you do also use a TON of concrete and bricks for flooring your base, and by the time you've stopped with constant expansions to the factory and your rail network, you've probably already beaten the game. the fact that those stone sinks ...

... turn copper scrap, plastic scrap, or sulfur. The metal scrap could be turn iron scrap, steel scrap, or holmium scrap. The rubble could be torn concrete, ice, stone, low density structure or solid combustible. And copper scrap, plastic scrap, iron scrap... could be melted or turned copper plate, ...

... purple production science packs. Let's assume that, on average, 100 scraps will yield five stones and six concretes for each single holmium ore. Concrete can be recycled into one stone (Concrete + Recycler 25% of 5 stone = 1). That is 11 stones to one holmium ore. How many purple/production science ...

... I had exactly the same thought. The ratio for scrap mining may be intentionally the way it is. And it is not only stone (5%), we get even more concrete (6%) itself. ^^ But that said Fulgora has no Iron/Copper ore we could smelt. But it may still be needed in some other process somewhere. Maybe ...

Anyway... back to Factorio... the game could use such a chemical process to create Calcium out of Concrete on every other planet that has stone & water to make concrete. ^^ Maybe that is how we will do it when there is no natural calcium to be mined. And maybe that ...

... it), or you have to ship it (if quantities required are worth it) But that said... and it may be very far-fetched... You could artificially age concrete to get Calcite. Concrete, or better said the lime inside the cement of concrete, has a tendency to carbonate over time (where the concrete ...

... until you get a decent quality output. They are fairly cheap enough that it might be acceptable. You could recycle a superfluous amount of concrete if you have tons of stone to get a chance to craft that legendary wall. ;P But at least I wouldn't do it on a T3 module unless the whole factory ...

... chests or something (that barely fit between max-distance roboports) filled wtih Stone as a result. First I started to pave the factory with concrete. Then I used landfill to fill entire lakes up. Still it was sooo much stone. Eventually I was annoyed by it because I couldn't walk through ...

... and copper wires. All of those are consumed in larger quantities by a 1000 SPM megabase. Stop and think about this briefly and realize that Stone/concrete and solid fuel exist in higher amounts than copper wires (typically, players will have far more assemblers doing copper wires than anything ...

... Imagine a scenario where I am deep in the middle of a colossal overhaul project on Nauvis that consumes holmium ore and some stone/concrete. I spot a few production lines needing more raw material. The bottleneck is at Fulgora. Do I stop the overhaul project halfway through and head to ...

... be so to you. Imagine a scenario where I am deep in the middle of a colossal overhaul project on Nauvis that consumes holmium ore and some stone/concrete. I spot a few production lines needing more raw material. The bottleneck is at Fulgora. Do I stop the overhaul project halfway through and ...

... need to throw tons of stone back into the lava on Vulcanus as well unless you intent to stockpile the stuff forever or pave the whole area with concrete tiles. ^^ I am also not one to throw items into the void for no reason, but if I have to because I am running out of space or what is more ...

... Factorio always need iron, copper, water, plastic bars, and intermediate products made with those. Two products yield stone from processing scrap: concrete and stone itself, which add up to a non-trivial ~11% chance per scrap, which seems a tiny bit on the excess side for a world without biter ...

... is that for example for every 100 scrap you will get: 2 Processing units 3 Advanced Circuits 1 Low density structure 7 Solid fuel 2 Steel Plates 6 Concrete 2 Batteries 5 Ice 5 Stone 1 Holmium Ore 12 Iron Gear Wheels 2 Copper cable That is in sum 48 items you can get per 100 scrap input. And the ...

... at first, but then you can research about the sand shortage on Earth despite deserts being full of it, because humans don't know how to make good concrete with desert sand, only with some beach sand. And concrete is the material the most used in quantity per human on average on earth. Maybe the ...

... at the bottomless pool of heavy oil on Fulgora. I can crank as much solid fuel as I want or need. Why do I need solid fuel from recycling? Or even concrete or stone? Can I unlock the Fulgora landfill early enough to prevent a complete gridlock because all logistics are full of stones blocking/backing-up ...

... at the bottomless pool of heavy oil on Fulgora. I can crank as much solid fuel as I want or need. Why do I need solid fuel from recycling? Or even concrete or stone? Can I unlock the Fulgora landfill early enough to prevent a complete gridlock because all logistics are full of stones blocking/backing-up ...

... super fond of requiring elevated rails to cross the islands, since those are locked behind production science. I assumed you would just be able to concrete over the tar. I probably won't be going to Fulgora first, but I'll definitely be exporting a lot of advanced circuits from the planet, since ...

... as a detriment? Outputs flue gas than can be turned into sulfur from a chemical plant? Outputs ash that can be used for a new brick and/or concrete recipe?

... this on a more simple scale where we have 2 networks, A and B. A and B are disconnected they both have bots they both have a large amount of concrete tiles (25k in A, 2K in B) to place. I will give network B the 2K concrete it needs to construct its portion but it refuses to do so why?