need it

[grizzled wing]

does that adjust more finely than currently possible?

[waxen crow]

Generally when you use a beam or barrier to change position there's zero clicking to spot so you can get VERY fine placement

[grizzled wing]

since the original snapping didnt put it exactly in place i just free handed it with super low sensitivity, and it felt like there might not be enough space inside the pillar to fit both sides

unless this method can bump THAT small of a gap

if so im very intrigued, know of any vids that display the method?

[waxen crow]

I was trying to find one

ugh can't find any. But give it a go with beams and barriers. You sohuld be able to slide objects along them with no 'steps'

[grizzled wing]

is that not the same way placing a cross on a straight pipe works? it slides smooth and doesnt snap into place

[waxen crow]

Possibly!
Hmm might want to try the pipe way, was tryign to recreate it just now and it's not happening. Don't know if something changed or if there was a trick to get it to slide.

[grizzled wing]

doesn't seem like the mod changes the distance you can move things, but i could slightly shrink them and make them fit that way 😆

definitely seems very nice for my ocd ass

[rain plaza]

added some beams, and lights to the vertices 👀

[grim vector]

Those ballon plants are tedious

[rain plaza]

Yeah I hope we get to destroy them just for that one that's clipping my build lol

[waxen crow]

Nice 😄

[rotund hedge]

I use something like this, since the stackable pipe supports refuse to take colour properly I just stacked wall holes on them, and pierce the thing with power poles to carry electricity (also makes them look supported)

[sinful zenith]

Should I make them parallel?

[sour mural]

I like that look tbh

[sinful zenith]

Thanks

[cosmic vector]

Funny how roofs don't carry the symmetry expectation. It looks good tbh.

[marsh leaf]

what do you guys put underneath your train tracks to help blend them into the environment? I've got a train going through the forest for bauxite, but it's a bit of a hecticrollercoaster...

[waxen crow]

asymetry is good

[waxen crow]

pillars

[marsh leaf]

hmm...i tried that, but it still became a bumpy mess 😦 how do you make sure they don't do that little 'dip' thing at the end?

[waxen crow]

you have to essentially do your entire path in foundations first and get an idea of the main elevations you work with. I try to pick 2 to 3 heights at most the tracks will be for as few elevation changes as possible

Pre planning your path in foundations gives you the added benefit of giving you an idea of what it'll look like and a chance to edit the course

[waxen crow]

Basically you don't start your pillars from the ground up on each location because that'll change the height of each one, you build them top down from your traced path

[marsh leaf]

ohhh okay

[waxen crow]

another good thing the pre planned paths are good for

AND the pre planned paths help you put very tidy rail down

[marsh leaf]

going up to the bauxite in the forest is a mission though...is there another vehicle i should be using to get that? hah

[sour mural]

Pre planning paths is something truck stations teach you if people would stop skipping them...

[marsh leaf]

ew trucks

[waxen crow]

Depends on the set up you want tbh, as you can tell that train line in the pictures is a red forest one

[marsh leaf]

mine kept falling off cliffs lol

[sour mural]

Spoken like someone who doesn't understand them. 👍

[sour mural]

Drive better.

This isn't U2. This is U5/6.
They follow what you drive.

[waxen crow]

If you bring all the bauxite to a middle cliff then you can bring the top bauxite to the edge and bring that down to meet the bauxite on the lower elevation

[sour mural]

Terrain is almost entirely fixed so they don't fall through the map either.

[marsh leaf]

well, this is going back a couple of years, so maybe the pathfinding has improved since i had my coal trucks set up? but yeah they'd get snagged and run out of fuel and were just a mess for me 😅

when the new patch comes out i'll retire my factory and give them another shot 🥰

[sour mural]

Not like Early Access games improve things over the years...

[waxen crow]

psssst... I still dislike trucks even after the updates

[sour mural]

You're a hater but I accept you.

Because you admitted you don't have any practical reason to dislike then.
It's just personal.

[waxen crow]

They're just unwieldy. I haven't come across a situation where a train wasn't a better choice

[sour mural]

They aren't unwieldly...

[marsh leaf]

he's really gonna die on that truck hill isn't he? 😛

[sour mural]

The follow what you drive.
If you drive like shit, so do they.

[waxen crow]

Every time I go 'sure I'll try a truck' the elevation is awkward, turning space is cramped. They never fit in the locations I need them to.

My logistic paths tend to be either very short or very long.

