This is a nice idea that I’ve never thought of before and seems like it would be useful even on default settings, and even if it doesn’t totally work for pentapods.

@Artisian@lemmy.world how difficult is it to get the player or bots close enough to build the walls without being attacked? When I’m anywhere near a nest it spawns biters constantly

Very impressive!

Mostly just defending against expansion in this position so this number of turrets is probably overkill.

I’m sure this design is a long way from optimal. My logic at the time I built it was something along the lines of:

• just want to squash as many turrets as possible into the space available
• requestor chests are expensive, bots can be slow and get shot down, and I was worried that chaining the turrets might lead to ammo shortages. You might have noticed that the belt is being fed by bots in this case via a single chest.

This has given me some ideas for experimenting with different layouts, thanks

Very true. There’s a popular mod for it, and yes it’s kind of overpowered: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Waterfill_v17 Although of course there are other mods that make the biters swim if you’re into that

This was satisfying to watch