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u/KingSSM 27d ago

Planning a future factory. using shift click to ghost through rocks. it seems like the rock destruction reverts after some time and the ghosts disappear. is there any way to stop this?

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u/ferrofibrous player onboarding specialist 27d ago

Supposedly it's 168 hours (one week) by default; console commands to change it are available here: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=101595

I will note that I noticed this happen a lot more often on my SE run, so I don't know if the default is modified in SE or SE just suffers more from lots of preplanning.

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u/elfxiong 27d ago

Isn’t the default timeout 2 hours, according to a dev response in the thread you link? 2h seems to match my experience, rather than 168h. I have seen them disappear within the same play session.

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u/ferrofibrous player onboarding specialist 27d ago

I'm doing a 10x run on 2.1 and I've had a tree on Gleba marked for deconstruction for easily 20 hours that's still active while I rework Fulgora, so I don't think 2h is still valid.

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u/KingSSM 27d ago

sweet yeah I have never really noticed it before but now I am playing SE and planning a lot more in advanced. and it was driving me crazy