Really excited for this change.
Late game biter are unfortunately a bit trivial. And post-game they are pretty much just a nuisance. So I appreciate seeing their AI get buffed a bit.
I'm still part of the camp that believes that at least in Space-Age Behemoth Biters should get some fire resistance ...

Currently, if I want to quickly copy-paste a train I made for a station, the best (and really only) way to do it is to make a simple blueprint of the track, check the box to include trains, paste my blueprint a couple of times and then delete it again.

With tiles, at least it is possible to copy ...

+1

For performance consideration, it doesn't have to be on the same tick as the ghost is placed just output the signal eventually.
Plus the missing construction materials literally show up on my HUD so it's not like the game isn't already scanning for them.

Personally, I tried to build a system ...

Crafting recipe for personal laser defense, post nerf, should not cost 5 whole laser turrets anymore.
This was a fine trade-off when they came with a build in 50% power boost.
But now, dealing half the damage of a single turret and still taking 5 to craft feels unfair.

I know you generally don't ...

So, I was randomly looking through Factoriopedia and noticed that Big Stompers, with their 15k health have have 2/50% physical resistance.
I was chuckling to myself thinking, "What is even the point of those 2 flat? My railguns are perfectly capable of shredding through anything that stands in their ...

+1 simply because I would like to provide Aquilo with concrete without having to fly ships back and forth.

I have a space station parked in Aquilo orbit to collect basic resources to supply a mall on Aquilo just for convenience of all the things only needed every now and then.
Yet the only thing ...

Changes

Inserters dropping items into lava drop the entire stack in one go instead of one per tick.



Genuinely insane change.
I make purple science on Vulcanus which means I need a ton of stone, which in turn means I produce way more molten copper than needed and in turn, I actually make ...

Did they change the recycling speed too, or will recycling hazard concrete dump those raw ingredients much faster than for concrete?


Actually, I've never thought about the recycle time itself. This might be huge if true. Unfortunately, I can't verify it myself since I don't want to update yet ...

Water consumption also isn't really a problem since you get ice as a byproduct of recycling anyway. So you will always have 5 times as much ice as you have holmium ore. The Holmium solution recipe needs 2 holmium ore and half an ice cube, leaving you with 9.5 ice = 190 water (without ...

+1

I think the automated math for recycling times could very easily account for the number of items generated in one craft.
It might however throw off the balance the devs have created and been testing for years now by affecting other recipes that produce multiple items in one craft like for ...

It's 1 : 1 : 1 : 1. The reason why people are going for cargo bays is that by the ratios it's 200:25:10 with concrete:steel:proc units. That's pretty close to a 6:1:1/3 ratio. The tradeoff for using nuclear reactors is that you'll end up having to balance the sort out by manufacturing advanced ...

How viable would be it be to make and recycle nuclear reactors? The ingredients are also all things that I have a vast surplus of. Even if the ratios don't work out completely, it should at least take care of a large amount of concrete.

As mentioned in the original post, it is an option but you ...

People have found a couple of work arounds. The easiest way I can see of doing it is to have a break down to stone then a recycler on ores and and a craft/recycle loop on walls. What's being passed around right now is cargo bays, or recipes which automatically take the concrete. But at the point ...

There is a part of the game where you aren't post-scarcity, y'know.

Also, it's worth noting that as you max out your productivity bonuses, you have to start crafting batteries to keep up with your science production, and that's another big water guzzler if you don't drop sulfur from orbit ...

[space-age] Changed hazard concrete and refined hazard concrete to recycle into the recipe ingredients of concrete/refined concrete.

Unfortunately, 2.1 patched out the ability to recycle Hazard Concrete which by far the best way to quickly deal with all the waste recycling produces.
Which in turn ...

Biochambers do have some utility on Fulgora; they have twice the base speed of chemical plants, which is a valuable space-saver on the constrained islands of Fulgora, and while heavy oil is literally infinite and effectively free, the inherent productivity bonus reduces the required amount of ...

Could be included as part of the "Read Content" output. With Rocket Parts serving as the percentage gauge (mod 100) and the Rocket itself only being on the signal when it is ready to launch.

So, in the 2.1.7 changelog they revealed that you can now no longer use the trick to place pipes/walls around a spawner to (permanently) block spawns.
This isn't really a for or against debate since it is a niche use case anyhow but I just wonder why they decided to change it?

In this bug report ...

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I suppose you can still do so by just surrounding the nests with turrets with priorities enabled but it certainly becomes a much bigger hassle now.
ESPECIALLY if you constantly get the "turrets are firing" warning flashing on your screen. If this has become an intentional gameplay ...

Biter/spitter spawners will emit a cloud of damaging acid if they are blocked from spawning units.

Was there a reason the "neutralizing spawners" was changed? It looked like the original stance was for this to be intended.
It's a bit of a shame since certain challenge runs like Michael ...