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Is this the right place for this?

I've been working on a simple webpage for people to find their star in the galaxy. It's not quite perfect yet but if someone wants to try it out and point out any unclear wording to me (or bugs! I tried a number of coordinates but probably there are still problems somewhere), I would appreciate it

Tool: https://lucgommans.nl/p/factorio/galaxy/find-your-star.html

Sample data: "Quantum II: Gamma5-1.B3U2"
(I've tried to make the parser very liberal: it will take the URL, a valid subpath, different URL encodings, coordinates with quotes around them as shown here, a spacing error that someone wrote on the wiki, missing/extraneous capitalisation... it should work with any reasonable mistake or typo!)

As a little bonus, the page also has instructions on how to turn on debug mode in the galaxy viewer

Oh, and can someone do me a favor and share a screenshot of what the in-game galaxy viewer is like? I don't get the menu option (possibly bug#663596) and I'm curious if the in-game version is similar to the web version

Very nice ! But one has to use https://lucgommans.nl/p/factorio/galaxy ... ssion.html to find a place where it's possible to use username to find a star, this also shows the way the galaxy grew and i found awesome, i think it should be adverstised instead of hidden in the "more fun stuff" , maybe with a little demo gif

I didn't remember my coordinates nor any of the information that the other parser could sort out that's why i found the username the easiest to use

There is an in game galaxy browser ???

mmmPI wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 5:05 pm Very nice ! But one has to use https://lucgommans.nl/p/factorio/galaxy ... ssion.html to find a place where it's possible to use username to find a star, this also shows the way the galaxy grew and i found awesome [...]

Hey, thanks mmmPI for checking it out!

The "progression" page I made after making the 'find your star' instruction generator, so I didn't mention it in the topic start because it didn't exist yet. Happy to hear you think it looks awesome

Good hint that people will not have their coordinates written down, I will make it show them on the progression page later today. If you have a good name for that page, btw, I'd be interested to hear it! The current title, "Factorio galaxy over time", is such a mouthful ^^

luc wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 5:20 pm If you have a good name for that page, btw, I'd be interested to hear it! The current title, "Factorio galaxy over time", is such a mouthful ^^

The Galaxy must grow!

This is amazing

Amarula wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 6:49 pm

luc wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 5:20 pm If you have a good name for that page, btw, I'd be interested to hear it! The current title, "Factorio galaxy over time", is such a mouthful ^^

The Galaxy must grow!

That's much better than "big bang factorio" or "factorio big bang" and those are the best i could think of