(Factorio 16) The Gleba Experience (Backlogging 69)
0Gleba? More Like Gle-blah!
Yeah I got a little overwhelmed, which is something that only Factorio and Satisfactory have ever done to me. If I did a read-through of Gleba's mechanics beforehand, this probably would've gone a whole lot smoother. It really wasn't all that complicated once I started some trial and error progress, and robots make everything way simpler, but the spoilage threw me for a loop so I got caught like a deer in the headlights mentally. I think some Factorio Space Age veterans would cringe watching me put those Pentapod eggs in a regular burner on Gleba, lol.
I think it's pretty annoying how much I need to craft on Gleba to unlock the recipes, especially the nutrient one. I think I get the idea after just 10 of those bad boys spoiling in my pants and making my Engineer look like he wet himself. Why do I need to make 500 nutrients for the artificial soils? It's a little hard for me to plan out a Gleba Factory without having all the tools available from the get go so I can balance things properly. I do, however, like how Gleba is basically burner tech+ as a challenge. I think burner's get outclassed pretty quickly in the base game if you know what you're doing so you never really utilize them for long, and I think nutrients are an interesting take on it. Would be kind of miserable without robots, but I'm sure somebody likes doing it that way. You don't technically NEED to interact with the planet outside of whatever recipes you need for science. All the raw materials can usually be gotten elsewhere.
The new ship seems to work fine. I didn't connect 2 furnaces at first with the initial design, but I figure it out eventually. I should probably have held off on making the Fulgora ship since it was taking up all my Rocket Silos on Nauvis, so I couldn't get supplies to Gleba as fast. Definitely have to avoid doing that on future playthroughs. That or made even more Rocket Silos on Nauvis. Hmm, that might not be such a bad idea now that I'm thinking about it.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro And Reviewing
4:10 New Ships Maiden Voyage
7:21 Planetary Littering
8:10 More Ship Troubleshooting
19:45 Quick Review Of Planets To Make Sure They're Fine
26:06 Heading To Blega, I mean Legba, I mean Gleba
29:15 Planetfall
30:15 I Have No Clue What I'm Doing
34:40 Unexpected Vulcanus To Nauvis Supply Problems
37:38 Gleba Exploration And Early Setup
45:33 Trying To Figure Out How Gleba Works
50:00 Procrastinating From My Gleba Problems
53:22 Back To Being Clueless
58:30 Whoo, Planetary Littering
1:04:05 Basic Steam Power? In This Economy?
1:09:06 Huge Milestone In Nauvis Oil Mining
1:09:25 Stumped But Not Giving Up
1:10:05 Power Issues And Concrete
1:14:05 Finally Making Nauvis Artillery(To Hold Back The Encroaching Horde)
1:17:10 Fresh Cooked Pentapod Eggs
1:17:40 Probably A War Crime(Also A Waste Of Resources, Like C'mon)
1:18:22 Discussing Then Ignoring The Moral Ramifications Of My Actions
1:19:00 Still Not Sure What I'm Doing Here
1:25:06 A Great idea For Gleba Power
1:27:00 Learning There's A Bit More To Foundries
1:33:52 Ship Reviewing And Sending Foundries To Nauvis
1:40:00 Finally Some Gleba Ideation/Progress
1:47:10 He's Beginning To Believe
1:51:22 Getting Some Starter Biochambers
1:53:17 Spoilage Sorrows
1:54:30 Why Don't They Just Unlock These Recipes From The Get Go
1:57:30 ♫ Welcome To My Problems...It's Not An Invitation ♫
2:06:00 On A Timer To Find The Eggs Before Nutrient Expiration
2:09:40 Using One Of The New Ships For Vulcanus Instead
2:11:47 You Never Forget Your First Space Ship
2:17:22 Rant Time
2:18:20 Learning A Valuable Lesson In Nutrients Being Fuel
2:33:43 Wrap Up
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Here's the backlog/tracking spreadsheet if you want to check it out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gy7BoR1tceBkeXQ7C3Ghmv8IZ-dWOsjfrc-Fq4M2hzs/edit?usp=sharing