[sour mural]

Entire aspect of the game that works great and has a solid place in logistics, sometimes being BETTER than trains, but people skip it either based on U2-3 experiences that no longer apply or because they are Fucktorio train fetishists..

Yes, hill worth dying on.

[marsh leaf]

anyhoo better get some sleep. I'll try your 'build down' method for the train track pillars to even out my rollercoaster!

[waxen crow]

Never played factorio. Never grabbed me

Even the medium-ish distance stuff that needs to get moved just gets bused under a train line or something

less than 1km still

And I plan for rail line to pass through the area for those cases

[rotund hedge]

That is an issue I recognise in my own save, I've only just started to use trains an had the weirdest bug last night that eventually caused a train crash on a line with just one train 🙂

[waxen crow]

That one happened to me once after many many hours of things running in the background.
As far as I can tell it collided with itself

[rotund hedge]

Mine was a little weirder, the train actually vanished thought never to return, half hour later I rebuild it, half hour after that it reappeared and caused the pictured accident.

After the new train had done four deliveries 🤷‍♂️

[waxen crow]

XD i'd expect that on a dedicated server maybe

[rotund hedge]

Likewise but I'm not using a dedicated server 🙂

Let there be no doubt what that factory produces in huge amounts!

[waxen crow]

How bizzare XD

[waxen crow]

Several thousand?

[rotund hedge]

Yeah, 3600.

[waxen crow]

I'm currently belting up the copper refineries to feed this bastard tower. ~11,000 qw pm

Extreme overclocking

Each floor will make up to 2400pm

[rotund hedge]

Not sure I'd want 11,000 QW coming from one site, the beltwork would be a swine.

[waxen crow]

The layout is fairly tidy actually.

the top 2 floors have 4 belts each heading into the picture to the tower behind it

the bottom 3 floors will have 11 belts goign to the right tower for the ur cells

Logistic core down the centre down with qw and the ingots will come in the 'front' close in to the pov of hte picture up the structure

I spend more time plotting logistics than actually building them xD

[rotund hedge]

I know what you mean there, my factory rebuild is being a huge logistical challenge, building the factories is easy, routing everything, that's taking some thought.

[waxen crow]

yup XD

I'm pretty sure I've just stared at my factory for 3 hours with intermittent fiddling today.

[rotund hedge]

Oops, had to clean up a huge typo, nothing like two metre high letters on one of the building corners reading QUICWKIRE.

Here's how my factories begin, I just make things up as I go along from that point onwards trying to get the numbers to fit the location.

It's thankfully right next to the quicwkire plant (typo intended)

[waxen crow]

As long as you plan out enough space for the layout 🙂

[rotund hedge]

Takes it time to evolve from signs and a machine used as reference to a factory, if there isn't enough space I just add floors.

[waxen crow]

taaaaaallllllll

I compress things too much to not make very detailed plans

[rotund hedge]

The aluminium processing factory pictured here was originally going to be a one floor thing, then the alclad section was added, yeah I soon divided that up.

I did reuse the wasted space under the train station for 16 copper smelters.

[waxen crow]

yeah it's too convenient to centralise bauxite production

[rotund hedge]

I still had to add a parity belt to enforce 780 inputs at the bauxite processing, and because I built that refinery in a stupid place, it now has a train station on its roof moving ingots to the above factory to make 1920 casings and 1440 alclad sheets.

[gentle comet]

not bad for a first base

[rotund hedge]

It's good to see the dunes gradually repopulating after I got dynamite happy on the old base.

As much as I tried, retrofitting the old base just wasn't having it, not enough internal space, lights wouldn't go, some lines needed to be removed like the entire ironworks, there were three separate QW factories, two AI limiter factories, it was a mess.

[sour mural]

Doing Outpost Zero for my U6 run this weekend.
NF build I haven't done before. Will take many pictures.

[rotund hedge]

Cool, I look forward to seeing them 🙂 , might be ideas I could grab 😎

[sour mural]

Only 1 set of machines doesn't have shards in it 😂

This run is all about overclocking for compactness (and machine ratios where applicable).

[rotund hedge]

I almost made a giant QW bungle, for some reason I forgot I had the output of each of it's belts at 450, and started planning around 600s, it would have been a yellow light nightmare.

[waxen crow]

Twould!

I need to move pipes and belts from the bottom of the picture behind the elevator and up. But theres the rail there that makes it not be able to do it directly behind it and fairly awks. Need an elegant solution

trying to avoid making the train loop go the other way. Looks much tidier this way

[rotund hedge]

You might need to start the pipes going up 8 metres closer to the station, to about 8-12 metres up then shunt over to behind the façade you're wanting the pipes behind, you can build the lower part like kind of a train gate that the pipes/belts are inside.

