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Ice Harvesting Stations (early game)

This is my take to bring up a fully optimized/compact pack of Comet Catchers/Harvesters to collect/produce Ice at full speed!

It's an early game design, which means you can quickly build it up to boost your game start (provided you've unlocked the required structures obviously). Once built, you'll just have to link the few Mass Drivers.

Have fun! :p

Features:
- Output: Unlimited 4x 720 items/min Ice output
- Safety: Structures built around merged danger zones on places where they won't be destroyed by incoming comets

Blueprint recipe:
- 24 Connector
- 10 Mass Driver
- 4 Station Core
- 41 Strut
- 8 Radiator
- 10 Heat Exchanger
- 26 Antimatter Power Station
- 68 Antimatter Collector
- 10 Overdriver
- 24 Comet Catcher
- 24 Comet Harvester
- 5 Exploration Center

Hints:
- Obviously, please avoid travelling inside the red danger zones when comets "land" (and pay attention not to send your ships through them as well): it's instant death! :)

Notes:
- Comet Catchers (and only them!) seem to be invulnerable (to comets) at the end of the comets landing process, allowing to place them next to each other (despite other structures would be destroyed by landing comets if placed right next to the catchers).
- The Exploration Centers prevent the fog to hide the structures.
- Mass Drivers are fun and powerful to transport resources: No horizontal/vertical alignment constraints, no "can't cross" link constraints, great link range, can move along with the connected station (if links were broken because the station has gone too far, they are auto-restored when in range to the destination once again), can also act as some kind of small Cargo Hold (more or less equivalent to about 2 stacks)... Also, coupled to a single Overdriver, they handle output flow rates up to 750 items/min each (2 basic Connectors sum up to 720 items/min).
- As I play in pacifist mode, I don't use any Signal Dampener to reduce ennemies attacks on stations. Please feel free to adapt to your liking.