Factorio Thread

[Oilspill Battery]

Tesla turrets also require you to visit another planet

Yeah, that's my point. Don't go to gleba first.

Gleba wants you to bring the two fruits together. You can start making iron and copper from fruit with 5 biochambers, plus one biochamber for infinite pentapod eggs so you can keep making more biochambers and spaghetti a

The issue is setting up nutrient and cold boot loops for the first time takes more time than setting up other types of factory.

I've beaten gleba only runs and done the wayward seas mode, its a cool planet but I would really not recommend it as a first planet for a first timer.

 

[Gimmick Account]

Gleba factories don't work unless completely finished and you cannot build as you go or do spagheti with it

Skill issue. I made a shit-ass spaghet starter base there no problem.
I dunno how you're building them but you can certainly make the loops modular and extensible.

Go wherever you want first. Flip a three-sided coin. It doesn't really matter.
Gleba might be my favourite, and the rewards it gives you are stuff you're more likely to actually use elsewhere if you did it first. It's also a different kind of challenge even amongst the other new planets which all aim to make you feel like you're playing factorio for the first time again, and there's something to be said for not doing it after you're fatigued from those especially given that the other planets' tech doesn't help you as much there (besides guns).

So there's pros and cons to whichever one you pick, Gleba hate is a dumb meme, and if a first-time player can't hack babytime vanilla gameplay or believes the hype they deserve to suffer anyway.

 

[Tealeaf]

The issue is setting up nutrient and cold boot loops for the first time takes more time than setting up other types of factory.

I've beaten gleba only runs and done the wayward seas mode, its a cool planet but I would really not recommend it as a first planet for a first timer.

Gleba cold boot is literally assemblers with the spoilage to nutrients recipe. Real high genius stuff.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

Gleba cold boot is literally assemblers with the spoilage to nutrients recipe. Real high genius stuff.

Cold boot also requires declogging every loop and machine of leftover gunk and resetting the bacteria. If you're cheesing everything with bots its not an issue but automatic cold boot factory wide belted setups aren't easy.

and the rewards it gives you are stuff you're more likely to actually use elsewhere if you did it first.

Does it? You can't use epic quality until recyclers and most people skip it until legendary anyway. Heating tower is worse nuclear unlocked post nuclear and the biochamber is useless outside gleba. Oil is never an issue on nauvis and vulcanus has no nutrient source. And the agricultural tower... lmao. Rocket turrets also suck on nauvis.

The only useful thing you get from gleba is the biolab.

 

[Gimmick Account]

Debatable, but I think you skipped a couple there. I wonder why.