https://reddit.com/link/1x89eyg/video/8vxn6exip0wh1/player

Basically, i was experimenting with fulgora shenanigans, and realize that, since there is no pollution on fulgora, bitters probably won´t atack any player building..., except for vehicles and turrets. Sooo.... i was right.

If you put two cars close to each other, so the bitter doesnt have to move to atack both, once one of them is destroyed, the bitter inmediatly changes objective to the other, and as long as you space this voiding modules enough, you can have as many as you want.

To have a reference, with 180 bitters my unit time is about 0.2 miliseconds. its so low beacuse the ai doesnt need to make calculations if the bitter is atacking a current objective, and as it finds it´s next one inmediatly, this calculations only happen for a tick.

I am using a rare bitter, beacuse with this train to recicler config, and direct inserction to chemical plants, it is just fast enough so the car doesnt fill up, but it reaches higher fullnes before being destroyed, so keep in mind you will have to use another quality bitter if you want to run this on other configuration.

Also behemooth bitters dont work because of their atack speed, its so low they always target the same car, so overall output is reduced.

This is great for setups where you want to first void everything, and then get whatever you need out.

In my case im getting the holmium, stone and batteries, from 18 modules, and from some of them, lds, pu and ice. Then i use molten metals to produce what i need for about 105k science/min with only 18 bitters, from one single scrap patch, though i need to import molten iron, copper, plastic and cars, but it is up to you, you can make it fully independent

This is my blueprint for the 105K island. To place the bitter in, you put an egg between the cars close to the cargo wagon, and super important, once the bitter hatch,

NEVER GET CLOSE TO THEM!

https://factorioprints.com/view/-P48rJ418GiKhPmAcOj-

Robot speed is at lvl 30 and scrap recicling and rocket fuel prodcutivity at +300%. Mining prod is trough the roof.

Have fun enslaving nauvis natives in fulgora.

150 hours in Space Age, and I've only just now started to care about aesthetics.

What used to be a crazy swarm of logistic bots just to unload non-Nauvis science is now a simple array with legendary stack inserters. It takes up such little space to unload, I thought that I would have to move and redesign my landing pad further away. Turns out it can be quite compact Two legendary stack inserters per side per lane should be enough to fully saturate a belt, but I have 3 eachjust for redundancy. Its so clean to unload now. I'm working towards fully logistic fee science this run. The Nauvis since is coming from the other side (still WIP)

It is 430 tons and uses 21 epic thrusters. The storage can be extended as needed since the sides are protected with turrets.

edit: Blueprint at https://factoriobin.com/post/i454le

Showing how many of each quality you have in your logistic storage is great!

It's that time again! I'm giving away another copy of Factorio.

Ever wanted to turn a peaceful alien planet into a sprawling industrial nightmare of conveyor belts, pollution, and questionable engineering decisions?

Well, here's your chance to lose 500 hours of your life while convincing yourself you'll just fix one more thing before bed.

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I don't have a lot of time in Factorio but I made this little setup to research Green and Red stuff

Artillery range upgrades may be my favorite part of this game. I don't even need to expand nauvis, but I love looking at this

So I built my own mod for factorio and 1.0 just released today the biggest update ever

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Workers-Union

Workers union allows you to make stations with workers that can do all kinds of jobs on your command. They can handcraft, mine, carry between chests, supply buildings or collect from them, build ghosts or deconstruct, and supply items to you.

They function similarly to new players. They have their own inventories, can travel around , handcraft without any power or food, and just like new players they don't know what to do, so you need to order them around.

They can be an early-game slow autonomous replacement to bots. Or work in far away spots where you'd need a lot of buildpower or infrastructure (rails, long belts, far away outposts, walls). however they are problematic to scale up and cannot be as convenient as bots, being actual workforce you need to manage.

Grey cup (Red science x30) - Unlocks workers, allowing them to mine ores or clear out areas of trees/rocks, and haul items between chests

Copper cup (Red and green science x75) - Workers get the ability to build ghosts and deconstruct marked targets, as well as repair or bring you items on your request, handcrafting the required items for tasks.

