Just to be sure, I rechecked the period of the RNG setup, it's 2147483647*536870911*268435455, i.e. (2**31-1)*(2**29-1)*(2**28-1), roughly utilizing the full 88-bit state. There isn't a period-related weakness.

I was thinking on predicting enough future states quick enough so that they can be used ...

Since items are quality-tiered, I suggested once to have (some) tech quality-tiered too. Quality tech has scaled bonus values, have separated levels, and can only be researched with bottles of the corresponding quality. Like having Legendary Mining Productivity give +25% productivity.

Could keep it ...

Very interesting idea, but I wonder if getting full control over RNG is feasible at all. It might make more sense to use approximate knowledge of the RNG state to increase quality results, on average, instead of aiming for perfect results.
I'm thinking something like counting cards in blackjack ...

+1 on fixing. It's more inconsistency than balancing to me, and it's not just concrete. At least battery and rail are also affected.

I fired up ghidra and researched for random number manipulation possibilities again in 2.1, and found interesting changes. In short, the global quality / additional product RNG is now shared by much fewer, and much more predictable things. And with the addition of universal signals, TAS-style random ...

I remember worms on shore spitting on my island base for no reason in 2.0, but in 2.1 they seem much more peaceful:

https://i.ibb.co/5ggrM0zj/a.jpg

The miner above is in the nearby worm's range (it got spat on when I was constructing it). But when it's kept running, the nearby nest just ignores ...

When EM plant is full, then recycler starts to accumulate the stuff it can't put in into its own slots.
These ones can be extracted via inserter into a side buffer.
It still can clog, since chests are finite, but the ~10K chip buffer is enough to make it quite rare.

If you really want to avoid ...

For upcycling blue chips you can do: quality on recyclers, assemblers or both.

While you are below 300% productivity, it's better to hit 300% with modules, so you have to put quality modules on recyclers.
Once you reach 300% productivity on assembler, you can put some quality into assembler as ...

As in the title, I'm rebuilding Gleba from an old save and found that I can't remove a belt behind trees that I'd rather keep while I'm still rebuilding.

You don't put quality on processing units once they hit 300% productivity. So if you did 300% with -20% speed, it's going to look the same as 300% with 125% speed and so on because you just print 4 chips per recipe.

Even then it isn't a free lunch though because the ratio of parts coming back ...

It was just one example out of many giving you both (copper and iron) base resources and which can be created in cryogenic plant (meaning there is 8 + 4 modules in one loop). Roughly speaking EM plant, biochamber or foundry gives you 2 "free" module slots because its productivity is equivalent of ...

It didn't happen yet the chests got full with green circuits only - until now, recycler result was sufficiently balanced. To make it bullet proof, it's necessary to destroy stuff from these buffers, yes. Since there is already trash removal for many other material, it's just an entry in some ...

It's already built in. Clogging by too much intermediates cannot happen, because consumption is always faster than production of these intermediates. There's no intermediate disposal required, it's intermediate production prevention needed. It's a tiny wire from the main belt (read hold all belts ...

My main point is that another mode is in fact a grind. Without space casinos, there are no other ways around to produce legendary calcite and coal than just grind them directly with moduled miners.

Certainly there is.

Or, actually you don't need it in the first place. The only solid product ...

Maybe it is my comprehension skills failing me here, but i was under the impression that battery was choosen because it's on purpose a material that do not benefit any research, so it would need to be compared with methods available for players at the same time aka without research if we want to ...

Legendary science only really made sense as a UPS optimization to avoid using bots on the cargo landing pad though, right? The unloading bay from #443 satisfies that need.


Legendary science is the main legendary material sink. If one wants to build sustained legendary production, it's a natural ...

You can get it:

- From the rocket silo reading platform request, by requesting something improbable from each platform, like a rare jelly or an epic barrel of light oil.
- In 2.1 by checking planet arrival (planet signal == 3 when reading both source and destination) from the platform and ...

With the new input/output separation, I'm able to make a tiny bot mall that should be able to produce most non-chemistry stuff using only 13 productivity modules and 1 beacon (which you could substitute with quality stuff with great gains):

https://i.ibb.co/Kc6kHd2B/a.png ...

Railgun shooting speed fixes was done and merged 3/3/2026.


Well, we can't really `git log` or `git checkout` it so the merge time doesn't matter. I said the last minute thing is mostly a feeling caused by the FFF-beta-release timing. It's more "unprepared for" than "last minute".

In my opinion, the "last minute changes" are mostly things not mentioned in FFF:

- Basic asteroid crushing change
- Hazard concrete change
- Railgun shooting speed change
- etc.

Since there wasn't an announcement in the previous FFF, I expected there will be another FFF before beta release, which ...