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ZG OptiCFS "Godzilla" (Optimal Compressed Fabrication System)

► Licences: GSO 5, GeoCorp 3 (Venture and Hawkeye Fabricators/Scrappers can be removed by loading it in Creative and re-saving the snapshot).

► "Optimal" - The ultimate Fabrication base, engineered around the game's many crafting AI bugs and limitations. Optimised for fastest crafting and easy use.

► "Compressed" - Uses Compressed Resource Blocks in a 'cartridge' style system; rear node-silo indicators show empty which of the 11 GeoCorp scrapper are exhausted, which takes a long time; fully loaded, each scrapper caches 360 resource chunks! While avoiding the size and frame rate drop of an equivalent base holding those resources in many, many silos. Or the tedious process of figuring out which resources is needed in a smaller, mixed silo system (and manually refilling with smaller compressed blocks).

► "Fabrication" - 3 limbs ran entirely in parallel. All 6 fabricators can be switched out depending on your needs. With 1 HE Fabricator on each limb, it can make Cruise Missiles at a rate of 5.5 per minute! Despite being optimised for general purpose crafting.

► "System" - this tech is part of a systematic way of harvesting, mining, buying, converting and using Compressed Resource Blocks. By far the best way to craft in TerraTech 0.7.8.0.


► Usage Notes:

It's highly advisable to use only one of the two Fabricators on each limb, if making blocks containing Exotic (top tier) components. One Fabricator will tend to suppress the other and might occasionally lead to a log-jam, in this situation. Removing and replacing the (vestigial) refinery for that limb (at the base of the tech) should 'reset' a stuck limb without loosing stored components.

Blocks requiring unrefined resources can be made by manually scrapping other low level blocks at the top. It's then advised to use the shorter, front Fabricator limb, for optimal speed and convenience. Excess scrapped blocks will be sold, once the two 9-Pack silos are filled.

This is a pure crafting setup, but there are lots leeway for campaign players to to customise it: tuck in a bunch of batteries, bhields, Regen Bubbles, Solar Generators and defencives weapons. :-)


► Links:

This tech is part of a systematic way of harvesting, mining, buying, converting and using Compressed Resource Blocks. By far the best way to craft in TerraTech 0.7.8.0. See the other Workshop Techs in this collection.

These are featured in my "Complete Crafting Guide" here on Steam, or on the official forums[forum.terratechgame.com].Great if having problems, or building your own crafting system. 😊


► Campaign loading:

• Subscribe to this Workshop item, above.
• Go to Creative mode in TerraTech.
• Click the "Load" button (bottom left of screen) and find it in the "Workshop" tab.
• Remove any blocks from the tech that you don't yet have in your play-through.
• Re-snapshot the tech, so it will now be stored as a local snapshot with your own techs.
• Load as normal in Campaign.


► Lore:

After a suspiciously stealthy comet obliterated the Geosynchronous Support Servers for half the planet, GSO's Auto-Crafting AI systems were left virtually lobotomised.

While the Corporation CEOs cast aspersions, a litany of Lawyer-bots were spooled up as festering animosity over alleged monopoly abuse reignited open hostilities in Galactic courts and prospectors faced the mundane reality of glitchy conveyor systems and enfeebled Fabricators...

Months spent fathoming logic loopholes and circumventing the idiosyncrasies via iterative engineering, finally culminated in the "Optimal Compact Crafting System" design code named "Godzilla". Undoubtedly the ultimate Fabrication monster, the rear scrapper array also reminded some of the ancient movie creature's dorsal fins. An uneasy alliance had been forged with GeoCorp, wholly to licence their proprietary compression technology for this - necessary to satiate the ravenous demands of the 3 rapid Fabrication limbs, feasting on the stacked resource buffer nodes comprising beast's central core.