Interesting. I thought the only use for beacons was cramming many speed 3 modules to make up for prod 3 modules. Meaning the speedup is not significant enough for a few speed 1 modules compared to doing an 8 beacon setup with a pair of speed 3 modules each. Although v2.0 buffed individual beacons ...

Wow, those are nice. I've never been a fan of all science packs looking the same except for color.

I recently killed the small worm and started mining tungsten to create metallurgic science. My research base is at Nauvis but I want to setup one on Vulcanus. I saw a cool setup for creating circuits with 8 beacons per assembler. I only have a tiny scale production of level 1 modules. Is it too ...

Spend all your time prematurely optimizing, then realize it's way too time consuming and do something else

Actually I would agree with the premise.
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1hc1zbi/how_many_steam_turbines_per_acid_neutralisation/ here it says one chemical plant supports 33.3 steam turbines, each produce 5.8 MW, so 193 MW from a single chemical plant!
The Vulcanus solar panels produce ...

I agree the distance is way too low. I setup my very first space ship to get to Vulcanus with one thruster, and I was surprised and disappointed it only took like 2 minutes.

This is unrelated, but on the first time I traveled to a new planet, I left Nauvis and Vulcanus on the automatic list, so immediately after arriving on Vulcanus the spaceship turned around and headed back. There only needs to be one station as you mentioned (not sure if there is a temporary stop ...

The /screenshot console command is nice. But what many games have is a dedicated screenshot key, perhaps PrtScn, so I don't have to open the console and scroll up to retype the command.

In addition, the output format is only PNG. On my screen, each screenshot comes out to 7 MB. The textures in game ...

I agree with you, especially now full logistics is locked behind space science and artillery is far endgame. That being said, I do want to try my hand at a medium sized electric furnace array before I go to Vulcanus with the powerful foundries.

Nemoricus wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 9:03 pm You should include a few more places past the decimal point, since the numbers are so small that one decimal place isn't enough precision.

I don't think it matters since it's not practical to achieve exactly these rates, but here you go anyway

Such an overview would probably be a complete mess. It's not clear what useful info you get from out of it. Do you know how many circuit networks you actually have? I guess way more than you think (either you're using none, in this case you wouldn't ask, or you're using a huge number of).


12 ...

There is no such overview and no history. If it comes to the number, it's just a counter that increments as soon as a new network is created and never decremented. Old numbers are never recycled. In my test sandbox, I have numbers > 16000 as far as I remember.


That's a shame. it would be a cool ...

I realized today FactorioLab can also show a useful flow chart for uranium (re)processing. (To avoid showing every single step like producing sulfuric acid for uranium mining, I set uranium ore and metal as inputs.) In the base game, the only other non-trivial production cycle is oil processing ...

Every time I make a new circuit network it gets assigned a new network number, like 12. Is there a way to view all networks I've ever made? Even if I connect a wire and then disconnect it, so the network disappears, it still seems like it's counted somewhere.

I am in between nuclear power and foundries. I just started producing space science. Maybe I will make an electric furnace array for now before I unlock foundries.

I just noticed I don't have to be in space to build my space platform, I can build directly in map view... :space-age:
I guess I'm so used to just using the map for viewing and building in-person

also I noticed sending stuff into space takes a whole rocket but sending stuff down is completely free ...

Power doesn't matter. You can put two nuclear reactors next to each other and get 160 MW. The only thing is maybe controlling pollution until I have artillery but I already have many lasers and flamethrowers.

I have the same issue on 2.0.21, the latest Steam version. I will see if it gets fixed when 2.0.23 is released on steam

Electric furnaces are much more convenient and ecological. Space costs nothing on Nauvis why bother about it? It matters only if you try to replace pack of existing steel smelters with electric ones. But you do not have to do this and may use electric only for new ones.


I like the compactness ...

I used the nifty designs here https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/p87fqr/my_version_of_full_yellow_red_and_blue_belt/

I am at midgame (just setup the space platform). Is it worth using electric furnaces if I don't have all the beacons? Factoriolab says I need about 170 furnaces for iron ...