Slag! Here Slag, There Slag, EVERYWHERE IS SLAG!

[The Illusion]

I was going to put this into my part two of the feedback, but...

Why is there so much damn slag? Ive got 20k of it. Dealing with it and building the extremely expensive belt lanes to store it in a single location is really annoying.

[ThatGuyFuryan]

I'm running out of slag, I need to amp up refining to get more. Once you set it up for concrete or for colonists, you can run out of it really fast. Slag sucks in the beginning, but by med game it becomes more useful.

[HeathenSW]

Originally posted by Keldrath:

Originally posted by HeathenSW:

I wish I had this problem :D

I don't have nearly enough slag to make bricks - seems like 3 multi-something factories plus 3 ice extractors do not generate enough of it and there's no point in adding more, since even 5 furnaces per oxide and some random places here and there that use oxides can't keep up with what these factories can pump out.

You can build them in such a way that the furnaces are infinitely expandable so if they aren’t keeping up with oxide production you can just place down more until they do. In fact you kinda have to because if an oxide backs up the entire machine will sieze and stop production entirely. I notice a lot of people build them all next to each other and only give themselves enough room for like 5 before bumping into another furnace

Yeah, good point. Also a very good thing is to just chain their output together and before that output (different oxides) goes anywhere - place a bulk storage for each oxide (and slag/regolith). That storage can be used to quickly notice backing up moment and also as a separator, if you need more than one line of oxides somewhere. It's even better to leave more space for at least 1 more bulk storage on the line, just to be sure. Plus drones will top up bulk storages with any free oxides from the ground, making it pleasantly clean.

Game also does not tell you about magical T button that will mirror the building input-ouput positions. It helps a lot in planning.

[Keldrath]

Originally posted by HeathenSW:

Originally posted by Keldrath:

You can build them in such a way that the furnaces are infinitely expandable so if they aren’t keeping up with oxide production you can just place down more until they do. In fact you kinda have to because if an oxide backs up the entire machine will sieze and stop production entirely. I notice a lot of people build them all next to each other and only give themselves enough room for like 5 before bumping into another furnace

Yeah, good point. Also a very good thing is to just chain their output together and before that output (different oxides) goes anywhere - place a bulk storage for each oxide (and slag/regolith). That storage can be used to quickly notice backing up moment and also as a separator, if you need more than one line of oxides somewhere. It's even better to leave more space for at least 1 more bulk storage on the line, just to be sure. Plus drones will top up bulk storages with any free oxides from the ground, making it pleasantly clean.

Game also does not tell you about magical T button that will mirror the building input-ouput positions. It helps a lot in planning.

Yeah, personally I like this design the most can keep adding as many multi regolith or smelting as needed and it's pretty space efficient.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3293586682

[Brendylyon]

Slag is a major commodity you should not waste. You need it for hydroponic farms and for the smart concrete factory. Slag even can be exported on the market with some contracts. Bottom line: collect your Slag, cherish your slag. You will miss it when its gone.

[JeanDeaux]

I don't get it, I'm constantly using up all my slag and need more. Sure it's a thing to manage early game but mid to late game you use that stuff up.

[martyr]

All my slag goes into Smart Concrete (minus the farms obv). If Smart Concrete ever gets backed up, I take one of those 5k+ Smart Concrete Contracts.

[Schobbob]

if you need more slag throw all the rocks from mining walls into a refinery it's like 75% slag, if you don't put this stuff into pressing machines.

for me personally I got too much slag and all the slag needs for hydroponics are taken care of by just putting one ice miner slag output into a storage, everything else goes into concrete.

[HeathenSW]

Originally posted by Keldrath:

Originally posted by HeathenSW:

Yeah, good point. Also a very good thing is to just chain their output together and before that output (different oxides) goes anywhere - place a bulk storage for each oxide (and slag/regolith). That storage can be used to quickly notice backing up moment and also as a separator, if you need more than one line of oxides somewhere. It's even better to leave more space for at least 1 more bulk storage on the line, just to be sure. Plus drones will top up bulk storages with any free oxides from the ground, making it pleasantly clean.

Game also does not tell you about magical T button that will mirror the building input-ouput positions. It helps a lot in planning.

Yeah, personally I like this design the most can keep adding as many multi regolith or smelting as needed and it's pretty space efficient.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3293586682

Nice. I have almost the same, but 90 degrees different :D
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3294086832

Plus separators are amazing and making a single conveyer to all of the storages is a godsend. My first try I didn't know that and it was a mess.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3294087186

[les]

Originally posted by les:

i have 6 of the largest containers 40000 each nearly full of slag and it looks like 6 is the maximum you can build this is a game breaker they seriously need to look at this

my mistake needed more cpu to build containers now have nearly 12 full please fix this

[ShaTiK]

I never had issues with slag. Maybe the reason for it is that I went for a centralized multiregolith refinery setup as soon as I got the tech. Sure, I had to pay 300k for converyors for this mess and I went for a mixed above/below ground setup meaning I needed a conveyor lift. But after the initial setup I just keep adding smelters and upgrading belts and refineries. No the prettiest setup, but it works fine and now just want to see if I can get the Laser in time

[Alukat]

Originally posted by martyr:

All my slag goes into Smart Concrete (minus the farms obv). If Smart Concrete ever gets backed up, I take one of those 5k+ Smart Concrete Contracts.

smart concrete needs 7,5 regolith per concrete.
pressing module needs 5 regolith per concrete.
You're better of dumping regolith into the pressing module than splitting it into slag & silicon oxide to put it into the smart concrete..

[Shyrene]

Originally posted by Alukat:

Originally posted by martyr:

All my slag goes into Smart Concrete (minus the farms obv). If Smart Concrete ever gets backed up, I take one of those 5k+ Smart Concrete Contracts.

smart concrete needs 7,5 regolith per concrete.
pressing module needs 5 regolith per concrete.
You're better of dumping regolith into the pressing module than splitting it into slag & silicon oxide to put it into the smart concrete..

How to waste all Minerals from the regoltih. No comment.

[Kalemenos]

Originally posted by pete8719:

What? I find that I never have enough slag. The concrete plants eat it all.

Newbie here. I connected slag to a pressing module and it's not making any smart concrete. What am I missing?

[Alukat]

Originally posted by Kalemenos:

Originally posted by pete8719:

What? I find that I never have enough slag. The concrete plants eat it all.

Newbie here. I connected slag to a pressing module and it's not making any smart concrete. What am I missing?

the pressing module needs regolith, not slag.

[Goodgamer]

Originally posted by x-siffror - Tsume - Shadow:

Built six large storage's near my smart concrete plants and well... im starting to worry cause my three multi-refineres are starting to fill up... again...
Hard suggestion to the dev team: Give more buildings slag input. Or change the ratio's.

While it is realistic to having to DEAL with garbage. I'd want to try and use it. Not just store it under the rug in a corner under the moons surface ;D

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