I'm just starting and wanted to ask this before I put in 20 hours and softlock myself :p

I'm playing with AAI, so all the burner items are prerequisites for the electric variants. Since gold cable is required for the burner assembler, it's also required for every other stage.

I read that once you get Nauvis, there's no going back to Lignumis until you get to space platforms... So how do I get gold on Nauvis to build the basic items?

I activated the option to remove wood items as a prerequisite, but it only affects belts and not inserters or assemblers (forgot to check labs).

Thanks!

Hi. It's not intended to have gold on Nauvis. I'm currently trying AAI Instustries myself together with some other mods, but I'm not as far as you. The only solution I see is changing the recipe of the electric assembler when AAI is active. Take a bunch of burner assemblers with you when you leave Lignumis so you have something to work with until I have a fix ready. And tell me when you find more.

Since I'm now on Nauvis as well, I tried to fix all things that seemed wrong. There are alternative recipes for everything you need. To improve it even more, I added a setting for basic circuit boards that have both gold and copper recipes, solving all problems with AAI Industry. I recommend to enable that setting especially when playing that mod combination.

Since many things are dependent on wood (I intentionally activated all progressive options since I find them interesting), I don't see a way when you've left for Nauvis to produce wood on Nauvis - cutting down existing trees isn't a great way to deal with that, I'd love to produce wood automated. Now I don't see how you can do that, since you cannot craft burner agricultural towers on Nauvis because there's no gold. I could/should have brought them from Lignumis maybe, alright, but I don't know how many I will need and in case they're destroyed they're gone forever. Moreover, having a limited number of items which cannot be crafted again feels very non-Factorio.

Couldn't you please add a copper recipe for the burner agricultural towers, or am I missing something?

I circumvented this by installing the Simply Greenhouse mod, which feels clumsy. My first choice was Early Agriculture mod since it's more in the spirit of Factorio 2.0 (personal opinion), but you've marked this mod as incompatible (why)? Space should be ok sind I have Astroponics mod enabled, which is required by some other mod I think (I'm trying to playing with a lot of planets added).

So - what's the solution here, for being able to mass produce wood on Nauvis (and other planets, I guess...?).

Thank you!

When you get to Nauvis, you also get copper recipes for everythig. If you enabled the basic circuit boards in the settings, you'll get a copper recipe for that, unlocked by the copper processing technology. If not, there are recipes for buildings and splitters that use electronic circuits instead of gold wire, unlocked by electronics.

If that's not the case, please provide me a savegame so I can have a look at what mod messes with this.

huh, ok, I've seen the "burner-agricultural-tower-electronic-circuit" in burner-agricultural-tower.lua, I don't seem to have this one, strange... how can I send you a save, discord? thank you very much!

ok apparently I don't get the mechanics.

So, if I DISable "basic circuit boards" in the settings, I get BOTH burner agricultural towers, those:
- one that needs stone-brick, wooden-gear-wheel, lumber, and gold-plate to craft
- and one that needs stone-brick, wooden-gear-wheel, lumber, and electronic-circuit to craft

the latter uses no gold, thus I can craft it on Nauvis.

So it seems you CANNOT ENable "basic circuit boards" AND have the burner-agricultural-tower-electronic-circuit? I mean it says so in the lua:
if not basic_circuit_board then ... burner-agricultural-tower-electronic-circuit ...

Does that make sense? Why should ENable "basic circuit boards" mean "only the tower requiring gold (and basic circuits) to craft is present in the whole game", while DISable "basic circuit boards" means "you can have the gold one, AND the one you can craft on Nauvis (with electronic circuits)"?

The gold requirement seems to be "mixed in" into the option "basic circuit boards", which I don't understand... couldn't you just add both the gold one and the one needing electronic circuits in every case, and if "basic circuit boards" is enabled, both of them simply get the basic circuit ingredient?

Thanks a lot!

Discord would be one option.

When basic circuit boards are active, you don't need a second recipe for the tower because the gold requirement is in the circuit board and you get a copper alternative for that. I really need to check your savegame if it's not there.

Alright, I'll try to send you the save in Discord. Note that I disabled all other mods I had, started a new game, and with "basic circuit boards" active, I have only one burner agricultural tower, and that doesn't need a circuit board (that's fine), but gold plates directly (which I don't have on Nauvis). I'll send you a screenshot in Discord. :-) Thank you very much for responding so quickly! I really like the planet.

Ok, now I see it. I missed that the tower recipe also has gold plates in it... I'll make a fix.

Sorry, I was blind. A fix is now available.

Oh that's terrific, thanks a lot, I'll check it out! Sorry for describing it a bit convoluted. :-)

OK, so, I've researched rocket - looked to tier 2 modules. They need steam science (and a lot of others but not relevant). So does a lot of other tech. There is, as far as I can see, no way to make most of the stuff needed to launch a rocket on Lignumis, on Lignumis - and these things can't be loaded into a rocket to send them there, because they are consumables, and don't go into the rocket inventory. Steam science is going to be a MAJOR pain in the butt

You only have to ship blue circuits. LDS and rocket fuel can be made on site.