Kibb99 wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 2:47 pm Love all the updates and that the FFF is back! (for now )

Couldn't help but notice that some of the ship designs look an awful lot like FTL ships... For sure noticed the Bulwark and probably the Kestrel too!

Very observant!
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Nice! Now if only you could replace the conveyor belts and inserters with sprites of humans, engi, mantis, rockmen, zoltans, slugs, crystal, and lanius, then you'll be ready for launch!

Sounds like some great changes coming for 2.1!

One point of feedback: it would be more clear on item import to show an image of all planets rather than an empty selection.


I need to figure out how to use Custom Minimum Payload. That would fix the issue of "not enough items to fill one rocket ...

Why am I not getting Friday Facts notifications by email anymore? Do I need to resubscribe?

Does the satellite even have quality tiers? None are listed on the Satellite or Quality pages of the wiki.


I just confirmed using a quick /editor setup. You can make a quality satellite with quality modules (or quality ingredients, of course) and when you launch a quality satellite, you get ...

Does the satellite even have quality tiers? None are listed on the Satellite or Quality pages of the wiki.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Satellite
https://wiki.factorio.com/Quality

What can help you is to try a mainbus concept: https://wiki.factorio.com/tutorial:main_bus
A big space of belts and pipes straight through your base that carrys most of your materials.

I think main bus is interesting only from historical point of view. It is not good idea to suggest outdated ...

I asked a similar question to you last year having also found myself getting stuck right around the time of Advanced Oil Processing. Check out the advice people gave me here: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=125044

Biggest thing that is helpful is coming up with a Science Per Minute you ...

High water level is my preferred way to play. It makes for a nice separation between me and the biters with narrow walkways to defend biter intrusion. However, it also tends to place water where there would normally be an ore patch, making me have to venture out farther than normal to get more ...

Thanks for the clear explanation!

In reference to this page for someone who has purchased the base game and Space Age DLC: https://factorio.com/download

Does the Space Age executable from this page include the base game, or do I need both downloads in order to install the game + DLC?

I may have used the logistic chests incorrectly before unlocking the later chest types. I played for a few hours with my factory outputting items into Passive Provider Chests and all bot deconstruction going into a large quantity of Storage Chests without any sorting. Now that I have Buffer ...

If I understand your question appropriately, first assign Group A to a new train, then rename the train group for that train. Assigning an existing group and then renaming it has the effect of making a new copy of the original group. Any changes you make will only save to the group with the new name.

"Mouse Mode" is how the user Bigfoot (youtube) plays this game on PC. He has been playing with controller and mouse for years. Might be worth reaching out to if you want some insights in user experience for that control scheme.

This will be very useful for whenever I get around to starting my next Space Age run. I am trying to enjoy Vanilla before jumping into mods, but like Pin-Lui, a single playthrough for me takes a looooooooong time.

Is it possible to see more of my blueprint names in my blueprint books without having to mouse over everything?
I use three- or four-word names but only the first two words are visible when viewing the blueprint book.

I am glad Tertius gave you a much better answer than I did. I'm sorry mine wasn't so helpful! Hopefully I can be more helpful here.

The two inputs to the Decider Combinator must be different colors because they are different inputs to the combinator, but it does not matter which one is red and ...

I have not done this myself but I think I understand in principle how it could work.

Check out FF405 that talks about counting all items on a belt. You need a circuit connection to read belt contents with the "Hold (all belts)" option.
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-405

Then set an enable ...

That’s super helpful! Thanks!!

You’re right on what I’m getting hung up on. That was also good advice to only build a small number of machines at a time and not expand until I see the need to expand.