Silver cup (Red and green science x150) - Workers get their final ability - routes. You can select buildings the workers will collect from or refuel/restock with resources, they will make routes onto which they would go regularly to supply/collect. This research also upgrades workers, making them work faster and their inventory bigger.

Gold cup (Red, green, blue x250) - Upgrades workers in their speed and inventory capacity, additionally allows you to put up to 4 workers into every station.

Green cup (Red, green, blue x400) - Upgrades workers in their speed and inventory capacity further, additionally allows you to put up to 5 workers into every station.

This post depicts a second iteration of prometheum collector vessel, the first version of which was build 9 month ago and depicted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1ucztv0/abyssion_class_void_fusion_cruiser_mk1/

I'm at the point where my mining productivity has reached level 11 and I have big miners with level two productivity modules

I have access to fields of resources that exceed 12 to 15 million

Is there a certain point where it does feel like resources are unlimited because of the exponential point of productivity

I've always heard that late game that resources are practically infinite because of the use of productivity, but I feel like I have been running out of resource patches and I'm wondering if I have not hit that point yet or if I am not using modules and strategies correctly

Been playing since last year, sunk enough hours of my life to be on my 9th long-running save. Initially it was painfully fun to end up in an unrecoverable mess with my base or be swarmed by the bugs, and I got to restart and spend the next 3 months with better planning from the get-go

5th save game, explored the Vulcanus gameplay but got it so wrong I just restarted instead of changing everything. Next game I got so much done on Vulcanus, was shipping so much orange science back home that I had an overflow issue, massive MASSIVE chip and petrochemical factory on Vulcanus. Got the artillery turrets but Nauvis was already thoroughly conquered so it didn't give me the same kick as unlocking lasers does.

And for the last 5 saves I've been going for Deathworld Marathons with Lakes, and a mod for ships and airplanes. Either the game becomes too easy after a point that it's just management 101, or its too difficult that I'm scrambling for heavy ammo supplies while my copper mines run dry and all new copper mines need me to defeat 3 large nests to even unlock the Tank.

It's a bit disappointing either way when I find myself stagnating from success or failure, but it honestly feels fun to restart and grind through a very different map and resource allocation, going for different prioritisations of various aspects of the game.

And I'm realising I'm unhealthily addicted to the early to mid game where the constraints are extreme (I do that to myself with the Deathworld Marathon), and the time I went back to an easier game I just got bored after hitting purple science.

What flavor of unhealthy fixations does your Factorio gameplay take?

I, uhh, didn't consider the accumulator discharge speed when making this, so my power usage bar lit up like a Christmas tree.

Still, it feels real fucking good to finally get to another planet and the real meat of Space Age! I've been enjoying the stuff with space platforms so far, so I'm real excited to see what's next!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/710037059469839141?l=english

Saw this excellent article from Valve about the ability for devs to group achievements, in particular useful for partitioning New achievements or DLC-only achievements.

Thought it was pretty cool, hope Wube throws it in so it's possible to 100% factorio and space age separately :)

Even better when it's like perfectly ratio'd too ahhh

For factorio gurus out there: how do you guys approach quality? I am trying to understand good ways to do legendary items for my base but can't quite figure out if I'm getting something wrong or legendary output is just slow.

Is upcycling dense items a generally good solution? I feel like my quality builds get quite massive trying to upcycle stuff but legendary quality output is still not high enough

I'm preparing to expand my base now that I have foundations unlocked on Aquilo, and wanted to have a modular setup going for sushi belt research production. My goal was to make each section as small as possible, and include some extra battery production to avoid shortages there. Pretty happy with how this turned out.

Edit: meant to say 0.6/second in the title, not minute

Why is the rail signal always red there
(This is my first play through and I tied looking at the tutorials but it doesn’t work :(

I am really bad at making these. Now to organize and make it more space efficient so that I can actually move shit around.

In Factorio, when playing in the editor, are enemy biters the only ones that expand and grow their bases?

I've tried testing with the Player and Natural forces, but they don't seem to do anything similar. Does anyone know if other forces can also expand or grow their bases, or is this behavior exclusive to enemy biters?