trancexpress wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 11:58 am +24.8% quality, -20% speed.

Looks good.

Have you researched any qualities above rare? Since you are obviously on or past Gleba, at least the epic research should be available.

trancexpress wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:14 am

Being unlucky is a possibility, but the usual suspect is speed beacons affecting the recycler. What does the recyclers tooltip say about quality? It should state sometime like "Quality: 24.8%" assuming 4 legendary quality 3 modules.

5 legendary prod modules add another +125%, pushing the total over the cap of +300% / x4.

This works for all recipes where you can reach the +300% prod cap and get the ingredients back by recycling.

4) Direct insert jelly or mash where it's needed and your life will be easier. The only product that needs both fruits directly is flux. All others combine flux with one of the two fruit products.


Bioflux is also the only product where the freshness of the fruits matters. Except for bacteria ...

You can ignore the "completely orange" case, that's a bug that got fixed in 2.0.29
Fixed bad rendering logic for space platform trash slots. ( 124916 )

The "partial orange" case I haven't seen myself yet, but my guess would be the time until the station can send another drop pod.

So, I must pose a question here: when *should* a bot ever "idle"?

Meaning, is there an ideal situation, for a normal Factorio player, where that player would want a bot to idle?


Should or want? Probably never, but those situations can occur naturally: For example a construction bot hovering at ...

This thread seems to have derailed somewhat… I'll limit myself to OP's question.


This seems a bit strange name of a metric to me. I think that this actually means "Maximum Operation Time" if it is the time it takes for the bot to operate at something at the maximum distance.

Am I ...

NineNine wrote: Thu Jan 02, 2025 3:05 am What's a "PU"?

Since this is about scrap recycling, it's most likely processing unit / blue circuit.

Ah, the evil "EACH combined with another condition", and here even with another EACH. I confess I never really understood how combinators will process that but took a closer look now. That's cool. I wonder how other filtering setups from the cookbook might profit from this double EACH.

Since this ...

Priority map
As long as the input contains at most one of the mapped signals, you can use the first decider to do the filtering. No need for the constant combinators shifting the values. This also removes the accidental non-match if the input is smaller than its index value ...

How do you get *state ingame? As long as you don't know the seed, you're unable to predict.

Unless you mess with the state (~ reseeding), any PRNG will give you a fixed and repeating sequence of numbers(*), the "randomness" comes from the fact that you don't know where in the sequence you are ...

Here quoting the the full description of the Anything (Virtual Signal)
If any of the input signals meet the condition, it will pass. It is false when there are no inputs.
Outputs the first input signal, or the first signal that passed all conditions, respecting signal order in both cases ...

Rotating moves the output direction of a belt. From the situation in the screenshot, rotating twice in either direction should make the belt output to the right. It won't be a top to right curve however, belts prefer going straight and since there's a belt coming in from the left, that one will be ...

For the landing pad in particular, how many logistics requests do you expect to be set by a typical player? Except for Nauvis I currently use at most one row, which would still nicely fit a a two pane layout; compare a rare buffer chest, its UI has the same space requirement. Once we get scrollbars ...

Are there players who would prefer the compact layout even on a big screen?


Define "big". I'm on normal(?) 1920x1080 and immediately reverted to the tabbed version when the flat GUI was introduced. I only need to access the logistics requests infrequently; being able to see (and interact with ...

Why is it possible in two separate locations then? It works just fine on the alerts menu in the bottom, and on spaceships.


See FFF 415, section "Faster construction robot tasks". Tl;dr: Things were optimized for 2.0 and we're no longer limited to 600 construction alerts like in 1.1. But there's ...

For hunting them in the field, I found the flamethrower pretty nice. Hit them once, then kite them until they die. One shipment of ammo will last you quite a while . PLD takes care of the rest. (I did Gleba last, and didn't bring anything but my power armor mk 2. All Nauvis tech, expect for ...

I'd say there are currently 2 "issues" with the wire icons. First is stylistic consistence; the dark border seems to be thicker than the lines in e.g. the paste and import blueprint icons, causing them to stand out. Second is the mismatch between the icon and the tool you get when selecting them ...

I mark something for deconstruction, because I want it to be deconstructed. I think, it adds to confusion, if the game decides, that the order was not important after 2 hours and removes it (probably without notice). If you work on a big project like solar, 2 hours might be short. Importance ...

I mark something for deconstruction, because I want it to be deconstructed. I think, it adds to confusion, if the game decides, that the order was not important after 2 hours and removes it (probably without notice). If you work on a big project like solar, 2 hours might be short. Importance is ...