[waxen crow]

like that?

[rotund hedge]

Sorry about my paint skills.

[rotund hedge]

For the angle you show here you could have belts and pipes duck under the rail then go upwards, just build a structure around it that looks like it's intended to hold it all so it doesn't look janky.

[waxen crow]

The elevator location is a bit non negotiable. It's part of a vein on the outside of the tower go0ing allllll the way up

[rotund hedge]

That's why the routing at the bottom needs addressing even if it does mean bending it around the track loop like an industrial gateway.

[waxen crow]

Industrial gateway?

[rotund hedge]

One moment, I'll use the ammunition construction site to build what I'm trying to get across.

[waxen crow]

XD doing steps with lifts is just annoying because I can't keep the belts 1m dif in height since lifts heads are tall.

And the actual foot print of the space is quite narrow

w/o changing the loop I think I have run it to the left here step above the rail loop and THEN into the logistic core?

Like this was what I had to do to solve the compact space issue with lifts in this core. I think I'll be able to make it pretty once I encase it. But it's not as elegant as I'd like

[rotund hedge]

Kind of like this sort of routing.

[waxen crow]

yeah the pipes no issue, but like in the pics above... bloody chonky lifts

and the more 'joints' with lifts the chonkier it gets

[rotund hedge]

Use floor holes to cull joints at least in the vertical.

[waxen crow]

I'm actually tempted to make this a push pull train and cut the loop entirely. I can make the bottom floor of rail a foot path maybe

[rotund hedge]

Until you change direction, floor holes as joints eliminates the big chungus allowing you to route lifts in similar vertical densities to pipes.

I've been doing that in my access shafts, looks so much cleaner than the huge dog leg joints.

As for the trains, personally I prefer the push/pull shuttle style simply because it's more compact, not good for rail networks but for single point to point I prefer it.

[waxen crow]

This is the steps I'm talking about

I can keep the bottom layers of belts compact but as soon as I do a step in the bus it can get wonky w/o clever maneuvers and hiding things. Sadly I'm not going to be able to hide things as well on that logistic core

[rotund hedge]

Ahh yeah that's rough, I'd have to keep the horizontal belts level so they don't step in to each other, but meh, yeah I don't like those, got a junction just like it at my bauxite refinery for coal, no matter what I did, it was a pita.

[waxen crow]

Yeah I did find a solution which kinda works as put above but with multiple steps in a small area it'll be wonky I think

[rotund hedge]

I'd entomb the steps in a steel framework and a glass exterior.

[waxen crow]

Yeah it'll either be that or push pull train and just avoid the steps entirely

It's an aesthetic train anyway XD

[rotund hedge]

I've got to move an access shaft, my primary oil refinery was much larger than I had planned for, and the second smaller oil pipeline going to the future ammo tower comes up almost under it 😦

I hate moving over/underground shafts, such a pita!.

[waxen crow]

Even worse when you can't move the surounds :\

Ah bugger. I can't make it push pull, I made a cool loop at the other end XD

[rotund hedge]

This is the shaft I have to move, 16 metres to the east.

[waxen crow]

a small but v annoying shift I take it? XD

[rotund hedge]

Yeah, it carries 450 oil, mains power and hyper access to what will be the ammunition tower & armoury.

[waxen crow]

Why do you need it shifted all along the way? Can't do a turn at the top?

[rotund hedge]

Problem is there is another passage further to the east carrying sulphur, I'll need to move it.

Turning it at the top means I still end up with it encroaching on the oil refinery that's doing recycled rubber & plastic.

[safe mantle]

I think that's all I'm capable of

[waxen crow]

oof

[waxen crow]

That's what everyone's first base looks like 🙂

[waxen crow]

Solution, increase rail loop size and make a 'tunnel' into the cliff and just clip the bastard

[rotund hedge]

D'oh 😦

[waxen crow]

When in doubt? Clip!

[rotund hedge]

Shame the loop can't go the other way,

[waxen crow]

.... it COULD but it would be untidy

[safe mantle]

You haven't seen my rotor factory yet...

[waxen crow]

where as this can be completely encased in a structure

[waxen crow]

xD you'll get there. Early spaghet is normal

[rotund hedge]

This is the shaft the ammunition shaft pops up too close to. 8 oil pipes rising from the tunnel network in to the refinery , taken from the whole spire coast pipeway.

