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by jdrexler75
Mon Jun 09, 2025 1:49 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Coal on Vulcanus Hard to See
Replies: 2
Views: 401

Re: Coal on Vulcanus Hard to See

Looking at the map helps a bit, but yeah it's hard to distinguish.
by jdrexler75
Sat Jun 07, 2025 12:12 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Heat Pipe Math for Aquilo
Replies: 5
Views: 663

Re: Heat Pipe Math for Aquilo

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.
by jdrexler75
Fri Jun 06, 2025 10:29 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Heat Pipe Math for Aquilo
Replies: 5
Views: 663

Re: Heat Pipe Math for Aquilo

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 ...
by jdrexler75
Thu May 22, 2025 2:29 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Landing Pad to Space Platform logistics
Replies: 3
Views: 501

Re: Landing Pad to Space Platform logistics

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.
by jdrexler75
Sun May 18, 2025 2:35 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Simple Questions and Short Answers
Replies: 1991
Views: 748945

Re: Simple Questions and Short Answers

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!
by jdrexler75
Sun May 18, 2025 2:15 pm
Forum: Resolved Problems and Bugs
Topic: [Lou][2.0.50] Menu sim tank gets stuck
Replies: 3
Views: 1991

[Lou][2.0.50] Menu sim tank gets stuck

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 ...
by jdrexler75
Sun May 18, 2025 11:31 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Simple Questions and Short Answers
Replies: 1991
Views: 748945

Re: Simple Questions and Short Answers

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.)
by jdrexler75
Sat May 17, 2025 9:59 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Is there a way to change a planets seed or how should I play without tungsten?
Replies: 12
Views: 966

Re: Is there a way to change a planets seed or how should I play without tungsten?


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:
[...]
Place it, watch it being built, wait for the demolisher, watch the demolisher being destroyed. I hate fighting, but ...
by jdrexler75
Wed May 14, 2025 2:50 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: is it normal for this to happen?(underground belt)
Replies: 6
Views: 598

Re: is it normal for this to happen?(underground belt)

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.)
by jdrexler75
Sat May 03, 2025 9:12 pm
Forum: Show your Creations
Topic: Space Platform (Ship) Index
Replies: 6
Views: 1471

Re: Space Platform (Ship) Index

For those of us playing without the quality option, it would be nice to know which ships can be built without quality.
by jdrexler75
Sat Apr 26, 2025 7:39 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How Big to Go Before Travelling To A New Planet
Replies: 10
Views: 1229

Re: How Big to Go Before Travelling To A New Planet

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 ...
by jdrexler75
Sat Apr 26, 2025 7:04 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Weird problems with EM plant green circuit build
Replies: 7
Views: 634

Re: Weird problems with EM plant green circuit build

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:
0eNrtlltvgyAUgP8Lz9oI3vtXlqbxwhpSRQfYrGn87zvqpu0KK ...
by jdrexler75
Tue Apr 22, 2025 4:16 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Foundry logic for railgun shells
Replies: 15
Views: 1471

Re: Foundry logic for railgun shells


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 ...
by jdrexler75
Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:41 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Consider only inputs from combinator
Replies: 3
Views: 409

Re: Consider only inputs from combinator

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.
by jdrexler75
Mon Apr 21, 2025 4:47 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Consider only inputs from combinator
Replies: 3
Views: 409

Re: Consider only inputs from combinator

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 ...
by jdrexler75
Mon Apr 21, 2025 12:24 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Foundry logic for railgun shells
Replies: 15
Views: 1471

Re: Foundry logic for railgun shells


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 ...
by jdrexler75
Sat Apr 19, 2025 7:47 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Circuit network: I don't understand
Replies: 7
Views: 858

Re: Circuit network: I don't understand

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 ...
by jdrexler75
Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:36 pm
Forum: Resolved Problems and Bugs
Topic: [StrangePan][2.0.45] Crash saving, ItemRequestProxy check fails
Replies: 6
Views: 593

Re: [StrangePan][2.0.45] Crash saving, ItemRequestProxy check fails

In my case also, loading the previous game went fine and the error has not reappeared since then.
by jdrexler75
Wed Apr 16, 2025 4:57 pm
Forum: Resolved Problems and Bugs
Topic: [StrangePan][2.0.45] Crash saving, ItemRequestProxy check fails
Replies: 6
Views: 593

[2.0.45] Saving process crashed [ItemRequestProxy.cpp:91: this->isActive() || this->entityTarget was not true]

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 ...
by jdrexler75
Sun Apr 06, 2025 8:13 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Foundry logic for railgun shells
Replies: 15
Views: 1471

Foundry logic for railgun shells

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 ...

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