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 addition to these other good ideas for figuring out what went wrong and how to prevent it, I (being a belt and suspenders kind of person) prepare for things to go wrong anyway. A stack of repair packs is cheap enough to keep on hand. On my big ships where I am making copper anyway I include ...

Not a detailed design at the start, but the big picture - I use map tags to show the plan power is going to go over here, research labs down here, starter base planned to transition to mall here in the middle. And I love trains so I know I am going to be moving to trains as soon as I can, so my ...

J-H wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:20 pm I found it helpful to bring along some big miners, since they use up the resources half as fast.

You get the big miners on Vulcanus.

Yes now that we have the radar network it is much more feasible to implement a base wide system.
I am not so much interested in the blueprints - at least not yet ;) but I would be interested to see a bit of an example such as balancing say iron between red science, ammo for defences, and inserters ...

What happened?
I updated my platform schedule to drop carbon on Vulcanus for up to 5 seconds (out of carbon OR 5 seconds passed), then move to the next item in the schedule where I did NOT drop anything to Vulcanus.

When the platform arrived at Vulcanus it stayed in the unloading stop I think until ...

Space radar! In other words a radar thingy that does for interplanetary logistics what the new radar network does for a single planet. And a separate tech that lets you tell which planet the space radar signal is from...


What would you use this for?

Logistics? Between planets?
So in the ...

Shhhh! Don't tell anyone! I got five more yesterday...

Space radar! In other words a radar thingy that does for interplanetary logistics what the new radar network does for a single planet. And a separate tech that lets you tell which planet the space radar signal is from...

I have a little fish farm going for legendary fish. Since I started it after Christmas I had managed to get 8 legendary fish, enough for trout a la creme and eventually my legendary spidertron. Today is my lucky day I have been playing for a couple of hours and wow! Seven in one morning Holy Fish ...

boskid wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 1:42 pm Thanks for the report. Issue is now fixed for 2.0.42.

You (and the entire Dev team) are incredible! So amazing how fast you respond to and fix issues. Thank you!

+1

+1 That would make for some interesting contraptions! I like it!

Thinking about assemblers, yes from assembler 1 to assembler 2 you get a higher crafting speed, but you also get the ability to incorporate fluids into recipes. How about a recycler 2 that can return fluids?! Secondly, I am not sure about getting less than 25% back... how about a recycler 3 that is ...

Hi anprs welcome to the forums!
If you hold a train signal in your hand in game, the tracks are coloured so each block is a different colour from adjacent blocks. This is really helpful when you are trying to figure out which blocks are occupied by a train, and hence blocking other trains. If you do ...

Oh you could make some nice teeny compact contraptions if you could automatically rotate the inserter! I like it!

There has been a lot of research done on intersection design ( https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=100614 . I use roundabouts like you have, but they are not the greatest for throughput. The bigger issue is congestion. It looks like every train in your network is trying to go to one little ...

Rseding91 wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 3:02 pm it won't auto-request items for entities which are not yet buildable.

Thank you!

luc wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 5:20 pm If you have a good name for that page, btw, I'd be interested to hear it! The current title, "Factorio galaxy over time", is such a mouthful ^^

The Galaxy must grow!

+1 Brilliant!