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by Tertius
Thu Dec 04, 2025 12:13 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Combinators should not affected by freeze
Replies: 8
Views: 345

Re: Combinators should not affected by freeze

I admit I don't get the point. I don't see a compelling reason for a balancing change. This would be for the whole player base, not just you alone. I am obsessed with circuits, all of my factories including the Aquilo base are heavily depending on circuits. There are numerous combinators controlling ...
by Tertius
Thu Dec 04, 2025 11:13 am
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Combinators should not affected by freeze
Replies: 8
Views: 345

Re: Combinators should not affected by freeze


Your suggestions help identify (possible) freezing events and thus prevent them, but when one actually happens, these actions just don't have any direct help.
[...]
However, resuming an Aquilo base is much harder than bases on other planets. To resume an Aquilo base, you need to not only resupply ...
by Tertius
Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:25 am
Forum: Mod portal Discussion
Topic: AI generated assets and disclosure
Replies: 42
Views: 2090

Re: Clearly Marking AI Content


The main problem with AI content, other than it being unoriginal, is that it's easy to pump out en mass which buries non-AI content. This is why we need a filter. Case and point you've posted about 20 music packs made with AI which is almost a 3rd of the music packs on the portal.

I agree that I ...
by Tertius
Wed Dec 03, 2025 2:54 pm
Forum: Balancing
Topic: Combinators should not affected by freeze
Replies: 8
Views: 345

Re: Combinators should not affected by freeze


The combinators freeze and thus fail in a unpredictable order, thus makes the signal system's behavior totally unpredictable. What's more, when such failure is spotted by the player and they try to add more heat supply, they also unfreeze in a random order, still causing great trouble.

You ...
by Tertius
Tue Dec 02, 2025 11:13 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Splitter filtering multiple specific items of varying quality - possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 165

Re: Splitter filtering multiple specific items of varying quality - possible?


Due to space constraints on fulgora I want to make as compressed of a setup as possible.

This means you want to build a bot based setup. Bots are able to sort items in (almost) zero time with zero space.

This is for normal quality only, but you get the idea.
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by Tertius
Tue Dec 02, 2025 10:17 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How can I get the distance travelled by space platform?
Replies: 5
Views: 2567

Re: How can I get the distance travelled by space platform?

I tried to integrate velocity to get the distance. It turns out the value is accurate enough to get a valid distance. The algorithm in the OP is correct; if it results in 8100 km for them when the distance is actually 15000 km, this is due to a bad implementation. If you do it right, the distance is ...
by Tertius
Tue Dec 02, 2025 9:05 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Interrupts and No Path to Destination
Replies: 1
Views: 111

Re: Interrupts and No Path to Destination


However, if there is a coal station with train limit > 0, but no path to it, the train will leave the station and then go to the depot. I don't want that! [...]

What can I change so that no train leaves a station to go somewhere where no path exists?

You try to handle an edge case. It's an ...
by Tertius
Mon Dec 01, 2025 9:57 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: How to tackle Vulkanus
Replies: 6
Views: 337

Re: How to tackle Vulkanus

Factorio is mainly about converting available resources to desired material. Usually it requires multiple transforms to get the desired items. So the task is to analyze available resources (ore, oil, lava, coal, ...) and see what you can do with that with the available recipes.

A few resources are ...
by Tertius
Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:08 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Spaceship blueprint requested
Replies: 11
Views: 572

Re: Spaceship blueprint requested

The dynamic recipe changing on my platform is for reprocessing metallic and carbonic asteroids into oxide, if there is a surplus of metallic and carbonic and not enough oxide. It mainly helps with the first and initial start from Nauvis to build a buffer of ice, water and steam, but later it's not ...
by Tertius
Sat Nov 29, 2025 1:27 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Gleba!
Replies: 22
Views: 2172

Re: Gleba!

