Prometheum (as well as all the asteroid chunks) have a stack size of 1. This means that even a stack/bulk inserted can only hold 1 chunk at a time.

To increase my prometheum storage, I’d have to make the ship longer to fit in more belts.
However, storing prometheum inside the asteroid collector ...

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Well.. that certainly is a spaghetti abomination.. :shock:
It took me quite the analyzing just to comprehend how the belts worked, and a lot of it is still a mystery to me!

If I were in charge of naming that ship, I'd call it "the flying spaghetti monster" (or something along those lines ...

Maybe quality could decrease weight, legendary halving weight seems appropriate and not overkill.


Quality items by their very nature are denser. What I mean by this is, for example, a single legendary crusher (unbeaconed/unmoduled) performs the duty of 2.5 common crushers since it has a ...

Extra update: checked on the server, and I'm experiencing no lag on Gleba any more.
Should be safe to say that updating my drivers fixed it!
Thanks again for the advice!

I just stumbled into this issue in 2.0.23.
Really confused me for a minute cause I was like "I have not been flying for 18 hours, I should not be anywhere close to the shattered planet".

Not sure what exactly caused it, but I'd guess being focused on the ship when the shattered planet fly ...

I had uhh, not realized that driver updates were a thing.. (hadn't thought of it, and the notifications to tell me about them were disabled. Not sure if that's a default thing or if I changed it at some point.. The checkbox is certainly ticked now though!).

In any event, I updated my drivers to ...

Hi, I've discovered another semi-minor issue!

I was playing on a multiplayer server last night and went to Gleba. It was the first time anyone had gone to Gleba on that save file (not sure if that's relevant, but mentioning it just in case).

Once I was there, I started getting severe FPS drops ...

Interesting thoughts DefGie!
My own opinion on quality has changed a bunch from what I’ve said in my previous posts in this thread, and I am slowly coming to enjoy it the way it is. By viewing things as logistical challenges, I can apply my factorio engineering skills to solve them!

Multiple ...

A beautiful looking ship, and a hard fought adventure! A hearty congratulations to a fellow explorer of the deep depths of space!

When you say 6000k promethium storage, do you mean 6000, or 6000000? My ship can store around 23000 (technically only 22700 safely), and it looks like I have more belt ...

Designing ships yourself with as minimal influence from others is perfectly understandable! I do the same :D To me, the design phase is a big part of why I enjoy Factorio so much!

The rotating priorities is something that I had thought of, but didn't really test to see if it helped with anything ...

A hearty congratulations on a successful launch of Space Age! And a good job on all those bug fixes!

This will (hopefully) become in the future a place to share and discuss about ships that have the capability to go all the way to shattered planet, so feel free to share your shattered planet ships here!
But that's just my excuse for the semi-generic title, and I really just want to gush about my ...

Can you imagine the patch notes? "Quality has been completely overhauled. It is strongly recommended to tear down everything you've built that involves quality in any way, to avoid inadvertently wasting your quality items."


As if that hasn't happened before..

As an example, the change in fluid ...

One implementation would be that you cannot remove cargo bays such that you would have fewer available slots than filtered slots (similar to how if there's stuff in the cargo bays you can't pick them up).

I can see how that can lead to frustrations, but from a mechanical point of view, it would ...

Hmm, mayhaps?
I haven’t done the math on recycling vs downbinning in terms of effective resource loss, but it’s certainly possible that downbinning is more costly than recycling…

I might try to crunch those numbers a bit to see what it comes out to.

And yes, of course with a large enough buffer ...

also work on non-"intermediates"


You are completely correct! I forgot about that when I made my post earlier!
Huzzah for more wrenches in this nightmare of quality math!

Trying to optimize for resource use and quality at the same time results in pretty imbalanced intermediates, which results ...

+1 to this as it compounds with being unable to open the inventory in map mode, making it so that if I want a one-time blueprint/upgrade/decon planner, I need to put it on my hotbar.
Space age finally made me switch from using 3 hotbars to 4 (I want to have that space stuff on hand cause I tinker ...

Another thing to consider with quality math is how it works with productivity.
I've noticed that when the productivity bar completes at the same time as the main crafting bar, the output quality will always be the same (in all the cases I've observed at least).
In an example, let's say we have an ...

Being able to filter the hub inventory would be good for other things as well, such as reserving some space for biter eggs and promethium packs in my shattered planet ship so that the influx of shards doesn’t clog up everything, forcing me to empty some slots by some means. (And yes, I know belts ...

Been dealing with this mess now that I've gotten to post game, so I'm gonna add my voice to this as well.

My Gleba science production is high enough that by the time a new shipment arrives, I haven't fully consumed the old shipment (the number of my labs running has gone down by a lot though ...