The station can only send down things it already has. There is no way to make it go fetch things based on requests. You need to send it on a route where it picks up all the things that may be requested so it can then just send them down.

mrkev wrote: Sun May 18, 2025 2:00 pm Maybe If you wanna one shot the big demolisher.

Right, I never considered that since there are better options, but a railgun one shotting the big one would be funny!

Factorio 2.0.50 (build 82883, linux64, steam, space-age). No mods.

In the menu sim where the tank drives through the wall with blinkenlights, to place solar panels over an enemy base, it hits something and gets stuck. It keeps turning but not moving, and the worm survives.

[edit]I noticed it also ...

Is there a reason to keep researching Railgun damage buffs? They one-shot everything anyway, so it just seems like more overkill. (Shooting speed is another matter of course.)

And finally, fighting demolishers isn't that difficult. Load yourself with 100 gun turrets, 2000 red ammo, personal roboports and construction robots and a blueprint like this:
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Place it, watch it being built, wait for the demolisher, watch the demolisher being destroyed. I hate fighting, but ...

It's not just normal, it's a vital part of the game. It's very useful for belt lane changes (for the lane that continues), and for stopping one lane while the other continues. (With much less material than splitters, in particular no electronics needed, just iron, and less performance impact.)

For those of us playing without the quality option, it would be nice to know which ships can be built without quality.

I've been doing "rush to space" most of the time, first Nauvis build is generally small, only about 30 spm without yellow/purple at all. Then when I have foundries, big drills and EM plants I'll do the proper big factory. I hate ripping out large factories for a redesign almost as much as I hate ...

You can fix it with some additional inserters to fill in the gaps.

The final plants should have each have a red blue inserter plugging the "inside" holes, and a yellow inserter feeding a sideloading belt to plug the "outside" holes.

Like this:
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Doesn't matter as long as ammo production exceeds consumption per trip. Steel and copper wire are infinite in space.


It's never enough though, is it? The available production rate just defines the maximum safe speed and/or trip turnaround time. Especially on space platforms, squeezing out the ...

Yeah it's useful in just about every situation, I must have hundreds of these circuits everywhere.

Another variant is to set inserter filters, with the conditions like "each(red) > 0" "and" "each(green) less than each(red)", and output a value of 1 for each.

You can make a filter with a constant combinator on a separate wire (red vs. green), and a decider.

In a nutshell: Put the constant combinator on (e.g.) the red input wire. Put everything else on the green input wire. Set condition "each(red) > 0", and output the input value from green to get the ...

I think being exact may be too problematic. A different option may be to set recipe based on the absence of a material at a specific part of the down-trace belt when hold read. Use two filtered stack inserters placing the two ingredients on different sides of the belt so there isn't a hold caused ...

This is a very old setup, and back then sushi belts were rather complicated to get working.

Since 2.0 with the "read all connected belts" option, it only takes a single decider to implement a sushi belt for an arbitrary number of items on it. So I don't think there's much value in understanding ...

In my case also, loading the previous game went fine and the error has not reappeared since then.

I was reconfiguring recipes on the space platform named "space platform foundation". The autosave kicked in and resulted in this error message. Since then all attempts to save result in the same message.

I am using the Linux "background thread saving" feature and the game continued normally despite ...

I want to have a single foundry making the copper coil and steel for my railgun shells. (Because of space constraints on the platform and otherwise the copper foundry being way underused with about 5% duty cycle to keep up with the steel.)

Basically I would like to make it craft for example 48 ...

The foundations are probably part of your blueprint. You can edit the blueprint and remove them (right-click the icon).

It's a stochastic process, in the long run completely predictable but in the short term the imbalance could get arbitrarily large.

I generally just get rid of any excess product from it, much easier than trying to balance it perfectly. It's not like scrap is in short supply.

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Does that still work for you? I'm pretty sure a recent patch made that impossible. At least I can no longer get it to work.

You mean if it works in general? I have an old blueprint that I use, no idea if I can make a blueprint like that again, I've not tried.

Yeah in general, for the past ...