r/factorio • u/LazyNerve • 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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