Well, no idea how the solution for x = (Factorio/MineCraft) * WoW looks like, but I will give it a try once it becomes available.

Have a nice Weekend!

No matter how often I travel between surfaces, I never get tired of this animation, good job as always

Also good to know, that the different cloud colors on each planet are not just my imagination

Nice to see the attention to detail

S-Tier polish on the rocket animation, good job!

Are you able to drive vehicles in the last armor?

I hope steam unlocks the ability to buy and download Monday 0:00 CEST, it's already bad enough that I cannot play it this weekend.
I understand it though, you want the working days for potential ...

If the ice layer is only a few meter thick, on what is the rocket silo built ?

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A few can mean a lot of things, if you compare the thickness to the 200km of amonia sludge below it even 100m could be called a few meters. And I don't really know how many you ...

Maybe what you can get from orbit is just enough to build your base and a couple of rockets down there.
I was already thinking about building a slow moving platform in the orbit of another planet and sending it to Aquilo for asteroid farming in orbit.
But maybe you're also expected to send stuff ...

You can get copper from asteroids as shown in FFF-419
https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/blog-sync/fff-419-display-monitor-use-case.mp4




Something else I noticed taking a closer look at the image you posted:
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There are clearly sulfur and calcite items on that belt ...

This is a good point. w/ respect to copper, this does seem to be the case, not sure about stone, but definitely seems plausible that you can grab this from asteroids as well. While I agree with the concern re-ice and similar items for Fulgora and Vulcanus, I'm not sure how restricting cargo drops ...

On the freezing induction furnaces. Would there even be a reason to build them? There are no raw materials (for the furnace) on the planet and everything would have to be imported. The more limited space and all the logistics make me think of a compact, specialized base rather than a megafactory ...

My research suggests that ice sinks in liquid ammonia. So they're less icebergs than they are ice mountains.


The best landing spot you could find was this large iceberg. The sheet of ice is only a few meters thick and seems to contain a lot of trapped air, but frozen water is a very solid ...

What you should be able to do is irrelevant, if it's possible at all to softlock yourself there someone is going to do it

You can already softlock yourself if you mine out your starting patches while all others have biters on them. You can softlock yourself before the game starts by setting ...

Why the railguns are shooting backwards in space? The asteroids are not usually catching up with the platforms from behind.


Maybe on Aquilo even parking in orbit gets you bombarded with large asteroids, and if you are not moving those may very well come from behind.


Or maybe whatever ...

on the other hand... this looks like a place where I am going to die. Horribly. Because I know I'm going to forget stuff.


I wondered about that too. Do we get data analysis of the planets in-game with enough information for us to plan?


You can travel there look around and then 'order ...

morse wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 11:42 am Why the railguns are shooting backwards in space? The asteroids are not usually catching up with the platforms from behind.

Maybe on Aquilo even parking in orbit gets you bombarded with large asteroids, and if you are not moving those may very well come from behind.

gnutrino wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2024 12:08 pm

On Aquilo if you land with nothing then you can do nothing

So does that mean you can soft lock yourself there if your space platforms gets unrecoverably borked?

Well, I think by the time you get there you should be able to remotely build a new one.

My research suggests that ice sinks in liquid ammonia. So they're less icebergs than they are ice mountains.


The best landing spot you could find was this large iceberg. The sheet of ice is only a few meters thick and seems to contain a lot of trapped air, but frozen water is a very solid ...

Outstanding work! :D

Too bad, we still have to wait another 10 days for the release.

Does the heating tower also go up to 1000°c?

I would say the railgun is needed to either get through to some place in space where you find the resources for the black science pack or as the only option to shoot ...

Also congratulations! You, at least for me, achieved the goal of making the choice of planet visit order pretty though by now

So should we rename the engineer to the "Mad Scientist"? A lot of what you are doing on Fulgora and Gleba makes it look that way :D

Jokes aside, very good additions to the game, I was hoping we are getting an upgrade to the laboratories.

So there are 4 new Planets, but I see 5 new Science Packs ...

So, nulcear power is ~10 times more viable in space and on Fulgora? Neat. Fulgora steam power will also be considerably less bottlenecked by valuable ice, letting people use up all that scrap solid fuel more effectively.

However, I’m a very curious about the implications for Vulcanus, because ...