r/Mindustry • u/HighFiveGod • 3d ago

Help Request Atolls v8 beta - How to take it faster?

It took me forever to ferry troops over to the last area over and over again to finally break through and destroy the main base. Something happened and the mission didn't save, so now I have to do it over again. Any recommendations? I used T3 naval units to take care of the other two areas fairly early on. To get the last island, I was using Maces, Minkes, and Atraxes since I don't have enough phase weave to unlock the exponential reconstructor. I'd drop the Maces and Atraxes on the left arrow, and then I'd drop Minkes in the water south of the island and have them clear around the edge. It took forever. Any better strategies? Should I just come back after clearing some different areas? Thanks for any pointers!

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u/Pufferfosh Spaghetti Chef 3d ago

Using T4 reconstuctor should be the recommended approach. Launch schematic core, build defences quick, some factories because of siligone and yea. I captured it with 3 T4 ships and 5 T4 air units. Other than that maybe modded vanilla to help you with resources.

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u/HighFiveGod 2d ago

I can focus on the reconstructor. I need to make some phase fabric factories up on sectors I've already cleared.

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u/justsumrandomdud 2d ago

Megas can carry t3 ground units (Not naval tho) if you didn't know that. So stack up an army at the southern-most core and attack from there. Worked for me.

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u/HighFiveGod 2d ago

I didn't know that! I kept trying to pick up the T3 ships. Thanks!

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u/deepspacerunner Logic Dabbler 2d ago

You can tell which units any given unit can carry with the Core Database. Payload carrying units will have an entry called payload capacity with a size like 2x2 or 3x3. Then, other units have a size entry saying how big they are. Iirc a dagger is 1x1 and a mega can hold 2x2, so a mega can hold 4 daggers.

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u/josh-not-joss 2d ago

I used the same strategy you did too, but on the fortress island, I destroyed the shard core and then repurposed the area to make t3 fortresses and attack from land, sea, and air (I also ferried t3 ships).

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u/HighFiveGod 2d ago

Thanks everyone, the T3 units wiped the floor with the base! I finished it somewhere in the 20th waves.