h.q.droid wrote: Sat Jul 26, 2025 4:16 am Like how a single fish can be currently inserted into a space-age rocket to trigger special behavior

I got curious and so I launched a single fish into a rocket silo and launched the rocket to a stationary platform above Nauvis. I didn't notice anything unexpected. What is this special behavior?

This is compact enough for my platforms:
Should work in space. Thanks again!

Does it matter if you drop the excess items to the Planet, or can you live with throwing them Overboard?

You can use a Combinator Contraption to read the contents of the Platform Hub, and the Location of the Platform in Space. When the Platform is in-transit (so, not waiting at a Planet for ...

Shift-leftclick on a stack will move it to the trash, which will be dropped if the platform is in orbit. Ctrl-leftclick on a stack moves all stacks of the same material to the trash, and ctrl-leftclick on an empty stack moves all stacks of the whole inventory to the trash (up to 10 stacks, which ...

I'm making my science on Vulcanus (I've found a nice lake in Nauvis where I do research and I don't bother with biters that way). I ship the science with a lot of space platforms. When I need to expand and research faster, I must make more platforms that ship science.

So how do I make e.g. 10 ...

Shulmeister wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 3:37 pm Otherwise expecting smart thing here is akin to wishing the game to magically guess which silo is the "best".

What is magical about short travel times? Distance over air is a fairly simple metric.

The problem isn't the bots themselves but which rocket silos are chosen to translate the orbital logistic requests into ground logistics requests; there doesn't seem to be any smarts to it.


Ah... That is unfortunate. I'll cut off the two networks I guess... I do this on every other planet ...

Panzerknacker wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 11:50 amJust breaks everyone's factory, we don't care as long as the game gets better, right guys?

Ugh if my factory breaks in a big way, I'm out.

I have this on Fulgora:

https://i.imgur.com/NQP5YPc.png

To the left is my new factory for electromagnetic science. To the right its my old one. For convenience when building more stuff, both are in the same logistics network.

Now, bots will fly from the left side (where most of the ...

You can always use this setup for researches that doesn't need agricultural science, there are quite a few of those.

Manual order would be great, but also a search is needed when you have many platforms.

I got 1 platform per item transported between 2 planets. Its very easy to make the logic work then, it just costs more materials to get the platforms up.


Curious, how many platforms you end up with doing this?


Ugh I dunno, prolly less than 20 for material hauling. Usually they deliver 5 ...

I got 1 platform per item transported between 2 planets. Its very easy to make the logic work then, it just costs more materials to get the platforms up.

I fill the void with more factory.

I got 3 space mining platforms above Aquilo (and a ton of various productivities researched). They work fine, designing them was way more fun than designing my other space miners.

When overproducing agricultural science, do I take freshest first or spoiled first from the cargo landing pad? For best research rate? Does it make a difference?

I do plan from the start, leaving space to grow bits where more production is needed. Unfortunately I always run into space issues sooner or later, then I have to remake the factory.

I dont have a supply chain, my blueprint lets bots load the turrets initially

Does that still work for you? I'm pretty sure a recent patch made that impossible. At least I can no longer get it to work.


You mean if it works in general? I have an old blueprint that I use, no idea if I can ...

I have a large area (larger than my spore area), covered by gun turret blocks 25 each, with red ammo (I dont have a supply chain, my blueprint lets bots load the turrets initially). I got roboports for vision and logistics. I got a few spidertrons with rockets, with those I clear nests when I have ...

Today's update (2.0.43) might be the fix for this. Something about the Asteroid spawn depending on everything else that happens first, it sounded like they made the asteroid spawning more important to fix it or something.


Hmmm I think this will help analyzing what is wrong with the platforms ...