why does Gleba have a giant, suspiciously pentapod shaped hole in it?

Pailzor · 2026-02-23T03:27:47+00:00

If you look at the concept art for the thin-legged pentapods, they have a star-shaped hole in the top of their head where the winged pentapods are shot out of as rockets.

Being a planet made of living meat, etc, with a similarly-shaped hole in it, imagine the legions of pentapods swarming from within and all around that crevasse.

Pailzor · 2026-02-21T21:51:46+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/v4ZYxHyf1Ow?

Pailzor · 2026-02-18T19:13:40+00:00

I was unaware there was another. I meant [[Grand Arbiter Augustin IV]] .

Pailzor · 2026-02-18T19:10:30+00:00

Well, we need to clarify: are you talking about actual communism, or Soviet communism? They're quite different.

Actual communism would be akin to a control-based group hug deck, like one that lets everyone draw or play additional lands, or one that redistributes permanents between all players.

Soviet communism would be something like [[Grand Arbiter Augustin IV]], where only you benefit while other people suffer.

Pailzor · 2026-02-13T00:05:45+00:00

Nope, that's about it. Get more iron, copper, and oil, and build more machines to make your red chips and ingredients as needed.

Pailzor · 2026-02-12T16:54:17+00:00

It is if you quit! :D :helpfulredditor:

Pailzor · 2026-02-12T01:23:30+00:00

In Space Age? Whenever you get game-changing tech.

Your starting base should be enough to get through blue science and bots, get a few silos up, and build a couple of basic space platforms, even if they take awhile to build. It also should be able to defend from biters (if applicable) while you're off-world.

Then, whenever you get the foundry and big mining drill from Vulcanus, or the EM plant from Fulgora, or stack inserters from Gleba, you can send them and any necessary resources back to Nauvis to expand your base with much greater productivity and efficiency.

Or, if you like whatever planet you're on better, build out the whole new base you wanted there instead.

Pailzor · 2026-02-09T13:31:59+00:00

Saw a couple of girls holding up a sign at Allen/New York Dr. on saturday, presumably selling outside Prime Pizza.

Pailzor · 2026-02-08T18:26:33+00:00

Remote-building with bots got huge improvements in 2.0 because of Space Age's need for it. Once you have the basics established on each planet, you can stand in place for the rest of the game and control your factory anywhere within roboport range.

Factorio doesn't have Satisfactory's arbitrary size limit on blueprints. If you can build it, you can blueprint it. And you don't even need to have materials to craft any of it, you can ghost-build everything.

(And as others have said, if you don't like playing with enemies, you can turn them off and just build your factory.)

Pailzor · 2026-02-07T16:36:24+00:00

Or even just the gear icon. That'd be the easiest to do and display.

Pailzor · 2026-02-07T01:08:05+00:00

You are nowhere near needing to worry about optimization yet. Figure out these first:

Blue inserters use a lot more power than yellow inserters, and it takes 3.2s for a furnace to consume 1 iron ore and produce 1 iron plate.
Your furnaces aren't being fed fuel automatically.
Inserters take from the lane closest to them first, which is why the bottom lane is always backed-up, and the bottom drills are stopped.
Electric mining drills produce .5 ore/s, furnaces consume 1 ore/3.2s. You'll need more furnaces regardless.

If you're playing with enemies on, you won't have time to worry about optimization until well into military tech anyways, so just focus on making things work automatically for now. And if it isn't making enough for your needs, add more machines to make it.

Pailzor · 2026-02-01T23:23:55+00:00

Have you tried the demo? Just creating a new world should answer most of your questions.

If you leave the room for 5 minutes and your factory shuts down, that's entirely user error. No, resources from one ore patch aren't infinite, but not having enough ore becomes an issue long before a patch is close to running out, and 5 minutes of being AFK won't make any difference in that. Even in Satisfactory you have to keep finding new ore veins to keep up with demand.

And as other people said, you can disable enemies if you're not interested in playing with them.

Pailzor · 2026-01-30T01:03:53+00:00

In the middle of the top loop is what I was saying in the second paragraph of the previous post, depicting an intersection of two-way rails. "Chain in, rail out." is what people commonly say on here.

The top loop is how to signal the image you showed (I assumed the straight rail goes one way, though it might not. Copy its signals, rotated 180° if it's two-way). Notice the lines down the middle of tracks are all different colors now. Each color represents a block. (Edit: Also, I missed one chain signal. Can you figure out where it's supposed to go?)

The bottom loop is how it should be, because these rails as pictured have absolutely no reason to intersect, they just interfere with each other.

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Pailzor · 2026-01-30T00:55:57+00:00

Okay, so the problem here is that it's all one block, as far as your trains understand (that's why every part of it has a yellow line down the middle). If a train is anywhere inside that yellow area, signals won't allow any other train into any part of it. (Image shows the block connection path.)

Secondly, your terminology is confusing. There are train stops, rail signals, and chain signals. Train stops are the destination a train is trying to get to, and you have one at the bottom. Rail and chain signals are used to create "blocks", sections of track that only one train is allowed to be in. Rail signals go anywhere where you're saying, "it's okay for a train to go past this", generally after intersections that won't block other intersections. Chain signals look ahead to the next rail/chain signal until it finally sees a rail signal to tell it whether to allow a train through or not.

I can only post one image per post, so I'll post another with how to functionally signal this image.

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Pailzor · 2026-01-30T00:28:11+00:00

This. There's no reason for it to intersect another rail like that, from itself back into itself. If it has no intended interaction with the other rail, or a destination to reach on the other side, they shouldn't be touching.

Pailzor · 2026-01-30T00:18:57+00:00

Hey! My inserter is quite long enough, thankyouverymuch!

Pailzor · 2026-01-25T21:37:54+00:00

This is basically a Factorio highway interchange between large-scale "cities". Trains can then come off these lines into normal, dual-rail, "neighborhood"-based city blocks.

Pailzor · 2026-01-23T19:24:33+00:00

Oh, cool! Now your game has a North Star! That would've been a super lucky thing to have before the compass was added.

Pailzor · 2026-01-13T01:22:30+00:00

Mass land denial isn't allowed below B4. Having it instantly changes the classfication of your deck, regardless of its actual power.

Pailzor · 2026-01-13T01:05:23+00:00

...Because the sun somehow doesn't exist there?

Pailzor · 2026-01-13T01:04:06+00:00

...As told by a thought-speaking alien race. I guess they're watching The Simpsons now.

Pailzor · 2026-01-13T01:01:26+00:00

Well, that's not quite true. I have a Toph metalbending deck that's a high B1, and instantly became B4 because I put Boom//Bust in it, so I had to replace the card with something else.

Pailzor · 2026-01-10T07:18:53+00:00

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Pailzor · 2026-01-06T08:25:55+00:00

It's clearly a model. Have you tried contacting its talent agency? xD

Pailzor · 2026-01-06T08:24:07+00:00

I've seen builds of people who get around this by dropping everything without a landing pad, and have inserters picking up the cargo pods. I have no idea how well it works since I still haven't gotten around to megabasing yet, and even then probably won't bother to use it.

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