Another thing I want to address is, everything you build on Nauvis can be considered temporary in a long term playthrough, and therefore expires.

Why is that the case? Because all you really need from Nauvis is Eggs, Biolabs and some Uranium, because everything else you do on Nauvis will cause ...

Yeah this is exactly the type of Setup I was talking about!

Your one is even a little bit more spaced out so the ore patch itself will last longer, though I do wonder if staggering it just a little more could get rid of the double-wide-ness of the belt in the middle.

So I have faced a weird problem in two of my Space Age playthroughs, one that before the DLC did not have as much impact as it does now.

That problem was the motivation to get rid of my old Furnace Stack and to a lesser extent also my old Steam Power Setup.

The Furnace Stack became a problem ...

If they want to make it "less easy", then they should also kill Fusion reactor because they make generating electricity trivial.
I love how people always jump to removing features, that they dont even need to interact with if they dont want to, that are absolutely necessary for Megabases, as if it ...

What I like less, however, is the consequence of this implementation: bases remain small, and exploration becomes almost non-existent.
Once legendary mining drills are produced in large quantities, ore fields become virtually inexhaustible.

I would blame the Planets for bases remaining small ...

lots of valid points
Yeah a lot of these things are not possible or a real hassle, but i do want to mention some workarounds:

You can read Rocket Silos down on the Planet from a Space Platform, so inserting Items into a Rocket Silo CAN serve as a token to signal departure.

You can prevent items ...

I admit I'm a bit disappointed about the information that 2.1 is coming some time next year. There are one or two things I'm not satisfied with in Space Age, where I'm struggling with a proper and satisfying implementation. I'm not alone with that if I see the forum posts since SA release. As far ...

"there are no games" was the biggest reason for me to save money and not buy a Switch 2 :(

Buy a handheld PC with built in controller, that is cheaper and you get better performance out of it when playing Factorio.

I have a ROG Ally but the NSW2 has no fan noise, better battery life, lower ...

makrom wrote: Sun Oct 26, 2025 4:12 am "there are no games" was the biggest reason for me to save money and not buy a Switch 2

Buy a handheld PC with built in controller, that is cheaper and you get better performance out of it when playing Factorio.

I won't bore you with details, I tried getting into speedruns, and quit when I "concluded"/decided that the gains from the planets weren't really 'worth it' to aim for specific planets first or later. So while there is the choice of which order to go to planets, "it doesn't really matter". It ...

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There is a purple inserter on this image, will this mean anything?

Sadly it cant be the long handed stack inserter i would've hoped for.

You make the assumption that it's on the same network, but HELL NO, imagine an hospital that put his peoples dependent to electricity to be alive to mix their networks ... If you are the hospital manager, I will never go in you hospital.

I think we got a lot of context mixed up there, when you ...

Then do what real life system does: Make a secondary electric network for important things that need constant power even on global power failure.

On my factories I usually put important combinators and speakers on a separate solar/battery network

Yeah separating power grids is a pain though ...

Decider combinator, arithmetic combinator and selector combinator are now primary energy consumers and have buffer size increased to make them more reliable in case of low power.

wait what about the constant combinator? isn't that one also kinda needed to have that? do you want us to use decider ...

About 2.: His frikkin ship has stack inserters for each level of frikkin quality... (adjustable inserters mod makes it way easier...)

And by Optimal I mean "you cant really put any useful modules like productivity in the ammo assembler, so lets just put in quality so it uses less iron!", which ...

I know it has been a while, but these Ammo Alerts turn into a "boy who cried wolf" situation in multiplayer

When one of your friends decides to use mixed quality ammo IN ADDITION to mixing yellow, red AND green ammo for some brainforsaken reason. There is FIFTEEN TYPES OF GUN AMMO ON THEIR BELTS ...

Frikkin FINALLY, i always forgot to report that one over the years... Sorry about that.

Oh wow, this Recipe is so much better than the old one!

FactorioBot wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:44 am Balancing

• Changed piercing ammo recipe to be cheaper.

wait, what is the new Recipe now? (for people who cant open the game right now)

Trees no longer take damage from spores nor absorb spores as a result of taking pollution damage.

why do i have a feeling that some of those changes were because a modder decided to put everything on Nauvis XD