Blue shotgun shells are now the worst value recipe in the game, and it doesn't seem close.

Recently red shotgun shells got a damage buff, but blue shotgun shells didn't. Then piercing magazines got a cost reduction, while piercing shells didn't. So relative to 1.1, measured by resources spent per ...

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I'm playing Wave Defense on 2.0.55 with no other mods (no Space Age mods) and I'm hearing (Nauvis) music in the map selection room but no other soundtrack for the rest of the scenario.

Is there maybe something about the way the Wave Defense scenario surface is created that makes it somehow not ...

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 2:27 pm the (stomper) legs would apply damage when they hit the ground - killing the landmines - but the landmines never had a chance to explode.

Oh I thought this was a deliberate design decision. Stompers gonna get less interesting if they're vulnerable to all the same combat tools.

I would also like to add to the "pollution vs achievements is a bug" that the wiki says about map settings on the Achievements page:

Within the freeplay game, enabling peaceful mode, enabling no enemies mode or setting enemy base frequency or size for Nauvis to anything lower than default ...

Yeah certainly a small thing.

Similarly I have also noticed that boilers / biochambers / rail ramps can be placed on the rocket rush shop "platform" while asteroid collectors can't, with failure messages suggesting we're in an atmosphere and not space. Also not a big deal, quite possibly not even ...

This is on 2.0.32 with Space Age and prerequisite mods but no others. The preview image for the Rocket Rush scenario shows RCUs on a belt just below the silo, but RCUs aren't a thing any more, won't help you go to space.

if someone hasn't figured yet how to set up full cargo drops, this helped me

This is mostly the same solution as SYCLOPS and also still struggles if platform production exceeds the landing pad request. If there's more than 50 left the platform never clicks into the non-sending state.

I ended up ...

There is probably a more elegant solution with setting requests on the planet with circuit network and having the platform wait till a certain number is reached.


Yeah I was thinking about doing a similar thing with interrupts, but this is cleaner. It's a good start even if not perfect setup ...

Due to me expanding my cargo area early into the game


This is still just a workaround.

If someone isn't in the habit of building vastly more cargo space than they need, or arranges to not need so much, or first encounters this problem early on a different planet with no easy way to get more ...

Speedrun tech is cool and important and though I both speedrun and enjoy watching speedruns, I must reluctantly admit that a dev fixing a weird small bug is better for the game overall even if it's worse for speedrunning. If it were fixing eg a cutscene skip that forced us into a timed on-rails set ...

I know that cargo pods are free. But it still feels weird.

Yeah this is where I am too.

I understand that there are a variety of times when you'd want to push maximum logistic supply ASAP (ie new planet, also apparently platforms are also trains with schedules & interrupts doing deliveries ...

Sure, but that reads like a prior decision to play a game in a particular way, made when you'd barely started the journey.

What might it look like if the game tried to suggest that Quality be taken seriously even on the first playthrough?

If the assembler has no quality module in it, don't ...

But this feels so odd, compared to the rest of the game.

This was also my impression, but my conclusion was that the game really really wanted me to notice that Quality was now a thing. I found adjusting muscle memory here acceptable, not as bad as putting a map on the key that used to switch ...

To add an additional use case for the LuaPlayer to complete custom cursor selections through the API, I am working on a tool assisted speedrun of Krastorio 2. TAS are implemented through the mod interface. Being able to complete a selection in the described manner with the Krastorio 2 creep ...

Fair enough, the player workaround is still just "use the good setup and not the weird ones" and that works out fine.

Having an inserter grab from the same tile of belt that's pulsing a contents value to the circuit network is outputting the whole belt contents when only one new item flows in.

The "good" setup is:

have items flowing down a belt and put into a chest by an inserter (capacity 1)
wire the 2nd to ...

Just finished a run of Spaceblock 0.3.9 with 1.1.53 base Factorio version, enjoyed it a lot. No major issues of any kind, a couple of slightly rough edges I thought I'd note.

1/ First off, pumpjack, burner & electric miners all still exist

These can't ever be used, are kind of just traps. Maybe ...

So Factorio Extended Plus is cool, I like the way it adds to the gameplay but not to the learning curve, and makes the Upgrade Planner really worthwhile. I ended up with some balance / pacing notes after a couple of playthroughs though.

Gun Turrets 2 is a really strong tech .

Like, way strong ...

So this is quite a long thing, I've gone a bit deeper into the why than just the what . Necromant is cool though could perhaps be tuned a little more for pacing. Also some reflections on the endgame stockpiling issues discussed elsewhere already.

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So the different ways to get DNA ...