Guide Category: Secrets

Overview This is a compact arrangement of the item thieves, and the machinery which makes it all work. Setup The best tip for making an organized base, is to make a subfloor, or a basement. Just like real buildings, where pipes and wires are hidden in basements and walls, this same principal can make your … Read moreCompact Garbage Thieves

Overview There are two general methods players utilize coal power; centralized or distributed systems. This guide demonstrates variations on how the compact setup is utilized in those methods. The reason to use the compact coal engine, is it provides the lowest cost for the most power output, and why alternative setups are inferior. We will … Read moreCompact Coal Engine

Overview This guide will build an all-in-one machine to extract ore, lift it to the surface, smelt it, and manufacture components. This relieves you from having to worry about where, and how, you’re going to route items and power around an unplanned base. These All-In-One machines are designed to be enclosed in a room, about … Read moreAll-In-One: Component Maker, Smelter, Lift, Extractor

Overview This guide provides spoilers in base automation, and machine layouts. What makes this guide a spoiler, despite having “no correct way” to design your base with infinite design possibilities, is the approach follows a set of laws to eliminate the complexity of “infinite” variations. All power transmission is done in a “basement” below the … Read moreAutomation and Base Layout Spoilers