Log #04 – Establishing a Defensive Line

Previously…

Operation Broken Horse has been halted midway due to a lack of supplies. Also, thanks to the pincer attack from the biter army to the south, we nearly lost the war. We need to increase our military power ASAP.

Basic Electronic Components can be put here, but I am still lacking in carbon to make it run.

I… may have gone overboard with those metal mixing furnaces. Pretty sure I don’t need that much.

Time to get that carbon I was crafting earlier. I can get rid of this now.

Finally! Assembly Machine 2!

Also, I now have the pump I wanted! All I need is electricity and I can pump water out of the ground wherever I want.

…hook this up to the carbon production…

IT’S ALIVE!!!

Green Science!

Now that I have Green Science, we can now continue research.

And now I can finally automate production of sniper turrets. No more pocket crafting these things.

Also, with access to the second tier of circuits, I can use smart inserters to sort the nickel ore and lead ore from one another.

My Bio-Farm can also be built, so I should have a constant supply of wood now for circuit production.

Just finishing up the production of Basic Electronic Boards or the second tier of circuits.

Before I continue however, it is now time for Operation Claw. That southern biter base needs to be taught a lesson.

Good job turrets. You’ve been stopping the biter’s advance for all this time.

…There is seriously a LOT of biters here. Look at all that bubblegum!

I’ve lost a few turrets, but for now those are acceptable losses.

Because of the direction I have been coming from, I will need to go further right in order to kill the biter bases in that direction. There’s probably gonna be more damages incurred on my end.

Too many biters. Regular gun turrets back down to deal with the swarm.

YES! Thankyou research!

I must say, the light show at night is quite pretty.

This will have to do for now. I’m running low on ammo again, and the biters have been pushed back enough that it won’t be as much of an issue for the factory proper.

Defensive line established. Time to continue working on the factory.

Now that we have the second tier of circuits automated along with green science, I can now focus on the more important things. The plan is to move towards developing more of those robot army drones to aid in the push against the biters, along with oil/N4/F7 processing. This also means finishing off Operation Broken Horse before dealing with the larger biter base behind it…

Death to the biters!