🌐Metal and Stars


It's a big universe out there, and there are other ways to leave the solar system. Several new destinations with new machines, technologies, and unique processes

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g Calcite?

16 days ago

Currently setting up my factory on Circa. However, I notice that the bitumen tar processing produces Bone Fragments as a byproduct... and those seem to mainly be used to turn into Calcite, or to create the Microculture Vats. That said, I know I won't be using enough of the Microculture Vats to burn through all of the Bone. What would I be able to use the Calcite for, if I'm doing Circa before Vulcanus (and thus don't have the usual Calcite recipes unlocked)? Or is there another Bone Fragments recipe that I'm missing somewhere that I should be seeing? (If it's expected that you do Vulcanus first in order to access other ways of using Calcite, it might be worth making the Circa planet research require Metallurgic Science to ensure that.)

(As a note, I'm using the Stellar Horizons modpack, so I've got quite a few other modded planets as well - if there's something that's overlapping with an expected recipe that uses Calcite or is otherwise preventing me from gaining access to a means of voiding it, feel free to let me know.)

16 days ago
(updated 16 days ago)

Apparently, you do get the Calcite Processing tech when you make Calcite this way, even if you aren't actually mining it. Good to know... but I don't see a way to use it to effectively get rid of the Calcite or Bone Fragments on Circa. I can't use it for power generation (the Acid Neutralization recipe is limited to Vulcanus only), and the Coal Liquefaction recipe isn't actually going to be useful when the Bone Fragments are a byproduct of generating Crude Oil to begin with...

15 days ago

Use recyclers to get rid of excess bone/calcite. Aren't you already using recyclers to control Heavy Water processing? I didn't see any other way.

14 days ago

Nope - haven't hit Fulgora yet, either. If that's intended, it definitely is another case for making Fulgora and/or Vulcanus's science packs a requirement to research the planet in the first place. (Right now, my plan for HW processing is actually to funnel the iron and copper into blue circuits, LDS and space platform foundation. And yes, I know I'll be able to research an alternate recipe for the rocket parts, still doing it.)

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