The problems with blueprinting train loading and rails occur because rails exist on a 2×2 grid, but train cars are spaced at 7 tiles (6 tiles for the car and 1 space between cars). Here are some ways to avoid getting stuck on the wrong grid spacing: Select only the stuff on one side of the rails, no...

Summary When pasting settings to a requester chest, the game should use the new logistic request multiplier feature instead of putting a “hardcoded” multiplier on all the ingredients individually, so the player can easily adjust the multiplier down or up. What? Currently, when you copy settings fro...

The problem is that if Freighter 1 is dropping off 20k resources it will tie up the cargo pad for more than 30s, meaning Freighter 2 will leave. I could increase inactivity time, but that's wasting time, and also leads to issue #2 You can build more cargo bays, so the 20k can be dropped off faster ...

Good point. I build all my platforms on Nauvis, so I don’t need to worry about quickly supplying ammo. But, that sounds like something that would be hard to handle automatically at all, and so would be better served by building a small interim blueprint before a big one — because you’re going to wan...

What? When a space platform makes requests for construction, always sort space platform foundation first in the list, and cargo bays second. Right now, foundation and cargo bays are usually in about the middle of the list (for the platforms I’ve designed). This means that a lot of buildings may be ...

I think you have to use an agricultural tower, not construction bots.

Similarly, building on both sides of the bus is confining. You cannot then expand the bus’ width to accommodate needed throughput of more, or newer, material. Building on one side of the bus is not the obvious correct solution. It is, however, the correct decision for people new to the bus idea. Bu...

Even before SA, I have always covered my base (except for mining outposts) with roboports so that I can perform construction anywhere. The way I avoid undesirably long bot flights is that I use belts or trains for all predictable, long-distance transport. I use logistic requests for items where the ...

Or, the tooltip could be automatically moved to the right side instead of hidden.

Watching YamaKara in YouTube, he singlehandedly destroyed nests and enemies with 2 personal laser defenses. I think this sort of thing is part of the problem: the experience of Gleba is depends a lot on what technologies you have researched before going to Gleba (or can manage to research remotely ...

In the new fluid system, there are ways that a second fluid can hide, if you previously made an accidental connection to a different fluid. There have been several threads about this. To clean it up, click on the pipe, then click on the trash button for the fluid that you don't want to be in the pipe.

Since I wrote the original idea, here is some further musing about how these fortifications could have various levels of challenge and decay: A couple low-value machines hooked up in a very unthreatening, but still functional, way (e.g. one gun turret fed by a chest and burner inserter). Everything ...

+1. This would be useful for changing the ingredient quality of a production chain, or changing the recipe while leaving the quality alone (e.g. when making different kinds of modules).

I don't personally think Fulgora needs to change, but I do find it a bit monotonous. Here's an idea: Instead of having any kind of mobile/expanding enemy (like Nauvis and Gleba), what if certain islands had ancient emplacements of tesla turrets and other defenses? These would be challenges that you ...

When an inserter is taking from a splitter, is it capable of drawing from the input, the output, or both? I'm not a mechanics expert, but from what I have tested, a splitter acts like two ordinary belt tiles, plus some items getting moved from one belt to the other, roughly in the middle, if there ...

What Right now, when you hover on a space platform in the list of surfaces, you only see the planet it is stopped at or traveling between, and its speed and such. I would like it to also show the status message that’s in the top left of the space platform cargo/schedule window ("Paused", ...

This has been annoying when starting to build multiple higher-quality space platforms, because not only do I not need whole stacks of rare cargo bays, asteroid crushers, chemical plants, and assembling machines, I don’t *have* them either, so the rockets won’t auto-launch and I have to manually fill...

In addition to the strategies already mentioned, I have found out that if you have Fulgora tech (I did Vulcanus just in the starting area, then Fulgora, then expanded on Vulcanus), it is possible to kill a small demolisher solo with just the tesla gun, spamming destroyers, level 6ish damage research...

Then either use Buffer chests/storage chests everywhere or if you use a requester chest, make sure there is also a filtered inserter capable of taking spoilage out of requester chests; either put the spoilage on a belt or into a provider chest to be taken away. Requester chests and buffer chests ca...

Shouldn’t walls be immune to electricity, anyway?