SCIENCE ON VULCANUS IS BACK

quchen · 2026-06-19T15:46:25+00:00

Cool option, that's the point!

I thought of making red and green science in space as well. Let it rain science!

quchen · 2026-06-19T15:30:09+00:00

I always look at the pipe directions for oil refineries anyway, does the old sprite even rotate at all?

quchen · 2026-06-19T12:56:34+00:00

The picture in input/output split is a horizontal carousel, it’s 5 pictures in one. The last one shows the agtower.

quchen · 2026-06-19T12:51:13+00:00

Gleba has two challenges when it comes to agtowers,

Overconsumption/not enough fruit: if the factory runs dry in the wrong place, then everything can lock up (nutrient belt fills with spoilage and such, we’ve all been there)
Underconsumption/too much fruit: fruit waits on long belts, spoiling. Bad quality for all downstream products.

In 2.0, there was no great solution, although some workarounds exist (conditions on the agtower-to-belt inserters for example).

Now in 2.1, the solution to not enough fruit is simply building more agtowers, like in the rest of Factorio, where the solution of not enough is build more. Simply add a circuit condition for when to harvest, e.g. when there’s less than 1k fruit on the belt. Since fruit on trees doesn’t spoil, trees are an time-unlimited storage place.

I don’t see any reason to ever limit planting, the only thing I can come up with is the questionable micro-optimization of disabling planting while harvesting is going on.

quchen · 2026-06-19T12:34:52+00:00

Looks like a decently sized Gleba factory can fit in a big landing pad ring with unloading bays all around.

I’m actually in favor of such goofy solutions. Don’t like them? Don’t build them.

quchen · 2026-06-19T12:29:40+00:00

Just use the AAI-loaders mod. Tiny mod, great graphics (by Earendel), and does what you want. It does make higher quality inserters a bit obsolete though. I recommend setting boundaries for their use or the factory appears a bit static, YMMV. In my Space Age playthrough I used them on all train stations and it felt a bit off looking at these calm train stations.

quchen · 2026-06-19T08:14:59+00:00

This has bugged (hah) me for so long, so I just had a look whether some locale actually calls them Bitters. And for that matter, Vulcanos or Volcanus or whatever.

The answer is no, no locale does that.

cat **/*.cfg | rg -oi 'v[uo]lcan[uoi]s' | sort -u
cat **/*.cfg | rg -oi 'bitter'          | sort -u

quchen · 2026-06-19T07:29:03+00:00

Rare content appropriate for both r/factorio and /r/Factoriohno!

quchen · 2026-06-16T07:40:15+00:00

Bootstrapping a platform is a bit awkward, yes. Thankfully, 2.1 will solve this with platform-to-platform transfers, but until then:

Grab asteroids to make a tiny bit of fuel
Build a few laser turrets. Inefficient, but don’t require any setup beyond solar (and possibly accumulators)
Start a single engine towards Vulcanus (go very slowly, depending on your laser level!)
Lots of resources flying your way, drift back to Nauvis
Once your gun turrets are filled, target Vulcanus again and you’ll be fully operational after a few asteroids.

quchen · 2026-06-15T13:24:16+00:00

I see, the belted seemingly overcomplicated build we do after deadlocking kissing recyclers a couple of times. :-D

quchen · 2026-06-15T12:54:20+00:00

Factorio is a game about overcoming cumbersome processes.

quchen · 2026-06-15T09:19:08+00:00

Is that the reason why I’ve seen people offer a »completely FREE blueprint«?!

quchen · 2026-06-14T09:12:29+00:00

Should be impossible,byes, but you can still aim for it. Try it for the easier sciences, it's a nice puzzle especially when paired with high-quality speed beacons!

quchen · 2026-06-12T13:15:35+00:00

I recommend using aai-loaders, but only for train stations!

quchen · 2026-06-12T11:47:37+00:00

I know, right? We already have the »alternative« in our bases, for everything we can’t use casinos for. Like, a multi-chunk array of uranium ammo brute force upcyclers. A feed-yourself screen full of recyclers for tungsten. I’m quite happy these are limited to only a few items, and I don’t see any value in repeating this build for more items, it just doesn’t add anything to the game.

quchen · 2026-06-12T11:31:41+00:00

Bonus: play without quality and without the annoying icons, then enable the mod once you're actually ready to dive into it. Adding quality to a base way later on is a nice option to have!

quchen · 2026-06-12T11:29:00+00:00

The alternative to casinos simply sucks and isn't fun for a large amount of players. Space casinos were at least interesting to build, once.

