Best argument IMHO that was not mentioned is that electric furnaces reduce the logistic requirements. You don't have to bring ore AND coal to the furnaces, just ore! That makes the build much easier and increases scalability by a huge margin!


Thats an important consideration for designing a new ...

Interesting.

Vanilla, you need Electric energy distribution 1 (medium, large power poles) to research the silo.

Space Age, you do not.

That said … this is a game of automation. As long as you have the ability to set up the production of small power poles on Nauvis, from Vulcanus, you can ship ...

Re: other consoles, I would not hold my breath were I you.

Devs have stated that they will not be bringing the game to any other platforms. In fact, it was only the work of one dev, after hours, that got the game ported to the Switch. The only reason he did so was the portability aspect of the ...

Rounding error from daisy chaining labs, is my guess.

Solution : dont send “just enough” packs to the labs. Instead, flood them with the limit that your belts/bots can deliver!

Actually, they say that they are working on bringing the 2.0 update to Switch. They specifically state that Space Age, which includes the Quality and Elevated Rails mods, will NOT go to Switch.

As another poster suggested, Switch 2 may be able to handle it, and hopefully the devs will reconsider ...

Worth it or not depends, I think, on whatever constraints you have set up in your factory. For example, I am using belts to move science from the producers to the labs. At some point, the belt simply cannot more more science packs than it already does.

Quality packs are one way of increasing the ...

It’s the far side of a belt moving left or right from the perspective of the inserter.

It’s the right side of the belt from the perspective of the belt when the belt is moving towards, or away from, the inserter.

Yes, it’s weird like that.

Many machines, but especially roboports (and apparently Beacons) have an internal energy buffer. Provided that the buffer is full, they only use the amount of power shown. But when they get less than the amount desired, they draw on that buffer, and when it goes, they get REALLY hungry for power to ...

Defense should be something of a moot point. Ideally you sieze chokepoints in the terrain and defend those, sparing the time, effort, and resources needed to make a giant wall. But even if you do need to make that giant wall, you want to do so outside of your pollution cloud, which should mean at ...

My general recommendation is to only build on one side of the bus. It DOES make the bus get longer, but so what? It allows you to add more material, whatever type you want, to the other side of the bus. Need more iron? You can add it! Need more Plastic? Just making Advanced Circuits and need to put ...

Series stations with the same name wont work well. I’ve done train stops in series, and had it work well, but they were for different, and not-often-called-for trains.

There are two reasons for this, though they kind of overlap. When given the choice of multiple stations to go to with the same name ...

To those who denigrate Space Age by calling it a mere “DLC” all I can say is …

This isnt some small piece of DLC. ITs not adding Laharl to the latest Disgaea game. Its not a new map for your MOBA, or a new skin for your FPS character.

Space Age is an old school expansion. Referring to it as DLC ...

Vanilla Factorio map is 2 million by 2 million tile square. Your pc would likely run out of memory if you tried to reveal the entire thing.

That circular map from Space Exploration? That’s that overhaul mod. Don’t expect that in any other Factorio game, vanilla or overhaul.

The triggered techs in 2.0 just seem weird. Smelt 50 iron ore into iron plate to unlock steam engines, boilers, and offshore pumps? Smelt 10 copper ore into copper plate to unlock electronic circuits?

Yes, its stuff you are going to do anyway. Good luck launching a rocket (or completing space age ...

If you have issues with landfill on modded tiles (or official tiles that are enabled by a mod), you have to ask the mod developer to fix the mod.

My guess is that we've changed groups for the tiles that are being used and the shallow water wasn't updated since it only appears in the campaign ...

2.0 without mods you can see the Factoriopedia entries. Landfill can only go into Water, Deep Water, Green Water, and Deep Green Water. But not into Shallow Water or Marsh.

I first encountered this in a game with Alien Biomes enabled (along with a few other mods that really have no business doing ...

Treat items of a different Quality as a belt contaminant. Remove it with a Splitter filtered to that contaminant. Put it either into a box, or route it to where you want it used.

For what its worth …

The Factoriopedia in game has Water, Deep Water, Green Water, Deep Green Water all with a field “Allows placement of” that has Landfill in it.

Shallow Water and Marsh both lack that field. Without knowing where the Factgoriopedia aggregates information from, could it be an ...

Open the tech tree window, and hit the little magnifying glass icon (its directly above the upper right corner of the List of technologies section). Search for Cliff - you should see it as a Red+green tech (unless SA changed it; 2.0 did not).

Long live the filter burner inserter!