This is a early game base setup that is based on Katherine of Sky "Starter base" blueprint. However, this base have been modified to work in a game using the "expensive recipe" option (for example with the "Marathon" presets). Like the original setup this base automate both red and green science as well as providing a small mall for the common items used in the early game. Care have also been made to make this base as compact as possible to require as little space as possible as the original design.
Due to the higher need in both iron and copper from the more expensive recipes this blueprint require more iron and copper smelting than the original design. This setup will require 2 full iron ore belts instead of one, but 1 full belt of copper ore is enough to handle the copper need of this base. Also note that this setup also optionally add automation of ammo and gun turret at the end of the small mall. This make this setup a excellent choice for a "Deathworld marathon" game.
This blueprint have been made originally for 0.16.
Changelog to add suppoort for verison 1.1 (tested with stable build 1.1.32) :
- Reduced the number of assembling machines for copper cable from 5 to 4 for each electronic circuit to match the new requirement of 8 coppers cables rather 10 in expensive recipe mode.
- Due to the changes to the recipe to the assembling machine 2 now requiring steel rather than iron plate I made some changes to pass through both coal and iron plate to 3 stone furnace than can feed an assembling machine to produce those assembling machine 2. This is not very pretty, but remain compact which is the primary goal of this starter base.
- Updated the recipe in the assembling machines for the science packs as they were renamed and the recipe was not copied in the old blueprint.
- Because of the lower requirement in coppers plates in the early game with 1.1 I removed the extra copper plate smelting in the south-west of the base to replace it with smelting setup for stone brick and some assembling for stone wall. This keep the base about as compact as before because it use the dead space that was on the left of the science labs. This is a great addition for using this base in a map with biters (especially a deathworld marathon setup).