I can't recall any statement by the devs saying it is much easier than the alternatives possible methods, but i recall reading some about how some things available with "lots of research" or "significant investement" or "time into the game", were part of the game, "not problematic" due to the pre ...

The coal remains hard to see and even harder to distinguish from terrain decoration even after patching. I tried to mine out one 1k patch and it's literally invisible. Had to wave a big drill around to do it.

As an ultimate solution, I suggest making them glow red. It goes along with the general ...

These are the building blocks for my low-spore Gleba base, which uses fish instead of bioflux to provide all nutrients. The base observation is, biter eggs provide so much more nutrients per bioflux than the direct recipe, that it's still very profitable even if the eggs were first transformed into ...

+1. The current sort order is really weird and inconsistent:

https://i.ibb.co/Zz4LtpYD/a.png

The sciences are shuffled around and mingled with other materials. And the planet names failed to match the order of actual planets. It seems to be sorting icons based on ASCII values of some internal ...

Your argument is valid in the alert being important. I need to be more specific: I don't want the global red icon on the tool bar to persist, but I do want the per-turret red icon on each turret to stay for a bit longer so that I can fix the suboptimal loading.

Right now the situation is the ...

I agree that none of your arguments seem to make any sense, and that your text's meaning are so opaque that it look like they don't have any.


Well, not everyone had the privilege to pick up good English / critical writing skills. Very intelligent people can appear to contradict themselves or ...

As in the title. I have a promethium hauler with suboptimal rocket insertion so turrets can run out of ammo for a few ticks at a time. It generated a lot of out-of-ammo alerts that persist for seconds.

So if you don't just go after the product, recycler keeps 3/5 of your possible output?


Glad you confirmed my code-based simulation. I'm just doing the ratios, not a full-blown Monte Carlo since I'm ignoring the variance.

I'd say it's suboptimal to view the normal-to-legendary path as a ...

I'm very glad you like it!

One thing I thought of but didn't do is upcycling epic / rare holmium plates with supercapacitors at 4 productivity + 1 quality. In simulation it gives quite a bit better yield, but getting the required "packaging materials" is a logistics nightmare.

And in hindsight I ...

One thing people might not have noticed: asteroid rerolling is 3 rolls as I read it, one for a 2/5, one for 1/5 and one for a 1/5. A reroller station only takes 2 modules, so that's 12.5% or so or 1/8 at best. So you have a 2 in 40, one in 40 and one in 40 chance being thrown collectively off one ...

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My ship to produce ~1.5k legendary blue science per minute. Requires asteroid productivity 30. BP is too large for the post but the main idea is to replace carbon asteroid cycling with basic asteroid processing and yeet all the carbon. This has the same 80% yield ...

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Each instance is designed to occupy an entire vault island to produce ~150 legendary plates per minute into the output belt on the left. It uses the hit-cars-with-a-train trick to quickly destroy unwanted byproducts to focus on EM-plant upcycling. By default it ...

My 2 cents: legendary quality 2s are much cheaper and provide better values than less-than-legendary quality 3s. My path was to first roll asteroids with normal quality 2, then get a bunch of legendary quality 2s and roll asteroids with that. And only upcycle EM plants once I got enough legendary ...

Isn't that the case for every planet except Aquilo that mining bonus solve everything ?


Fulgora is another exception as mining bonus can actually be detrimental to designs that can't destroy byproducts fast enough.

I've been doing legendary science lately and also got excited with quality ...

Second that. Maybe they can use the existing request group mechanism? It already allows arbitrary signals and should be directly usable as a turret filter. Using a request group would also allow const combinators to output filter groups as signals.

What's in your Nauvis logistics storage after hundreds of hours of play? Here is mine:

https://i.ibb.co/tP897f1W/Screenshot-from-2025-06-02-20-06-20.png

- I had a blue chip upcycler dumping into a tank belt, which resulted in all the legendary green chips when dismantled.
- I overproduced some ...

Maybe instead of smelting stones, they should convert nutrient + wood into bricks. Thematically it's the high fiber food giving the inner pentapod a constipation.

Sanqui wrote: Fri May 30, 2025 1:30 pm We have delisted 2.0.53 due to a failing consistency check, stay tuned for a 2.0.54 release.

Oops. I updated to 2.0.53. Will it corrupt my save?

The problem is you can't use bots to plant trees, upgrade / remove biter spawners, and it's very awkward when killing demolishers. Manual destruction of yellow chests is also much faster for a hoarder like me. These are niche but useful operations.

Here is a PoC:

https://i.ibb.co/4RqnWFb5/Screenshot-from-2025-05-27-22-45-50.png

It's based on the observation that the hub unloads from its top-left corner, and tanks can have arbitrarily large inventory size. So I set up a tank belt where only the two leftmost tanks have roboport coverage, and ...