[safe mantle]

WTF...

[rotund hedge]

I build tunnels, deal with it 😛

[safe mantle]

Good luck!

[waxen crow]

You can clip under the terrain 🙂

[rotund hedge]

It's the whole reason I got known as the tunnel rat.

I can't even remember who called me that but hell I just own it and added it as a title to my name.

[gentle comet]

does anyone know what a good coal miner to generator ratio is, about to get my first coal generators up

[sour mural]

Stop doing things in ratios. Use exact numbers.

Coal gens take 15/min.
Look at how much each miner is giving you, decide how much you want going to power.
Coal to Power/15 = number of gens

@waxen crow this is how much I hate clipping, I will not be doing this setup:

[gentle comet]

oh, i didnt know the numbers yet cause i havent built the generators or miners yet, collecting everything atm

[sour mural]

This your first run?

[gentle comet]

yes

[sour mural]

May I give you my new player advice?

[gentle comet]

sure

[sour mural]

Drop this Discord, entirely (for now).
Play the game by yourself without any guides, hints, wikis, or help all the way to T7.
Experience the game for yourself, meet the challenges and solve the problems yourself so you learn how to think about the game.
Get your own perspective on how things work. Once you're at T7 then come back and you'll be in a much better spot to compare your experience with others instead of just having information handed to you.

You lose so much of the journey if you are just gifted answers.

[rotund hedge]

@waxen crow Aaaaand the ammunition factory shaft is moved, I changed the pipeline location as well to make it more multi-level hyper tube friendly while I was at it.

[sour mural]

I PINGED HIM FIRST!

😠 Tryna steal my replies out here...

[rotund hedge]

Was an ongoing discussion, soo 🤷‍♂️

[sour mural]

BOOO HISSSSS

Nice mug you got there 😉

[rotund hedge]

The product of what was a LGIO level spaghetti factory because I wanted the space elevator thing to gtfo, I was glad to demolish the mess 😅

[sour mural]

Running low on shards. Time to... make some more 😉

[rotund hedge]

I just chuck the slugs in to the bio shaker facility induction can and leave that to produce shards so I don't have to.

[sour mural]

I'm trying to keep some as slugs for a later project.

But I am using hundreds of shards this run, lol.

[rotund hedge]

Decoration project?

[sour mural]

Ish

[rotund hedge]

I still need to get one unit of plutonium waste to go in a display case at the nuclear facility.

Finally sorted my tubes so I don't get launched when I go downstairs!

[waxen crow]

There there, You can both have my attentions

[waxen crow]

as an additional tip - bookmark the satisfactory wiki and look up the numbers you can play with.
Ratios don't really work since each node produces different parts per minute, and changes with different mk miners, and new belts.

Just gotta do the maths 🙂

[waxen crow]

Looks good!

[gentle comet]

well i got 4 coal generators up and running with room for more when needed

[waxen crow]

This is maths and logistics the game 🙂 It's useful to keep notes of your math for reference as you build and later too

[waxen crow]

avoiding discord until later is also not a terrible idea. Dig your teeth into the game and get a basic handle on things. Don't worry too much about being super tidy early on. And have fun!

[gentle comet]

right, cause i should be able to build 16 coal generators total with what i have, but thats a bit overkill atm

[sour mural]

But you didn't respond to what I sent.
Proving we can both have it. 😭

[waxen crow]

It absolutely is not 😄 60 coal gens is very reasonable

[waxen crow]

a react is a reply 😛

[waxen crow]

That's not to disparage your 16 generators. You'll just discover that you need a LOT of power soon

dedicated 4 coal nodes and making power out of them, and enlarging your power station as you get new tech is a pretty solid move

[sour mural]

You expect me to scroll all the way back up?

[waxen crow]

gotta work for it

[sinful zenith]

Should I keep it or nah? Like only beams for where storage containers are, not the entire wall

[waxen crow]

Going to be an internal wall? I think you could make the aesthetic work. You don't sound too happy with it though

[sinful zenith]

It uses sooo much steel

[waxen crow]

Make some more steel 😄

[sinful zenith]

And I thought I'll only use it for making the containers blend in better but Idk if it still looks good if not every wall is covered

[waxen crow]

Break it up with some concrete pillars otherwise it'll be a bit much I think

[sinful zenith]

The small ones? On the corners and in between?

[waxen crow]

small I think yeah. Maybe not between every storage container. Maybe have pillars on either side of every set of 2 containers?

