The Power Tower - how to build an extremely powerful and space-efficient energy solution for your base!
This is a design I've perfected over a few years of playing Astroneer. It's compact, outputs all the power a standard base will ever need, it's simple to build, and all of its parts fit neatly on a single Large slot!
It's easy to build one of these on Sylva and fit it onto a medium or large rocket. When you package up all the parts, everything will fit onto one of the Large Storage Silo B's and one of the Medium storage silos.
You can quickly assemble it on any base you've built, anywhere. It's totally self-contained, and does not depend on wind or light, so it will work just as well on Atrox as it does on Sylva. On my larger bases, they're so compact you can easily build a row of them, all working in concert. You will need a Honeypot Seed from Atrox, but once you have one, you can farm them to get as many as you need.
Parts list:
- (1) Large stacked platform
- (2) Large storage silo B
- (2) Medium storage silo
- (2) Auto arms
- (4) Honeypot seeds
- (4) Tappers
- (4) Portable smelting furnace
- (20) Medium power generator
The power comes from 4 honeypot seeds that are planted at the base of the tower, each fitted with a Tapper. Auto-arms on the lower section pluck the Organic from the ground, and carry it up to the portable smelters on the upper section. The smelters turn the Organic to Carbon, and the Carbon is automatically moved onto one of the 20 medium generators.
Total power output: ~170 units/second. It will need a small kickstart from an external power source, just enough to power the first portable smelter.
This is my favorite power generator I've ever built - I use them everywhere these days.