It's been this way for ages.

See, e.g.:

viewtopic.php?p=323365&hilit=side+loading#p323365

Are you thinking it should just show a lower estimate?

Or that it should actually calculate how many will be used?

If the latter, I wonder if it makes a difference what order they're destroyed in.

Certainly it would have a higher UPS cost than just showing the estimate.

It's up at the moment.

As soon as any quality above normal was available, I started using it judiciously. Higher-than-normal-quality mech armor still lets me add more equipment than normal mech armor. On Fulgora I made a rare car just for the hit points bonus, so it was less susceptible to lightning strikes while I was ...

The Personal Roboport has been around since June 2015:

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-92

At the time it could only be inserted into the player's modular armor. And it's likely this is still its primary use, even though its functionality has expanded.

It's great that you posted a summary of the actual changes! However...
This is wrong, as it fails to include the fact that it now crafts 2 red magazines at a time!
Per Magazine the change is:
Copper plates: 5 -> 1
Steel: 1 -> 0.5
Iron plates (in firearm magazine): Unchanged
Crafting time per ...

WTF are Some of you talking about???


I don't get the anger.

There are two ways to get a legendary item: Through luck, from a lower-quality item build with quality modules; or through creating it from legendary components. You can do either one.

It's simple enough to create a set of assembly ...

Balancing

Changed piercing ammo recipe to be cheaper.


wait, what is the new Recipe now? (for people who cant open the game right now)


Old:

1 firearm magazine
1 steel plate
5 copper plates
-> 1 piercing magazine

New:

2 firearm magazines
1 steel plate
2 copper plates
-> 2 piercing ...

No you cannot, Space Age depends on Quality.


Just tested, and you're right: If playing Space Age, it won't load without quality.

Quality is optional, though. One can choose not to research it and not to use it.


We have made it so that quality is 'invisible' in the game until quality modules ...

Quality is a mod.

You can turn it off.

You can also install a .zip version of the game so you don't have to run through Steam at all.

Sample link:

https://factorio.com/get-download/2.0.4 ... n64-manual

Though the icon will still show up, you can stop it from flashing...

Uncheck the option below.

I agree, though, it does seem a bit silly that the heating tower is always warning about lack of fuel when it's by design that sometimes it has no fuel. (The nuclear reactors do the same thing, as I ...

pioruns wrote: Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:15 pm Before SA, I used mod which marked mining drills for deconstruction when ore patch was empty.

It's been updated for Space Age:

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

NineNine wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:38 am but shipping fluoroketone in barrels to another planet seems a little crazy.

Why?

Clearly it's intended that you be able to do that, or it would be an unbarrelable fluid. There are some fluids in the game that you can't put in barrels, but fluoroketone isn't one of them.

pioruns wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:41 pm Has anyone ever run out of 20M scrap field?

Use big miners with productivity modules and it'll last for gazillions of years.

Just to add documentation, here's what the wiki says about this:

https://wiki.factorio.com/Logistic_network#Construction

When construction robots want to build a ghost, they look for the chests that is closest to the ghost they want to build. The type of chest does not matter.[2]

That "2" links ...

In my current Space Age game, I'm finding that a lot of my space platforms are getting stuck due to unfulfilled requests.

The trouble is, the actual unfulfilled requests are like the image below.

This isn't a logistics request; this is an automatic construction request because I told my platform ...

No, this is stupid. There was no vitriol in what I wrote.

Remind me: How many pages did that Ukraine/Russia thread go?

Either have an Off Topic, or don't. If even Off Topic has to relate to Factorio somehow, then you need to rename it. "Tangential Topics" or something similar.

It seems that this topic got locked:

viewtopic.php?t=127812

Why was this locked?

What exactly is the point of having Off Topic, then?

Why not just get rid it?

When I open the character screen and hover over the plastic bar, which has a red background, I can see that I can make it in a chemical plant or a cryogenic plant.

But when I hover over the electronic circuit, the "Made in" section doesn't appear. It would be helpful, though. While I can make an ...