A beaconless, botless, 1k sci/min megabase. Planning stage is done, blueprints constructed, now it's just slowly churning through the process of building the thousands upon thousands of factories/smelters/mining set-ups and such to actually make it come to life and see just how low my UPS will go.

i use a lot of mods, have to ask, why is non-solar causing UPS problems? is it the animations? if i put a nuclear power plant inside a factorissimo building, does it still count against UPS? I don't know what a factorissimo building is as I run vanilla, but the basis of why non-solar isn't an optio...

I quite like Railworlds, so with a shiny new version and an idea for a different factory set-up (involving my first attempt a 1k Sci/min), I trundled off to the map gen to see what we could see. After a couple of false starts, I eventually decided to actually look at the map before investing time in...