Space Exploration came first. Space Age came officially from Wube. Both are amazing expansion packs. Which one do you prefer? Why? Do you play either or both with any other overhaul mods?

All of the Factorio art is available as simple .PNG files in your local install. If you want Space Age specific stuff, you'll find it in /[your factorio install]/data/space-age/graphics/

All of this wasted, useless plastic makes me sad.

I don't help thieves.

"Generally, we are happy with the game design of Factorio and Space age. The progression is good, things are mostly well balanced (one or two exceptions), and there isn't anything we feel is majorly missing." FFF #440

This statement is a borderline lie. I find it very difficult to believe that ...

When you learn about the ratios and start making designs with the right amount of elements, with enough throughput, then a lot of the issues of the factory that ills new players are gone or are severely reduced. Like belts backing up, insufficient belt contents, etc.


There are many ways to play ...

From the perspective of "gambling", if my goal is to teach gambling. I want to teach the subject. I don't want to teach a particular game.

Then you get quality modules, and if you use them, the likelihood that you DON'T jam your factory and make a mess is extremely low. And unlike oil ...

But the game wasn't live . The era you're referring to was just beta testing. Major design reworking is fine when you're still putting the thing together. But once you go live, once you have a proper release, you can't just go break everyone's base on a whim.


Nobody's base was broken ...

In the original game, major systems were changed over time. The way science was made changed - no more collection of alien stuff when killing bases and different recipes. Things were tweaked. Factories broke and needed to be redesigned. And this made the game better.

But the game wasn't ...

In the original game, major systems were changed over time. The way science was made changed - no more collection of alien stuff when killing bases and different recipes. Things were tweaked. Factories broke and needed to be redesigned. And this made the game better.

But the game wasn't live ...

Apparently methane gas is the important piece that I was missing in this production chain! I was using the other recipe for refining vitamelange, and for some reason, I didn't think that it made that much of a difference. Well, it does. And I should have realized that earlier because methane gas is ...

As per the subject, I'm playing Space Exploration + Krastorio 2. I can't seem to figure out how to process vitamelange without running out of fertilizer (and fertilizer requires vitamelange). Without describing the whole production cycle, is there something not obvious that I should be doing to make ...

One the main benefits to open source is to allow a community of people to maintain and improve the codebase. In this situation, Factorio is largely a finished product that works incredibly well and has an incredibly small number of remaining bugs that Wube seems to tackle quickly. I don't see the ...

I am getting better at the game, even diving into circuits, although sometimes I not even sure why they do/don't work :lol:
But the point is, I notice my train station belts and others getting "unbalanced", and it seems the way inserters grab from far side of belt, and splitters have internal ...

TV4Fun wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 8:17 pm What am I missing here?

It's fun for those of us who want more Factorio challenges. I love that quality makes me have to re-think my whole factory again. It's like getting yet another new version of Factorio.

What exactly do you mean by "unbalanced"? And what do you mean by "efficient"?

This is one of the most bizarre threads I've ever come across. I have no idea what any of this is about. None of this makes any sense, whatsoever.

My current game is starting to get really slow on my current computer, so it's time to upgrade. The last time I put together a computer a few years ago, the advice was:
- get the CPU with the most amount of L2 cache available
- # of cores doesn't matter because Factorio uses only one CPU at a time ...

robot256 wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 8:55 pm But I should not speculate any more until I actually play with the new system. It sounds so janky I would rather go back to Space Exploration rockets and docking spaceships.

Come on in, the water is fine! (I agree completely... Space Exploration is almost simpler at this point.)

I'm in the middle of a 2.0 game right now, so I haven't tried 2.1, but if it's true that the biters are more of a challenge, that's great! I think they're waaaay too easy in 2.0.