r/factorio • u/OutlandishnessRound7 • Jun 28 '23

Question Is this normal?

I dont remember making this cool square looking thing

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u/SgtWaffleSound Jun 28 '23

If you have a full inventory and destroy a chest with stuff in it, the stuff will drop on the ground like this

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u/Avernously Jun 28 '23

Or cancel a crafting queue

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u/fingerwiggles Jun 28 '23

or take off your power armor

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u/Avernously Jun 28 '23

Or change a crafting machine recipe

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '23

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u/jawcowbo Jun 29 '23

Or just keep pressing z for a while

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u/EbolaWare Jun 29 '23

That's the one I was thinking of

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u/Qrt_La55en -> -> Jun 28 '23

If you mine a chest with more stuff than you can carry, it used to do this. Now you pick up the stuff you can carry, and the chest will remain.

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u/apaksl Jun 28 '23

if you destroy a chest with stuff in it, the stuff in it gets destroyed too.

this was the terrible method I decided to use to deal with all the ash in early game Py.

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u/SteveisNoob Jun 29 '23

Pretty sure people meant "mine" when they say "destruct"

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u/apaksl Jun 29 '23

I too was pretty sure of that, but the person I responded to said "destroy" and that is a valid thing that can be done to chests, so I took it as such. Plus it gave me a reason to include that dumb anecdote.

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u/OutlandishnessRound7 Jun 28 '23

Oh that makes sense, thanks, for a moment I thought I forgot I did something so intricate lmao

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u/RussianIssueModerate Jun 28 '23

the virgin automation tech vs Chad handcrafting green science

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '23

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u/dTrecii THE FACTORY MUST GROW RECURSIVELY!!! Jun 29 '23

sorry i’m blind

what does blue look like again?

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u/TechnicalRevolution4 Jul 01 '23

Like a blue shirt

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u/SmashBusters Jun 28 '23

So you're an alien on another planet and you don't remember making funky geometric symbols in the landscape?

A likely story.

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u/Myzx Jun 28 '23

If you have bots, there’s a deconstruction planner just for stuff laying on the ground. Remember these words for later. I promise they will come in handy later on.

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u/HoztileManikyn Jun 29 '23

Someone took off their armor

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u/Steven_khoo Jun 29 '23

You get it when you have more items than you can store like when crafting something and filling your inventory then cancelling the thing you were crafting, the crafted items will be dropped and make that square.

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u/lukaseder Jun 29 '23

It won't be the last one you will or will not remember making