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by somepersondontask
Tue Jul 15, 2025 8:22 pm
Forum: Technical Help
Topic: [2.0.60] Logistics Manager cratering my UPS with relatively few logibots
Replies: 3
Views: 266

[2.0.60] Logistics Manager cratering my UPS with relatively few logibots

... my Fulgora base in a way that it uses 3000 logistics bots to manage scrap recycling and science production. However, when running the base my UPS/FPS drops to ~30 solely due to the logistics manager using 20ms of processing power. I have an i7 11400f Intel CPU so I am not sure why it's struggling ...
by boskid
Tue Jul 01, 2025 8:50 am
Forum: Not a bug
Topic: [2.0.55] Manual recipe crafting shows incorrect amount being crafted
Replies: 2
Views: 205

Re: [2.0.55] Manual recipe crafting shows incorrect amount being crafted

... Similarily some recipes may produce multiple items (for example a scrap-recycling) and in that case the outcome of the recipe is not known in advance and as such cannot be shown in the crafting queue.

Not a bug.
by astroroxy
Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:16 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: No Fulgoran vault ruin
Replies: 17
Views: 999

Re: No Fulgoran vault ruin

... That big island is taller than 600 meters, and if you don't have scrap recycling then you have to play dodge the lightning with an ocean that cuts your speed by 50-80% as you walk on it. You probably have a nice circle you ran that's at kilometer scale. Hard start can be a fun challenge, why I ...
by coffee-factorio
Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:08 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: No Fulgoran vault ruin
Replies: 17
Views: 999

Re: No Fulgoran vault ruin

... That big island is taller than 600 meters, and if you don't have scrap recycling then you have to play dodge the lightning with an ocean that cuts your speed by 50-80% as you walk on it. You probably have a nice circle you ran that's at kilometer scale. Hard start can be a fun challenge, why I ...
by porgalorian
Mon Jun 16, 2025 3:31 am
Forum: Mechanical Throughput Magic (circuit-free)
Topic: 8 Lane Scissor Filter Sushi Bus for Fulgora
Replies: 17
Views: 1818

Re: 8 Lane Scissor Filter Sushi Bus for Fulgora

... or balance issues with the current design. As long as you prioritize recycling the bus over scrap the bus flows effortlessly. The big thing I'm trying to accomplish is minimizing the footprint. Ideally being able to split off 3-4 items in the same space an assembly line would take up or less, And for ...
by coffee-factorio
Thu Jun 12, 2025 5:03 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?

... is the big and only difference between keeping the final product and recycling them, since at the other rarities you recycle the product even if it's ... epic chips / quality 2s from asteroids / recycled EM plants / quality scrap recycling and only do the final upcycling step making modules. The 3/5 ...
by mmmPI
Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:10 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?

... you have 0 Q4T3 module at first, so you may want to delay your "mass recycling" of stored Q3T3 until you have your first few epic module to use them ... this and/or care, if i have some "iron from space" mid game, or some "scrap mining operation that has no logic for stopping", the "ressource cost ...
by h.q.droid
Thu Jun 12, 2025 7:08 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?

... is the big and only difference between keeping the final product and recycling them, since at the other rarities you recycle the product even if it's ... epic chips / quality 2s from asteroids / recycled EM plants / quality scrap recycling and only do the final upcycling step making modules. The 3/5 ...
by mmmPI
Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:53 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?

... It's not necessarily aimed at "legendary" at first, i'd be just scrap mining with quality, and recycling the scrap with quality module in the recycler, it's roughly similar in speed as if doing a non-beaconned base, so if you do it "early" game it doesn't feel "slower" than a regular Fulgora ...
by Tertius
Wed Jun 11, 2025 2:34 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?


Have you tried to mine quality scrap ?

I tried, but as far as I see this becomes feasible with quality mining drills and quality recyclers, and ... However, with lower quality modules the drills and the initial scrap recycling is just the 1st step of such a loop, while the modules in the machines ...
by mmmPI
Wed Jun 11, 2025 12:51 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?

