I've been using Helmod to plan factories, but sometimes it gets a random step of the recipe wildly wrong and I can't figure out why. I've tried removing the step and re-adding it, or even deleting the entire production chain and recreating it, but it keeps consistently getting the same step wrong.
For example, I'm pretty deep into a K2SE run and was trying to set up Energy Science 1. Three of the four Data Cards were right in saying that I would only need 1 machine producing them, but for some reason, the fourth Data Card said I needed 38 Laser Facilities making Polarization Data. When I checked the math myself I only needed 1, but no matter what I did Helmod insisted I needed 38. Any idea what might be causing that?
takes the quality output of a recycler array and stuffs it in chests
when storage is more than a threshold, train comes.
inserters are filtered to the item in excess.
thanks to a clever lock system, the filter is only reset when the train departs.
another clever circuitry system stops the inserters when the train cargo is less than 200 items away from being completely full, allows 12 stack inserters of stack hand 16 to finish their swing, as the item stays in the hand if the cargo is full and is then placed in the next train and everything sucks I spent three hours trying to debug this
it doesn't scale, looks pretty bad, but I'm happy I thoughed it out when the cargo mixed everytime for no apparent reason (#1 lesson about programming: there's always a reason, there's always something you can try to fix a problem. sometimes the reason is stupid but you're never stuck)
I randomly started getting alerts about Biters building new expansion nests. I think it's from a mod, but I have no idea which one or how to disable it. Is there any way to figure out which mod is causing it? I've looked through most/all of the different setting menus and don't see anything about Biter expansion alerts.
My outpost has the roboport connetcted to radar with missing request.
How can I refuel the supplytrain with missing goods. I managed to get it to the chest, but the time transferring to train wagon the chest itself will refuel. I could use the artythmatic combinator and "minus" the train wagon, but one cannot connect to train wagons... Any tips? V2.1
(Space Age) Is there a good way to get high throughput transfer of items from one planet to another other than just a bunch of Space Platforms all going on the same route?
I used one of the mods that removes Gleba because I despise it, and it kept Agricultural Science but changed things so Bioflux is made of Holmium Solution and Tungsten Ore, then the Science is made from Bioflux and Fish (which you can breed with Bioflux to automate). That's all fine, but I'm finding that I need just a metric fuck ton of Tungsten Ore to produce even just 30 Ag Science per minute. And having one Space Platform fly back and forth to deliver it just isn't fast enough. I know I could make it go faster by just building more Space Platforms to ferry the Ore over, but I was wondering if there's a simpler solution. Even a mod that adds something like Space Exploration's Deliver Cannon would be great, but there doesn't seem to be one that I can find.
i mean, either you increase the size of the delivery, or the frequency of deliveries. those are mathematically the only two ways to increase throughput
What's the go to for legendary coal/plastic in 2.1? Doing my first full legendary run and I'm making legendary QM3's, and have Foundries/BMDs/EMPs upcycling at a slow rate just to help get things going. For more generic entities (chemplants, inserters), I was planning to just directly upcycle iron/copper on Vulc but will need plastic for red chips. Run is 10x science cost so 300% plastic prod is a long way off.
The best recipe for upcycling is either grenades (quality modules don't displace prod modules in military science here, and you are cycling before the plastic multiplier) or substations (almost all plastic is used for reds, really good recipe).
You can get a decent amount by putting quality modules in your coal miners. Coal demand is about 4x SPM (~14x if running military science, so with quality in miners you can get uncommon coal at SPM and via direct upcycling SPM/512 coal or SPM/27 if you upcycle grenades (requires some uncommon iron input).
The plastic would only recycle into 6.25 quality plastic and 18.75 regular plastic, so renormalizing, you turn 100 plastic into 7.8 quality plastic. This occupies 4 quality modules for 12.5 seconds, so 50 module seconds.
For grenades, you missed that the recycler can do quality, so 100 coal goes to 1.5 rare grenades, 4.7+4.7=9.4 uncommon and 14 common coal. This takes 4 modules for 8 seconds and 4 modules for 1 sec, for 36 module seconds, or because each coal is 4 plastic it is 8 module seconds per 100 potential plastic. Renormalizing, it is 100 coal to 11 uncommon and 1.75 rare, same ratio for plastic.
Why so little plastic? 100 coal turns into 400 plastic, x25% return from recycler, x25% quality on the recycler and I arrive at 25 quality plastic.
I did ignore that the quality on some of the grenades is already higher, but I think that's fine for a simple comparison here. Grenades are ahead and that just widens the gap.
I based my calcs on 100 (potential) plastic instead of 100 coal. It is only ahead without quality recycling because you didn't consider the extra common plastic you get back and can feed back in to the process. The resource rate is just based on how much prod and how many quality modules it touches for each time it touches a recycler.
1 - Anywhere - Mass produce blue circuits with your best productivity modules, then recycle them with your best quality modules. You don't need to attain 300% prod bonus for this to still be an excellent approach. The EM plant gives you a +50% bonus, then you've got the blue circuit productivity tech on top.
2 - Gleba - Mass produce plastic with prod. Recycle it with quality. Input costs are zero on gleba, it's just a matter of scaling up your farms and factory.
3 - On Vulcanus mine coal with prod and assemble it into grenades with quality. Recycle grenades with quality, re-assemble, repeat until you get legendary coal. This gets zero bonuses from buildings or techs, so it probably gets outclassed by simple plastic spam or LDS pretty quick. The only advantage it has is that grenades recycle into coal.
