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The original was posted on /r/factorio by /u/Osvaldo_de_Osvaldis on 2026-08-09 09:57:42+00:00.


...and I loved it!

The planet has been quite a nice challenge, initially I designed things with circular belts but they got clogged and then I decided to go with my first real main bus (I did Nauvis before I got space age and it's a spaghetti mess, I will refurbish it after I get oof Vulcanus with cliff explosives and Foundries). I am quite happy with the defenses, safe for the "1000 destroyed entities" warnings when a wave of pentapods gets blown up in the mine fields. Initially I went for thick walls to slow down the pentapods (if there are no empty spaces when to land a feet they slow down and hesitate the pathfinding before stomping everything), then I realized that explosive missiles destroy more walls than pentapods, and I switched to yellow missiles (still a lot of red one around in the pipelines), and then I realized that mines do the same effect of walls, cost no stone so are perfectly sustainable on gleba, and do damage. So i went for extensive minefields.

Once I understood the principles of continuous flow, spoilage drain and proper bus materials (only long spoilage ones), everything went quite smoothly, except for terrain issues such as cliffs and water, that I had to build around.

I used a Gleba blueprint book, because my free time wasn't enough to study-play-enjoy each production line to make my own, the only new thing that I discovered using the Book was the use of splitter selector to sort spoilage out of the lines. It would have probably taken me a lot of more time to figure it out on my own.

I have a few of mods but most are end-game stuff (Maraxis, lithium battery, plasma ducts and ammunitions), the only early game ones are ships and big containers.

I am surprised I built a better base on Gleba rather than on Nauvis. I am currently working on Vulcanus, to get some foundries off planet, I want to make smelting ores and copper cable much more efficient. Apparently a normal spidertron is not enough to kill a worm. Without nukes, at least.

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High security to check the eggs

Yes, it's a spoilage farm. Carbon doesn't rain from the sky. Yet. I am working on it.

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