I can see a problem when using the default upgrade planner and drawing a big rectangle just to upgrade belts and assemblers. Maybe it is a bad idea after all to upgrade quality here.

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I exported item data from the game with a script and got a line for an item called lane-splitter.

This is not the normal splitter that we have in the game today, since those are called:
"splitter"
"fast-splitter"
"express-splitter"
"turbo-splitter ...

The entities in the blueprint are there in the order that they were found when iterating the area selected by the player making the blueprint.



Does this imply that when using my mouse to create the rectangle for selecting objects for the blueprint, if I always create the rectangle from the ...

I tried to find an answer but archeology leads towards a change 13 years ago around game version 0.6.0 when a technology for basic-beacon was added, at that point it had dependencies set to {"modules", "advanced-electronics-2"} and later "advanced-electronics-2" was renamed into "processing-unit ...

Perhaps because blue chips are needed for tier 2 and 3 modules?

Using a beacon for tier 1 modules seems a very expensive proposition for such a small gain.



Beacons are cheap and tier 1 modules are cheap too. I use them a lot. Especially for Rocket silo but also in other places. My priorities ...

With some help from Google, I now have this script that I can run in the game console and it prints a file with weight and rocket capacity for items. I could not find any errors for those items I remember the actual in-game capacity, so I think it is correct.

/c local output = "Item Name,Weight ...

I am trying to do some calculations on rocket capacity and looking into the data files, specifically these

https://github.com/wube/factorio-data/blob/master/base/prototypes/item.lua

https://github.com/wube/factorio-data/blob/master/space-age/prototypes/item.lua


A lot of the items have weights ...

worph wrote: Wed Jul 29, 2026 6:34 pm Please no.

Q, then Alt + Mousewheel

Nice shortcut, I did not know that one. Thanks

I suggest that for buildings that have no improved versions, the upgrade planner should naturally place a building of higher quality.

I tried today to upgrade a biochamber from quality1 to quality2, hoping that this would happen naturally since there is no other building to replace it. But no :cry ...

Thanks for the detailed explanation!

I did some searching online but could not find an example with numbers, so asking here.

Let's say I'm researching Aquilo which nominally takes 3000 science packs.

If I use Biolabs, their natural bonus reduces the cost to 1500 science packs.

What happens if I add prod modules?

Specifically, let's ...

Almost everything in Factorio has a logical research order, and you need to research every part needed to craft X before you can research X. This makes sense.

I noticed today that Beacons are the exception (perhaps there are a few more, but not many).

Beacons require blue chips research, but they ...

I finished the express delivery achievement recently.

I want to do another run and see if I can improve the time. But now when I play, I don't get the countdown timer anymore, it just shows the achievement symbol and a green thing marking it as complete.

Is there a way to get this in-game timer as ...

The newest game version has changed this and quality tanks now can hold more liquid.

See

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I just noticed this when the biters destroyed some miners. My bots went to rebuild them and some of them were blinking red since there was no ore left on the ground.

It should be possible to priority handcraft, for example by holding SHIFT and clicking on something to handcraft, which means this item is put first in the crafting queue instead of last.

That would be an enormous QOL improvement when lots of things are already queued and I need something NOW ...

Thanks for a quick reply.

I imagine I'm not the first person to try to track my blueprints like this. Does anyone have a solution?

I guess it would be possible to write a program that loops through the json, finds items and assigns new IDs based on their coordinate position (which will uniquely ...

I'm trying to track my blueprints and update them as I make improvements (with version control such as git), but I've encountered a major problem: placing a blueprint and then exporting a blueprint based on that ghost, the entities inside it will have different ID numbers.

By decoding the blueprint ...

I have the same problem.

Steam cloud is disabled since 3+ months.

Now playing factorio for a few weeks on a new laptop (1 month old) and got this warning yesterday for the first time.

The weird thing is that in my local savegames when going to "Load game", it shows saves from a year back, when I ...

Is it possible to see which fuel is currently being burned inside a train?


Maybe there something i didn't though of, but i would answer : no it's not possible to see which fuel is currently being burned inside a train easily.

If you are at a stage where you have access to nuclear fuel, but ...