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by Erfar
Sun Aug 10, 2025 10:06 am
Forum: Modding interface requests
Topic: A setting on recipes to only output 1 item.
Replies: 22
Views: 6727

Add Support for Mutually Exclusive "Loot Table" Style Probabilistic Outputs in Recipes

... roll system and be particularly useful for modders creating low-volume or high-value item ... getting both items, neither, or one—similar to scrap recycling or other random recipes.

While this works fine for high-volume production in vanilla Factorio (where only a few recipes use randomness ...
by crimsonarmy
Thu Aug 07, 2025 12:16 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers
Replies: 177
Views: 19967

Re: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers

... Not infinite. Your holmium setup relies on scrap spots which have limited amount of material. Same with uranium and tungsten. Or maybe I overlooked something and your recycling loop can spew holmium ... a bottleneck.
So you need that much SPM. In not modded Space Age. What for exactly? If this is your ...
by Shirasik
Thu Aug 07, 2025 9:52 am
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers
Replies: 177
Views: 19967

Re: Ban quality modules from asteroid crushers

... Not infinite. Your holmium setup relies on scrap spots which have limited amount of material. Same with uranium and tungsten. Or maybe I overlooked something and your recycling loop can spew holmium ... a bottleneck.
So you need that much SPM. In not modded Space Age. What for exactly? If this is your ...
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: 8
Views: 699

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

... 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 ... I'm unsure if this is an issue with a mod I'm using or an issue with the logistics manager ...
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: 245

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: 20
Views: 1485

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: 20
Views: 1485

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: 2295

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: 24316

Re: How to upcycle?

... between keeping the final product and recycling them, since at the other rarities you recycle the product even if it's a module (except the first few dozens when bootstrapping). Say if you want ... from asteroids / recycled EM plants / quality scrap recycling and only do the final upcycling step ...
by mmmPI
Thu Jun 12, 2025 9:10 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 24316

Re: How to upcycle?

... lucky rolls of quality 3s. Once you get ~9 lucky modules, upcycling EM plants isn't that much worse ... at first, so you may want to delay your "mass recycling" of stored Q3T3 until you have your first few ... have some "iron from space" mid game, or some "scrap mining operation that has no logic for stopping ...
by h.q.droid
Thu Jun 12, 2025 7:08 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 24316

Re: How to upcycle?

... between keeping the final product and recycling them, since at the other rarities you recycle the product even if it's a module (except the first few dozens when bootstrapping). Say if you want ... from asteroids / recycled EM plants / quality scrap recycling and only do the final upcycling step ...
by mmmPI
Wed Jun 11, 2025 4:53 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 24316

Re: How to upcycle?

... and quality recyclers, and quality quality modules of course. Before that, needs a rally huge ... 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 ...
by Tertius
Wed Jun 11, 2025 2:34 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 24316

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 quality quality modules of course. Before that, needs a ... modules the drills and the initial scrap recycling is just the 1st step of such a loop, while ...
by mmmPI
Wed Jun 11, 2025 12:51 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 24316

Re: How to upcycle?


The start is quality quality modules.


That i agree with no reserve :)


From what I gained from ... them if you are going for "legendaries", "recycling at the last step".

I'm saying all this ... red/blue circuits are still available from scrap recycling.


Hahahaha ! parallel or next is a ...
by Tertius
Tue Jun 10, 2025 10:47 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to upcycle?
Replies: 148
Views: 24316

Re: How to upcycle?

... ingredients with largest productivity bonus+modules possible (and speed increased by speed ... 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 ...
by kpreid
Tue Jun 10, 2025 4:37 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Fulgora bootstrap
Replies: 5
Views: 798

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: 798

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: 912

Scrap recycling complex with controlled outputs

... 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 ... footprint.
-It comes with a very simple control module that can be fitted to your storage, sushi ...
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: 489

Add "every quality" as an quality option in signals

... 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 ore. currently I use this ...
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: 370

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.

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