I'm okay with the new spidertron animation, even though I seem to be in the minority. It's lifting it's knees now, unlike before. It's surprising at first because we're used to the old animation, but I don't see anything wrong with the new one. It does looks less artificial because the knees are no ...

Cool post! Rather than joining random multiplayer games, you could play solo or with your family, or with people who try to find online people who does't mindlessly spam blueprints (which require to discuss and align the strategy with the other players). I also regret that al trees in the game loose...

Congrats on the achievements! I play in "train world" settings, and I feel like ore patches are big enough. I just have to maintain 2 early game, 3 mid-game, and maybe 4-5 max in a 1k spm base (iron/copper only). It's a bit repetitive but blueprints helps. Also, there are massive train net...

To add a precision, I think that the biochamber concept is cool, but maybe just mention in the flavor text that the wrigglers are maintained unconscious. Or even better, mention that the wriggler inside is artificially grown, like synthetic meat (hence doesn't have a functional nervous system). Noth...

I think eggs will be produced in the biochamber... so in theory you have to harves one manually to craft a biochamber and then with that chamber you can produe more. The issue is that if you don't process them fast enough they will hatch on your belts and thus cause damage. That part of factory pro...

What if the logistic robot has a curved path (chasing a mobile entity like the player or spidertron)?

How much more power can fusion generate? Let's compare it with Fission. Base power: fission 40MW, fusion 100MW Number of average adjacent reactors in ideal (near-infinite) setup: fission 3(+300%), fusion 4 (+400%) Average energy generated per reactor: fission 160MW, fusion 500MW Energy necessary to ...

The fusion system looks great! I don't really understand the semi-closed cycle of the coolant (is the plasma made of coolant?), but I'm sure that it will make sense later. I like the idea of playing with the coolent temperature: some real life generators (from coal to nuclear) have fluids to convey ...

Hype! It looks like the last planet will necessitate the inclusion of lights in our blueprints. Since it will be dark, I anticipate a planet with an ocean (because we already had fire, air, earth themed planets) and dark land patches. Maybe a metallic planet like Core Prime ? I don't think that ther...

Cool to have this 'vertical slice'. I'm hyped by most content and QoL. I trust that devs will do their magic and make simple yet powerful UIs for trains, planets, etc. 1m spm? I hope making a megabase isn't mandatory to finish space age. At the same time, I welcome complexity and playtime. Still sa...

I believe that these changes are rushed, and I am against it because it removes the "thoughput" puzzle element from the fluid system. Also, the longer the pipe, the more throughput it will have, even if it's 1 tile wide: it doesn't makes sense. This is one of the rare FFF I disagree with. ...

And lastly, as someone mentioned before, in real life a pipeline does NOT behave like an aqueduct, these things are filled once and then whenever you pressurize on one side, nets you in pressure on the other side. That's convincing. However in the new system, a single pipe can supply a whole base, ...

A rewrite was needed, but this seems rather disappointing. Teleporting fluids over unlimited distance looks like giving up to the pipe throughput problem. This to nullifies the throughput challenge. It would also nullify the challenge of building a nuclear reactor setup. As others have noted, you ju...

Will it be possible to regrow trees on Nauvis?

So if I add a beacon with speed modules, production speed will increase. And if I add a beacon with efficiency modules, production speed will decrease, because the speed beacon will be less powerful? I'm okay with it actually, even if it makes computations just a bit more complicated.

I like to build my end-game design to optimize the energy cost per craft (assuming maximum productivity modules). In 1.1, that means rows of beacons and machines (1:8 and 8:1), which is boring. The diminishing ratios sounds great. But I'm afraid that the most efficient designs will still be rows of ...

Could we please have the precision remain at 3 digits when production is over 1k, as mentikned in a reddit comment? Currently, 851 reads as 851, but 1051 reads as 1.1k. I suggest to make 1051 read as 1.05k. 13579 can read as 13.6k, ans 123579 can read as 124k. Or even better, allow us to set how man...

Awesome stuff! I hope I don't forget these shortcuts when the expansion is released. Hopefully it's not gonna be buried in the patch note!

I'm sure crypticcoder is not the only one with an upcoming exam period. I've been there, I sympathize.

Surely we'll just get the game when it's ready, I hope for early-mid summer!

This is an interesting topic, and I might to do some testing with beaconed manifold setups. With the new refineries and chemical plants from the water planet coming in the expansion (just joking, I don't know if refineries and chemical plants are coming and if there is a new water planet, but this i...