I can see why you cannot barrel fuel and oxidizer as it is only used on platforms and the devs want to encourage building fully functional platforms.

But what I can really not understand is why you cannot barrel holium solution and electrolyte. I already built barreling and unbarreling assemblers ...

You can use bots. I use bots. You can't go crazy with them like on other planets, but a normal bot mall is no problem at all.

Seems to me you are so used to Factorio 1.x after thousands of hours that any change of the established makes the game difficult for you. I have much less hours, only ever completed one playthrough and a ribbon world, and I think the difficulty is fine - if not a bit lacking in the end game.

One ...

Just how high that bar of yours is ? As a reminder, your median Factorio player barely (doesn't) manage to get far enough to build a locomotive, and I feel confident in saying that they will never get to space (and don't know WTF a «bus» is).
Which is a bit sad, but unavoidable without dumbing ...

You need to fly from Nauvis orbit to the other planets.

Build a tank and take out all the nests in the spore cloud. That is way more effective than trying to build a traditional wall around your base using gun and laser turrets.

What is your RAM usage? 4GB is the minimum requirement for Factorio. Close all unnecessary programs in the background, including browsers etc.

If your laptop RAM can be upgraded do it. 8GB costs less than $20 these days.

At this point I am totally considering to import 30 roboports and 1000 bots from Nauvis and do it brute-force with bot-sorting. Funnily it would probably even solve the "too low" power consumption problem too. ^^


If you just want enough science to unlock all the technologies you don't need ...

YES, and also move the button to a different place. I know most players close the windows with Escape or Q, but having the delete button right next to the close windows button is a UI trap.

TL;DR
When looking at the contents of a storage hub, let me click on items to place/build them on the space platform.

What?
At the moment you always have to check what is on the platform, close that menu, open the "e" menu, navigate to the correct item, select the right quality, and then get a ...

First time I heard about the game, believe it or not, was from a professor in my PhD defense committee. Then some weeks later youtube suggested a Dosh video to me and I ended up binging all of his videos.

The price of the game in Brazil is actually not just the price in dollars converted, you get a 50% discount over the official exchange rate. Still, if you are in a low income situation, you might not be able to afford it.

Hi Bilka,

thanks for your reply. I have now figured it out :D

Just to document my findings here: For every fluid in the game, the barreling recipes are added to the 'fluid-handling' research. So in the migration script one needs to check for this technology and then enable the barreling recipes ...

Hi,

I work on a mod that adds a bunch of fluids. When I start a new game with the my mod active, the game automatically generates barrel filling and emptying recipes for each of my fluids correctly (this is defined in __base__/data-updates.lua). Everything works as intended.

However, when I load ...