in my rough estimations, the asteroids i encountered were about triple the number that the route shows. at the time i just guessed it's ship width - my ship was roughly 3 "space platform hub" wide, so in my head it made sense to take that number, and add it another time for every roughly 10 tiles ...

personally, i just play the standalone version, not the steam version, because i don't want automatic updates. since i did buy the base game on steam many years ago, i'm one of probably quite many that cause low achievement percentages and this is unlikely to change.

this thread has a good explanation:

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=120828

However, i think it's shown in a really bad way in the UI. now i'm sure there's reasons for the massive power draw to fill these buffers, but it does seem extremely confusing how it's displayed in the UI ...

I was confused by this too, especially since supercapacitors recycle just fine - seems to me like they should behave the same.

Most importantly i started crafting quality quality modules on Fulgora and ran out of quality plastic, and i realised i had several thousand uncommon or better ...

I think that's new in 2.0, makes it so much easier to do the same thing with nuclear reactors too. in that case just remember to limit the stack size of the inserters too so you don't need as much storage tanks.

Yeah, heating towers do say that they have an efficiency bonus, the fuel should be like 4 times more efficient in heating towers.

What you can do to save fuel is set up a very simple circuit condition - connect a wire (green or red) from the heating tower to the inserter that's inserting the fuel ...

Just had my first ever crash in factorio, and i thought i'd make a report.

*edit*
after looking at the 2.0.15 release notes, i do spot a fix for a crash related to displays and switching surfaces - if it's the same issue, sorry for the duplicate report and thanks for fixing it (in experimental ...

One thing i'd like to add, because i too was frustrated with gleba and regret going there first:

Recyclers are insanely useful to get rid of surplus. they're also easy to ship.

You can actually put pretty much anything in the recycler - even chemistry and smelting stuff. what happens is that 75 ...

Yeah Gleba is rough - i was excited for the new gameplay offered by gleba and also wanted to see cool new alien creatures and biomes, so i went there first. BIG mistake. I spent hours trying to set up a working base with minimal supplies - kinda got it to work, but iron and copper production couldn ...