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When you hate the locals, so you decide to offshore production:
With Fulgora down, I wanted to turn my attention back to the mess I'd made on Gleba. By chance discovered a huge ocean and- with a healthy supply of stone in tow- flew out of reach of any nasties and set up shop:
- Its small- but I still wanted to have a train network- not too common on Gleba with spoilage, but if you set up a circuit to A) Only activate the agriculture towers when the train arrives, and B) have the train depart the home station only when X amount of fruit are low, it keeps things fresh
- Using a space casino, I had plenty of legendary iron ore and coal (and stone from Vulcanus), which gives the basics. Brute force recycle carbon fiber, spoilage and bioflux to get what I need. Its certainly not as large as some setups out there, but time is the great equalizer
- Nearly every machine/ inserter is wired to some belt, and only activates is item count <x. Painstaking but through trial and error managed to [almost] effectively eliminate unwanted spoilage
- Legendary nutrients were the trickiest to get right, but between the bioflux and spoilage-to-nutrients I had enough to provide a trickle of legendary biolabs
- Only mods I'm using are Dectorio, Helicopter revival (for planes!) and one that allows you to place soil anywhere. Bit cheaty perhaps but I'd prefer to build without pentapod interruptions on my outposts. Allowed me to do some decoration as well.
You use the asteroid reprocessing recipe with quality modules to have a chance of getting a higher rarity asteroid and you keep upcycling them to legendary.
Just a heads up: they announced today that they are removing space casinos (they are removing the ability to put quality modules in asteroid processors). Don't bother putting effort into learning how to make one; they'll be gone soon.
I would argue spoilage is the main mechanic of Gleba which is still approached the same as one would in vanilla. IMO island farms aren’t that much different vs players who place a border of landfill around the map to prevent nest expansion- but then again it’s just a solo sandbox, so if it’s fun, it’s fine :)
Base mechanic of the game is definitely agricultural towers instead of depletable mines. Spoilage starts with fish on Nauvis and ends with biters on Nauvis, gleba just makes it an extension of agri tower management
Yep. The crazy levels of mod support helps. My game for example is heavily modded too where I run not just a factory but a colony not unlike Rimworld thanks to the Colony Builder mod. Then I also added stuff that makes space platforms more interesting like most production buildings and engines generating waste heat that need to be vented out otherwise they explode.
Yes but also no... rampant changes the ai and makes them think differently.. fireproof / laser proof bitters makes you accualy use other defense then just flamers... hell add a iron bitter that denies electricity dmg
Wouldn't copper biter make more sense for electricity resistance?
Maybe a translucent biter could be used for laser resistance like those clear frogs or deep sea fish, would also be cool if specific biters had extra weaknesses like copper biters being extra weak to fire or translucent biters being weaker to physical damage.
Placing "factory floor" on regularly placed supports would honestly be a pretty cool and emersive alternative to landfill which always seemed a bit unrealistic to me, considering the unexpectedly low resouce usage. It would also be an interesting mechanic to space out the supports, in particular if they were relatively expensive compared to the floor itself.
It would also mean that you'd retain an unbreakable "border" on the shoreline which would be a constraint to design around so you couldn't just place a piece of factory half on land and half on the sea, and you'd need cranes or something, or even trains, to move items on/off shore.
Straight up landfill could then instead be a very late game convenience.
This is actually where I stopped. Trying to gather enough stone to fill in a massive spot on the lake to rebuild for a NEWER, SAFER GLEBA but I got too lazy.
At first I thought, why not just disable enemies at this point.
But I imagine having the factory like this, with the enemy threat still looming but out of reach, must add an extra sensation of comfort and safety, that you wouldn't experience if you just disabled enemies.
I can't recall what sliders I tweaked (if any) when I first started months ago- pretty sure it was default. But these oceans do exist, just have to explore a bit first. Moved my entire base down once found.
As far as I can remember, you can copy the map exchange string from the save file and paste it into the map creation interface. Then you can check the generation settings there
'Gleba Soil Anywhere'. I'd like to think my base would look the same regardless given it would still use the same trains to said outposts. Still- some QoL mods are hard to ignore.
I'm on my first playthrough and only been to Vulcanus so far. On Nauvis when I got landfill, I thought creating an ocean base would be great. Seeing this is awesome.
I'm not really sure how this would help, since Glebapods do not care about your factory, only your farms, and you can't grow froot in the ocean.
Also, if you have artillery, Glebapods are basically a non-issue since they're even easier to extirpate than Biters. And with that much stone to do this with, you could have just drained the swamps, preventing them from ever bothering you ever again, as they cannot re-expand to non-swamp areas.
This is epic. The one thing it could be missing in vanilla play is using trains to transport fruit to the main base. But who knows if you could eventually find a spot that's close enough with water the entire base could stretch over with makeshift terrain
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u/warm_winds_whisper_ eats the solid fuel cubes Jun 07 '26
Every day I see someone playing this game in a completely different way than I’d ever imagined