you still need to filter spoilage because the nutrients can spoil and back up the system, hatching the eggs

And they also only work straight, and cannot go in L shape?

i mean same as dsp? you get some weird angles sometimes but its essentially straight-but-slanted most of the time

Another issue - you can't put items in machines by one?

isnt that what those inserters you abhor can do : ^ ). also put it on the cursor and right click in the fuel spot with the machine open. alternatively, put fuel on the cursor and mouse over it (no machine interface open) and press z

However the biggest issue I had so far is that basically after every 2 upgrades you research you can as well destroy everything you built and start from scratch

playing with the tools available is something to have fun with, but if it works why are you tearing it all down? an automated system with assembler 1s will still work with assembler 2s. Can we see a picture of your base because im wondering why you think its mandatory to take apart something that works if youre feeding material in and processing it automatically, even if its a little slower than you think it needs to be.

as for comparing to the others of the genre,

DSP- I've played to the end a few times across multiple versions. it will make your computer sweat way before factorio does. the biggest ick for me is the grid on spheres system. its very ambitious but kinda a pain in the ass when it comes to blueprints.

satisfactory- scale is so much more tedious. with how long it takes to set something up to produce at scale, even though you need a very finite number of it to complete milestones, its easier to just set up a couple machines and wait for them. very much lacking an endgame but has a more definite endpoint

0% figuring out screenshot

Combinators you can probably go without and be fine but what’s the issue with beacons? They’re definitely simpler than trains and arguably even assemblers. They are very set and forget. Ratios aren’t a problem, just make more of what you want more of and chase bottlenecks if you want it faster

What’s at 47

You cock the hammer back when you place it :-)

Mouse over the crafter and tell the class what quality % it says

Just have a chest for each of them? Really feels like you’re complicating it. Buffer some bricks before they get to concrete, buffer some concrete before reinforced, buffer some reinforced?

Before you have productivity you have to process every fruit or you go net negative on seeds

Why rare tho? Also subbing half of those rows for rare beacons with rare speeds probably 10x’s output

I wouldn’t loop the science belt like that, give each pack its own half of the belt and it’s fine it it’s not constantly

Yuumi

Bold of you to think we won’t pass a $30 pack this year

Steam felt bad after beaconing anything, foundries are power hogs

I feel like a self balancing asteroid loop might be an ambitious first project

Sadly anything below diamond “no leash” means standing under the turret or bot lane bush until you get invaded then dying to a level 2 gank

Press alt+b and highlight it to make a blueprint. Right click anything rails related in the ingredients list and save. Now it’s not locked to the 2x2 rail grid

I was looking at the math of yumakos out of curiosity and at max productivity one rocket of the fruits is like 30,000 plastic. Not that it’s ever worth it especially with fusion but I wonder what the rocket fuel math is like for jelly nuts.

Also, technically, you can reach 300% without any prod modules, eventually

Hope we’re getting close to a 2.1 FFF

Practice with oil. All you need is “read contents” and “enable/disable”

Do the bumps look like “keratosis pilaris“ on google?

Probably like 20-30. Only went up to purple with no yellow. Purple came from killing biter nests

Wow you’re so brave

Why are you quality looping uranium though

Mine travels between Gleba and nauvis. It makes white science and red magazines. Overflow goes to making calcite for the two planets. I have such an excess that I might just make LDS and blues for the Gleba rockets on it as well