Is there a mode/hotkey in which I can only place an item if a matching/similar blueprint ghost is already there? like when building a smelter stack pre-bots? it would make placing 100+ inserters less of a chore


in principle, no. but there is one exception: power poles. you can place a blueprint ...

Is there a way to place legendary fish in a pond and have them stay legendary? I have too many of them and kind of want a legendary koi pond...

No, all the fish you return to the water will lose their quality. See also this (refused) bug report :


Thanks for the report. The simple solution ...

They have a high resistance to explosive damage. Your should use regular, non explosive, cannon shells. And invest in physical projectile damage upgrades via research if you haven't already.
Good luck!

Also, a power switch does not work on a space platform

IIRC you can also move trains without fuel -very slowly- since 2.0, so you're able to remotely ( and manually) drive a train out of the way or towards a refueling station. Maybe that behavior is extended to other vehicles as well?

It looks like the mod author just started on porting it to 2.0: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/WaterAsAR ... a68efd6530

Sorry if I'm being dense...

( NEW BUG : this UI is difficult to discover!)

...but I'm not getting the steips I need to bring up the UI in the picture.

Select the upgrade planner, open your inventory and drop it in there. You'll see a green rectangle, by right clicking it you can edit it. It'll ...

You could configure a request in one roboport for let's say 100 con bots (or logi bots), and pick them out of that robopurt using a filtered inserter that stores them in a chest

Yes please, would be so convenient

Are you sure you aren't using a regular pump instead of an offshore pump?
One can only pump water out of the ocean with an offshore pump

You can take a look into this topic for ideas and blueprints, but as stated above, I'd rather upgrade power production
All the zero drain laser walls

You need construction bots to do that. All remote actions on inventory slots of vehicles, inserter, assembly machines,... are handled by construction bots.

Hi sprogofpunk

A reactor being destroyed e.g. by biters if above 900°C will explode and can trigger a chain reaction, but other than that it's no problem: they just max out at 1000°C.
It's highly inefficient though, your precious fuel cells are simply wasted.
You should look for a way to ...

Good idea. I think 95% of the time I disabled my exoskeleton would not have been necessary if it had acceleration built in

Please, let the labs research other enqueued technologies if there are packs missing for the first one in the queue. Make it a priority queue instead of a waiting queue. For a game that's all about automation, forcing the user to micromanage the science queue seems really weird.

Evolution itself increases steadily, with 3 things contributing to the evolution increase: time (for every minute elapsed the evolution is increases a little bit), destroy (every destroyed nest increases evolution a little bit) and pollution (every pollution absorbed by a nest used to send an ...

I've been rushing to get off-planet and at 25h in I have a basic space platform, but I feel very nervous about heading out to Vulcanus.
I've been careful with pollution and have cleared a safe radius around my base, but it's unprotected.
It's a minimal base, I've only made RGB science, no GMY, no ...

Quality is essentially unusable at the point it is unlocked IMO.

In order to use it in any meaningful way, you need a way to collect increased quality plates as well as the intermediate products. Almost every single recipe requires plates of some kind, and it isn't possible to get them until you ...

When I play with my nephew he sings a completely different tune from the one I'm hearing. It would be a small blessing if they were the same on both games, when possible. Thank you for being awesome!

Even if the music was synced, and the developers took the extra effort to compensate for the ...

It isn't. Worked just fine for me