[sinful zenith]

Like this?

[waxen crow]

I like it 🙂 though I think maybe decide if you want beams in the middle. You seem to have one embeded on the right pillar but not the left?

[sinful zenith]

That's because there is no crossbeam on theleft

I have a crossbeams over the machinery so I can do this:

[waxen crow]

You'd have to pick which support. OR use the concrete pillars more sparingly around the factory

[sinful zenith]

I can leave the concrete pillar on corners only

right side isn't a corner, left side is

[waxen crow]

Sure

[pastel pecan]

Does anyone know what # color concrete is ?

i want to paint the conveyor wall to look like concrete wall since there is no concrete conveyor wall

[south oar]

it'sa texture, not a single colour

[pastel pecan]

i just want the color so they "match" with that atleast

[valid harness]

#5D5D5D

[south oar]

try using a colour picker tool in a program like GIMP

using a screenshot

[valid harness]

wait

nvm

[valid harness]

its color of foundaments

[south oar]

that hex code is like a fairly dark grey, i don't think that's concrete texture at all 😄

[lusty heart]

0, 0, 0.5?

[analog rune]

satisfactory 👍

[paper robin]

This image is satisfactory

Does anyone know if they’ll add light fixtures for when it’s night and harder to see your factory?

So you don’t have to have the flashlight on always

[sour mural]

Lights are already in the game

[paper robin]

Oh when do I unlock them

[grim vector]

Find and research quartz

[paper robin]

Ah thanks

[earnest locust]

I'm getting to the point where I'm trying to limit my spaghetti, but I always run into issue when I need to move lots of base ingredients long distances. Does anyone have a good example of how they routed their resources to the building(s) for something a bit more obnoxious to set up, like sulfuric acid production or even setting up turbo fuel?

[sour mural]

They switched it to Caterium.

[analog rune]

plz help my bridge skipped leg day

[cosmic vector]

Add a layer of foundations around the bottom, thickening about 10% from the ground. The rest of it is fine being thin since the bridge itselft isn't that wide.

[analog rune]

ill give it a go thanks

[tame grove]

(disregard)

[rain plaza]

What do we think, lads?

Does it need anything else?

[grim vector]

Maybe give the roof some attention?

[sinful zenith]

In my humble opinion I would keep the roof simple

[rain plaza]

That's the roof

[fallen lance]

Maybe something along the edges?

Vertically top to bottom, I mean.

[rain plaza]

Trying to decide what to do with turbofuel buffers... was thinking maybe hanging them off the side, or on the roof, but I'm not sure...

[fallen lance]

I was thinking maybe beams or pillars, to give it some 3D structure, going top corner to bottom corner along each of the 6 edges. But I dunno, that might be a little too much.

You can definitely overdo it with stuff like that. Tends to be one of my problems. Sometimes less is more.

[sinful zenith]

About the thin windows, should I make them the same as the lower row or leave them open?

[waxen crow]

Encase them in concrete? vanilla buffers are kinda ugly unless you're making a specific type of industrial look

[cloud atlas]

I really like this view

[shrewd bolt]

this is beautiful

[grave geyser]

hello

how much bigger should I make my factory

[wispy mural]

large

keep expanding

[grave geyser]

I have problem

[wispy mural]

make big

[grave geyser]

the weird cliff

Is blocking me

[craggy cedar]

When in doubt, build it out.

Or move if it gets too much

[grave geyser]

or should I expand my sky platform here

and build upward

[waxen crow]

The extent of my logistic design crimes cannot be encompassed in a single pov

This will all get embedded with concrete to hide the sin

[proven prawn]

@cloud atlas how many trucks do you have

[cloud atlas]

nah, I screenshooted it from utube.

[proven prawn]

Ok

[rain plaza]

So many wires. Main switching room for my turbofuel plant. 17 switches. 5 generating floors, 5 production floors, independent circuits for each resource, plus main production, main generator, and main switches

[waxen crow]

someone after my own step by step power plant start sequence heart

[rotund hedge]

I never tried to have all the switches in one room, except for the off button for all the uranium mines.

[valid harness]

Why do you you that button

[rotund hedge]

Should I need to shut down my nukes, slamming the anchors on all four mines is the start of that, no uranium in lets most of the dangerous crap work its way out.

[valid harness]

So you disable nukes for maintenance or something

[rotund hedge]

More to remodel or if coffee stain change something that breaks the whole thing.

[valid harness]

Got it