StaTech Industry Part 8

Space!

Today, we step into the final frontier.

But first, setting up the production line for stainless steel drills. Stainless steel drills in an oil rig were fairly easy, a small expansion to the existing oil refinery. The ores were a bit more involved - mozanite, and the Tech Reborn ores were pretty straightforward, but the titanium and the platinum chains were definitely troublesome.

Titanium was a pair of EBFs (titanium dust and raw ore into hot ingots) and a freezer. Platinum was slightly more involved, with an acid processing chain, an EBF, and a freezer.

The liquid ender and enderium chain was a lot more involved. I needed a mob crusher for endermen, which required basic cards, which required certus quartz. Automating this was difficult, I can't get certus quartz except by growing the crystals - but perhaps a Spectrum crystal apothecary would work?

Nope.

I ended up using ME annihilation planes, but getting only fully-grown crystals took quite a bit of fiddling around with ME stuff, but I managed in the end.

Next up was the crafting machinery to make the models for the mob grinder, and finally, the actual mob grinder.

Along the way, I upgraded the energy input hatches in the processing room to HV, the network distribution voltage. I then finished out the enderium production line, putting the EBFs in the space center room.

I then built the launch silo - it's got a bedrock (from Spectrum) reinforced bottom to contain any pad explosions.

After the launch silo was built, I got the rocket ready. Since I had unlocked waystones, this was going to be a rocket trip to the moon to place down a waystone and return via waystone.

And then, magnificent desolation.

I got to digging after some sightseeing, and managed to excavate quite a lot of resources quite quickly, which was good, because my oxygen reserves were getting low. Next time, I should bring a bottomless bundle full of oxygen tanks.

After I got back home, I broke down some of the ores with my fortune X pickaxe - it's a really cool reward for getting near the end of the world of magic questline.

Next, I built out the titanium processing chain - this would be needed for the blastproof plates.

As a diversion, I also built the platinum processing chain - this one was very short, culminating in platinum fine wire.

I then set up a pressurizer in the power plant room, and started planning out the upgrade to EV distribution - or, more accurately, one quarter EV distribution (since the jump to EV power does not come with significantly better boilers).

I then went around upgrading the pipe outputs to use a pair of advanced motors to go full speed.

While I was waiting on turbo machine hulls, I also started some tungsten processing, as I was about to head to mars.

Once again, after some sightseeing, I dug down to find some Ostrum. I got quite a lot, since I was likely to need it making blastproof ingots.

Next up was processing everything into the actual blastproof plates, which was really just a lot of waiting around.

However, I wanted to upgrade my power plant, and that actually required a single EV output hatch, which required I set up the production infrastructure for chromium, argon, and silicon wafers. Everything else could be microcrafted.

Next, as the blastproof plates finished processing, I set up but didn't hook up the implosion compressor.

I then upgraded everything to HV hulls, and started crafting in preparation for high pressure boilers. This was going to be a delicate transition, as the heat exchangers needed power to run. The power plant was quickly becoming a power consumer too. Real life plants solve this with diesel generators, and I think I could as well.

Then, I upgraded to one-quarter EV generation. This was a bit hairy, since I was doing a (soft) black start, but there was enough power stored in the input hatches to avoid me needing to start the backup diesel generator.

Next, we head to Venus for calorite. This was decidedly hostile, doubly so since my regular armour with space breathing didn't protect me from the heat, even though I had fire resistance.

Since I'd left behind a waystone, I promptly headed home; Mercury was my next destination, to get the space fire proof enchanted book. Unfortunately, I had a bit of trouble on landing as I'd landed in lava. I had to bail out as the lander capsule was bobbing on the surface.

Returning to Venus, I did some sightseeing, but I got interrupted by some acid rain, forcing me to either shelter underground or return home. Since I was far from a calorite deposit, I decided to dig up some stone, and then return home, to return shortly after to get a little calorite to make the acid rain proofing enchantment. I then returned and buckled down to mine a few stacks of calorite. I decided to get a slight excess since I'd want to make a space probe launcher.

Next, I made a gravichestplate, since I had everything I needed to make one. I had a bit of an "oops" moment while charging it up, however - the heat exchanger had stalled since the high pressure water production had filled the water loop and left no room for output. Since the high pressure water loop was a completely closed system, I disconnected the pressurizer and drained the pipe; this should maintain a good amount of pressurized water in the system.

Next time, finishing up the production at the HV tier.