Though the icon will still show up, you can stop it from flashing...

Uncheck the option below.

I agree, though, it does seem a bit silly that the heating tower is always warning about lack of fuel when it's by design that sometimes it has no fuel. (The nuclear reactors do the same thing, as I ...

pioruns wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:15 pm Before SA, I used mod which marked mining drills for deconstruction when ore patch was empty.

It's been updated for Space Age:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AutoDeconstruct

NineNine wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:38 am but shipping fluoroketone in barrels to another planet seems a little crazy.

Why?

Clearly it's intended that you be able to do that, or it would be an unbarrelable fluid. There are some fluids in the game that you can't put in barrels, but fluoroketone isn't one of them.

pioruns wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:41 pm Has anyone ever run out of 20M scrap field?

Use big miners with productivity modules and it'll last for gazillions of years.

Just to add documentation, here's what the wiki says about this:

https://wiki.factorio.com/Logistic_network#Construction

When construction robots want to build a ghost, they look for the chests that is closest to the ghost they want to build. The type of chest does not matter.[2]

That "2" links ...

In my current Space Age game, I'm finding that a lot of my space platforms are getting stuck due to unfulfilled requests.

The trouble is, the actual unfulfilled requests are like the image below.

This isn't a logistics request; this is an automatic construction request because I told my platform ...

No, this is stupid. There was no vitriol in what I wrote.

Remind me: How many pages did that Ukraine/Russia thread go?

Either have an Off Topic, or don't. If even Off Topic has to relate to Factorio somehow, then you need to rename it. "Tangential Topics" or something similar.

It seems that this topic got locked:

viewtopic.php?t=127812

Why was this locked?

What exactly is the point of having Off Topic, then?

Why not just get rid it?

When I open the character screen and hover over the plastic bar, which has a red background, I can see that I can make it in a chemical plant or a cryogenic plant.

But when I hover over the electronic circuit, the "Made in" section doesn't appear. It would be helpful, though. While I can make an ...

There are cases where this would be very handy. There are also cases (thinking of modded games here) where you want only and exactly what you typed. Maybe a toggle for exact match?


In search engines that's usually done by putting quotes around the item.

It could also be handled by listing ...

Feature request: The overview search should work even if individual words are out of order.

For example, if I search for assembly machines making cargo bays, it should find them whether I type "cargo bay" or "bay cargo".

This would work together nicely with my other feature request:

Search ...

Feature request:

In the overview where I can search for machines with recipes, e.g. all assembly (and other) machines making electronic circuits, allow me also to search by quality, so I can find all machines making legendary items, epic items, whatever.

I think it would make sense to do this ...

Speaking as a fellow American (who lives, however, in Germany), what exactly do you think is collapsing?

For Space Age, at least, design-from-the-start wouldn't really work anyway, unless you plan to never refactor later.

In the course of the game, you get:


beacons
turbo belts
electromagnetic plants
foundries
stack inserters
biolabs
recyclers
cryogenic plants
etc....


Granted, turbo ...

But does this scale? Can you really get infinite spoilage from it? Or do you just get too much spoilage one time?

Seems like it would take a lot of micromanagement to get this scenario to really produce "infinite" spoilage.

FactorioBot wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 1:38 pm Minor Features

• Added support for volume and speed activity matching for persistent working sounds.

What does this mean?

ooor u can set ag science to 99 hour spoil time by changing the spoil rate in map settings file


Holy cow, this is the first time I've heard that spoilage rate (and also asteroid spawning rate) can be changed in the new game settings. :o

Of course, there are implications: Your agricultural ...

If this were changed, it would break any existing construction where belts go behind recyclers, because suddenly the recyclers would be hoovering up items where they didn't before.


It would take only if belt is in position to input, so no feeding if it's pointed sideways or using underground ...

If this were changed, it would break any existing construction where belts go behind recyclers, because suddenly the recyclers would be hoovering up items where they didn't before.

pioruns wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 12:18 pm If you don't like video format, sorry...

Indeed, I don't.

If you have written sources, or transcripts of the videos, I'm happy to read 'em.