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 ...

Every time I start a new game, I rush to getting construction bots. Is there any better feeling than finally getting your first construction bot built? Is there anything more annoying than having to walk or drive the engineer around everywhere? Once I have construction bots, I rarely, if ever, move ...

Amazing! You predicted it! Space Exploration was first released in 2019, so you predicted it 6 years before it came out.

I've been enjoying playing a 2.0 game with K2 for a few months now. My factory is a giant train grid, with 1-12-1 trains.
But now, after about 244 hours, I'm getting to a regular 25 UPS/FPS, so I think it's time to say good bye to this game, and start a new, different one.

When do you stop playing ...

Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with my calendars at the moment, it's a mess. Between the sessions on my Factorio server synced to my Google, my Outlook for clients, and iCloud for personal use, I can't keep track anymore. I'm looking for a way to link everything together neatly. The goal is that ...

In general is there a raw amount of inputs to the factory that I should be aiming for to build a "big factory?"

For example, presently I have 4 belts of iron, 4 belts of copper, 4 belts of uranium, and 4 belts of stone coming in. These belts are fed by multiple electric mines at various ore sites ...

I was more trying to understand if there was something I had missed, new types of Biters, or whatever. I understand that as I expand I will attract more of them, but I have a fairly large base and can see the end of the game in terms of research so I was just wondering if I was going to suddenly ...

Not really. It's a building game. The challenge is whatever you want it to be. Megabasing (building a huge, factory, capable of producing and using thousands of science per minute) is a fun challenge.

If you want harder without building a giant factory, then feel free to tweak the settings (less ...

Because nothing was or is optimised for the upcoming upcycling approach. Not all products had been produced in the minor factories at the other planet, but some only at Nauvis, which would have been added. Material entrances were not optimised for delivery. Each machine was optimised for handling ...

ES64U2 wrote: Sat Feb 14, 2026 12:54 pm So you tear down your whole factory production with your optimizations for quality and build up a legendary factory production in one of the (multiple) places that suits this best.

Why would you tear down your existing factory?