Old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1gq1icr/my_first_subreddit_share/
New Ship design: https://imgur.com/gallery/atlantis-city-ship-wkYNVHu

Calling u/ttbnz

So, when I built my first ship, I had just mastered Fulgora (the easiest of all the planets, I said what I said).

I posted my ship, I was proud of my ship, then I learned astroid re-processing, more fuel recipes, and so on from Gleba and Vulcanus.

I present, Atlantis. The flying city ship.

It's organized into two sections, front and rear. The front of the ship is astroid processing, and the rear is materials processing. I turn all the asteroids into their materials in the front and route it all into my hub and limit using signals. Then I process all the raw later on. It's primarily solar powered, but, it's also got a nuclear power source for when solar dips down, and the gaps filled with accumulators because why not.

One of the things I learned from u/ttbnz was that I can PWM the engines for higher efficiency, which I did. She's not a race car, but she's consistently making all her own fuel, ammo, and hauling between all my planets and generating resources.

I'm preparing for railguns on board so I have an empty area, and I filled in most of my empty area with cargo bays to make her more useful as she is effectively the magic school bus.

Like my last post, she's a square. Square is the most efficient shape for me and easiest to work within.

Some parting thoughts, Gleba is the worst planet of everything. I hate it, spoilage sucks. Future games will be played modded with spoilage modifications. It's just not fun for me. Gleba is a fight against pentapods, pentapod eggs, a lack of landfill, and spoilage. It's just a lot all at once. I've since turned down my pentapod egg production to bare minimum to generate just enough gleba science to make things progress slowly. I'll eventually re-work the entire planet but for right now, it's just a depressing hellscape. Every other aspect of the game is easy for the most part, Gleba is just absolute dog water and I can't explain how many times I force quit the game knowing it didn't save and not caring.

Think everything is good? You ran out of seeds. Think your factory is able to be left alone? Surprise everything rotted and backed something up causing a cascade of problems. Are these game problems? No. These are me problems. I think I'm all set now, but nutrients could use like a 30 second buff and I would be happy.

Also, I'm now at 6359 hours on Steam.

There are 2080 working hours in a year. I've now played this game like I've been at the same job for 3 years.

Wube owes me a 401k.