I don't think explosive rockets are useful with asteroids, just make regular ones.

You could do it from the other side. Just stop takings eggs out of the nests when there's enough science in the planet-side buffers. They don't spoil while in the nest.

With a terminus station you have to reverse the locomotive in the back, in automatic mode they can only provide power going forwards. Or make the track loop back.

Then you open the train, and put the three stops on its schedule, and let it go.

My solution is to send a spidertron or tank with enough bots instead of going there myself. Then only the closest chunks will be generated.

Gleba is my favorite planet too. How much SPM does this support?

To keep all heat exchangers going, you need to keep the reactor temperature above 500°C + X, where X is the distance of the most distant heat pipe in use. Otherwise the closer heat exchangers suck out the heat and there's nothing left for the further ones.

So this is either (like previous ...

In any case the proof of determinism is the ability of multiplayer games. If it wasn't deterministic, multiplayer games would desync. And in fact whenever a desync bug is fixed, it's because something was accidentally not deterministic.

1. I've tried starting on Gleba several times and always end up running out of seeds.


Use Biochambers not Assemblers to process the fruit. You get 50% extra seeds from the productivity bonus.

Dealing with the nutrients is a bit of a hassle, but you need to do that anyway for the science. So ...

They definitely have the expected effect for me. Check the e-plant tooltip, it should say -80% power consumption.

A recipe will not get set if the tech for it is not researched yet, if it's limited to a specific planet, or if the previous products or ingredients are still in the machine.


This is what trips up a lot of people because it's different from manually changed recipes. You have to clear the output ...

My simple question is: How can I see power generation and usage graph on a space platform?

I did check the key bindings in case I was "playing the game wrong" by clicking on the nearest power pole all these years. No love on the wiki either. But I assume it must be simple to do?


Open the hub ...

And furthermore, if you've changed the plant recipe, some holmium solution may be stuck in its hidden output buffer, so you may have to flush the pipes a few times to get it all out.

A better comparison might be to look at the power draw for each of the 50 or 72 ticks instead of eyeballing the dang power graph


To measure this I would set up an accumulator, charge it and then separate it from the grid. Then count how many items each inserter can transfer using that charge ...

I am using the overgrown artificial soil and controlling the number of possibly plants with that.

As I commented above, when I disable the tower based on belt contents, it doesn't plant trees. That means, when I need more fruit, I'll potentially need to wait for trees to be planted and grown, not ...

The flip side to using efficiency modules to reduce the amount of pollution is to use red productivity modules in everything in the hopes that you don't have to expand out to new ore patches. (That's what I tend to do on Nauvis).
I think that both green and red modules are good techniques to avoid ...

One more thing people underestimate: Efficiency Modules.

When you get your drills to -80% power usage, their pollution is also negligible. That makes defences much much easier, generally only small groups on an expansion trip, rather than pollution-based attacks.

Looks like your inserter filter is "spent fuel cell of normal quality", but the reactor has processed an uncommon fuel cell and so there's now an uncommon spent fuel cell.

Change the filter to match "any" quality of fuel cell.

pf_moore wrote: Sat Dec 14, 2024 5:03 pm Although I think just trashing stuff is longer term the better option.

The discerning engineer of modern times does not trash stuff, he recycles. That is absolutely fine.

Quality holmium ore is not completely useless, you can still make (regular) holmium solution from it, since you should also be getting enough quality stones. There's just no particular benefit to its quality.

Also, dealing with it is a little annoying, either by recipe switching or the duplicate ...

No. Items you throw away cannot be caught again.