1. Deconstruct any underground belt exit
2. Wait for bots to remove it
3. Undo it
4. The underground belt exit will be replaced with an underground belt entrance. Has the wrong rotation too

Much better!

This is still present in 2.0.66
Undo-redo does not rotate underground belts that were rotated by smart-belt dragging

mmmPI wrote: Fri Sep 12, 2025 6:07 am Looks like viewtopic.php?p=644584#p644584

My design is better. The design you linked doesn't display negative numbers, doesn't display 2147483647, and uses 2 more signals in the constant combinator.

display dashboard thumb 2.png

Feature-rich number displays and number dashboards, using display panels

Blueprint Book: https://www.factoriocodex.com/blueprints/132

Features:

Displays all numbers, including -2147483648 and 0
Leading whitespace (rather than leading zeros)
Floating sign ...

In the first post I linked https://forums.factorio.com/129833 where Rseding explained their position about Biolabs on Gleba.

tl;dr:
They want to reward shipping spoilable Ag Science elsewhere
If you want to do research on Gleba, you can still do so with normal labs

Now I don't agree that ...

I understand you have a different opinion, based on your experience, where would you say is an easier place to produce plastic and stone product at megabase scale ?


Well Nauvis.

Yes, one planet will be best. It is human nature to seek out the optimal, even at the cost of fun.

But when you ...

My opinion is that this incentivize players to make all their labs in Vulcanus and not on every planets.


Vulcanus struggles to produce stone products (rails, purple science) and coal products (plastic, circuits) at megabase speeds. Coal can be synthesized with orbital mining, but the point is ...

Hey, remember FFF-210 ?


[...] when you build entities vertically, they would very often only show one colour of wire. To prevent this from happening, I took a pixel grid in Blender and I tried to always have the connectors far away from each other to prevent this from happening. The same issue ...

There is the issue of biters survive everywhere.

Survive? Biter Eggs spoil into a "Big Biter" with reduced health; not into a Spawner. Bacterium may "survive" in space, but they are not happy about it, and definitely not reproducing or usable for Scientific Research.


I am a strong believer ...

Rseding91 mentioned that it was an intentional tradeoff because Gleba https://forums.factorio.com/129833 (I agree with you that biolabs are really helpful and practically required for megabasing)


That thread got me thinking: They want to reward shipping spoilable Ag Science to other planets ...

TL;DR:

Allow Biolabs on every planet except Gleba

If desired, this could be gated behind promethium science

Why?


This maintains only 1 landing pad per planet as a logistic puzzle, and to keep GUIs simple FFF-417
This maintains "it's cool to have a single location with lots of activity ...

Rseding91 mentioned that it was an intentional tradeoff because Gleba https://forums.factorio.com/129833 (I agree with you that biolabs are really helpful and practically required for megabasing)


Then Reseding needs to be convinced otherwise. Regular labs on Gleba are clearly suboptimal in the ...

1. Vanilla megabases do run into the throughput limits of a Cargo Landing Pad, and no solution is satisfactory. Bot-based unloading is UPS-intensive, while inserter handoff to wagons, cars, rocket silos, etc. is an ugly trick that feels like exploiting jank. Letting us unlock more Cargo Landing ...

TL;DR:
Add a "Cargo Landing Pad Count" infinite technology which lets us place more than 1 Landing Pad per surface.

What?
This new technology directly competes with Research Productivity. It requires every science pack, with a high cost for the first level and VERY steep scaling from there.

I ...

Factorio Screenshot 2025.08.03 - 00.24.14.01.png
Save: Mining to splitter build order bug.zip


Context: At high mining productivity, mining directly into a splitter is one way to increase the drill's output. The splitter must be oriented perpendicular to the miner for this to work ...

In 1.1 we could saturate a blue belt with 3 inserters if 1 of them was targeting a perpendicular splitter:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250614091919/https://wiki.factorio.com/Inserters#Chest_to_splitter
https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/s5qehh/faster_chest_to_express_belt_insertion/

In ...

I was looking at https://wiki.factorio.com/Console and noticed some snippets define locals while others define globals.

Eg. global:


/c surface = game.player.surface
for _, ore in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({type="resource"})) do
ore.amount = 10000
end


vs. local:


/c local surface ...

I released a final ("final") design here: viewtopic.php?t=129925

I was able to remove all combinators, and improved the belt stacking

passback thumb 3.png
https://i.imgur.com/cbt3a5b.mp4
Hmm, I wonder what UPS-efficient Kovarex would look like?
--Me (more hours ago than I would like to admit)

Features:


Direct insertion. Less inserter and belt activity
Max beacons and productivity. Less centrifuges
Tiling
Stacked ...