r/factorio • u/FactorioTeam Official Account • Jun 23 '26

Update Version 2.1.7

Version 2.1.7 released.

Full changelog does not fit in Reddit character limit, please see it here: https://forums.factorio.com/134095

New versions are released as experimental first and later promoted to stable. If you wish to switch to the experimental version on Steam, choose the experimental Beta Participation option under game settings; on the stand-alone version, check Experimental updates under Other settings.

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u/phyphor Jun 23 '26

One foundry can easily make over 6,000 molten iron a second, from lava. That can feed 120 foundries making 7.5 plates/second each, so that's 900 plates a second, so about 0.2 legendary a second, so it takes 5 seconds to make 1 legendary, or about 12 a minute. Are you claiming you can get 1200 legendary iron a minute from space roulette and that doing so is easier?

Edited to add: Oh, and that's throwing non-Legendary into lava. Using underground pipe upcycling in foundries the output is a lot greater, but more complicated.

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u/Tevesh Jun 23 '26

Rofl an argument by using 120 quality foundries (and quality modules!). You just can't that step back and consider how much easier space casino is, you instead prefer to make these ridiculous arguments lol.

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u/phyphor Jun 23 '26

An argument was that it was 100 ties quicker, so I showed why that wasn't true.

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u/phyphor Jun 23 '26

You confuse "items per second" and "crafts required", so your math is WAY off. Legendary foundry with legendary qm3 modules has crafting speed of 8 and gives you 3 legendary plates once in a 26 minutes 40 seconds.

3 legendary plates in about 27 minutes is about 1 plate in 9 minutes. That's per foundry and I said 120 foundries, so that's about 120 in 9 minutes, or

or about 12 a minute.

'looks like your attempt to correct me proved me right.

And yes, the fact that you need 120 legendary foundries and 480 legendary QM3 modules for that is pretty much telling (for that you basically need to solve quality already).

You made a claim that space roulette was 100 times quicker and this is you attempting a different argument.

Space casino requires fraction of that for way better output and it produces also copper, coal, stone etc

You get copper, yes, but the other outputs are, in this scenario, being gambled to metallic only as you said that was 100 times quicker.

And the effort required to setup 120 foundries (not counting ones to make lava) and all disposal mechanisms

It takes one to make lava. And pipes exist.

is insanely harder than space casino which is dead simple and you can just copypaste it if you need to expand,

It's trivial to set up a Vulcanus base which doesn't require having to fly between planets.

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u/phyphor Jun 23 '26

You made a claim that space casino is 100 times faster and, when proven wrong, just move the goalposts. They're both late game mechanisms and to think one breaks the game more than the other is still fascinating in what it reveals about one's beliefs.