Which new version, there are multiple "new" versions depending on your update branch. Do you have any "fly condition" set for the shattered planet destination? Without a condition that allows it to fly it will turn back right away.

Do you still have the game where it worked? Just put your blueprints from there into the blueprint library and you'll have them in all games.

How to make higher quality biter eggs? Is recycling them the only way?

Is there a way to place legendary fish in a pond and have them stay legendary? I have too many of them and kind of want a legendary koi pond...

What if I want the statement to work like this: "(A | B | C) & D & E"? I want the statement to pass if D, E, and at least one of A B or C are true.

The only way I have to do this is to use the distributive property of 'and' over 'or' and manually distribute D and E over A, B, and C by dupilacating ...

The concept with using the used fuel cell to trigger inserting the new one is obsolete

I'd say it's not completely obsolete, it's still very useful before Kovarex, when U-235 is precious, and when my reactor is vastly oversized for the neighbour bonuses to make U-235 last longer. A large steam ...

Radars don't generate any signal of their own. They just transmit signals from one radar to all others.

Or are you using mods?

Also please use a more descriptive subject or people will just ignore the thread.

Looking at the map helps a bit, but yeah it's hard to distinguish.

Mr Wednesday wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 11:35 pm The power draw to keep different things warm is at least documented in the wiki. It's not as simple as the number of tiles occupied.

Huh, I should've checked back more often. On average 40 kW per tile seems to be a decent rule of thumb, guess I got lucky.

Yeah, distance is not relevant, it's limited to 969 tiles away from the source due to the minimum 1 K difference between adjacent heat pipes. What matters is how many entities you can keep warm. I don't have hard math to back this up, but each entity that's connected to your heat pipes seems to draw ...

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 ...