... though in my opinion the double power costs for slag seem to be the balancing factor there. Personally, I'd leave all the original recipes as-is (1 brick to 12 charcoal at 2.5MJ each), and eliminate the basic algae recipe entirely. As things are now, the basic algae recipe makes the others obso...

1. Was the wood block -> charcoal (for fuel) nerfed? I am pretty sure that it was 1 wood block -> 12 charcoal and now it is 1 -> 5, but does the changed fuel value cancel that change out? I do not remember the old values. The old SeaBlock charcoal was 2.5MJ each, with a conversion ratio of 2.5MJ of...

-The basic Green Algae Process is more energy efficient then the more advanced. It takes a lot more algae farms but without the electrolysis it takes only 6.5 MW to make 20MW worth of fuel instead of 9.7MW. I think, the basic slag producing is nerved a bit too much now, it produces only the half th...

Thanks for the update! Always exciting to calculate everything from scratch again :) Some changes are a bit odd (checked only marathon mode): - simple steel recipe changed: 8 iron plates + oxygen -> 2 steel plates in a chemical furnace. Nice recipe so far, but this seems a bit cheap compared to adva...

What really helped me are mods like: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/FNEI https://mods.factorio.com/mod/multi-product-recipe-details https://mods.factorio.com/mod/helmod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/what-is-it-really-used-for (alternative for FNEI) It does not address the issue directly, but you are ...

Removing the cellulose paste and naphtha recipes for wood would leave arboretums as the only source. Wood is necessary for phenolic boards (adv circuits), polishing wheels (polished gems for modules and science), and protective scaffolding (bio science packs), but not every map has trees to build a...

I know, its sounds boring, but it's best to stay on the tested base game version. in this case 0.17.23 (0.17.24 seems to work, too). see first post of this thread.
You can also use a dedicated factorio installation for seablock, and try out the latest base game version on an other installation

Esp. in marathon mode, where slag processing is not more efficient than mineralized water crystallization It's is when you take into account the fact that you get 'free' power in the mineralized water output from sulfur processing. If you use it all of that + the crushed stone you get from crushing...

The electronics research unlocks solder plates, solder and green chips. But to make solder plates (needed for greens) you need a metal mixing furnace. That furnace is only unlocked with Alloy processing 1, which takes like 145 red science. Is that intended or should the metal mixing furnace maybe b...

This should be fixed with next Factorio base game release 0.17.26
-> viewtopic.php?f=11&t=67857

I guess its due to this change

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Thu Apr 04, 2019 7:00 pm

[*]Recipes with duplicate ingredients or products will now error at startup instead breaking crafting runtime. (67857)

I'm currently stuck at the Chemical science pack production with my 0.17 map. Normally I try to play without flare stack and don't void any fluids. My consumption of chlorine with hydrogen chloride, gold and titanium can't keep up with the sodium hydroxid needed for the chemical science packs. Do I...

Maybe, you changed the mod settings or deleted the mod-settings.dat? There are settings, which let you configure the length of undergrounds etc. No, I didn't do that. Once I saw the problem, I did go in, searched around a bit to see if there was something I could tweak, but didn't change anything. ...

Since the 0.17.23 update and subsequent Bob's update, I find that all of my plastic pipes that I laid down are suddenly one sector short. It appears that when I laid them down a few days ago, they were able to span 21 sectors, but now, only 20. Is this something I can fix without having to tear up ...

My take was to rush iron smelting at first, before automation, because of the higher iron yield. (Took about 4 hours, mainly because of steel). yeah, but thats 4 hours of doing nothing mostly Yep, I rechecked, it was even about 6 hours until i got the blast furnaces up. so even worse. (I turned up ...

I was checking out the marathon mode the other day, and to my knowledge, the way recipes are right now, its more efficient to sit tight and research away until you get slag processing and can move out of mineralized water than to try and build your way out of it faster. That is mainly to the cost o...

Bob electrolyzers do get used later in the game (for example in lithium processing). It's a little annoying that you unlock them before they're useful, though. Is there any real reason why the recipes used by Bob's electrolyzers couldn't be moved to Angel's? Ditto chemical plants? Bobs mods and Ang...

It would be nice if we could get rid of the various "electrolysis" research items along with the unused "electrolyzer" 1-4 recipes. Bob electrolyzers do get used later in the game (for example in lithium processing). It's a little annoying that you unlock them before they're use...

Sounds like you have non-speed overhaul numbers ? What is your "Belt speed per tier" set to ? https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=394392#p394392 The speed in the mod settings is 12.5 and the overhaul options are on. These settings are overridden in "A Sea Block Config_0.3.0&q...

Was bob's inserter and belt overhaul not activated by default in 0.2.17 seablock? Now in 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 seablock it is enabled by default. Any suggestions to if it is better to use or not? They weren't enabled by default in 0.16 bob's mods themselves for some weird reason... In 0.17 they seem to b...