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When inserting into a chest, the speed that items go by is equal to the speed that the inserter works at. If the inserter throughput were increased, the belt would start to flow faster, so an expectation that 2x swing speed = 2x throughput is reasonable. Here's an example of a quality-upcycling layo...

Looks like you're hitting the same root issue as me when I posted https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=122029, inserters can't be configured to reasonably deal with mixed belts (especially with stacked items, without stacked items setting inserter capacitor of 1 could help throughput)...

I have noticed the limitation of not being able to use inserters to launch blue circuits into space. But I would rather this be solved with a setting on the rocket silo (some sort of recipe or filter selection), rather than creating special zones on the building.

TL;DR Add another inserter option, like "override stack size: 1 stack" or "don't pause for more items". These options would make inserters perform faster (both in terms of item throughput, and visual smoothness) on stacked+mixed item belts. Why? I have been dealing with a lot of...

I've been going into the tech tree view (press T), that pauses and then you can access factoriopedia by alt-clicking on any of the science packs or items in the upper left.

What I would like to see is an option in the assembler that says "accept (and waste) higher quality ingredients". ... At each stage you would split off your highest quality to a recipe of the highest quality. The excess could then automatically flow on to a lower quality where it would st...

A significant amount of my time spent interacting with quality on my first playthrough is figuring out how to get rid of it, which I don't think is the intended experience. I am learning that I need to have a plan for deleting quality everywhere I make quality, so my next playthrough should be smoot...

A recycler is the way to get higher quality items, and that's by design and working perfectly IMO. The problem is not how to get quality, but how to get rid of quality. E.g. 1/5 of your ore belt is quality ore that you've been filtering off, but you don't need any more quality ore for now. What do y...

The map has a red dot on Nauvis and a red dot on Gleba, as though a turret or enemy is there, but when zooming in and visiting the location, nothing is there. I don't know where or when they appeared, but I added a map tag arrow to the left of each red dot to help spot them if you load the save file...

Repro steps (matching pictures): Step 1. Load attached UndergroundPipeDemo.zip: 1.png Step 2. Copy-paste the pipe layout on the right to the left: 2.png Step 3. Watch as your bots build the lower underground pipe first, since you are closer to it: 3.png Step 4. Watch your bots build the rest of the ...

My only concern with it is that it demands quality to handle quality. So you'd still have the starter stage of dumping all stuff of quality into a chest until you get the downbinners of quality which would let you streamline the process. With their idea, you can have all your surplus greens and blu...

Also, Holmium Plate can be made in an assembling machine, but if you make it in a foundry you get an additional 50% productivity.

This being a video game, sometimes what makes real world sense does not make a better game. It doesn't make sense that a stack inserter can hold 12 normal gears or 12 shiny gears, but can't hold 6 of each. It doesn't make sense that a slot on a train or chest can hold 100 normal gears or 100 shiny g...

There is some talk in this thread of having quality downgrading being a thing you do on its own, rather than having it happen in the assembling machine, and I'm +1 ing that idea as a more elegant solution (with some thoughts in this thread https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=117524) ...

I think this is a better suggestion than the related topic "Ability to craft lower quality with higher quality". Both try to answer the question of how to re-incorporate unwanted quality items back into the normal production chain, but this suggestion avoids some problems of having the ass...

I see this is in 'assigned' - just want to say I think this should be fixed by having two checkboxes, "Automatically launch" and "Request items from logistic storage". Rather than changing it so the current checkbox also disables automatic launching. Currently I can have a bot-fr...

Gleba landing pad is requesting 200 belts, platform AtomLegend is in orbit around Gleba and should be sending them down to the landing pad, but is not dropping them. It looks like this is caused by a "request for construction" for 0 belts that isn't getting cleared. To get into this situat...

If you uncheck "auto request missing construction materials", it will not auto-launch and you'll be able to pick a destination. Personally, I've appreciated the auto-launching.