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My only problem with the game is the earlygame power gen. Its just so annoying to deal with the biomass burners.
Have you played 1.0 yet? You can automate a lot of the biomass process now that the main biomass burners (I.e. Not the ones attached to the hub) have conveyer belt inputs.
I basically set up two industrial storage bins at the beginning of a biomass production line, one for wood and one for leaves. Each bin feeds into a constructor that turns the associated raw resource into biomass. Then feed those biomass constructors into another constructor that makes solid biofuel. Finally hook that up to the generators and all you have to do is spend a few minutes every hour or so collecting leaves and wood to dump in the storage bins.
It's still enough work that automating coal is a huge priority, but it's not as tedious as it used to be at all.
Thanks for this tip, I was thinking maybe I could just sort of deal with the biomass stuff by hand until I reached coal but I took a chance tonight and built a line for biomass production like you described and it works well. Cheers!
It gets really good when you get smart splitters. You don't even need to really progress much in the game to get there, you just need to fill out the caterium tree in the mam. Then you can have one input for all your biomass stuff and smart splitters that take it to the constructors that will convert it to biomass, then into the constructors that will convert it to solid biomass, then into the burners. 👍
I used to build such lines in update 8 that output to a bin and I'd grab it for the burners.... Just collect whatever biomass I can while I'm out getting things done and dump it every time I get back to the hub area where it was setup with the burners. It was a little ritual I had. The input on biomass burners will really cut down on how much time I have to think about it.
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I'm playing 1.0 now, I just unlocked smart splitters, and I have to rebuild my biomass processing as a result.
There's also the dimensional depot which I rushed to, and that's a complete game changer. Finally got enough materials to just set it up on my production lines, and I'm planning to add one for biomass, so I always have a little biomass in the depot for when I'm out and about and a drop pod needs power.