Factorio: Space Age — A Late-Game Player's Review

A note before the review: I'm posting this on the Factorio forums because Steam's 8,000-character review limit can't accommodate the full content. My Steam review for the game links here for readers who want the complete write-up. If you arrived ...

Previously - and these recommendations still hold! :-)


Howdy!

The official Space Age Expansion should be mentioned first and foremost as it is implemented as a set of "Official Mods" that enhance the Base Game through additional planets and mechanics. I am assuming that Readers of this Reply ...

As an alternative to the asteroid collector building, it would be nice if asteroid chunks could be picked up by an inserter collecting from the side/front of a space platform. This is the same idea as how inserters collect fish from the water.

The large collection area and central storage of ...

i really love gleba. i might even go there first in my next save, and enjoy the luxury of spidertron and advanced asteroid processing, get an early start on rolling q4 products... get a biter farm going... i've been dreaming of a space platform that imports fruit as freshly as possible, and produces ...

Thank you for this, I tested it yesterday and I got a legendary fish from the rare recipe after ages of not getting a second epic fish :lol:
It took me a while to get through the logic. So I see that you wait for 600 spoilage before activating the spoilage-to-nutrient recipe, but the fish breeder ...

There is also this thread: with the following quote:

Rseding91 wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:16 pmPutting fish back was an easter egg and at this point there is no desire to expand it into more code with more tests around inserters.

Previous discussion ; see “Overhaul Packs” below. Since this post was originally written the Space Exploration mod has been updated, although I have not tried it myself.

Good Luck!

The official Space Age Expansion should be mentioned first and foremost as it is implemented as a set of "Official ...

My take:

A: Space, Fulgora. They have the best recipes in the form of asteroid reprocessing and EM plant, in terms of yield / throughput. Fulgora is also good in the max-rare stage where you can wash for uncommon scrap and rare recycling results.

B: Vulcanus. It has the second-best recipes: lava ...

I don't think you'll like this idea:

Gleba biosulfur.

Join spoilage from overgrowth jellynut soil and bioflux upcycled from capture rockets to make legendary sulfur. As a note: it has to be quality done throughout the process, because if you just just those two upcycles you're probably going to ...

If a inserter found grab a legendary fish into a chest that every slot have a normal fish,
it down quality it and insertet a normal fish instead.
Or a inserter grab a rare iron gear wheel and insert into normal engine unit assembler

maybe also have a option in inserter to disable this feature.

why ...

Rseding91 wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:16 pm Putting fish back was an easter egg and at this point there is no desire to expand it into more code with more tests around inserters.

That's fair, I will just continue to manually insert them. I love having absurd fish ponds.

Putting fish back was an easter egg and at this point there is no desire to expand it into more code with more tests around inserters.


Thanks for the quick response, this makes total sense, just means it will need to be a janky script implementation, but since someone made a thread, figured its ...

Putting fish back was an easter egg and at this point there is no desire to expand it into more code with more tests around inserters.

@grungulon-what a reason

+1

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Made an account just to +1 this.

+1, It may also be useful to support quality entities as such.

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As the humanitarians that factorio players are, I’d love to have the ability to return fish to the water (in reverse to the existing easter egg of taking them out the water :P )
this’d be personally useful for me, as i plan to have fish breeding be a part of a mod i am developing; and being able to ...

Howdy!

The official Space Age Expansion should be mentioned first and foremost as it is implemented as a set of "Official Mods" that enhance the Base Game through additional planets and mechanics. I am assuming that Readers of this Reply are familiar with the Mechanics that it adds - no Spoiler ...