As an alternative to building enough nuclear to power your entire factory, it is possible to set your labs to "sleep" overnight, thus not requiring the rest of your factory to work when your solar panels are sleeping. Given a small solar panel/accumulator set up on its own power network to detect ...

This deserves a new achievement category, how close can you get to finishing a timed achievement exactly on time. 39:59:55 Wow!

Interesting! I have not tried this so I don't have answers but I do have more questions.

What happens if you leave the craft starved of nutrients for fuel for the full 15 minutes? Does the egg spoil into a baby pentapod?

What happens if you cancel the crafting by changing the recipe in the ...

The attention to detail, the thoughtful approach to the work, the obvious care and support for users... It sounds like you would be a good fit working for Wube!

I tend not to watch videos for exactly the reason you mentioned. It is hard to craft a good video but it sounds like you have clear goals ...

Maybe add support for dragging items across logistics groups?

I also had this issue switching between normal and legendary sciences. My problem could be solved with an "active science" group and an "inactive science" group and dragging items across them.


So many times I have wanted to do this!

VCS wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 12:56 pm So how to remove floor before you got drones?

https://wiki.factorio.com/Stone_brick "Stone paths are placed using Left mouse button and can be removed by using Right mouse button while holding any kind of path. "

Being able to set requests via circuit conditions would be very cool, but what about a different paradigm? You can set the schedule to tell the platform to unload to a planet or not. What if you could have a setting in the schedule to tell the platform whether or not it could request from the planet ...

Glad you got your stacker working!

I set up my stackers so each lane has its own train stop with a train limit of one. That way I don't have to adjust any other limits when I add a stacker, and I can add in a new stacker block whenever and wherever. I also use separate stackers for full and empty ...

just capping the progress bar to 95% or such until the value is at 100%.


Nice simple way to make it clear that the condition is not met!

Showing the actual percentage isn't as good as the extra information now in the combinators, i.e. the actual value being compared against the target. Of ...

Update failed: Correction: update succeeded, but I can't launch the game. Clicking OK exits the game.

In map view the train stops will show red for disabled. It would be really nice if they showed a colour other than blue if the limit is set to zero. It would also be nice if there was a distinct colour for stops that have more trains than allowed like 3 trains present even though the limit has been ...

I turned off clouds and shadows etc brought my FPS back up to 60... plus makes it easier to see what is going on in my Gleba base. Thank you again!

Thanks for the suggestions. My FPS was only 35! I dropped the sprite quality to Medium and that brought FPS up to 45...

1. What did I do?
Walking around on Gleba.
2. What happened? Every once in a while it seems the keyboard stops responding - player stops walking, using R to rotate belts or inserters doesn't work, or there is a brief delay before the game responds to the commands. It has been happening for a few ...

What a creative idea!

Thank you! Not perfect but a good step in the right direction. Much appreciated.

Me too!

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I find the mod portal somewhat of a cross between a treasure vault and the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts - piled high with stuff, some of immense value, some junk, things you don't know you need, and everything you always wanted all jumbled together. And every day it grows ...

TL;DR
Ability for the programmable speaker to read messages not just blare alarms.

What?
Add the option for the programmable speaker to read icons (not arbitrary text as words, just icons) like iron-plate and bioflux.
The simplest voice alarm would read the control for the speaker, for example ...

I'm increasingly considering just disabling the "quality" expansion in my next playthrough

Side note: the recycler is part of the quality mod, so the Space Age mod requires it (in order to deal with Fulgora). Playing without quality means remembering not to research the very first quality ...