... whose life expectancy depend on how many mining drill there is tapping onto it, and i want to maximize the longevity of my mining drills. If on an outpost you place twice as many mines, you will deplete it twice as fast, for the same amount of ressources in the end, you have used also twice as many ...

iloveidea wrote: Sun Sep 20, 2026 11:15 pm

Why?

I want to build a mining outpost that turns on quality modules when there aren’t enough quality items.

You can use a power-switch controlled Beacon to selectively transmit a Speed Module (which penalizes Quality).

Good Luck!

... modules from mining drills


What?
Allow inserters to insert and remove modules from mining drills, just like beacons.

Why?
I want to build a mining outpost that turns on quality modules when there aren’t enough quality items.
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... com/122203). The strangest inconsistency, however is about building in fog of war. Upon trying to build a radar next to a power pole at an outpost, the game presents you with a message "cannot build in fog of war". It is, however, possible to place a ghost radar at a place with coverage, CTRL ...

... their timings completely thrown off due to flickering power. In a tightly designed system with a careful power balance, such as a solar powered outpost or a space platform, this extra power draw can wreak havoc on systems that depend on a consistent power production, even when building enough ...

... main reason for wanting this is that I might want a radar to uncover the map without also generating an alert every time it detects an expansion. Then I could have specific radars where I do want expansion alerts, such as an outpost that doesn't have artillery coverage, or a different planet entirely.

... you want the alert specifically and when not?


Perhaps you'd want it on gleba and not nauvis, or you want to monitor expansions at a certain outpost. You'd probably want it for nauvis early game but then having to turn off the alert after getting into endgame isn't great. And when you say ...

... similar to train ID features.

Why?
If radar emitted a signal for nests in its radius, I could:
dynamically request artillery trains to visit an outpost when biters expand nearby
set up an alarm for enemy presence in a chosen area
...and if radar emitted a signal for engineers/other stuff, I could ...

... items there.

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What?
I want to be able to automatically ship (by train) the construction materials my outpost needs. Basically all tooling is already available in the game except detecting what is missing. I hoped they would show up as a negative value ...

+1

The most basic application is a uranium mine outpost train with a fluid wagon of acid and cargo wagons of ore. You want to leave the base when fluids are full and items are empty. You want to leave the outpost when items are full or fluids are empty. Inactivity isn't what you actually want in ...

... wait conditions to make schedules work cleanly with mixed fluid/cargo trains across different wagon qualities.

What?
For my uranium mining outpost, I run trains that deliver sulfuric acid and pick up ore — one schedule, two conditions: fill fluid on the way out, fill items on the way back. I ...

... Parameterising the Channel value in a Blueprint? I have not tried it myself yet.


I tried, I don't think you can. Also, an example of a use case: When I place an outpost, it automatically checks and selects a free communicate on, and renegotiates if there's a conflict. Could be extremely cool imo

... friction point recently that feels like a missing core feature.

I ran a circuit cable all the way from my main mega-base to a distant mining outpost, expecting to be able to read what ghost entities needed to be built so I could automate shipping the construction materials. I was incredibly ...

... realize there might be tens of thousands of these, so I will be quick: one of the most annoying things that can happen is if you want to build an outpost somewhere before you have spidertrons, and you request a bunch of things from the logistics network, but right before the bots get to you they ...

I don't disagree with you. While personally I probably would not bother combining outposts with trains (with generic schedules so the outpost gets overrun by other trains before the ghost trains are built)


Well yeah that's on me, i tried a made-up example where i thought it would be obvious what ...

I was going to say that, but i think it's slightly different the situation described, it's not just when you build "trains" but rather "outpost with also a trains on them", in such case the robots can create the rails and the stations, before the ghost train, and it can happen that other trains ...

... track.


I was going to say that, but i think it's slightly different the situation described, it's not just when you build "trains" but rather "outpost with also a trains on them", in such case the robots can create the rails and the stations, before the ghost train, and it can happen that other ...

... you call the personal non auto route ship you have), which needs the green belts to transport to your next building location to found a new outpost (when playing with all the additional planets).

So I want the Vulcanus ship to drop green belts at Nauvis.
The Vulcanus ship should transfer ...

... in orbit, and it doesn't.

I find myself wanting multiple per-planet channels, like a 'vulcanus orbit' 'vulcanus inter-planet inventory' 'vulcanus outpost requests' sort of situation. I guess there might be mods to add lots of virtual signals in this way eventually.

So I guess a couple possible ...