... into EM plant and recycle them if you are going for "legendaries", "recycling at the last step".

I'm saying all this because in a "real game", if ... depends on how many green/red/blue circuits are still available from scrap recycling.


Hahahaha ! parallel or next is a difficult question :D ...
by Tertius
Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:47 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?

... gigantic amount of holmium, so I need to check how much I can extend my scrap recycling facilities, since holmium is the bottleneck here. Current scrap recycling productivity is 14 (+140%). I tried an upcycling facility with 16 normal plants in map editor with great results, however they need ...
by kpreid
Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:37 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Fulgora bootstrap
Replies: 5
Views: 718

Re: Fulgora bootstrap

I think enough people miss the option of hand-recycling scrap that it would make sense to highlight it somehow.

Putting it in a tip/tutorial is the obvious way. Another way would be to rearrange the tech tree so that you need to hand-recycle some scrap as a trigger to unlock Recycler, but that would ...
by berniszon
Tue Jun 10, 2025 9:18 am
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Fulgora bootstrap
Replies: 5
Views: 718

Fulgora bootstrap

... to Fulgoran Vault drop list to help bootstrap production.

What?
Recycling Scrap produces both Concrete and Processing units, and you need both to craft Recyclers. Neither can be found on the planet, causing a soft-lock.

Why?
You need just 20 and 6 respectively to get your first Recycler and ...
by Ezarkal
Sun Jun 08, 2025 12:01 am
Forum: Medium/Big/Gigantic Sized Structures
Topic: Scrap recycling complex with controlled outputs
Replies: 0
Views: 745

Scrap recycling complex with controlled outputs

... right? Except it can be a bit of a mess to balance the output from scrap recycling. You end up sending too much gears to your storage, or overfilling your beautiful sushi belt.
Part of the challenge is dealing with this, and my personal tendanciy is to take only what I need, and dispose of the ...
by pjr
Wed Jun 04, 2025 11:39 am
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Add "every quality" as an quality option in signals
Replies: 0
Views: 453

Add "every quality" as an quality option in signals

... have stations for loading different quality holmium ore. however, at my scrap recycling plant I have mixed quality holmium ore from using quality modules and recycling mixed quality scrap. on fulgora islands are small, and I want to quickly train the mixed ore to a different island to sort/upcycle the ...
by pipai
Fri May 30, 2025 10:48 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Add Ice Melting and Holmium Solution recipes to the Biochamber
Replies: 0
Views: 340

Add Ice Melting and Holmium Solution recipes to the Biochamber

... presents a more interesting challenge to solve it as opposed to just recycling more scrap.

None of these situations are necessary to solve the game or the problems at hand, but present interesting opportunities for different solutions for those willing to try putting the Biochamber elsewhere.
by mmmPI
Fri May 16, 2025 4:55 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 21177

Re: How to upcycle?

... that it's pretty efficient overall, and especially when compared to recycling stone furnace.

Mine in current game are mostly turning for coal and calcite, because i'm using lava or scrap for iron and copper.

What are you making that consume that much iron ?
by mrkev
Fri May 16, 2025 2:43 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Legendary Mech Armor
Replies: 39
Views: 4467

Re: Legendary Mech Armor

... roll: Imagine the situation is you have "rare" material because you do scrap mining with quality, you produce "rare" power armor mk2 from those ... with quality" and you produce power armor from those. You have to be recycling cogs, then making pipes, from pipes and cogs motors, then recycling ...
by mmmPI
Fri May 16, 2025 12:52 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Legendary Mech Armor
Replies: 39
Views: 4467

Re: Legendary Mech Armor

... It's easier than setting up production for EM plant and the armor, and recycling the EM plant because that's 2 production area and 1 recycling.

Also ... roll: Imagine the situation is you have "rare" material because you do scrap mining with quality, you produce "rare" power armor mk2 from those ...

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