Yeah, trains of rocket fuel are the easiest way to do it. They don't need heating and you can take rocket fuel from them with a burner inserter to allow it to cold-restart the island. Belts or bots can work as well but they are a lot less practical for long distances there.

You're right that Nauvis -> Vulcanis -> Fulgora -> Gleba is the clearly intended progression if you want the least amount of friction. But this kind of speaks to my point.

The original game didn't prescribe a super clear path through the tech tree, and in general it didn't actively punish you ...

Though weirdly I got to the gleba science and it's doing this weird thing about being consumed too quickly. Hopefully there is something I've yet to discover there, but if so it's weirdly hidden in a way that isn't really fun.


Agricultural science loses value as it spoils, so if it isn't fresh ...

I get the impression there are broadly two types of players - those who like to progress ASAP into a well organised approach to build that scales and those who play very adhoc. The latter probably care nothing about the changes to artillery and cliff explosives. The former now might go so far as ...

I like it being a Vulcanus tech. I think it was kind of necessary to move some things off of Nauvis because Nauvis is basically the early game now - leaving Nauvis happens maybe 30-40% of the way into a space age run. However, some of the utility+prod tech in vanilla factorio is balanced around ...

I think pre-fusion power gen on Aquilo is supposed to be kinda painful. Once you get fusion you don't need water for it and it generates absurd amounts of power.

Are you requesting the items on another space platform? Space platforms only deliver to landing pads on the ground, they can't drop things to other space platforms.

So if you wanted to ship bioflux from Gleba to Nauvis, what you would do is gives your spaceship that goes to Gleba a request for ...

I believe it's possible with nukes - I've tried them against huge asteroids and with a few levels of explosive damage research they can one shot them, despite huge asteroids having a ton of explosive resistance. But it would be very impractical, you would probably need legendary rocket turrets for ...

This would also let you void items anywhere you want on your ship, which can really simplify waste management.

IMO that's a big enough advantage that this probably shouldn't stay, or if it should there should be a clearer and more legitimate way to do it.

It's not mentioned directly in the patch notes but the solid fuel recipe on Aquilo was also changed - it's now 6 crude oil + 15 ammonia for 1 fuel, and takes 0.5 seconds instead of 1.

The old recipe was 20 crude + 50 ammonia, so I believe that means rocket fuel on Aquilo actually has the same cost ...

I can definitely see how it can feel slow but I think it would hurt the progression of Aquilo if it was much faster to make.

Aquilo is the final planet and I think how cramped it is at first helps make it feel like a really harsh environment. You get an island to start on, so you can build things ...

IIRC there is a bug that can occasionally prevent tips and tricks entries from appearing (not sure if that's been fixed yet), but there are entries for Gleba that help to get started. Between those and the factoriopedia I think it gives pretty thorough info, but if they are missing for someone that ...

You don't need Tungsten to make lots of metals, but you do need it for any of Vulcanus's unique exports.

Prior to getting Tungsten you have other challenges, mainly the difficulty of obtaining any oil products (you'll be reliant on the very inefficient simple coal liquefaction) and the lack of easy ...

I think having the ability to fully control rockets with circuits would be awesome, and would allow people to personalize their own solutions.

I wouldn't like the current automatic constructon request system to be changed, though - any sort of mixed rockets solution there is going to cause serious ...

I think the idea conceptually is foundries are for casting metals - so they can make shaped items out of a single metal easily, like iron gears or copper cables. But something really intricate like engines requires an assembler. When you use them to make a foundry, the more delicate components ...

They don't have rocket carrying upgrades? Not even as a researchable tech?


No, but there are many upgrades that make rockets cheaper and faster to build, which is effectively the same thing (except that it plays nicer with how logistic requests work).

The rocket part research from Aquilo makes ...

Geostationary orbit on Earth is 35,000 km. Distance from Planet Nauvis to another planet is less than half of this. Nobody talk about this in closed test? For me this is important and need fixed. Travel time - for me isnt important (we need remember about spoilage important, and expiration date ...

Nutrients can be a little tough to reboot but I think it's pretty manageable - gleba bases make tons of spoilage just by running and you can hook up an assembler to make nutrients from spoilage if your nutrient production stops for some reason.

As long as you prioritize getting those nutrients to ...

That takes a lot more in terms of inputs.


It's a bit more complicated, but in terms of resources it's much more efficient - you get 12 nutrients per bioflux using that recipe (accounting for the +50% prod of biochambers), and it's fresh.

It takes 120 spoilage to make that much and it will be ...