First Benzene Setup
it's my first time in MV and I've made my first benzene setup :)
it's not really done yet because I need to make kanthal coils and a nitrogen stack, for obvious reasons, but it's a start! I'm running an LV crop manager off my old steam setup so it's mostly automated, only needing to top up a barrel of logs for my coke ovens every few hours, though I plan to feed those off the same crop manager (I'm in 2.9 so I got 31/31/31 bonsais quite early
before I finish MV I want to automate aluminium with clay lilies and electrolizing the CO2 output, automate PE with oil berries, and passive solar grade silicon dust. these all seem pretty straightforward as far as I can tell? the only issues I could see are powering these and piping, because I want to take excess oxygen from my benzene nitrogen stack and the CO2 electrolizers for polyethylene, but I think can handle that lol
is there anything else I should set up before HV? I feel like after I passive those I'm kinda set for the rest of MV, and I'd rather do the bare minimum automation-wise before AE2.. I know I'm a little ways off since AE2 is in EV, but I basically did all of MV in 3ish days. all I really have left is kanthal ingots (I have the dust, chem bath, and coolant alr) and the new circuits, all of which I'll have access to once I make a couple MV energy hatches for my EBF
I would like to batch craft like a stack of HV circuits, but I heard they get a lot cheaper once I make a cleanroom, so I'm gunna wait for that