This is my first foray into factorio modding, and so after doing the tutorial on the wiki and reading over the docs, I figured I'd start with a light feature I always wanted, an electric heater. I've gotten 90% of the way there, creating a prototype based on the heating tower that swaps out the ...

+1 on this, I've been trying to upscale my Gleba base and stack inserters have been the bane of my existence. As stated at a certain point they're basically mandatory to reach the throughput you need on even a small sushi belt, which Gleba pushes you to, but so often stuff will spoil or just not ...

TL;DR
Let space platforms in the same orbit send items between each other.


What?
Currently, space platforms can only ever receive items through rockets launched from the surface. This remains the case even if a different space platform in the same orbit has all the items the first one needs ...

Dang, that's really limiting. So much for my plans of an orbital shipyard. Hopefully this will go the way of logistics requests for spidertrons in 1.0 and the devs will fix it before too long.

Hello! I'm making my way through the expansion, just got agricultural science up and now I'm looking towards making some new ships and heading to the other two starting planets. Now that I've unlocked the tech to get copper from asteroids, I kinda want to make a huge shipyard platform in space so ...