Agreed. Biolabs being Nauvis only is the only thing preventing the terrible design and balance of Vulcanus from “infecting” the entire rest of the game. And just barely, it still greatly affects quality and the early/mid game. It’s too late to change the entire planet, so its impact on the rest of ...

I think it's not a good idea.

A lot of the point of clearing an area is to get to the resources there. If at the end there won't be any resources, why bother?

It'll just mean that atomic bombs never get used.

I saw it as a new listing on GOG back in June 2016.

As soon as I watched the demo videos, I was sold.

I have a 1 TB SSD and a 2 TB conventional drive. The biggest save I see on my machine is 190 MB. 3 TB can hold over 15000 saves, so I think it's probably enough space.
So your rig loads OS and all software from network and all your local storage is RAID0 array which is hooked up as Factorio's ...

Then Whatever3, Whatever4, Whatever 53, Whatever 108.1, etc.

Where did you get infinite storage space?


Based on what others say here, apparently it's from not using Steam.

I have a 1 TB SSD and a 2 TB conventional drive. The biggest save I see on my machine is 190 MB. 3 TB can hold over ...

Initially it'll play more or less the same, though there are some quality-of-life improvements.

Once you can create rockets (which happens much earlier in the expansion), you'll be able to travel to space, then to other planets. On those planets, the gameplay is very different from on Nauvis (the ...

How old are you? I guess you're a bit older. Probably you grew up with computers malfunctioning, hardware and software. A sudden crash, and all your work is destroyed, because there are no autosaves. Someone who grew up with earlier computers will save every few minutes as reflex. In contrast to ...

Well I thought the 108 saves number was hyperbolic, I doubt many people will cycle more than ten, most just three. I cycle three saves but only save manually when ending a session so I should never lose more than that session even when all autosaves are corrupted as well. But I also never had a ...

Most people do that, but for the common corruption it does not help because the saves do not get corrupted themselves, what gets corrupted is the game in memory, it is then saved to file. They will not notice that the saves are broken until they try to load them at which point they likely cycled ...

Edit: There is a reason to only have 3/5/10/whatever Autosaves by default: Savegame synchronization (such as Steam Sync) has a limit to the amount of data (1GB?) that can be stored for each game. With a large map and lots of auto saves you can exceed this - breaking auto-sync. Manual action is ...

I see so many topics here about people whose save file has been corrupted (usually due to their computer's failing memory or a misbehaving mod), so I have to ask:

Why do you only have one save file?

When I start a new game and save it, I save it with my designated name, e.g. Whatever1.

Then next ...

This is not exactly what you're looking for, but it might help you get the same results in the end:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/quality-down-binning

I’d like to ask about adding a way to set a quality ‘cap’ on buildings, so that a building will never produce something of a quality higher then what the player sets, and anything above the threshold gets turned into the highest possible quality.


So you don't mean the highest possible quality ...

Are you saying you want production to work the same way as now, except that items with a lower quality than the cap...just don't get produced?

A gear assembly machine with quality modules would normally it make a lot of normal gears, fewer uncommon gears, fewer rare, even fewer epic...

So with ...

You could try this mod to re-create the surface:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/regenerate-terrain

Dude, your map has the measles.

pioruns wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:14 pm We hear what YOU want.
But consider what other people use. And switch to Linux. What you need Windows Server for, anyway?
For example, I have a Linux server and Linux workstation at my home. Have not used Windows OS for last couple of years.

How does this further the discussion?

Kingdud wrote: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:48 am As for youtube, it's pretty simple. I refuse to give google my phone number for any reason.[...]

There are other venues for video. What about X? You can easily upload long videos there, and X has revenue sharing.

Here's the FFF that talks about this feature in detail:

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-361

Damaged items become ineligible for fulfilling logistic requests, only construction ghosts.



I agree with this. If a damaged item can't be used as an ingredient, the bots shouldn't be grabbing it.

If that means it just sits in a chest damaged for the rest of time, that's still better than ...