How do I keep a minimum on a space ship? I have a ship running between vulcanas and nauvis. It requests 1k calcite from nauvis. I want it to drop 950 of that on nauvis and keep 50. Nauvis cargo landing pad is requesting said 950. I have a generic "space platform starter" logistic group on the ...

That makes sense. Thank you.

Muche wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 4:28 pm Please attach the savefile.

Done. Thanks for the reminder.

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I automated landing pad requests via circuit. Constant combinator requests are set (4.0k calcite, etc). Another combinator takes logistic network inventory and multiplies it by -1. So, if I have 3.0k calcite, it results -3.0k ...

jamiechi1 wrote: Thu Mar 06, 2025 11:30 pm The last post here should help with the constantly on thing. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ElectricH ... 8f6606bccb

oooh, that's nice. Thanks

GrumpyJoe wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 11:51 amEither have a box where it can "spoil" or increase time on the belt (belt length or speed)

Sounds like a fermentation chamber. I use this with my sourdough bread

+1. There should be some kind of productivity if not this.

+1 for this. I know it kind of invalidates the point of aquilo, but it's literally a technology we use irl and have for a long time.

I know that the belts and inserters and everything have been their colors forEVER and are unlikely to change, but it's a little confusing to me.

Item | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5
Inserter* | yellow | blue | green | white | n/a
Belt | yellow | red | blue | green | n/a
Assembler ...

+1 from me. What I end up doing is alt-tabbing to a website that has the RGB colors listed. However, they're not always right and it'd be better if it was in game. Even listing the RGB on the factoripedia page would be an improvement.

First off - I know it's mod able. I have it. I think it shouldn't have to be modded.

It's really inconsistent and doesn't add anything. Every other end product on gleba doesn't spoil. Only science packs. Every other science pack doesn't spoil in any manner. Space logistics aren't robust enough to ...

The heating mechanic is generally pretty nonsensical, it’s 100% gameplay and 0% realism. You kind of just have to accept it as it is.

Heating with steam instead of heat pipes would be OP, because steam can go through underground pipes while heat cannot.


I'm not looking for realism, but ...

Can you be more specific? Do you mean using steam in pipes to heat tiles on Aquilo? I don't think this would be a good idea, as steam does not cool over distance, but heat pipes do.

Having the steam heat only the pipes, but not neighbouring tiles is better, and https://mods.factorio.com/mod ...

Steam heating is a very common form of heating. Can steam heating be added, please?

Can someone please make an electric heater? There's a mod, https://mods.factorio.com/mod/ElectricHeatingTower, but it's not very developed. It can't control temperature, just on and 400C, no matter what.

Lighthouse wrote: Sun Dec 29, 2024 5:49 pm
This can be done with a single Selector Combinator (Quality Transfer) + connect 1 Constant Combinator (set with Signal of bot in scope, Q1, strengh 1).

How does that prioritize taking the lowest quality items first?

You probably want to gradually phase out old bots and replace them with higher quality bots as they become available.
I would do it like this:
- request 10 of the old quality bots into some roboport
- read robot statistics from that roboport. We're interested in Y and T.
- if Y >= 1000 (or ...

+1 to this. Electric heater of any kind, honestly. Would help greatly on Aquilo. Also, electric heat makes sense.

/resurrect

Bringing this back. Still relevant. It's especially relevant with inventory management now that stack size is an automateable thing with the selector combinator. I can now request X stacks of something via combinator.

Also, seems silly that the artillery cannon stacks to 10 but the ...

Hares wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:25 pm

1. First, there's balancing sub-forum, Ideas & Suggestions are for features: Factorio Direction → Balancing
2. Second, there's a discussion there already, you can bump it: 54659: [0.16.1] Artillery shells stack size = 1

Thanks!