I think the unsatisfying answer for SE is almost always "depends on your tech levels"


You're right, that is an unsatisfying answer. Why would I would want to build stuff in orbit later game? As I get access to larger productivity modules, wouldn't it make more sense to produce more on Nauvis ...

I'm working through SE/K2 right now. I don't have the space elevator yet, so everything goes by rocket to orbit to be made/assembled. I'm not bringing intermediaries back to Nauvis to assemble stuff because that would be just too many rockets. But, in orbit, there are no production bonuses (except ...

You live in Canada, a wealthy Western country, you enjoyed a computer game for 10 years, and cannot justify 90 CAD (65 US dollars) purchase, to play with your son for another 10 years? What father are you?

we will move on to something else.
And what you are going to play? What ever it is ...

... when you go to Paris, and your favorite museum is the Paris Sewer Museum (so many pipes)!

I would suggest K2 + Space Exploration. It's super fun (and it's free), and it'll give you many hundreds of hours (thousands, maybe) of new Factorio fun.

I make spaghetti by not planning at all. I build what I need at the time to get to the next research. If I'll need more of something later, then I cross that bridge when I get to it. Taking time to organize my factories doesn't really interest me at all. I just want to be able to do [x] as soon as ...

I played Factorio last year and got about 38 hours into my save. I had started working with petroleum and plastics, and I was producing blue (chemical) science. What discouraged me was how slow my research was progressing and how often I realized that I needed to make materials more efficiently ...

cinnamon wrote: Tue Apr 07, 2026 9:13 pm Is a big train with 5 resources better than 5 trains with 1 resource? this mostly regards the time that the big train has to gather resources from each section

What do you mean by "better"?

I'm playing a standard SE/K2 playthrough on 2.0. The closest moon to Nauvis is supposed to have a large amount of Cryonite on it (231% frequency, 86% size, 92% richness), but after scanning the entire planet, there are no cryonite deposits. It doesn't appear to have frozen terrain, so maybe that's ...

NineNine is the kind of player who builds megabases with thousands of trains. Thousands.


Wow, I *wish * I could build a base with thousands of trains. That would be awesome. Unfortunately, even my relatively good computer has problems with maybe a hundred trains. If you know of a hardware setup ...

I usually have a movie I've seen before on my second screen when playing, but if I do play to music, it's usually going to be Bjork, the Shins, or Lou Reed. Don't ask me why, because I have no idea.

Am I missing something? Is there a reason to use train refueling stations instead of just letting bots to keep them fueled up?

Instead of one giant logistic network player may choose to use multiple small networks or even have areas without any logistic network. In this case your approach ...

I'm always seeing people make train refueling stations, and use interrupts to send trains there when they need fuel. Alternately, I just put a blue chest with train fuel at each train stop, and never have to think about train fuel at all. Am I missing something? Is there a reason to use train ...

1.3% of players killed a big demolisher.
Do you not see that there are huge problems with this?
What's the point of a huge expansion if almost nobody plays it?

5% of players even got to Gleba in the first place.
That's 1 in 20 factorio players actually went to Gleba.
Of those 5%, almost all of ...

I figured out Gleba in a few hours. I didn't think it was that big of a deal. Some people just don't have the brain for it, and that's OK. I never really got organic chemistry. That didn't mean there was anything wrong with organic chemistry... I just wasn't able to get it. I knew plenty of people ...

Barbeque Tier wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 8:23 pm Just cheese it with logistics chests, It takes like 10 biochambers, 20 chests and abotu 100 bots to "beat" gleba well enough to reach the endgame.

Too true. It doesn't have to be hard, unless you want it to be.

maeep wrote: Sat Mar 14, 2026 1:02 pm Are we allowed to post questions that have problems that may be caused by mods here?

"What this thread is for

Simple questions relating to vanilla Factorio game play.
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From a technical point: because trees are force-less entities not owned by anyone or anything and the robot/ghost system only works with force-based entities (things owned by 1 and only 1 'team' in the game).

Oh, interesting. I figured there must have been a good reason for it, and that one ...

cbtmessageman wrote: Fri Mar 13, 2026 2:00 pm I've used the Agricultural Roboport mod to handle vegetation planting duties.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not playing Space Age. I'm playing Space Exploration/K2, so this mod wouldn't work for me.

I'm playing Space Exploration + K2 right now, so I have greenhouses than can make wood and trees. The greenhouses can make 87 different types of trees, but unfortunately, bots cannot place them. Why not? I would absolutely love to design a factory with all sorts of different trees both for awesome ...