The uncondensed form of “multiplayer” would be “multiple players”. But the current state of English is that “multiplayer” is what is idiomatic to write in this context, and there is no corresponding compound word for “single-player”.

I have a suggestion for a different way of solving this problem.

You can already create deconstruction planners for trees only or rocks only (or Fulgoran ruins only) by setting filters. However, it’s tedious to do this because you have to pick each type. Therefore, I suggest that the game allow ...

Yes, please! I keep being vaguely surprised Factorio doesn't already do this.

Platform-to-platform transfers are going to be great for upgrading existing space platforms with new buildings like quality asteroid collectors — you’ll be able to load them up into one platform that visits all the planets your other platforms visit, instead of having to either redirect your ...

The problem is your “Platform Spare Parts” logistic group, which contains a request for turbo belts from Nauvis . That stops the belts from being dropped to Nauvis.

If a platform has a request for an item from the current planet, the platform won’t use its stock of that item to fulfill requests ...

Does the satellite even have quality tiers? None are listed on the Satellite or Quality pages of the wiki.


I just confirmed using a quick /editor setup. You can make a quality satellite with quality modules (or quality ingredients, of course) and when you launch a quality satellite, you get ...

It will smooth out when you have more labs.

Yes, since it’s a closed system, you don't need any ongoing supply of fluoroketone. The only need for new fluoroketone is if you deconstruct the pipes or fusion buildings and lose fluid that way.

Is that a thing? I thought that the fluoroketone gets replaced at the same rate as it is used, so this wouldn't be a factor.


Factorio is a simulation that necessarily works in discrete time steps and discrete quantities. The fluoroketone cooling recipe works on 10 fluid-units at a time, so if ...

Pictures?

Are the hot fluoroketone pipes too full, maybe?

Summary
Factoriopedia shows pollution absorption of tiles, but not trees. Something should show pollution absorption of trees.


What?
There are two main absorbers of pollution (without Space Age / in the early game of SA): tiles and trees. However, nothing in-game tells players that trees ...

I just discovered this thread and thought I’d share a design I recently came up with for a small 3-way intersection using elevated rails. I tend to build densely, so my biggest train problem is having enough room to fit all the intersections and stations far enough apart from each other and the ...

Fun fact, you can technically turn off the character's inventory sorting, but I haven't seen a single person do so.


I sometimes turn sorting off in order to set up inventory filters, which requires that there not already be a different item sorted into the slot I am filtering.

(Now you're ...

Looks like the foundation tiles next to the water are drawing corners on top of the stone brick, that should instead be either underneath the stone brick or hidden entirely.

I used to put quality modules in all my Fulgora recyclers, but I found that the high quality items were taking away capacity from everything I wanted to do with normal-quality items. Perhaps they would be valuable if I split all my various production lines to support intermediate quality inputs, but ...

The recycler will only use the output slot corresponding to the position of that product in the recycling recipe — and so the recycler has 12 output slots because the scrap recycling recipe has 12 products. I don’t recall whether it was in FFF or the forum, but someone from Wube said that this is an ...

Recyclers are capable of placing item stacks onto belts, but they won't if the belt is not backed up. This wastes belt capacity. Here’s a simple trick to make recyclers output mostly full stacks:

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Each recycler is set to “Read working”, and wired to its own dedicated belt segment ...

I feel like the game ought to offer some improvements in this area, to keep things “automatable”. Here are a couple of options that come to mind:


Damaged items become ineligible for fulfilling logistic requests, only construction ghosts. (This might be hard to implement efficiently, and it ...

I was under the impression that the order in which the silos are used for orbital request is fairly straightforward : the first silo built has priority, if busy then the 2nd then the 3rd and so on


I didn’t say it wasn’t predictable; I said it wasn’t smart, that is, it doesn’t choose the ...

I have seen this too. The problem isn't the bots themselves but which rocket silos are chosen to translate the orbital logistic requests into ground logistics requests; there doesn't seem to be any smarts to it.

My solution is to use belts and direct insertion into rocket silos, so the science is ...