My single underground silo afk blueprint

[Eta kuram na smekh]

So this is using a single underground silo (dead center it's hard to see), two extractor/excavating channels, one hell gem destabilizer, one hell gem injector, two entropy resonators, two pump stations, and the rest channel coolers. I think this is the most efficient use of hell gem buildings in this setup. I kind of regret using the excavating channel since I had to build some additional cheap buildings around the border to stop the blocks spawning. You won't need that outer layer of destabilizers if you just stick to extracting channels.

I had a larger setup which technically ran faster but the silo coverage felt very bad. Once you are mining hell gems you can of course just maximize your coverage of the destabilizer but refills are required all over and the underground silos cost a lot of hell gems.

Let me know your thoughts!

https://imgur.com/a/6dwrWaG

[rabitwarior2]

Once you hit about 4000-5500 meters Hell Gems start taking over the blocks for about 1,000 meters and you can easily get about 150k Hell Gems stockpiled making the Silo cost not too much of an issue

[Eta kuram na smekh]

Originally posted by rabitwarior2:

Once you hit about 4000-5500 meters Hell Gems start taking over the blocks for about 1,000 meters and you can easily get about 150k Hell Gems stockpiled making the Silo cost not too much of an issue

Oh excellent, yeah I have only just gotten down to about 1,800m and I didn't want to disassemble my excavator channel and reset the depth. Once I hit that, I can just duplicate this setup many times and essentially afk farm the hell gems.

Theoretically, another underground silo could refill the first silo and then you would just have a single mining block but it would last much much longer. I'll probably build that once I hit that hell gem depth.

[rabitwarior2]

There is an achievement for putting two silos next to each other, but sadly they cannot fill each other perpetually.

[Eta kuram na smekh]

Originally posted by rabitwarior2:

There is an achievement for putting two silos next to each other, but sadly they cannot fill each other perpetually.

Ah bummer! It did occur to me that the second silo would likely overlap some other building that would also need to be refilled, shortening its filling lifespan.

Hopefully with some updates to balance and areas we can start to maximize the building usage.

[[1st.M.I.] NENS]

How do silos work? Are they consumable? Or do you click them after they fill 16 buildings?

[Aklyon]

Originally posted by isaac.rockett:

How do silos work? Are they consumable? Or do you click them after they fill 16 buildings?

The latter.

[[1st.M.I.] NENS]

Tried a modified version of your single silo BP, scaleable linearly. Appreciate the help! Working great.

[Locomotor79]

how is that even gonna work at can harvest only 1 block a time that's underwhelming

[[1st.M.I.] NENS]

Worked great for me. Ended up doing a 5 or 6 block version that was scaleable linearly, and then a square version with 12.

[[1st.M.I.] NENS]

https://i.imgur.com/DtPfS2I.png

[[1st.M.I.] NENS]

That one farms 12 blocks at once.

[Miral]

Originally posted by noeatnosleep:

https://i.imgur.com/DtPfS2I.png

Why do you have the containers in the corners instead of mining 4 extra blocks? You have the breakers there anyway.

[[VG] Kronos]

Originally posted by noeatnosleep:

That one farms 12 blocks at once.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198068626257/screenshot/2437081905959063863/

Here, it's almost identical to yours as well.
This one mines only 10 blocks, but the catalytic refineries more than cover for that, i have some other more simpler builds as well that i used because the cost of hell gem destabilizers was getting too high

[Eta kuram na smekh]

Originally posted by noeatnosleep:

https://i.imgur.com/DtPfS2I.png That one farms 12 blocks at once.

So I am running a very close version of this now, it is doing well deep into celestial foam. I had to learn what was going on with the decay but very happy with the performance. It doesn't need quite so many silos but it helps to not have to fuel them up so often. It does 12 blocks and it's very quick.

https://imgur.com/a/8t3dOWY

[[1st.M.I.] NENS]

Originally posted by Miral:

Originally posted by noeatnosleep:

https://i.imgur.com/DtPfS2I.png

Why do you have the containers in the corners instead of mining 4 extra blocks? You have the breakers there anyway.

You need them when you get to this level. That type of block it captures degrades. It's the only way to save enough up to buy the next upgrades.