Today after some optimization, I managed to get most my agricultural science packs on Nauvis to 95% freshness!

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Here is a breakdown of my setup, starting from the production side:

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Basically it's a huge bot base. All fruits are ...

This is an end-game promethium ship optimized for speed / size. The core motivation is, based on the official formula, weight is much more important than width when optimizing for speed at the scale of large Promethium ships.

So I took this to the extreme and made this hollowed-out ship, tested in ...

What would the request clause do (other than requesting) if the wait for satisfaction checkbox was unticked?


It should use the current behavior: the planet prepares the requested things to its best effort, e.g. bot-move stuff to rocket silos. But the platform doesn't wait for it and could leave ...

I just thought of a good solution to the inflexibility of space platform requests: instead of a centralized section like in a requester chest, make requests a schedule clause. An example way to do so is to rewrite the current "Request satisfied for XXX" as "Request XXX * NNN" with a "wait for ...

My take:

A: Space, Fulgora. They have the best recipes in the form of asteroid reprocessing and EM plant, in terms of yield / throughput. Fulgora is also good in the max-rare stage where you can wash for uncommon scrap and rare recycling results.

B: Vulcanus. It has the second-best recipes: lava ...

My suggestion aims to add more challenge to Vulcanus, not more reward. Because it has plenty enough reward but virtually no challenge, and the better planets have both. The only way to really bring Vulcanus up to standard would be to give the planet a rework, complete with a brand new mechanic ...

How would an ordinary average player know about this? If you killed a demolisher with turrets and made that your go-to method, how would you ever know that a different method could yield different rewards?


I didn't know either. But turrets won't kill bigs or even mediums (unless you have really ...

Inserters have spoiled-ness priority but they currently do not apply to belts or logistics requests. It would be helpful to add the support. For example, one may want to feed rotten bioflux to biters and make science with the good batches, but this is nearly impossible right now without each ...

I'd say anything that restricts play styles is bad. But big / medium demolishers do offer too little challenge / reward right now.

I'm more inclined for giving different rewards for killing them with different ways. For example, if you shoot a demolisher with turrets, you damage its skin and ...

After building a larger base, now I'm the opinion that legendary artillery is too good early on but too weak later. The starting range is too high for its cost but it has logarithmic growth so eventually a megabase's pollution cloud would still out-range it. Especially on Gleba where there is no way ...

I don’t know, I just see no point to the quality mechanic existing if getting the items isn’t “hard”. Designing recycler lines that are thoroughly clog-proof, scaling up the base to provide the common items (which with itself brings the requirement of designing scalable designs), scaling the base ...

For ore, you need different designs as productivity goes up. You need two speed-moduled recyclers pointing at each other to destroy normal ores instead of upcycling them, then uncommon, then rare.

At 1k+ you need to destroy whatever container you mine into every 1-2 seconds since inserters can no ...

I understand why at some high level the basic crushing can be used to upcycle stuff, you put iron chunk you get ore + chunk, so chunk=> chunk , fine. ( that's my plan on the ship i'm working on) but i don't understand why you say it outweight the productivity loss compared to reprocessing, to me ...

I meant destroying them for nothing :lol: It's like a ~4% yield difference and not worth the logistics hassle or the UPS. I tried throwing them into lava too but that was actually slower than recyclers. To think I mourned every rotten fruit at the start...


I don't understand how you calculate ...

Some kind soul taught me this when I asked the same question, I'm merely passing on the wisdom.

Considering how ships usually crash-land there, I'd imagine a world filled with rogue turrets, biters, maybe a few spidertrons and tanks, all shooting at each other and the player. There will be scraps recycling to legendary buildings while spawning tough living enemies when recycled.

With the ...

My legendary science base used to look like this: https://factorio.com/galaxy/Iron%20I:%20Beta7-2.G4X3/planets .


This base doesn't appear to have created a legendary item at all


Exactly, that's about the state at which I unlocked legendary. My point is, grinding for enough infrastructure ...

I admire and respect the amount of effort and thought you’ve put into your run, I really do. But surely you understand that the vast majority of “space casino” users never use it at this scale or make these kinds of optimizations. They build a simple, unoptimized ship and use it at low asteroid ...

A better explanation of what "buffed" means would be helpful to the discussion. Personally, I have no idea what a "buff" is.


I mean asteroid shooting getting much faster.


What does that have to do with UPS?


Faster asteroid shooting gives you higher UPS (Updates Per Second) for moving ...

NineNine wrote: Tue Sep 02, 2025 8:13 am A better explanation of what "buffed" means would be helpful to the discussion. Personally, I have no idea what a "buff" is.

I mean asteroid shooting getting much faster.