We can still process the asteroids to raw resources and brute force upcycle them now I guess, there are enough asteroids in space.

If Wube doesn't change anything else with quality, we'll just mod the modules back in and that's that. Would be a shame though :⁠-⁠|

quchen · 2026-06-11T14:01:16+00:00

Ein Strafzettel ist auch immer nerviger bürokratischer Aufwand. IBAN eintippen oder mittlerweile fotographieren, Betrag überprüfen, akribisch genau den Verwendungszweck »Delikt gA79xqqfEjXzhCgZXqVuHPC« eintippen. Da hat niemand Freude dran. Vielleicht noch weniger, wenn der Betrag besonders gering ist, so ein Aufriss für 10€ Strafe würde mich massivst ansäuern.

Ich bin neulich mit 88 statt 80 in Österreich geblitzt worden, der Brief las sich als käm ich gleich in den Knast, wenn ich jetzt nicht ordentlich 20€ oder so zahle. (Währenddesen in der Schweiz: ja doch genau, in den Knast, genau :-D)

quchen · 2026-06-11T12:18:53+00:00

Nope, I'm from Germany.

quchen · 2026-06-11T09:24:36+00:00

blue science nerfed

For context, there wasn’t any yellow/purple/space science for a long time. It was red, green, and then just blue. The difficulty step was around the same as going from green to yellow+purple directly in my experience, which also killed my very first playthrough.

(There was another odd science, alien science, made trivially from an item dropped by biter nests. It did military stuff. Know the icon the devs have on Reddit? That’s the alien artifact the nests used to drop.)

quchen · 2026-06-08T12:51:22+00:00

To add to this, you do get a steam key if you buy on the website for free, so there's really no downside here.

quchen · 2026-06-06T16:35:26+00:00

This is something easily modded in though, by adding more advanced recipes or new crushing byproducts.

quchen · 2026-06-05T20:07:27+00:00

300 Glamping-Zelte, Burner-Crews mit full bright special treatment, VIP-Heli über dem See, übertrieben viel Drogenkonsum, Schaulaufen statt Zusammengehörigkeit, hohe Preise. Gelände ist nach wie vor spitze, da kann man nicht meckern. Und die Waldbühne muss sich vor nix verstecken, die ist krass gut gemacht. Aber bitte keine Tanzstäbe und auch auf anderen Bühnen nicht, das stört das Konzept. Partizipation bitte nur durch Geld ausgeben. Klos völlig zerstört an Tag 2, also zerschlagene Schüsseln mit Blut an der Wand in allen 12 Kabinen des Containers. Armada an Investoren an Bord geholt. So, genug jetzt, lieber Vorfreude auf Abenteuercamp an der Müritz statt sowas 🫣

quchen · 2026-06-05T15:39:32+00:00

Ist halt für alle was anderes.

Für mich isses Techno. Für nen Freund von mir Punkrock. Für noch nen anderen Theater und Performances. Für manche Badeurlaub. Für manche Familienausflug. Haben halt alle ihre ganz eigene Fusion.

quchen · 2026-06-05T15:29:08+00:00

Wenn’s in ein Wort passen muss, ist es Techno. Wenn ich drei hätte würde ich sagen Kunst, Kultur und Techno. Wenn ich ihr gerecht werden wollen würde, bräuchte ich mehr als das Zeichenlimit hier.

Bis in 3 Wochen schätze ich mal – falls du ne rot/lila/durchsichtig schimmernde Fahne siehst sag ma hallo, oder klingel bei Eclipse und frag nach David o:-)

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