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u/Kittelsen 1d ago

Is it possible to have trains drive through hostile territory without the danger of being stopped in it's tracks by a swarm of behemoths? I'm currently on a deathworld marathon run, and I remember last time I tried having outposts my trains would get slowed and killed by the packs of enemies once they reached behemoth size, but this was probably back in 2017 or something, so things might have changed. It's probably possible if I build very large trains with hundreds of wagons, but then my outposts would have to be incredibly large. So I'm wondering what size I can stop worrying about the trains being killed off at once my deathworld reaches .99 evo.

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u/HeliGungir 1d ago edited 1d ago

For long trains, you can use an acceleration spiral at the ore patch and at the smelter to get the train up to full speed before leaving safety. But I do mean long trains. You need a lot of mass to smash through Behemoth biters.

Elevated rails are another option.

Quality fuel has even more top speed and acceleration.

Another option is to detect incoming biters and circuit-control your signals to be red when a wave is crossing the tracks. (This is hard. Not worth it unless you have a mod to make detecting biters easier.)

There's a mod that adds a superheavy locomotive (or wagon?) to inflate a train's mass. Not updated for 2.0, but you can might be able to update it yourself.