I think they mean battery upcycling for iron plate. I tried that too because the high theoretical yield. It sucked: batteries are impractically slow to make and consume ridiculously large amounts of acid. One of the reasons space casino worked is because they were quite fast: each chunk was worth ...

I also find hard to understand why casino is nerfed and in the same time when there are by far much more broken ways (like materials with productivity research). But if we take just regular recipe with no extra research, which is considered "normal way" I would say

Casino: Loosing 20 percent ...

It really does not require that much quality modules if you can work with few combinators ensuring each production will be done in defined batch. This one produces legendary spoilage. For nutrient production there will be only just few changes. Coincidently it has perfect ratio too (recycler ...

Isnt better to just produce higher quality nutrients? (recycle nutrient in quality boosted recycler to spoilage and then create a nutrient back from spoilage).

So...

Once you have 2 green quality fishes, you start to breed fishes with green quality nutrients.
Once you have 2 blue quality fishes ...

Well I am not quite sure how to answer to that without repeat myself. Next time Ill be more brief. I believe this one answers most of your comments.


Note: Not every component is legendary. Sorry about that, my current base is lacking some legendaries, but you have the idea.


I actually did ...

However, to "match" as much as possible the original post and my previous idea, if we want to have 1 kovarex machine only the solution is this (if someone really wants the 12 beacon setup no matter the reason)

You do whatever you want, but since the title of the thread is "smallest possible Kovarex" , to me it's rather your mention of a setup with green module that raises question x) It's fairly obvious those do not provide a useful production bonus, it's not going to be of any use in current context ...

mmmPI wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 8:08 am If you do that you can't use fully beaconned setup though.

Why would I do such thing? That was efficient before space age. With new beacon mechanics this setup is very obsolete and you should use green modules in your beacons mostly if you really seek for the best setup.

Instead, it decrements the clock once it turns nonnegative.


This is indeed possible. Just a small note: I really see no difference in A) add/sub value when turnt non/negative B) do a modulo. This is pretty much same operation.

The rounding error we are talking here about is practically none ...

Really? I am quite sure it was possible back in time with some patch. But I admit it might be some my confusion with some mod. Sorry for the mistake then.

Did you consider transporting Bioflux instead of Science packs to Navius? (if Navius is your science place).

For the science pack, bioflux is the only resource you need. It has the same rocket capacity. And the conversion ratio is

3 bioflux -> 2 science packs

and some small amount of nutrients to ...

And thats it. Simple as that. All you need is a few chests around.

I would say that is the reason people generally use belts instead: The bot solution is simple, universal and just boring.

Oh dont take me wrong. I am not using any bots. Nor any combinators (since this is circut-free section ...

Obviously, it can not use for Metallic asteroid crushing.


Is this obvious? I actually use this trick for asteroid crushing only because there is a very good reason to do such method specifically on crushers in space ships. And it may switch between all crushing options. Basic or advanced. See ...

There is one particular thing I have always wanted to ask but never did until now. I apologize in advance for asking it in this topic :roll:

What I never understood is why people use belts for internal uranium transfer. I mean, it is fine to use them for a few pieces of U238 input and one piece of ...

Foundries are actually very good. It gives you better productivity (as said in previous comment) and also more effecient recipes. Looks closely to melting recipes https://wiki.factorio.com/Foundry . If you check cable or gear smelting, it requires only half a copper. On top of that, you get +50 ...

Sorry to say, but I just read out the current velocity and insert fuel / oxidizer only when speed is below 80km/s. This way I can keep an efficiency between 91 and 100% travelling at 80km/s to 120km/s.

Initially, we start with max speed, of course, as fuel is inserted to the max when not ...

The planet seems to be designed for the use of "islanded systems". I really enjoy the doublespeak in that word

The more energy a machine consumes in absolute numbers, the more is saved by added speed. Because of this, efficiency modules in combination with speed modules are not as useful as it seems. Efficiency modules take away what would be saved by the added speed.


I dont quite agree on this. 3 ...

This... thing will fly equally good with only three thrusters and (depending on where exactly and with which goal in mind) 1-2 less of each liquid tanks.
What's its main purpose, anyway?
I don't see chunk grinders for Promethium.
I don't see space/promethium science assemblers.
I don't see gun ...

Two things are more or less obvious.

1. Use less engines. It is a bit nonintuitive but the mass is not the only factor that slows your ship down. It is also a width which is taken to account (even if it should not, we are in space!). So your extra thrusthers actually slow it down.
2. Nonoptimal ...