I would have initially thought that sulfur would find its way into the heavier products like bitumen, and therefore an easy way of disposal as it gets used on roads. Actually refining the stuff out was probably useful for a while but now I can see that it is just producing stockpiles (future archeol...

I got curious and looked this up, it seems that the sulfur is extracted because they have to for environmental reasons, there was probably a time when they left it in and therefore the use of these products was a lot smellier and bad for people's breathing. It can probably be done with coal too but,...

I do not think that it is alchemical to obtain sulfur from PG and water. Consider that gasoline (which in some parts of the world is called ‘petrol’ which I can only presume is short for ‘petroleum’ - coincidence? I think not) contains sulfur. I’d guess the water is there to carry the sulfur out of...

As a few here pointed out, the post-rocket game in 0.14 is lacking, but it seems that several modders sought to address this. The first thing I missed was an autolaunch for the rockets, but there are several mods to fix this and I've settled on ScoreExtended at it also provides some stats and remove...

I remember playing it and finally I managed to kill a big nest and I was so proud when I collected my stuff. I was looking how the labs proceed with this precious material. And then … the research stopped. I was missing one (1) dammed egg! :lol: Ya, that was somehow cool and frustrating at the same...

Research prior to 0.15 was limited - no infinite techs and not as many techs, and only 4 science pack types - 1 + 2 + 3 + alien. You really only needed to gather a few hundred artifacts and you could complete all the research. Nothing was continually required, because you finished science entirely ...

I got Factorio after the 1.1 release and just pondered a few minutes how it would be if I had to harvest stuff from biters. There are pro and contra arguments, and in the end I feel it more a chore than a challenge, because it isn't possible to automate this task if harvested stuff was continually ...

I think I may download 0.14 and travel back in time to join you... It's an interesting experience. The secret is not to arouse the biters too much until you really need to get those 260 Artifacts, so at that point the nearby nests are not far evolved and can be destroyed by using the car and pierci...

If you build big you still need to out and kill biters just for the necessary space It was finding additional oil, rather than building space, that meant I had to expand. I used up most of the good stuff building my first rocket but then found out that even 30 wells pumping at 0.1/s couldn't produc...

Have you considered updating and using a mod that restores the alien artifacts? This one, for instance, says it makes the aliens drop artifacts which you can craft into space science packs, I guess as an alternative to launching rockets: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AlienSpaceScience I may use thi...

I'm finding myself sort of outside of the Factorio community at present because I decided to play with some old Factorio versions and have got stuck there - at 0.14 to be precise. The reason is that I quite like the Alien Artifact thing, it means I have to go and destroy some biter nests at some poi...

It's the static acid spitters I have trouble with, if I place a turret within range they tend to destroy it pretty quickly, and if it's further away then it ignores them and concentrates on the moving creatures instead. Maybe it's different for laser turrets, I've just been using regular ones up ti...

It's the static acid spitters I have trouble with, if I place a turret within range they tend to destroy it pretty quickly, and if it's further away then it ignores them and concentrates on the moving creatures instead. Maybe it's different for laser turrets, I've just been using regular ones up til...

Thanks for that, plus the confirmation that it can be done anyway. I managed to scavenge all the old stuff lying around the map, plus I found the odd little 'retreat' in the top right-hand corner. Did you manage to defeat the biters** with the limited technologies available? I sort of gave up for a ...

After fulfilling the mission I decided to carry on playing the map and found out that it was large enough to be entertaining, but not infinite. As it is finite I set myself a mission to wipe out the biters completely - which of course wouldn't be possible on an infinite map. The first hurdle to this...