Lignumis


Dive into the world of Lignumis, a moon of Nauvis offering only the most basic technologies.

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g Rocket Silo

20 hours ago

I have been enjoying this mod (tried out the Stellar Horizons modpack, which integrates a large number of planet mods into the game, this included). The initial segment and the wood tech was an interesting variation from the early game, and I'm still amused that I had to launch a wooden rocket fueled by wood pulp to get to Nauvis.

That being said, I'm back here for the mid-game portion, working on scaling up Wood and Steam sciences to ship to Nauvis in preparation for the later planets. And I've realized something - while it's possible to make all of the rocket parts (blue circuits, low density structures and rocket fuel) on Lignumis, it is not possible to build rocket silos there. There is no way to make the needed pipes or concrete to build silos, and certainly no way of building electric engine units, meaning that to set up any kind of shipping back to Nauvis, it's necessary to import the materials to build those silos.

Would there be plans to create an alternate rocket silo recipe that uses Lignumis materials specifically (gold pipes in place of the regular pipes, likely some form of gold-based engine, and possibly an alternate recipe for concrete using peat as a base, or even just a new material that is an alternative to concrete)? Or is the need to import silo materials on your initial return to Lignumis intended? I understand if it is as intended now, but it's something I felt was worth bringing up.

20 hours ago

I thought about it and but came to the conclusion that I don't want to do something about it. Initially you needed to import LDS and blue circuits as well. I added recipes for those. Since you need to import pretty much everything to modernize your base, I think the rocket silo doesn't matter that much.

20 hours ago

Fair enough. And importing the components needed for rocket silos isn't exactly the most challenging task - thinking about it, there could be an argument made for just setting up a space platform to provide most of the components needed, in order to minimize the costs of transporting stuff. I think the engines are the only thing that can't be made in space...

But it's something I noticed, and was curious about. Thanks for clarifying!

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