Tough one, congrats! ! Did it myself some time ago, know the grid!

Ok, small update. Improved on my promethium science ship. Centered around the harvesting of 60k promethium within 1h.

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Overview
Makes around 40k promethium science per hour, ie 10/s. 30 min towards the planet, 30 minutes back. Was tested with laser weapon dmg lvl 14 ...

OK cool got it working, runs well! I like it well done!

Hmmm, first of all, cool stuff! Second, can you modify the print such that its clear how to use it? That is maybe set up a demo with all ingredients available in the print? Or make a small video? I find it hard to use otherwise.

support!

I have this one:

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Thats true, but I feel compelled now to shrink the ship, I already have an idea how to do that thanks to Tertius example what is possible. Sure, tweaking the schedule is always possible, but as Tertius pointed out these rogue asteroids appear every few trips and you rarely see what happened until ...

Sorry, was a bit late. I added the information above. But here again, 1 hour round trip time and around 13 k total promethium collected which would be around 9.4k promethium science. But I process the stored promethium in Nauvis orbit so that adds a few minutes to the round trip time.

Also cool ...

Hey folks,

Couldnt find one, but here is mine. A promethium science ship that works fully automatically and can go at least 1.5 mio km towards the shattered planet at stronger explosives lvl 12 and doesnt use any quality components. With more upgrades it should be able to get there? Never tried ...

Thanks again for the reply and your time!

In my brain, I have a virtual image of 1-3 combinators, and I'm wiring this image and I'm checking how this could produce some desired output from a given input. The signals and their values are small boxes for me that will drive through the wires and ...

Cool, thanks, very helpful, both of you!

I started out with the idea of having a machine where you need one constant combinator in which you put whatever you want and then have a bit of magic and then a made product. From then on I went very linear, as is obvious from the design and the way I used ...

Hey folks,

I posted this a while ago on the forum, but i didnt get any feedback https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=130089

Is this useful? Is it overengineered? Does it work?! I dont have a university degree in engineering or computer science so I had no idea what I am doing there... but ...

Hey there,

Not sure if bugged, but trying to place 0eNrVnd9yozoSh9+Fa3wK/UWa2vMWezeVcpGEZKgltsvGM5s6lQfYB9kX2ydZBNhmYhr9+pip8tyMEYFP3S211KIF81fyWB/L3b7aNMmXv5LDptitmu3qdV89h/K/ky8mS5P38PORJsXjYVsfm3IVrttVm9fkS7M/lmlSPW03h+TL15ZQvW6KOty7Kd7K5EtyaLb74rVcNcXmX0nLqDbPZYsVH ...

Cool stuff! I like it !

TL;DR
Its hard to see in which areas fog of war has been removed


What?
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As is obvious from the image, its hardly possible to discern areas where the fog of war is gone, right part was not explored but to me looks like what I explored left to it..

Why?
Makes ...

good point, I will have a look at it I never really felt like you need one because the scrap plant gives you everything you need?

Hey folks,

Made these. Dunno if anyone is interested. These are minimal factories that make all basic resources specific to a planet using basic resources that are harvestable on a planet with the smallest footprint possible. I made them to fuel my auto mall https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic ...

OK, 3.1 update. Optimized a few more things and included finally support for the electromagnetic plant as well. You can delete either the foundry or plants or both if you dont want em. Doesnt mess up anything. As always, open for suggestions bugs etc.

Thanks :)! Dont do it, its a very painful thing to design (: I build a small add-on to this thing that can make all raw materials including fluids, but its not integrated with the mall yet. Once I have this done, I will add it as well. This way it will truly be a make anything mall. Have another ...

Hey folks,

Just made this little gadget:
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Map view
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Its a clock that you can put on any planet and it automatically starts measuring the time on the planet, starting with 0s at the end of deep night. You only have to change the constant ...