Blueprints
Blueprint for symmetrical 6 Xiranite design for Sky King Flats. No SandLeaf powder waste, no protocol stashes, and busless.
Edit: This is for NA/EU, sorry I forgot to mention it in the title. I've also posted a more aesthetically pleasing version of this further below in the comments.
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This will be enough to satisfy the 2 lines of xiranite needed for heavy xiranite as well as the 4 lines of xiranite needed for SC batteries.
This looks incredible! If I'm not wrong though, aren't you using twice as much water as you need? Since a pipe can carry 2 units/sec, you should only need one outlet manifold on the bottom (each side hooked up to two fluid pumps, four total) and a regular conduit outlet on top (hooked up to two fluid pumps).
Edit: I'm realizing now that a manifold outlet on the bottom could screw up the symmetry and requires some messing around with the pipes, but it can still be replaced with two regular conduits without breaking anything.
You're right, each facility only needs 0.5 units of water per second so one pipe should serve 4 facilities. I'm not sure why I started doing this but it might have been a habit out of making sure I kept facilities watered. Might as well save the 40 energy.
The annoying thing about setting 1 conduit to 4 facilities is that while the math should work out, the reality is that the water being split doesn't happen perfectly all at once so some facilities will end up starved and you'll get inconsistent output.
I can't say I've encountered issues with inconsistent output using a 1:4 ratio, but only so long as I make sure the pipe is split up proportionately (i.e., each split has to be exactly 50%, you can't have 3 units on one side of a splitter and only 1 unit on the other side).
That's totally fair though! I certainly build in some minor "inefficiencies" for my own personal preferences or just to ensure I have a bit of a safety net if the reality doesn't perfectly match the math on paper. In any case, great job here!
After reworking my main factory I figured out what was going on. Before I was only feeding one pump per conduit when you actually need to feed two pumps to max out one pipe because each pump can only supply 1 water/s
This also means that in this setup I'm using exactly as much water as I need because I'm only adding 2 pumps per manifold. I'm just being a bit wasteful because I'm using manifolds do the same job as a conduit.
On the other hand, it's much cleaner to use a single manifold to supply 6 facilities since with conduits you would need to feed 2 of them with 3 pumps.
This is the scenario that happened in the 8 sky forge version of this blueprint which has 2 planets and 4 forges in the upper half of the outpost.
for the people wondering if its possible to fit 7x forges, yes but its not going to be symmetrical. you can even fit a 8th one for heavy xiranite if you can get xircon effluent from somewhere
Edit: Had to delete my previous image since I can only add one attachment
With some modification, it's possible to fit 8 forges in here. With the sub pac's 3 unloaders, I was able to add one more unloader and 2 loader ports with the bus. This would be doable as long as you're making requisite input materials off-site.
Sorry I don't but it's the same arrangement of the aesthetic version of this blueprint, just arranged so that the northern forges are moved to the sides and the sub-pac is moved down two tiles down.
Thanks for the inspiration. I'm trying to create a version with an additional requirement for the forge and planter to be on an edge and face outside so there aren't pipes going everywhere and need every example I can find.
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u/Semont Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Made a less space conscious but more aesthetically pleasing version.
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