and all vanilla 2.0 players would have a tab with 1 lab and 2 in space age? nahhh sorry, i think mods should handle their mess themselves, especially when it makes absolutely zero sense to handle it in the base game

Not tab, but row. It looks quite logical. Smelters already have separate row ...

Great idea. Even in vanilla, it's annoying to add all kinds of spitters, strafers, etc., individually instead of just selecting entire groups. With mods, it becomes a nightmare. The same goes for asteroids. Why should we have to do extra clicks in every game to add every type of big or huge asteroid ...

There are many ways to kill demolishers. I prefer using a tank with cannon shells. The first damage upgrade is enough to overpower their regeneration. And if you have two players firing at the same time, it becomes a very easy fight.

I encountered the same issue with my dedicated GPU not being used, despite it being recognized if I look at the logs.


For nvidia you need this two environment variables instead of DRI_PRIME:
__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1
__GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia
You may set them in shell or modify exec ...

Copper is simple - turn liquid copper into copper plates, and turn copper plates into copper wires in EMPs, exploiting the juicy 50% productivity bonus.

If you took a closer look at the recipes, you'd notice that your approach is simply wrong, and your 'juicy 50% productivity bonus' is actually ...

I spend an awful lot of time closing Factorio, then tabbing back over to Steam among my million windows and launching the game again. Having a shortcut for this would save me a lot of time overall. Hopefully it would be easy to implement (the game already has infrastructure to restart the game ...

I do if I want it at Aquilo, unless I also want to add a bunch more infrastructure for rocket thrusters and fuel.

Looks like this is your main mistake. It is far easier to build ship on suitable planet and let it fly to final destination. And you do not need dozens thrusters and massive ...

my platform needed to have much larger, more complex infrastructure than I planned
Even blue science requires much larger and more complex infrastructure than most players initially planned for. So, do the same thing you did with all other unplanned complexities—plan for it.

it took numerous ...

Optimization for number of rocket launches is more important than weight in early game. It is waste to launch last rocket without full capacity utilization. My early ship was designed in editor to be about 80-90 tons but after optimization in real game it has grown to 100 ton, can reach any of the ...

So, I’ll stick to the steel furnaces until I have unlimited power. I don’t want to use solar panels, and I want to keep my coal consumption low.

Even with boiler power it worth to switch to electric with modules. Electric and steel have the same smelting speed. With two level one efficiency ...

adam_bise wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 1:20 am Bored? Try my custom death world settings.

To feel what is real boredom?

Alternative solution is Placebles mod. It makes quickbar almost obsolete.

Some of these tech locks feel kinda unnecessary. Having to mine oil before unlocking flamethrower turrets could make outpost defense a hassle.

You need oil as ammo to flamethrower turrets anyway and tech is cheap, so It will take more time to bring oil to outpost then to get tech. And even in ...

See, now you're just outright ignoring what I said.

Yes, Gleba has technologies to unlock. I never denied this. My arguments are about how the technologies that you get there are either focused on the late game or something else does the same job. Simply listing out everything that can be ...

This post is about the three planet's technologies as a whole bundle. So Biolabs aren't just competing against Foundries and EMPlants. They're competing against Foundries, Big drills, Artillery, Cliff Explosives, Coal Liquifaction, turbo belts, T3 speed modules, EMPlants, Recyclers, Mech armor ...

But also ignoring the fact that replacing just the furnaces is still multiplying your production a dozen times over and then some.

Nope, not dozens. 3537.4 coper ore and 4759.6 iron ore become 1572.2 and 1540.7. So only 2 times for copper and 3 times for iron. And zero changes for oil and stone ...

Foundries and EMPlants aren't THAT hard to retrofit either.

Are you kidding? 90% rebuild is not THAT hard? If you really want to get full benefits from Vulcanus you have to rebuild almost everything, including logistic. Or you can rebuild only smelters and lose great part of benefits.

But the numbers just aren't in the Biolab's favor.

Ok. Let's talk about numbers. As you said, we are interested in immediate effect of machinery without visiting other planets
I assume that first visit is done on stage when there are no heavy use of modules and beacons. So only P1 modules are ...

Knowing where an attack comes from would make combat significantly more strategic beyond the choices of "defend everything or kill them before they come".
Factorio is about automation not about fighting strategy. You should consider playing other games or try mods like Rampant.
Change evolution ...

Not bad arguments but with major flaw: But otherwise they are by far the most overrated building in the game. I will die on this hill, come home from the skeleton war, and then die on it again.
But unless you're ... dove in too deep on the Biolabs hype. Why would you ever go to Gleba first or even ...