For me, that's what feels natural, that bots would fill the fusion reactor. Bots put modules in. Why? Because is convenient.
Obviously this is just my opinion. I want to leave a record because I feel very strongly about this.


Construction bots insert modules and carry out most player commands ...

If you don't sideload the other half of the splitter back to the other side does it work consistently? If so, isn't the workaround to just point two miners into the same splitter and get two full belts?

The input is the same as the output? I'd wager they're all getting treated as catalysts.

Koub wrote: Wed Nov 19, 2025 2:48 pm Prove me the biters breathe air

Humans eat ~2 kilograms of food a day. We burn about 0.8 kg of oxygen. It wouldn't be too crazy to imagine an alien biology that consumes the vast majority of its oxidizer in solid or liquid form alongside its fuel.

You want to disable its ability to draw from buffer chests?

I am speaking from almost no Factorio modding experience, but could you just have a composited entity with a tiny drain?

EurypteriD wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 6:19 pm But prodtion would not help on that there

Prod modules would help in two ways:

1) Slowing down the greedy machine, allowing the others a chance to get inputs while it's working

2) Decreasing the amount of water it requires for its output to back up

yaim904 wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 10:03 pm Hello, it's been almost a month since my last post.

It is still unclear what the problem is from reading the English.

I have a philosophical objection to it and will take a child's crayon drawing over an image used with any form of generative AI as the point of artistic expression to me is to see the work done by another person, to connect with someone via their creations. To me AI is counter productive and a ...

coffee-factorio wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:10 pm That's quite a bill in steel and explosive

Ultimately, just a bit of fruit

Were you reprocessing plates directly or crafting them into something then breaking it down? Last time I ran the numbers (which was a while ago) doing a craft/breakdown loop on the desired end product itself was the most efficient use of resources. Especially since you get like a 1% chance to just ...

This is an on-patch smelter I made in a Space Exploration save. Hideously overengineered to make the belts do fuel/plate duty with a splitter per furnace.

To get the basic questions out of the way, did you place a power pole in range of the burner turbine generator?

JackTheSpades wrote: Wed Oct 22, 2025 4:03 pm it's a bit of a hassle to set the filter in the turrets to every biter/spitter variant

Blueprints copy filters. I think you might be able to shift right click and shift left click copy settings too.

Koub wrote: Fri Oct 10, 2025 3:28 pm https://wiki.factorio.com/Small_electric_pole
Maybe not any, but I get your point .

We can automate wood production in vanilla now, so... why not? It'd give a boost to one of silliest possible items to grind legendary for. (The other being burner miners, of course.)

To hearken back to the OP, the desire is for a FIFO system that's better than just a single longboi belt. With smart splitters you can accomplish this by doing a few shorter belts in parallel. As soon as an item enters a lane, it's set as the priority to send more items to. As soon as a lane hits ...

I sometimes turn sorting off in order to set up inventory filters, which requires that there not already be a different item sorted into the slot I am filtering.

(Now you're going to say “I haven’t seen a single other person set up inventory filters on their character inventory”…)


I usually ...

Is the merge utilized to accelerate inventory access with a binary search or something?


The merge is so you don't have to micromanage available slots in a building with limited slot availability that both sources and sinks items. Likely the only reasons trains and buffer chests don't do this is ...

Shadowhawk wrote: Thu Oct 09, 2025 6:09 am Would be nice to change this undocumented feature to not resort stacks.

That would make platform hubs almost unusable

This would still back up the belt for a while causing issues down the line. The whole point of having a chest for a few stacks is to have a overflow buffer for a short while. I dont want to destroy the items ( easy just burn them ) because i will need them in the next minute.


Belt will back up ...