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by mmmPI
Sun Aug 09, 2026 6:26 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 2.1.7
Replies: 304
Views: 199094

Re: Version 2.1.7




I've tried replicating my setups for both iron ore and calcite - Even with massive setups I'm an ... and things like calcite upcycling at the mining drill with high productivity ? Similar to coal ... for copper and steel.

For iron it would be underground pipes recycling, or even simpler iron chest ...
by yngndrw
Fri Aug 07, 2026 1:38 pm
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 2.1.7
Replies: 304
Views: 199094

Re: Version 2.1.7



I've tried replicating my setups for both iron ore and calcite - Even ... like calcite upcycling at the mining drill with high productivity ... steel.

For iron it would be underground pipes recycling, or even simpler ... the thousands of legendary quality modules that I have, before they are ...
by mmmPI
Fri Aug 07, 2026 11:39 am
Forum: Releases
Topic: Version 2.1.7
Replies: 304
Views: 199094

Re: Version 2.1.7


I've tried replicating my setups for both iron ore and calcite - Even with massive setups I'm an ... and things like calcite upcycling at the mining drill with high productivity ? Similar to coal ... for copper and steel.

For iron it would be underground pipes recycling, or even simpler iron chest ...
by wampir
Fri Jun 12, 2026 1:02 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #442 - Flip, Flow, and Fresh Paint
Replies: 388
Views: 63148

Re: Friday Facts #442 - Flip, Flow, and Fresh Paint

Wow, never thought about usefulness of lane switching, bet than it hit me: underground belts, directly under the inserter :D

Could you consider quality storage tanks?
Could you ... into small separate mods? Big mining drill, belts, stack inserter etc. Whichever would be possible, so we could ...
by CyberCider
Sat Mar 07, 2026 7:39 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Idea for balancing crushers
Replies: 28
Views: 7113

Re: Idea for balancing crushers


Direct upcycling of iron/copper plates is complex? Just ... reason, decided to make mining productivity so easy to ... of recipe, such as blue underground belts for gears/iron, big power poles for steel, heat exchangers for copper, etc.


I ... the ratios with productivity modules, change the layouts with ...
by Green Cat
Thu Sep 04, 2025 5:30 pm
Forum: Ideas and Requests For Mods
Topic: Reverse like teritory (all on one planet but with DLC stuff)
Replies: 0
Views: 876

Reverse like teritory (all on one planet but with DLC stuff)

... no real "win" (or maybe add factorio, non dlc/expansion ... and you'll need to abandom mining post and such (and this is ... i suggest that miners and belts are actually not targeted ... be there for longer, and moduels that speed up will be ... a demolisher digs from underground until it gets on the ...
by h.q.droid
Mon Sep 01, 2025 1:58 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers
Replies: 287
Views: 98751

Re: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers

... t sound right. At which levels of mining productivity does this occur? I can maybe see underground pipe casting getting surpassed by ore recycling after several hundred levels, but I doubt blue undergrounds would be surpassed ... with big mining drills and speed modules. I'm running at level 1200 where ...
by CyberCider
Mon Sep 01, 2025 1:27 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers
Replies: 287
Views: 98751

Re: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers

... but right now the game is ill-equipped for them. I've tried underground pipe casting on Vulcanus but in the end it's still inferior to ore upcycling plus importing the ore in terms of UPS / throughput.


This doesn’t sound right. At which levels of mining productivity does this occur? I can ...
by braxbro
Thu Jan 02, 2025 8:51 pm
Forum: Modding interface requests
Topic: Linked Energy Sources/Script-Controlled Electric Networks
Replies: 18
Views: 4501

Linked Energy Sources/Script-Controlled Electric Networks

Hi. I wrote a long preamble for why I'd like this, which is in a spoiler block below for brevity.


We've had Linked Belts ... tremendously useful for both modded cross-surface purposes ... was previously limited to mining drills, which can be useful ... but not for pseudo-underground heat pipes or cross ...
by Daid
Mon Nov 04, 2024 9:59 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: I would appreciate some help on... Gleba
Replies: 33
Views: 31884

Re: I would appreciate some help on... Gleba

... to "beat" the initial hurdle of Gleba yesterday and now sending out ... supply ship.