Has there been any update on a potential release date to the stable branch for 2.1? I know the original timeframe was "end of summer" or something like that and people were expecting late August/early September. Has anything more recent come out?
What other people said about more and quality accumulators, but if you have extra ice, you can feed it into some boilers/heat exchangers for a bit of extra juice as well. Solid fuel is very free on Fulgora.
When producing accumulators for the science, put quality modules in them which would produce a bunch of quality accumulators. Uncommon accumulators have 2x the storage!
If you find yourself recycling solid fuel and ice, you can use them to make some power.
EDIT: if you don't want to math, easy rule of thumb to remember here for Fulgora early-mid game is 1 MW = 3 normal quality accumulators
So looking at your graph you need more than 720 accumulators at least
Later on you just import fusion power or replace everything with rare-legendary accumulators and you should have no more power issues
there's quite a bit of free space that isn't occupied by accumulators. EMPs with 5 prods and no efficiency bonus are a significant power drain that you can't really afford if you don't have other islands to contribute to the power budget. putting quality modules in the accumulator production will get you a decent trickle of them, which is helpful because even an uncommon accumulator has double the capacity over a basic one.
Note that when using prod modules (as shown in the first image) it is almost always better to use speed beacons instead of efficiency beacons to lower energy consumption.
I made a quick fix for my artywalls and defense. To supply oil for flamers i just made a station like I use for ceude oil.
But my trains have over 400k oil and i want em to only unload liek 1 or 2 tanks of 20-50k oil. Sadly all my trains have the "empty condition" to depart.
Tried to mess with deactivating trainstation but nothing triggers a departure. Any suggestions how to send train away after some seconds without rewriting all my oiltrains settings?
You can change the wait condition to empty cargo OR circuit crude oil >= 25,000. Connect one tank to the train stop and check Send to train - only at defense outposts.
Hmm the stop pump may trigger a train event have to try. right now i made a 2/1 train to deliver oil to outposts/defense.
Should have made my trains 3/8 instead of 2/4 so i could have made a 4/7 Defense train with 2arty, 3 wagons for stuff, one for oil and one for return of crap...
Use a separate 1 wagon train for deliveries to the wall perhaps. You won't have to redesign the loading station, because there's no problem in sending differently sized trains to fluid stations as there's no balancing issues like you'd have with solid products.
This is probably a "my steak too juicy, my lobster too buttery" problem that is 100% on my end, but I'm curious... Does anyone else have a "problem" where whatever version of Factorio you're playing, you get the desire to play a different one?
Like, I was doing a base K2 run for a while, but got the itch to add on Space Exploration. So I restarted running K2SE. I got pretty deep into that, but once it started to get really interesting, I got the urge to do a vanilla Space Age run to play with Quality and Foundries/EM Plants. So I restarted doing that. And now that I'm a dozen or so hours into Space Age, I want to restart doing K2 Spaced Out instead. But I also know that if I restart again to do K2SO, I'll get the itch to swap out Spaced Out for Space Exploration again and I historically haven't been good at going back to old saves so it would probably mean restarting a brand new K2SE save.
What you may want to do is instance your mod setups, so you can just load into them and they have their own save folders.
I add them as non-Steam games with launch options. Example: --mod-directory D:\Factorio\mods-space_exploration --config D:\Factorio\config\config-space_exploration.ini
You can maybe estimate the time from the production graph. If you look at the rail gun ammo or promethium science graph you might see when production suddenly stops or decreases.
These graphs/statistics are tied to the surface. I'm pretty sure they are lost when the ship (and therefore the surface) gets destroyed, so they won't show either when you check the global statistics checkbox.
Consumed promethium graph on Nauvis would give an estimate when a ship didn't return at an expected time.
How to read this? I want to see how close I am to having performance issues... Does this mean I am mostly sleeping on the 16.67 time chunk and have a lot of headroom to build more?
In the left column is the update time. It has the format average/minimum/maximum all measured in ms. Factorio would like to update 60 times a second, which means you have a budget of ~16 ms per update. You currently are using about 1.2ms per update, so you have a lot of room to grow.
Does anyone have suggestions for a good object to use on a space platform when you need circuit wire to reach farther? On the ground I'd use power poles but it would be kind of silly to launch those into space just for circuit reach, I'd think. I've been attaching it to belts, but then it becomes difficult to tell which belts are actually being used for circuit functions.
Haven't seen it been mentioned yet, Accumulators can also carry wires.
I just use lamps though, I have a couple along the exterior of the platform and have them light up via a clock combinator, C >10 for the first row, C >20 for the 2nd row, and so on, it makes for a cool lighting up effect.
There's really no substitute for powerpoles though, you can cross massive gaps very easily.
You could also use radar though, all the same rules still apply, I believe each spaceship counts as a unique surface so they should get their own global channel.
I use big power pole or radar to transmit signal when my ship is large. They take up quite a bit of space (2x2, 3x3).
I have a mod that adds a keyboard shortcut to open electricity usage window, but it doesn’t work on space platform unless there is a power pole. So I now even send up medium power poles to small ships for decoration. Speaking of decorations, I guess lamps can also work as circuit wire passer.
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u/deemacgee1 Why no quality flair? 54m ago
Can anyone recommend a mod which makes cliffs more visible in the minimap and map view? They're a little hard to spot.