u/fireduck

I knew I was saving these files for something.

Now you can see how my questionable base has grown.

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/timeline.html?path=d-3b232f4a&x=-399.7&y=-72.4&z=-1.2

I noticed I was out of barrels, which usually means something has gone wrong and I have way too many of something. So my top offender...simik blood.

Time to see if I can make pudding or something.

Here is where I tell the bats to move liquid from one box to a box slightly to the left so it can be dumped in a hole:

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-188.4&y=1792.1&z=4.3

(Because I want to collect their poop)

Here is where I burn things and make steam, which is then vented:

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-676.5&y=-1186.6&z=2.3

(Because I ran out of ash but have an unholy amount of burnable rocks)

Here is where I store some of them:

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-465.6&y=-1040.7&z=4.6

This base is getting weird. Sometimes a base metal supply goes to zero for a while and then recovers with nothing happening. I imagine there are all sorts of weird effects going on as things flood and choke and whatever.

I am on the final Space science of a pyamadons run. It has been about 1300 hours.

My base is kinda terrible. I am still getting stone from mines, which means I am getting tons of Kerogen as well. Which is piling up everywhere.

A while ago I setup some reactor and it was making Neutron soup. I didn't know what to do with that so I put in some big tanks. When later I needed to use control rods because I needed to extract tritium from used control rods. I didn't know or care what the control rods did. Apparently heat Neutrons. So I had that just heating up my Neutron soup. Cool, whatever.

Recently I was having power problems and got tired of building endless fields of tidal power and questionable wind turbines. I took a look at the fusion power. I had been ignoring it. Turns out there is some late game Magnetrohydroynamic monster that makes some insane power. Apparently you just feed it hot neutrons...which I had an absolute ton of. Score. It was a bear to build in terms of materials but it is working great. I only kick it on when the accumulators are running low, which only happens when the wind dies down and the centerfuges get angry. So I have power for one forever. Which is good because I am at like 1 science per minute for the last space science.

I am working towards Utility Science. Somehow my base is operating so well that I might need to expand my labs. I've never had to expand my labs, there was always a series of bottlenecks...but now it is going smoothly.

Granted, my science area isn't big..

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-80.6&y=-260.9&z=3.3

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-62.8&y=-891.3&z=3.5

I got Science Pack 4 done. It involves taking most of the animals, shooting them up with anti-tumor meds and putting them in a centrifuge or something. I don't know. It is limping along.

I need to scale up a lot of my animals. Especially the ones that get eaten by the others. For example, the giant worm, Vonix, needs to eat a musk-donkey and an ultralisk. So I need to scale up those since apparently you can't do science without Vonix eggs. Cool.

I am also needing to replace some of my plant and animal lines with unstarvable versions. For example, with the vonix, you use the vonix to get the eggs. Then the eggs to make vonix pups. Then you grow the pups into vonix. Fine. Unless you are running a logistics base and something is eating all the eggs. Then you starve the line, it shuts down. So I need to put all the vonix things in one belt driven block where only to excess goes on the logistics network. That way, it can't run out regardless of demand.

I haven't updated the map in a minute so can't show the new vonix line, but here is the giant venus fly snapper line:

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-857.3&y=-671.3&z=5.1

Then I can just copy and paste these blocks to scale up. Easy as eating pancakes.

Just two more science types left. I expect they will be bears. When setting up for this fresh one, there were a lot of animal products I'm not yet making. This scares me.

--Excelsior

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-62.8&y=-891.3&z=3.5

I got Science Pack 4 done. It involves taking most of the animals, shooting them up with anti-tumor meds and putting them in a centrifuge or something. I don't know. It is limping along.

I need to scale up a lot of my animals. Especially the ones that get eaten by the others. For example, the giant worm, Vonix, needs to eat a musk-donkey and an ultralisk. So I need to scale up those since apparently you can't do science without Vonix eggs. Cool.

I am also needing to replace some of my plant and animal lines with unstarvable versions. For example, with the vonix, you use the vonix to get the eggs. Then the eggs to make vonix pups. Then you grow the pups into vonix. Fine. Unless you are running a logistics base and something is eating all the eggs. Then you starve the line, it shuts down. So I need to put all the vonix things in one belt driven block where only to excess goes on the logistics network. That way, it can't run out regardless of demand.

I haven't updated the map in a minute so can't show the new vonix line, but here is the giant venus fly snapper line:

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=-857.3&y=-671.3&z=5.1

Then I can just copy and paste these blocks to scale up. Easy as eating pancakes.

Just two more science types left. I expect they will be bears. When setting up for this fresh one, there were a lot of animal products I'm not yet making. This scares me.

--Excelsior

I run a software company out of my house. I have a 10g line from Wave/Astound, I have my own IPv4 and IPv6 prefix from ARIN. So I do BGP with them. Last summer, Ziply ran lines down my street so I'd like to get Ziply and do BGP with them.