I shipped in 2000 red belts, 200 underground belts, 200 blue inserters, 100 assemblers, 50 construction bots, some solar panels and 100 ... later.

Stone
Start with stone mining ASAP. You want landfill, tons of ...
by meganothing
Sat Sep 28, 2024 12:40 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #430 - Drowning in Fluids
Replies: 320
Views: 159240

Re: Friday Facts #430 - Drowning in Fluids


Having read FFF #416 Fluids 2.0 again and this FFF, I'm wondering what items exactly will be included in the fluid segment abstraction? According to FFF #416, just 'Pipes, underground pipes, and storage ... steam turbines, flamethrower turrets and mining drills on uranium ore who passthrough fluid to ...
by Tertius
Sat Sep 28, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #430 - Drowning in Fluids
Replies: 320
Views: 159240

Re: Friday Facts #430 - Drowning in Fluids

Having read FFF #416 Fluids 2.0 again and this FFF, I'm wondering what items exactly will be included in the fluid segment abstraction? According to FFF #416, just 'Pipes, underground pipes, and storage ... steam turbines, flamethrower turrets and mining drills on uranium ore who passthrough fluid to ...
by Ivelieu
Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:57 pm
Forum: Combinator Creations
Topic: Precision generic fluid routing and splitting
Replies: 17
Views: 13240

Re: Precision generic fluid routing and splitting

First I want to say I'm glad you like my maniac fluid sushi :D


- If you ... On the other hand, your modification replacing one pump with two ... steam turbines, heat
exchangers, mining drills) will increase throughput slightly.
- Underground pipes only count as 2 "fluidboxes", for example if you ...
by mrvn
Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: Modding interface requests
Topic: make more entity prototypes support rotation
Replies: 36
Views: 15381

Re: make more entity prototypes support rotation

... and why it wasn't used.


Factorio uses dependency ... it? The API is defined by module you insert and that ... of resource left, every mining event decreases this, when ... those 2 (3 for rails or underground belts) bits of information into some left over bits

There frequently is enough ...
by mmmPI
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:28 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: How do YOU use mining drills?
Replies: 96
Views: 69473

Re: How do YOU use mining drills?


Yeah it is not the way you described, because the devs already confirmed elsewhere that "50%" does not mean half the ore is dug up, which would be ... and cause some problems like lightning strike, but coming from the underground.

Again what you say sounds way more likely, but in case as it's sill ...
by jodokus32
Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:15 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls
Replies: 27
Views: 20365

Re: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls

... note that the early mall will be crafting belts, underground belts, splitter, inserters, furnaces, electric mining drills all in parallel and ahead of time....


Ah, I thought, you wanted to follow up, that the precrafted item buffer is major resource sink and can compete with progressing somewhere else ...
by quineotio
Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:48 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls
Replies: 27
Views: 20365

Re: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls

... note that the early mall will be crafting belts, underground belts, splitter, inserters, furnaces, electric mining drills all in parallel and ahead of time....


Ah, I thought, you wanted to follow up, that the precrafted item buffer is major resource sink and can compete with progressing somewhere else ...
by jodokus32
Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:33 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls
Replies: 27
Views: 20365

Re: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls

... note that the early mall will be crafting belts, underground belts, splitter, inserters, furnaces, electric mining drills all in parallel and ahead of time....


Ah, I thought, you wanted to follow up, that the precrafted item buffer is major resource sink and can compete with progressing somewhere else ...
by mrvn
Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:24 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls
Replies: 27
Views: 20365

Re: Can't understand hate for handcrafting and love for early malls

... note that the early mall will be crafting belts, underground belts, splitter, inserters, furnaces, electric mining drills all in parallel and ahead of time. So when I see that I need more copper plates I simply grab the items out of the chests and build a new row of miners and furnaces without having to ...
by vangrunz
Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:04 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Limit offshore pump output depending on lake size
Replies: 29
Views: 14347

Re: Limit offshore pump output depending on lake size

To continue this train of thought, mining drills would need more production time the less resources are available, assuming it has to search longer for ... to an end, sooner or later. Underground water will become weaker until ... well, uh... ;) (I know there're mods for)

I don't think a finite ...

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