Because this community deserves more activity.
Today was spent setting up a basic Quartz/Silica factory, from one of the pure nodes in the giant Rocky Desert cave.
Got it most of the way done. Need to finish running power along the input belt line, finish enclosing the Depot wing, bring the road up to meet the building, setup truck stations, and color and light the whole thing.
Do you account for excavator (not the right name) upgrades and over clocking when you do this?
I usually do, but sometimes, it just doesn’t feel feasible. Not if you’re going for “pretty” factories, like we’re trying to, this time around.
Like, this build will be able to accommodate me upgrading the one miner that powers it to a Mk3 at 250% clock, without needing a clock higher than 250% on any machine. And no belt will need more than 1,200 items/min. But, for example, my first attempt to plan for this factory was to use all of the mine-able Quartz in this cave, not just a single Pure node, and that would have required me to have 40 constructors. It just didn’t seem worth it to me, when this facility will already produce over 500/min of each item, when it’s fully-upgraded. If that does turn out to not be enough, I’ll add another miner, and figure out how to either expand this facility, or build a second one right next to it.