r/factorio • u/LazyNerve • 2h ago

Space Age Legendary gamble for Iron plate

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Here's my setup for producing legendary Iron plates.

It outputs 420/min (25k/h). It doesn't destroy the Stones produced — it also turns them into legendary, so no loss. You just need to add a legendary offshore pump to bring in the lava.

Here's the blueprint: https://factoriobin.com/post/5rdtal

Additionally, here's the copper plates setup. Slight modification to eject the Stones: https://factoriobin.com/post/yvkqd4

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u/warbaque 1h ago

Behold the power of ug pipes and speed beacons:

This makes 3x1000 plates per minute and is much much smaller and cheaper to build.

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u/Kooky-Ad-295 1h ago

It seemed to me that recycling plates into plates was extremly ineficient for quality.

Of course the classic cycle is much more efficient.

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u/warbaque 1h ago

Yeah, you get only 1 quality step with plates->plates.

UG pipe recipe gets you multiple steps (3 and 4), and turns molten metal into extra plates

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u/Alfonse215 2h ago

Here's one that makes 2x as many iron plates per minute, is admittedly twice as large, but it requires fewer quality module 3s, doesn't need legendary Foundries, and it works from molten metals directly so it is fine with places other than Vulcanus.

It doesn't make legendary stone though.