I was under the impression that the order in which the silos are used for orbital request is fairly straightforward : the first silo built has priority, if busy then the 2nd then the 3rd and so on


I didn’t say it wasn’t predictable; I said it wasn’t smart, that is, it doesn’t choose the ...

I have seen this too. The problem isn't the bots themselves but which rocket silos are chosen to translate the orbital logistic requests into ground logistics requests; there doesn't seem to be any smarts to it.

My solution is to use belts and direct insertion into rocket silos, so the science is ...

The classic solution to this problem for “sushi belts” is to count the items on the belt and use circuit-controlled inserters to only add more if the item count is under a limit.

If you like purely belt-based solutions or want an easy mixed quality/trash belt, you can put a faster belt somewhere in ...

I use burner inserters for a few pieces of critical infrastructure:


Burner inserters feeding coal to boilers ensures that excessive power demand won’t slow down the fuel insertion and lead to blackout.
Burner inserters feeding ammo to gun turrets ensures that borders stay defended even if I ...

To expand on that: The Tutorial has five pre-defined levels, and if you have completed them, there is no more of the Tutorial to unlock.

A “normal” (Freeplay) game of Factorio doesn’t have any levels — you just start from scratch, and build and research to get to the rocket launch (or ignore that ...

I think enough people miss the option of hand-recycling scrap that it would make sense to highlight it somehow.

Putting it in a tip/tutorial is the obvious way. Another way would be to rearrange the tech tree so that you need to hand-recycle some scrap as a trigger to unlock Recycler, but that ...

The recipe for stone brick takes 2 stone as input, unlike the copper and iron recipes. Therefore, a red belt of stone can only supply 24 steel furnaces, not 48.

Are you actually pressing the Q key to pipette, or did you bind something else? I had trouble early on with 2.0 because I was used to using middle mouse for pipette, but having pipette and "set filters" on the same button doesn't work on item-slot-like things (even if the slot is not filterable, and ...

Perhaps I misunderstand, but doesn’t this already work? It’s true that you can't open specifically the “Set ghost cursor” window without using remote view, but you don’t need it.


Press E / open inventory.
Hover heat pipes in the crafting section.
Press Q / pipette.


You will get heat pipes ...

Here is (approximately) how I set up my first quality quality module factory. By splitting each output quality into its own belt, the remaining belt branch becomes the place where all higher qualities go, and the place to build the next row — this tiles all the way up to legendary Q3 and you only ...

Well, this is the "short answers" thread, and troubleshooting tends to be long. How about you create a new thread, and post pictures of what you've got there. Show the silo that you're trying to launch from, and what you put in the dialog.

In order to create a platform in orbit above a specific planet, you must have a rocket silo on that planet, and a space platform starter pack available to be launched by that silo. You can then order the creation one of two different ways:


In the remote view, on the left side where planets and ...

You created a pin from an alert. The pin sticks around independently of the alert, and its text is just copied from the alert when you create it.
Click the trash button on the pin list on the right sidebar to remove it.

Yes, heating towers always consume fuel at a constant rate regardless of their temperature.

However, you can fix that very easily: run a wire between the tower and the inserter that feeds it, set the tower to read temperature, and set the inserter to be enabled when the temperature is lower than ...

How to fix fluid contamination problems:


Place all the pipes you wanted, and don't worry about the contents for now.
Look at the pipe network highlighted on hover and make sure it is highlighting only the right pipes and not any of the wrong pipes.
Click on a pipe in the fuel pipe network and ...

Maybe they could search for a nearby reachable spot and try to attack anyway, if they would otherwise give up? I don't know what the exact melee range of biters is, but spitters can certainly still attack in this situation.

I considered putting individual rockets near my manufacturing, but since rockets are loaded by bot, there's no guarantee that the material I drop into chests (green) next to the rockets will be loaded into those rockets.


That is a problem with bots, but you do not have to load rockets only by ...

Even ignoring the power of Productivity Modules, if you put two Efficiency Module 1 or Efficiency Module 2 in an electric furnace, then it consumes less power and produces less pollution than a steel furnace. So, it seems like it should make sense to switch to electric furnaces as soon as you have ...

I'm newly getting the same problem with Factorio 2.0.41 on MacBook Pro M4 Max, Sequoia 15.3.2. My atlas texture size setting is 4096 and sprite resolution is High.

I'd got the impression that it was a mod for the normal one somehow.


It is a mod — a mod which you get access to by buying the Space Age expansion. There are 3 mods in the expansion:


Elevated Rails
Quality
Space Age (requires Elevated Rails and Quality)


After the purchase, you can ...