You can feed with inserters from biolab to biolab. But you should use a design that allows pulling out spoilage, since agricultural science packs can spoil in your biolabs.

I'm sure there are plenty of mods you can use to disable spoilage for the agricultural science pack, or even for everything if you like.

I agree, but I think the Balance is easier to obtain: Nerf the Base Artillery turret range down from 224/560 (14X the next Highest Railgun Turret at 40) down to something more reasonable to begin with, maybe only 64/160 like a Radar. This makes the numbers all a lot more reasonable, until the ...

The golden rule of signalling is:

Chain signals before a shared section, regular signals after a shared section.

So in this case you'd put chain signals before the question mark, and regular signals after. Then a train won't reserve the chain signal block unless it can also reserve the regular ...

What about an add-on building that only takes rocket parts?

Something similar to the cargo bay, but for putting rocket parts in the rocket.

Before I spend an hour doing that, can you explain why you think it's this, considering it runs perfectly fine on the latest version, on the same version as the save, except after the latest update, etc.? The error messages in the log file are talking about Blueprint issues and icon files. I know ...

I use a double wall and behind it, the turret chain, as shown below.

The double-layer ensures that if a turret is destroyed, turrets further down the line keep being fed. You can of course make as many layers as you like. The blueprint is a 5x5 block with absolute positioning so it tiles easily ...

Factoruser wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:35 pm 8 millions killed non-human mammals every day by mankind, a considerable part of it just to end in the waste bin, are telling a different story...

Hey, I was hungry.

A train taking 15 seconds to come through a row of segments sounds like you are overusing rail chain signals in places where regular rail signals could be used instead.


Yes, exactly.

The simple golden rule of chain signals is:

Chain signal into an intersection, regular signal out of an ...

Biometrix wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 12:35 am Respectfully, tough shit.

You don't know what the word "respectfully" means, do you?

Another thing I love about Space Age (which I really miss when I step back into Factorio 1.1 to play Space Exploration) is the pins.

In Factorio 1.1, when I want to drive (or jetpack) to something far away, I have to look at the map, head there, look at the map again, correct my course...

It's ...

Eh, as a native speaker, I'm not sure I would call this an unequivocal mistake.

To me it falls in the same category as someone saying "Two coffees" instead of "two cups of coffee."

You can set a single upgrade planner to replace any level and any quality of module with nothing.

It's a hassle to set it up, but you only have to do it once.

2 Bugs here:

1. If you take a map string from a pre space age version with cliffs disabled and load it in space age, you now have cliffs disabled on Vulcanus. The cliffs will still show on the preview but will not exist in game.
It seems vulcanus reuses the old cliff_settings portion of the map ...

FactorioBot wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 12:37 pm

• Added drag-to-reorder to pins.

Excellent news, been needing this desperately.

What are the specs of your PC?

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Nanobots2

If this works the same way as the original Nanobots mod, it lets you use grenades or rockets (with nanobots) to destroy cliffs.

fencingsquirrel wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 7:00 am Considering how easy gun turrets and piercing ammo is to make on vulcanus, this makes them an extreme pushover if you automate turrets and ammo.

Well, it is a game about automation, after all.

I believe "Drain 8%" means there's only an 8% chance that the resource is depleted during one mining cycle.

Fabriken AGI wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:26 pm So what if its not 100% correct on the first try, it did most right, didn't it?
Thats why this is the forum and not the wiki.

But what is the point of publishing bad info when good info can already be found (e.g. on the wiki)?