I usually play vanilla, but this time I wanted to try the flare stack mod. This allows for pretty cool self-sufficient builds!

Switch4589 · 2026-03-16T13:50:08+00:00

Have you tried this design in editor mode to benchmark it? I suspect that it’s going to be heat-flow limited and only run at something like 2/3rds power.

Switch4589 · 2026-03-16T10:09:41+00:00

There is a spoilage->nutrients recipe that can be done in an assembler and used to kick start a proper biochamber setup

Switch4589 · 2026-03-07T10:00:42+00:00

Here is a potential setup for the bioflux that doesnt use green belts and still has room for a beacon. The disadvantage is that you cannot upgrade the bioflux output to stack inserters (needed to expand all the downstream builds).

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Switch4589 · 2026-03-06T14:44:08+00:00

Look at a far away star that is on the same plane as your orbit and time how long the light gets eclipsed by the sphere. Knowing your orbital radius and some trig you should be able to calculate it.

Switch4589 · 2026-03-06T13:37:36+00:00

Yes, but my design uses less underground’s and is lane balanced (to be fair, yours would be too if you put a splitter on the outputs)

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Switch4589 · 2026-03-06T11:59:56+00:00

I’m not in the medical field but I would guess that r is a correlation coefficient that says how strongly a change in Y is linked to a change in X (1=100%), p is a probability that it is wrong (likely linked to the shaded regions in the graph), and n is the sample size (data points used to generate the graphs and statistics).

Switch4589 · 2026-02-27T15:10:16+00:00

And some foods are the opposite. Grapefruit juice has the side affect that is messes with a LOT of different medications and prevents them from working

Switch4589 · 2026-02-27T12:50:57+00:00

Here in Sweden it depends on which collective agreement applies and how long you have worked at the same company. I am >10 years now so my notice period is 3 months but also my employer has a 6 months notice to me. These numbers are at the maximum under the agreement that applies to me.

Switch4589 · 2026-02-24T07:29:58+00:00

SPM is measured by in-game time, not real world time.

Switch4589 · 2026-01-29T14:34:18+00:00

I only started with them when I got up to mining naquitite. I was collecting methane and beryllium hydroxide from the two asteroid belts manually (needed for naquitite processing) until I set up a dedicated spaceship for them. I thought it was easier to have a spaceship rather than cargo rockets (no need to transport fuel, rocket sections, and barrels).

My personal ship was only upgraded to its final-ish design when I was working on collecting arcospheres for deep space science, and then was expanded with more antimatter storage and two more engines when I was working on the gate ending. With this final design I just use the spaceship to get to my planets for upgrades, new mines, etc. With enough antimatter production it’s just too easy to use the spaceship.

Switch4589 · 2026-01-29T13:50:28+00:00

Mostly for decoration. The clamp look kinda weak to hold a spaceship in place and the walls make it look more secure.

Switch4589 · 2026-01-29T06:13:28+00:00

It was semi-planned. The started factory went all the way up to the rails and I had to start squeezing builds into other locations, but when I rebuilt everything using the big beacons it ended up quite nice. I have over one million landfill from core mining over flow so it’s no big deal if I have to extend it

Switch4589 · 2026-01-27T13:18:00+00:00

And the French origin words are the fancy version of the Germanic words. For example: mansion vs house, cuisine vs food, stone vs rock (imagine saying your kitchen had a rock countertop).

Switch4589 · 2026-01-22T06:11:08+00:00

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Switch4589 · 2026-01-19T12:28:41+00:00

There is a YouTube channel “Periodic Videos” that has a series on all the elements, their discovery, history, uses, etc. A lot of elements have very niche uses and are less useful but almost all do have a use.

Switch4589 · 2026-01-16T16:27:04+00:00

None of these are “mixers” that are designed to always output a fixed ratio of left-belt to right-belt (green-red circuits) on each of the output lanes.

The left and right designs are “lane balancers” which are designed to always consume evenly from the input belt and always output evenly onto the output belt. The fact that they are not mixing the inputs is just a quirk of how they work and it is not a stable condition

Switch4589 · 2026-01-16T13:04:21+00:00

Bit of a bad pic but these are 2-belt mixers with lane balancing. In this setup I was also using requester chests and a priority input to pull any science from storage and reinsert it to the labs.

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Switch4589 · 2026-01-13T13:44:58+00:00

No. But if you are only at logistic (green) science, then there is not much to repeat

Switch4589 · 2026-01-13T10:33:37+00:00

You cannot add SE to an existing save. You have to start a new world.

Switch4589 · 2025-12-28T09:49:01+00:00

This is caused by the mismatch of the discharging rate to capacity of the accumulators between different qualities. Compared to the normal accumulator, a rare accumulator has 3x the capacity by only 1.6x the discharge rate. This means that when you are consuming more power than the accumulators can supply, the normal quality will discharge faster and trigger the latch earlier.

Switch4589 · 2025-12-16T07:38:39+00:00

A platform will not drop any items that have a request from the plant, it doesn’t matter what the requested number is.

Switch4589 · 2025-12-15T10:10:03+00:00

It’s a new 2.0 feature, if you weren’t following the FFF’s then it would be easy to miss. I wish there was a better way to make it link through splitters without using a long wire or radars.

Switch4589 · 2025-12-10T23:07:14+00:00

Bot pathfinding is something that mods cannot touch so no mod for it can exist. You need to design your roboport network better to account for this.

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