In the new fluid system, there are ways that a second fluid can hide, if you previously made an accidental connection to a different fluid. There have been several threads about this.

To clean it up, click on the pipe, then click on the trash button for the fluid that you don't want to be in the ...

Since I wrote the original idea, here is some further musing about how these fortifications could have various levels of challenge and decay:


A couple low-value machines hooked up in a very unthreatening, but still functional, way (e.g. one gun turret fed by a chest and burner inserter ...

+1. This would be useful for changing the ingredient quality of a production chain, or changing the recipe while leaving the quality alone (e.g. when making different kinds of modules).

I don't personally think Fulgora needs to change, but I do find it a bit monotonous. Here's an idea: Instead of having any kind of mobile/expanding enemy (like Nauvis and Gleba), what if certain islands had ancient emplacements of tesla turrets and other defenses? These would be challenges that you ...

When an inserter is taking from a splitter, is it capable of drawing from the input, the output, or both?

I'm not a mechanics expert, but from what I have tested, a splitter acts like two ordinary belt tiles, plus some items getting moved from one belt to the other, roughly in the middle, if ...

What

Right now, when you hover on a space platform in the list of surfaces, you only see the planet it is stopped at or traveling between, and its speed and such.

I would like it to also show the status message that’s in the top left of the space platform cargo/schedule window ("Paused ...

This has been annoying when starting to build multiple higher-quality space platforms, because not only do I not need whole stacks of rare cargo bays, asteroid crushers, chemical plants, and assembling machines, I don’t *have* them either, so the rockets won’t auto-launch and I have to manually fill ...

In addition to the strategies already mentioned, I have found out that if you have Fulgora tech (I did Vulcanus just in the starting area, then Fulgora, then expanded on Vulcanus), it is possible to kill a small demolisher solo with just the tesla gun, spamming destroyers, level 6ish damage research ...

Then either use Buffer chests/storage chests everywhere or if you use a requester chest, make sure there is also a filtered inserter capable of taking spoilage out of requester chests; either put the spoilage on a belt or into a provider chest to be taken away.


Requester chests and buffer ...

Shouldn’t walls be immune to electricity, anyway?

Thank you for this report and fix! When I was building on Fulgora I was getting irritated by this constant “ert ert ert … ert ert ert … ert ert ert …” that turned out to be the sound of my water pipes being filled by ice melters.

I figure it would place ghost gates. (Where would it build walls?) This is like if you don’t have underground belts and it places ghost undergrounds. I don’t think force build ever cares what is in your inventory, but I could be wrong.

Using super force build to build straight rails could insert gates when it crosses a wall, but instead it creates gaps in the wall:

Current behavior:

Would be better:

+1 — I also would like an option to hide the minimap when hovering (at least if the "entity tooltip" is tall). I'd also like the list of pins to be hidden at the same time, since it could be arbitrarily tall.

I’d like to have this. I had trouble discovering there was any way to create custom pins.

Also, there could be a pin button in the “Tag properties” dialog, so you can add a pin for a tag without the key combination.

Also, something in “Tips and tricks” for tags, introducing the idea that the ...

From what I have seen, the platform acts like a construction bot that is always touching every item. For example, it also auto-repairs buildings with only repair packs in inventory. Moving to storage is what a construction bot would do if you used the remote view "ghost cursor" on a planet, too ...

100-100 results in just infinite flood of same resource (1-8 items per capsule). Manual assignment for downwards shipping is seemingly ignored until something in space platform's brains snaps under unclear conditions.


It sounds like you have the same problem I had. There is an invisible limit ...

In Space Age, I couldn’t figure out why my resources weren’t getting dropped from orbit promptly. I found here that the problem is that I didn’t have enough cargo bays to accept all the cargo pods, but that wasn’t very obvious, because it looked like the cargo landing pad was idle for long periods ...

Perhaps you're thinking of FFF 394, which announced that oil refineries (and other buildings) can now be flipped.

It might be nice if the research info also had some way of presenting “your research is currently limited by the supply of <name> science pack”. Perhaps it could count and graph the number of labs that are idle because they have some, but not all, required science packs. That would help spot “oops I ...