I guess I better show a smaller example from my latest map without the large part on the left that just creates legendary modules, beacons and biolabs. I started quality manufacturing but abandoned this because it wasn't fun for me.
This relies on tech from Nauvis and Vulcanus, but not from Fulgora ...
by Tertius
Sat Nov 29, 2025 12:55 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Spaceship blueprint requested
Replies: 11
Views: 572

Re: Spaceship blueprint requested



Reduce fuel consumption: thrusters become really inefficient at full throttle. The common approach is to have a pulsed pump that limits either fuel or oxidizer to run thrusters at around 30% throttle. See the detailed discussion , personally I still like my really simple constant pulse rate ...
by Tertius
Sat Nov 29, 2025 11:36 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Spaceship blueprint requested
Replies: 11
Views: 572

Re: Spaceship blueprint requested

You don't use advanced buildings such as modules, foundries, beacons. This can greatly increase output with much lesser footprint. You don't need this huge amount of turrets. You built much too big for no purpose. For the inner 4 planets, 6-8 gun turrets at the front with yellow ammo are sufficient ...
by Tertius
Thu Nov 27, 2025 9:44 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Gleba!
Replies: 22
Views: 2172

Re: Gleba!

Careful choosing the land patch in the correct biome (green for yumako, violet for jellynut), then initial farm in the fertile area, then fertilize the land with artificial soil and overgrowth soil.
I admit this farm started out with exceptional richness right from the start not common to every ...
by Tertius
Thu Nov 27, 2025 1:56 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Simple Questions and Short Answers
Replies: 2046
Views: 904114

Re: Simple Questions and Short Answers

Stop trying arbitrary conditions without understanding and start thinking about what you want to achieve.
(I guess) you want to achieve this:

if the chest has more than 300 items, enable the inserter to take items out of it
while the chest has between 100 and 300 items, keep the inserter enabled ...
by Tertius
Thu Nov 27, 2025 9:56 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Gleba!
Replies: 22
Views: 2172

Re: Gleba!


I've noticed some other users ship in their fruits using trains? Gleba is the only planet where I don't use trains at all due to the spoilage issue but I saw some one else make a comment that you can use circuit logic to harvest fresh fruits upon request? I'd love to see the circuit setup for that ...
by Tertius
Mon Nov 24, 2025 9:07 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Gleba!
Replies: 22
Views: 2172

Re: Gleba!


consider: 1 unit of nutrients is 2.0MJ of yum to power a standard 500kW biochamber. each nutrient has enough energy to power 4 biochambers for 1 second. 5 bioflux makes 60 nutrients, meaning one bioflux can power 48 biochambers a second. using half fast belt, and no stacking inserters, that's 15 ...
by Tertius
Mon Nov 24, 2025 8:35 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Inadequate operation of the recipe substitution system
Replies: 4
Views: 284

Re: Inadequate operation of the recipe substitution system

It's impossible to say what happens for you from your description alone. Even a screenshot isn't sufficient - you need to post a blueprint or a save.
In general it's working as you built it, and if it isn't working as you intended, you made an error.

About your approach: a better way to control the ...
by Tertius
Sat Nov 22, 2025 12:32 pm
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Fulgora train challenge, need a better engineer then myself!
Replies: 11
Views: 909

Re: Fulgora train challenge, need a better engineer then myself!

It seems you want an ordinary multi item train, and control with constant combinators what to load, and provide the items to load with the logistic network.

That's exactly what I meant that took me a very long time to get right, and if you want my solution proposal, here it is. It's a completely ...
by Tertius
Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:19 am
Forum: Gameplay Help
Topic: Fulgora train challenge, need a better engineer then myself!
Replies: 11
Views: 909

Re: Fulgora train challenge, need a better engineer then myself!

You don't need to bring back items for rocket launch. Just build additional rocket silos in your other islands. The only thing you cannot do is to build multiple cargo landing pads for receiving items from platforms.

It might be easier to ship ingredients instead of shipping products, because there ...
by Tertius
Thu Nov 20, 2025 1:18 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Entity contents to circuit network optionally as negative values
Replies: 2
Views: 551

Re: Entity contents to circuit network optionally as negative values

Yes, would be nice to have, however it's a non essential feature that competes with other feature requests enhancing the circuit network. You cannot include all those features, because feature creep would make it all too big and too confusing to configure. People already struggle with understanding ...

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