I suggest using bombs to clear ground. Or ask people to go help you mine it out or bomb it.
When I build a big thing underground what I usually do is clear a 3 blocks high surface at the top of the plots i want, then I go around and drop bombs, then I go around and plot the space, then I regen the space to make the ground flat
I could probably go help you out over the weekend 
The problem is that the ground I would clear is under my base
So I need to perhaps start a new base - bigger, better
Unfortunately, I’m a crappy builder and I only know how to make boxes with windows.
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Why Not under your Base?
Don t know how big your Base is but there would be a huge Part covered already because of sunlight. Less Work to do:wink:
Trick is to use an alt to do the bombing part and just make sure to remove all permissions to that alt. That way it can’t break your base at all
I have 2 beacons, main one 17x11 plots and adjacent one 6x11 plots (total 23x11)
I already dug under the 17x11 for 2 plots deep - I did not finish yet.
I think I’ll have plenty of room for the future as well (I can put 3 layers)
ps. Did it with a hammer + Mega Speed + Persisting
pps. I will have a 3 layer farm with a combination of kindling and combustion.
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Keep in mind that combustion plants count as part of the mesh limit per chunk
That would be 256 complex meshes / chunk?
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512 meshes/chunk
And a chunk is 8x8x8 = 512 blocks?
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A chunk is 2x2 plots from mantle to world height. It’s on a fixed layout.
Thanks! It might mean I will run into issues where my machines are.
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My house is a box too, unfortunately. I just build walls, then make holes and put windows and a double door
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yeah mesh limit might be a killer if you don’t plan your build well
best is to find that point where 4 meshes meet and make it the center of your structure; that would most likely let you stretch over the biggest number of chunks possible (providing you expand in all directions equally)
I’ve never done it myself cause all my mesh-packed builds started way ago (before I even thought about chunks at all lol) and were dependent on terrain features I wanted to use.
So, my rule for mesh limit managing is: don’t build your machine room/storage and farms vertically (well, I do layers, but I spread horizontally way more than up and down).
I also made sure that I created separate storages for different categories of items and built separate buildings for them (with some distance between them). It adds some time to managing stored goods, but at least I don’t have to worry about the limits.
And likewise, apart from main machine hall with maxed out machine power, I also built separate buildings with their own smaller machine set ups for different kind of crafted tasks (I have the mason and the metal worker and the alchemist and the cook etc. - each with their own set of 3-4 machines and power around 1200-1600, so whenever I craft something of low-medium tier I might use them, saving the maxed out machine hall for high end crafting). All crafting houses are spread over quite a large area - again helping to keep mesh numbers low per chunk.
You just described all my builds.
I Just have to say thats idiotic …
There is Not more kindling or Guys WHO sells it and you start to dump the price …
Thats Not belivable for me because i try to keep the price Up so you WHO dont have as much as i do get more Money …
If i would i could dicate the price because of Numbers i have and that what is in B.U.T.T is really Not all i have and what i yield every week, i dont undrrstand IT ,
Everyone’s advice led to this (not finished):
Thank you!
Right now it features 2376 combustion and 4752 kindlibg
ps. Ran out of petrolim 
Pps . Ugly but functional 
Regards,
Nice work 
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