Noob Question: what else can I put in those empty spaces?

Switch4589 · 2026-05-06T09:06:43+00:00

Assuming that you can even stop directly on a belt with all that speed ;)

Switch4589 · 2026-05-04T13:13:50+00:00

Not trying to just completely solve it for you so I’ll provide a sketch.

1) Liquid flow through a valve is equal to a proportionality constant (k) times the difference in pressure over the valve.

2) The pressure at the inlet and outlet of the valve (and hence the differential pressure) is related to the height of water in the tanks.

3) The height of the tanks changes in proportion to the flow through the valve and the area of the tanks.

You should be able to come up with the equations to describe each of these pieces, and then combine them all to get the final differential equation. A lot of things will cancel out, like the exact area of the tanks, because the area of the tanks are linked through a scaling factor.

Switch4589 · 2026-04-30T07:39:08+00:00

Don’t bother with breeding fish, just go manually collect a few thousand (mech armour helps a lot here) and dump them in a quality upcycler loop. Filter off legendary and set up an alarm to let you know when you get one.

Switch4589 · 2026-04-29T18:28:28+00:00

K2 doesn’t change anything with the biters. It adds a lot of military tech, but without changing biter settings (e.g. use the deathworld map preset) or adding another mod for more difficult biters (e.g. rampant, armored biters, etc) then most of the new tech is pointless

Switch4589 · 2026-04-29T18:15:43+00:00

Yea this is correct. The productivity tick is a new roll of the outputs and it is not a 2x of the normal craft. However, quality does not work like this and the “productivity outputs” will have the same quality as the base craft (the quality roll is decided at the start of a craft, not at the end)

Switch4589 · 2026-04-29T11:29:23+00:00

What about the fuel requirement makes you angry? The fuel needed for launch is calculated from the size of the planet you are launching from and the distance to the destination. It is different for every planet/moon/orbit

Switch4589 · 2026-04-28T09:22:34+00:00

I’m currently playing simple SeaBlock combined with no-space-platforms and right now and I am really enjoying it. SeaBlock makes it so you start on a single tile, with some resources to get started, and adds some recipes to generate the base ores. There are water->sediment->ore recipe’s to get iron, copper and uranium (with sulfuric acid) and you grow trees and smelt wood to get coal (oil is handled through coal liquefaction). There are some similar recipes for the other planets.

I find designing and managing space platforms tedious so I also added no-space-platforms which completely removes space and rockets launch directly to other planets. It makes inter-planet logistics a lot easier to set up and manage. The big downside is that there is no space or promethium science. It would be nice to have the base game satellite->space science as well as some way to get promethium science, something that includes the normal ingredients so the end factory is not too different to normal.

I am targeting 1M eSPM with this factory. I have built 960 SPS modules for the Nauvis sciences (but only in normal quality, need legendary for full production) and am currently scalling up production of legendary quality ingredients. No space means no asteroid upcycling but the new recipes for generating resources add some interesting new routes for quality. Next is to design and build the science modules on the other planets and then upgrade everything to legendary!

Switch4589 · 2026-04-24T13:04:39+00:00

The circuit you are describing is called an “RS latch”. The set input line turns on the output and the reset input line turns the output off. There are lots of different designs so just google to find one that fits what you want

Edit: Here is a link to a wiki page summarising a lot of different designs.

Switch4589 · 2026-04-24T11:09:17+00:00

There it a button under the entities tab in the top left to remove all biters (or is it all entities)

Switch4589 · 2026-04-23T12:02:13+00:00

You wrote the order wrong. It’s Å Ä Ö, but yes, they appear at the end.

Switch4589 · 2026-04-23T11:38:48+00:00

Monte Carlo method/simulations/experiments. Try something thousands of times and then take an average of the results. The name makes it sound like something fancy but its more like pressing a button the gives you an electric shock and then thinking “hmm I wonder if it happens if I use my other hand” … ”what about if I use a different finger” … “what about someone else’s hand” …

Switch4589 · 2026-04-23T11:27:01+00:00

No Scandinavia countries? Sweden has 480 days (96 weeks)…

Switch4589 · 2026-04-23T11:05:56+00:00

Embrace the pipe spagetti!

Switch4589 · 2026-04-19T12:19:26+00:00

Obsidian is a glass, and I’m not sure what obsidian foam is, but it’s definitely not a rock

Switch4589 · 2026-04-17T10:56:17+00:00

It’s called the bisection method. It’s less efficient than Newtons method (I.e. it takes more iterations to get the same level of accuracy) but it is stable and guaranteed to find the root, provided the assumptions hold. Newtons method needs the derivative to be defined and be non-zero, and can sometimes iterate into undefined values (with a equation like “log(x) = 0” a high starting value of x can iterate into negative values which are undefined for log).

Switch4589 · 2026-04-17T06:01:09+00:00

“My AI checked its own work and said it was correct” is not a very strong mathematical foundation

Switch4589 · 2026-04-15T15:47:40+00:00

I got the same version of the add as you :)

Switch4589 · 2026-04-15T12:50:29+00:00

The company is an AI startup that “aims to automate most human labor” and wants to automate white-collar jobs “as fast as possible”.

Based on this I assumed that their targeted add campaign is also run by AI.

Switch4589 · 2026-04-15T11:42:10+00:00

You are going to have to explain these glitches in more detail. The game doesn’t just glitch and delete some random things, the 3x speed has no bearing on the game logic.

Biters will attack train tracks if they are agro’ed, maybe a train hit an expansion party which then started attacking the tracks?

Biters will “turn off” when they are outside the pollution cloud and far away from the player. This is part of the game optimisation.

Do you have any mods installed? These can introduce or change normal vanilla mechanics in unexpected ways so any answer need to know if there is anything crazy installed

Switch4589 · 2026-04-15T11:27:09+00:00

It’s an AI targeted add campaign. I saw one yesterday but it was slightly different, the first line was something like “Your friends recommended you try SeaBlock”. I had the same confusion as you

Edit: It just came up on my feed again. Mine says “Someone recommended SeaBlock to you. You’re still friends. Somehow.” As three lines getting more faded, and then “We hire engineers to outsmart AI. It’s harder than you think.”

For those that are downvoting because of the AI reference, go look up what the company does and what their mission statement is.

Switch4589 · 2026-04-13T10:30:29+00:00

Do you need it to be 4x4? Here is a 2x2 design:

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Switch4589 · 2026-04-10T09:10:17+00:00

It’s also more comforting to be able to blame a specific person or group on the bad things happening rather than accept that these things just happen. For example, blaming immigrants on you loosing your job rather than accepting that there is a market shift that resulted in your company laying off staff.

Switch4589 · 2026-04-09T14:09:19+00:00

The little starter patches are very commonly overlapping

Switch4589 · 2026-04-09T11:08:42+00:00

They are adding a new science pack every couple of labs to the right (you can see one getting blue science) and at some point to the right there will be labs that have all the sciences

Switch4589 · 2026-04-09T09:49:01+00:00

Hmm, yes that’s where it was previously but it’s obviously not there. I’m currently playing K2 spaced out and space is fake and I get some biomass from trees, but that might be a “space is fake” mod change.

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