Screen tearing doesn't appear as vertical lines. Instead it appears always as one horizontal ragged sloped line, because unsynchronized the upper half of the screen is the previous frame and the lower half is the next frame and the seam is the transition of both. Transmission is from top to bottom ...

Manual targeting having bigger range is intuitively the right thing. Usually, you build artillery to continuously keep an area clean of nests in automatic mode.

However when you expand, you explore into biter-infested area, often not even uncovered. You use artillery in manual mode to 1) get a ...

As far as I understand the mechanic, no circuit sync is required. It already works exactly as you requested, just no separate priorities:


The current priority system lets us set 'pull' priority, i.e. when a train departs, if there are multiple open stations, which one it will head to. We also ...

- inserters become slow if they need to switch often between items. e.g. inserter grabs one-item, then waits a second (?) for matching item but there's none. Ability to reduce the time? Checkbox to say make it optimistic such that the inserter doesn't wait

This can be solved already this way ...

You need to understand this isn't a matter of "we want" or "your arguments why this is a cool feature are valid". Instead, it's a matter of computer hardware. It cannot happen. It takes too much graphics resources to store the required additional diagonal sprite graphics in the graphics card ...

I recommend you lower brightness and contrast in your monitor settings. The default settings are often very bright.

Proper settings can be seen like this: if you put a newspaper next to your monitor, the monitor image should blend with the newspaper brightness and with the environment in general ...

Platform-to-platform issue.

Currently I have a ship transfering artillery shells from Vulcanus to my Nauvis stationary HUB, it transfers the shells as supposed to from ship to HUB, but after it my Gleba ship is supposed to recieve those transfers from the HUB and take the shells to Gleba, the ...

When your inserters pick up ingredients to supply the foundries, the item isn't on the belt any more, so it isn't counted any more, so the recipe is detected as having not enough ingredients any more, so it is not set as recipe any more.

This is a frequent design error. There are usually 2 ...

As far as I see, the functionality to request an item by a platform, then provide this item to other platforms or to a planet doesn't work without circuit control. With circuit control, you're able to make the request appear only if the platform is in orbit of the providing planet. Without circuits ...

I built a complete item‑management and interplanetary logistics system using radars and combinators.
It allows every planet to define what it needs, and what it exports.
Production, import, export, and space‑platform delivery are all automated through circuit logic.

Overview

Each planet becomes ...

I understand now why AI companies request nuclear power plants for their power consumption. It's for you. For you, the companies have to build new nuclear power plants to satisfy the power consumption for all that silliness.

It's all like using a microscope to crack nuts. Recommended read ...

The popup says "Waiting on a higher priority request: Space platform foundation".

The calculation goes like this.
Biolabs are a production machine, similar to an assembling machine or a mining drill. It has input (ingredients) and (output) products.

For a biolab, the input are science packs (the physical object), and the product isn't physical, it's research science value (this ...

SerhiiS wrote: Tue Jul 28, 2026 7:43 am Fluid Voider - is a bug, an exploit.

naaaa..... I'm using it to void molten copper to get stone, in case there is demand for stone and nothing consumes molten metal. I never use exploits, so it cannot be an exploit

I don't think satisfying those hopes is in the intent of the devs though , something about "quality being a ressource sink for marginally better machines".

But it's difficult to anticipate what a mass of player will settle on, i feel quality as an item has to exist, and has to have bonus ...

Another suggestion from Discord is a whitelist resp. availability list of items: instead of a blacklist to forbid available items, provide a whitelist of items, and only these are being offered to platforms (as long as they're available in the logistic network, of course).

TL;DR
I request a functionality to set a list of items that rocket silos in automatic mode will ignore to send up to the requesting platform.

What?
I want to configure a list of items rocket silos in automatic mode will not send up to requesting platforms. If a platform arrives with circuit ...

The general mechanic is that if there is some request for an item for a given planet, the platform will never drop this item to this planet. Even if the amount is 0. So if you have a request for an item for all planets, this item will never be dropped to any planet.

Stuff I started to use immediately that changed (improved) my building style so I will never look back:
- lane selector for inserters and inserter flipping
- separate circuit wire selection for input and output
- fluid reading on pipe pieces with values 0-100
- decider combinator ELSE

The visual ...

Understanding range is easy: range 0 is the same tile, range 1 is the next tile and so on.

About hitting: as far as I know, this is calculated according to the collision box of an entity, which is some kind of area around the center. Shooting takes always place from the center, not from the edge ...