You would think "business internet" or something, but as with many companies business internet just means slightly upscaled service, not things like knowing what BGP is.

How do I get in contact with someone at Ziply who knows what these words mean?

You can turn a Schrodinger antelope into 50% schrodinger pos-tilope and 50% schrodinger anti-lope.

I think I need a nap.

Edit: I made the damn antelopes. Now I can't figure out what the hell I needed them for.

I take a slightly higher tech approach to preparedness. I have a local copy of wikipedia. I know enough to run a small machine or two off small solar panels if needed.

I also have a DGX Spark. It is a neat little box, basically a mini-computer with 4TB of storage and a very solid GPU. It occurred to me that it might be an interesting resource for when I encounter something I just don't know how to do. When running all out, it uses up to 250watts, which is a lot but for a short time quite doable. When not taxing it, it is much much less.

So I decided to test it. I ran the gemma4:31b model and told it there was an earthquake, I had a water storage tank and wanted to keep the water safe to drink. This is something I've researched myself so I knew the right answers already. It did great, giving me the right warnings about using food safe plastics, how to dose the water with chlorine, what chlorine to use. I quizzed it about using pool test strips to make sure the chlorine was right. Its answers matched the research I've done before.

With how I was running the model (straight ollama terminal) I know it had no way to reach out and do any web searches, it was answering from its own model weights.

Now that information might be in my wikipedia archive as well. But maybe not. The nice thing about an LLM is you can describe your situation and what you have and it can come back with a step by step plan for your situation. I could see that being useful for all sorts of things I just don't know, like how to skin a rabbit or how to eat acorns.

I wanted a simple wet-bulb calculator site, so I made one.

As the climate changes this is something we should be aware of, as things get hotter there are times when it is simply unsafe to do work or exist. To understand when that is, we need to understand wet-bulb temperatures. Think of it is as the coolest you can get while absolutely coated with sweat.

Calculating this value isn't trivial, it involves a multi-step simulation. However, fortunately a clever sausage came up with a formula that works for most conditions we are likely to encounter close enough. That is what this site uses.

It has no ads. I'm paying for the hosting. I don't think the $1.25 this might cost me is going to be a problem. I don't have an agenda here beyond I like to make things that people use and find value in.

Ok, this sub has been a bit of a wasteland so I'm making a change.

There is now a new rule, rule 9 - no price posts. There will be an automatic weekly thread for price discussion. I totally get that a lot of people (including me) care about the price of cryptocurrency assets, especially in these trying times. But this sub should be about more than 15 posts a day expressing big emotions about tiny market movements.

I've been trying to think of a better way to moderate this but I don't want to be in position of saying this guy's insane scribbling on a chart has merit while this other guy's AI baboon riding to the moon does not. (They are both equally deranged) So my decision is no price posts.

Comments are fine.

I think if this movement is to be about anything, it has to be about more than the price.

I added a rail route which was a shortcut between two sections and wondered if it was getting any use. So I made a rail counter. This game is modded, but it should work fine in vanilla.

https://www.factoriocodex.com/blueprints/297

Here it is in action, just having been deployed:

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=844.6&y=386.4&z=4.5

I have been working on a py run. I'm not sure I'm winning. 800 hours in.

I mostly did all of my ore processing with stacks like this:
https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=232.0&y=-773.4&z=3.9

Ideally, I leave space and can extend each machine type as I want to have higher throughput or figure out the ratios better. It works well in early to mid game, it is easy, it scales ok, puts no load on logistics network. But then it breaks down, it is hard to get enough flowing on the belts and I always run out of room.

So I've tried a new setup. This one says nuts to ratios, we just one a copyable block that does the thing. This is the chromium processing. It is rigged to make gold and spit out chromium as a side product but whatever. Parts of it feed back as some rejects/side products get reprocessed again.

So here it is, one of each machines. Ratios are all a mess but it works. And I can paste down as many as I need.

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=208.3&y=1803.9&z=2.5

And here is tin, this one passed acceptance testing and has been replicated. I like to put fences around self-contained modules so I don't lose track of where the edges are for copy and paste. Plus I think it is cool.

https://bulk.1209k.com/factorio/HotSlugFall/?x=962.9&y=1832.4&z=2.6

--Excelsior

This nonsense is better than most of the nonsense that gets posted here.

My request is that people should get weirder. Please. We need it.

When I was younger, I basically read this book cover to cover:

Do-It-Yourself Housebuilding: The Complete Handbook by George Nash (1995).

https://www.amazon.com/Do-Yourself-Housebuilding-Complete-Handbook/dp/0806904240

It isn't perfect, but it gets you the fundamentals on everything. Can anyone recommend something like that but more modern? Sure, a lot of things haven't changed much but I'd be interested to learn about new materials options for roofing, siding, and insulation.