You are not seeing the problem. A.I uses a lot of stolen scraped data and art from the internet without consent. And people who don't have art "skills" can still make art. Even a crude drawing is more effort and nicer to see than A.I that guesstimates shit.

Also first point is just vibe coding ...

I personally don't mind it. I'm not an artist myself. I am a programmer. There are three camps of programmers: 1) Those who embrace AI as a helpful tool for cranking out large amounts of code FAR faster than we could code it ourselves. 2) Those who view it as 'spicy math' and don't get its utility 3 ...

So...I finally got the last achievement I was trying to get before using mods. Now I have to go and update all my mods to work with space age, which people have been asking me to do for months.

My question is:

Is there any desire for yet another modding guide?
Video or text?
Hosting ideas that ...

Yes and no. Vanilla factorio has a logistics component you solve with trains, belts, and bots. Space Age adds in two new levels to logistics:

1. Resources that can only be acquired/crafted in space, or on another planet.
2. Resources which must be produced on one planet and moved to another planet ...

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I'm going to ignore the 'pro' aspect for similar reasons to everyone else. But, here's how I play:

1. Set an objective ("Build legendary fish for achievement")
2. Save game
3. /editor
4. Save game to temp-save so I don't overwrite my actual game.
5. Design solution in editor mode. Use infinite ...

I haven't gotten to the point where I'm using LDS shuffle just yet. I did build part of a ship to explore what it would take to do it and holy-moley it was insane (mostly because I ignored quality...mistake! even rare crushers make a HUGE difference). But either way, it's very much a late-game thing ...

After much tinkering, this is what I came up with for a Shattered Planet ship. It's design basis was thus:

Get at least 60km for achievement purposes
Return with at least 4500 Promethium Chunks to facilitate Prom Research achievement
Require as few Unique or better items as possible (mostly ...

MaverickPT wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 10:15 am I wanted to try the startership but unfortunately I'm getting the error

Failed to import string: Invalid base64 padding

Sorry for not replying sooner, I see what you mean. Not sure how that happened, but it's fixed now. Far too late to matter. :/

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That's what it takes.
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Aquilo Ship: 0eNrt3ctyHUeWoOtXoaEHPSHyxLp5RMiqj1lm9aB7XD2rI6OB4KYES1yYuChTVaYH6AfpF+snOXvjQgTJ7TuW+y8qKYo1KCVJwOPmEbHcY/n6/vPo9fnd5t312eXt0Xf/eXR2enV5c/Tdv//n0c3ZD5cn57u/u/353ebou6Obdyenm+Pzq9OT27Ory6OXR5cnF7u/P/nb3dn51dEvL4/OLt9s/nH0nfzycvnrjz92++P13c3t5nrxg/rL9y+PNpe3Z7dnm4eN3v/h51eXdxevtz ...

Advanced Asteroid Processing ship: 0eNrtneuO3UiWXl9FyN9S++xbkGzMGOgZw8D8MGB4fhmNgpBKHVUlOpWpzktN9zTqAfwgfjE/iU9epDwqMc7ZO1ZVddcFMDydqsxNMhgMfgwG1/rbyZuLu+2H6/PL25Pf/+3k7fbm7Pr8w+351eXJ70/+1/bPd+fX25sXp2+/fXF6c7u9vjp/++LD9dXZ9ubm/PLr373439uLi6v/eHH6/v3V7178t6sXl1e3L+5uti/eXV2/+MPujy ...

For those who hate designing ships, here are some pre-made ones, (and the blueprint book also has blank templates for customizing).


A starting ship that works for all plants prior to aquilo. It is 'safe' to sit in orbit of any planet, stable (in the sense that it will not run out of ammo even ...

I hit the 60k character limit with my previous post, so to expand on the concept of expanding peak power:

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That's what a bad expansion looks like. The heat networks are connected (via the cores touching each other) but the circuit networks are not, and there's a secondary ...

All prints are tileable and designed to expand until you hit a practical limit (pipe segment length, belt capacity, etc).

'Peak' power designs are steam buffered. Meaning the reactors only run with the steam reserve is low enough that no energy would be wasted.

If you expand peak reactors, you ...

I'm playing on Windows 7, it works just fine. I plan to upgrade to Linux soon (9800x3d baby...don't suck pls!). Windows 10/11 can gargle my inserter.

"No Sale, Ever" is actually a sale all on its own. Inflation is a thing, so ever year the game gets cheaper. US sets a 2% inflation target, and so it gets a 2% price drop every year. Well, assuming you get a 2% raise, and the CPI (the real one, not that fake crap they published after the 80s) only ...

I bought Space Age and I've finally gotten to Nuclear Power. My...disdain for the old fluid system is easily found, both in the mods I've made/used, and the forum posts I've made. On one hand, creative problem solving was a thing. On the other hand...what a PITA having to build over water and juggle ...

I finally got something that works. This is what I ended up with:

local function addLoanWindowRow(p_name, item_internal_name, count)
if not global.players[p_name].info_table then
initLoanWindow(p_name)
end

local info_table = global.players[p_name].info_table

if global.players[p_name].loan ...

I'm writing a mod that allows you to cheat items into existence, but keeps track of what you cheat into existence so that you can later repay it back. IE: start a fresh game with all tech unlocked, and cheat electric miners into existence along with your end-game mall without needing to wait for ...