To me pipeline are only easy to use when you have a single fluid in them, but if you have 2, usually people do separate pipelines, and that takes as much room as a rail track, but on a rail track you can have more than 2 ressources going easily.

It's not about the width of the rail, but the area ...

Trains have always been limited in their own way.

For example in many speedrun categories trains don't appear at all, because it's cheaper and faster to just use belts.

In Space Age trains aren't upgraded much other than elevated rail and quality fuel, but belts are upgraded a lot, and so is the ...

I agree that this would be handy.

I do it on Vulcanus.

The plastic isn't a problem, while initially plastic is problematic, once you're doing proper coal liquefaction and are stacking productivity bonuses the coal consumption becomes a non-issue.

The productivity bonuses can be optimized by using Biochambers for the heavy and ...

So kind of don't need help anymore, but still want to make a post because actually diagnosing the issue was a bit of a saga, and posting for issue SEO. I learned some things.

Basically after I installed Space Age, Factorio started having checksum errors when loading PNG files, or occasionally zip ...

Flamethrower damage and resists have always been a bit of a mystery to me, in particular the "breakpoints" where Tanks and Trains take dramatically more damage.

The raws (namely fire.lua) give a lot of information, but not all.

First for completeness, let's start with the easy two (base damage ...

The best worst ship I actually use.

Screenshot From 2025-01-27 18-15-00.png

It's actually a "Biter ship" I posted to reddit , except with the legs removed.

It's not particulary capable, though with 5 electric furnaces it's not terrible in terms of trip frequency mainly held back by the low ...

I agree with OP that blueprint shortcuts should be usable remotely, and yes I know about the BP library.

It's weird because if there's a "local" blueprint, you can still tediously go to its location, open it, make a copy of it and use that copy. They can't be used remotely, but they can be copied ...

Artillery is not a requirement for Gleba.

The minimum requirement to have a good time on Gleba is actually the Tank, with normal cannon shells. It will take medium and even big stompers with relative ease. It is adequate for destroying their nests. It's really helpful for the Tank to have some ...

No.

A rocket will only automatically launch if it's full with a single kind of item, and a platform is requesting that type of item (the rocket doesn't have to be fully full with that item, merely meet the minimum launch threshold for the request).

It doesn't matter whether the rocket silo was ...

All I'd want is a change to the automatic launching of rockets set for manual loading.

Namely if the rocket is completely full, and a platform is requesting everything in the rocket, then it'll launch.

This won't make everyone happy, but would cover common cases like loading a rocket with mixed ...

Of course the problem with this balance is that people first trying Space Age, if they're anything like me, will look at the tech tree and choose Gleba for those bonuses, and then wonder why they ever left Nauvis.


Do people not look at the planet tips and see the big uglies skittering and ...

Not stuck. What you need to do is scrounge together the materials to make a Tank. Put rocket fuel in it and either yellow or red ammo. Now you have the mobility and firepower required to destroy egg rafts and put an end to the harassment. In fact, you may want to make more than one Tank, and park ...

That's really close but I before the first rocket hit the platform the next one will lunch from the same silo ate inserter will put at least one item in it. This will cause the platform to wait for a second rocket and then the third etc... Is there a way to stop the inserter from entering anything ...

"How to automate space platform to request all available items of a given type and then leave the planet immediately after receiving first rocket shipment of it."

(Plus it would be nice if a space platform could also recognise when there are no available items and leave the planet immediately but ...

I slap down 1-2 MW of solar (like 30-60 panels), this ensures there's at least a trickle of electricity to keep the Roboports active.

As long as the roboports are active you can use ghost cursor to order the construction bots to move some spoilage around.

In order to avoid "circular dependencies ...

Actually the original construction bots in that botport had been destroyed by the worm and I just try to use the spidertron to replenish that.


Construction bots specifically can't be delivered by ghost cursor orders. You have to use some roundabout scheme involving trash orders, logistic bots ...

so my plan for the next hours is:
1.) Expanding and build walls between the lakes, at first to the north and west


Looks good. I'd agree with claiming the entirety of the North, it's the obvious area which has large coastlines and chokepoints.


2.) Build other walls... so without stone ...

I've done two maximized enemies deathworlds in Space Age.

The difficulty will depend substantially on the map, with the degree of forestation, layout of the water, and the ease of access of oil and additional iron.

Transition away from Burner drills to Electric drills ASAP, then tear down or ...

Not here to flex or anything. Just curious about how so many people seem to have had a completely different experience.


The experience of Gleba depends a lot on prep. The more stuff you bring, the easier it is. At the moment Gleba is the first planet for speedrunners, because they have ...