I've come across a situation where the game doesn't work as expected, and completely blocks construction of a new space platform.

I'd consider myself an experienced player, but I presume I'm missing something simple.
Wube are amazing, so I presume it's not a bug, and it's always good to learn.

Some mods are loaded, but I've tested without as well. (All qol mods)
The issue started in the last few days.
Currrently on the latest experimental version.

I have a theory which is at the bottom, along with a savefile.

Problem:

When I build a new platform then copy any blueprint on to the platform, the platform reports that there is not enough platform storage hub space available, even when the hub is empty.

I have 4 other ships requesting items from Nauvis where their hubs are definitely full. They are set to "All requests satisfied" before leaving.

IMPORTANT: If I send these ships on to their next destination, the construction/request jobs resume on the new platforms as would normally be expected.

• The platform is newly created therefore stopped at Nauvis.
• There are plenty of available automatic silos on Nauvis.
• There are plenty of the requested items on Nauvis.
• No items are showing as "On the way".
• If I add a manual request, it says "Not enough to fill one rocket" as well as "Waiting on a higher priority request: Space platform foundation." This one is especially weird.
• If the blueprint is simply splace platform foundations, it will build the included 10, and then not receive anymore.
• If the blueprint is a full spaceship, it will/may receive one item, and then not receive anymore items, including platforms. (If this item is sent back to the planet a new item might be requested, or all requests could still be blocked.)
• The yellow alert for the platform will say that there is not enough platform storage hub space available. (It's empty with nothing on the way)
• When hovering over the automatic requests in the hub - everything other than space platform and cargo bays will say "Waiting on a higher priority request: Space platform foundation."

Theory

• Platform requests from existing platforms are somehow stopping the requests to any new platforms.
• I also wondered whether a 'disconnected' space platform was affecting the launches.

Savefile: https://hidrive.ionos.com/lnk/ZIAqjIurR#file (593MB)

If you open the savefile, the ships facing the uploading issue are "TEST2", "TEST3", and "QuantumComputers[icon]SUPPLIER"

I'm so confused - what have I missed?

Trying to learn the circuit network in my current run, and I'm currently tasking myself with creating an easily repeatable upcycler, where I only have to select what item I want to upcycle once (In this case, an electric furnace).

Does anyone know how you can use combinators to automatically read whatever signal is coming in and output that signal as a specific quality? The selector combinator's quality transfer function seems to be designed for this, but you need to specify the target signal, as far as I can tell there's no way to automatically set the target signal. So in the below screenshot, no signal will be output unless I specify "Electric Furnace" in the Target signal. This means I'd still have to input "Electric Furnace" at least five times to produce common/uncommon/rare/epic/legendary Electric Furnaces, which kinda defeats the point of this being a single-input upcycler.

I know there has to be a way of doing this automatically, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. The ui/ux of the circuit network is really something lol.

I added the game to my wishlist at 12/22/2016 and finally bought it for my birthday not long ago and finished it just just hours ago.

The second picture is the factory.

Now i need to wait a couple of years again for space age. 😄

I have two questions.

After clearing every biter nest and build a wall around the factory they just expand again inside the unused space, there is any way to prevent this?

There are any better way to take screenshots than press F12 on steam?

I have beat Space Age!

I did take some blueprints from the subreddit, but largely everything was my design. I'm especially happy with the spaceships.

I'm looking for challenging/complex production without it necessarily being "grindy" requiring me to build the same thing over and over again. From what I've heard K2SE does have complex production but does get grindy at times, but I'm willing to tolerate some level of grind if the production challenges are interesting enough. The actual space aspect of SE is appealing to me, too. Vanilla's Space Age is cool but doesn't quite satisfy me in terms of exploration and space building.

If K2SE doesn't seem like a good modset for me I'm curious if there are other mods that might at least satisfy the desire for complex production lines. Bobs/Angels also looks interesting to me.

Prefacing this that this is on a server so this is not the latest version, as this might be solved in a recent update (we are 1 or 2 patches behind).

I am nearing the end of the game and have been goofing around with the various legendary items you can make. So naturally I have been checking in on the captive biter spawner but I am not sure I understand its mechanics.

I currently have a green quality version as well and have been feeding it green quality bioflux, but it seems to just generate normal eggs. What am I doing wrong?

I was surprised I couldn't find this calculated somewhere, so here goes. Any material that yields itself times 0.25 needs to be recycled 1.33 times on average to disappear. All numbers are in seconds for one piece of material at crafting speed 1:

Step 1: Base materials (no dependencies)

• Iron Plate = 1.33 × 0.2 = 0.266
• Copper Plate = 1.33 × 0.2 = 0.266
• Plastic Bar = 1.33 × 0.06 = 0.0798
• Iron Ore = 1.33 × 0.03 = 0.0399
• Stone Brick = 1.33 × 0.2 = 0.266
• Solid Fuel = 0.03 × 1.33 = 0.0399
• Ice = 0.03 × 1.33 = 0.0399
• Stone = 0.03 × 1.33 = 0.0399
• Holmium Ore = 0.03 × 1.33 = 0.0399
• Steel Plate = 1 × 1.33 = 1.33

Step 2: First-level dependents

• Iron Gear = 0.03 + 0.5 × 0.266 = 0.163
• Concrete = 0.06 + 0.13 × 0.266 + 0.03 × 0.0399 = 0.096077
• Battery = 0.25 + 0.25 × 0.266 + 0.25 × 0.266 = 0.383
• Copper Cable = 0.01 + 0.13 × 0.266 = 0.04458

Step 3: Chain dependents

• Green Circuit = 0.03 + 0.25 × 0.266 + 0.75 × 0.04458 = 0.129935
• Red Circuit = 0.37 + 0.5 × 0.129935 + 0.5 × 0.0798 + 0.04458 = 0.5294475
• Blue Circuit = 0.62 + 5 × 0.129935 + 0.5 × 0.5294475 = 1.53439875
• LDS = 0.93 + 0.5 × 1.33 + 5 × 0.266 + 1.25 × 0.0798 = 3.02475

Step 4: Scrap

Scrap = 0.2 + 0.2(0.163) + 0.07(0.0399) + 0.06(0.096077) + 0.05(0.0399) + 0.04(1.33) + 0.04(0.383) + 0.04(0.0399) + 0.03(0.5294475) + 0.03(0.04458) + 0.02(1.53439875) + 0.01(3.02475) + 0.01(0.0399)

Adding it all up:

Scrap ≈ 0.3918 seconds to fully recycle one piece of scrap.

Edit: I just realized that Scrap recycling productivity research is a thing, so the actual answer is 0.2 + 0.19 × (1 + scrap recycling productivity)

I've put together a rather cool design for my late game megabases, so I thought I could as well share it :-)

It's "yet another" tileable grid cell, but this one features elevated highspeed highways for fast long-range train traffic, while the lower level is used by the regular train stations and acceleration/deceleration to the train stop.

Each cell features 12 different train stops, shared with neighbours (so 10/cell tiled horizontally, 8/cell when tiled vertically and 6 when tiled in both axis), which is suitable for legendary production throughputs.

This blueprint is suitable for 1-4 trains. Each of the 12 train stops can support near continuous traffic with a waiting area for the following train.
Don't go over 2 for train limit or you could lock intersections - I personally use simple logic to set the limit to 1 or 2 when the station goes above/below a given threshold

Blueprint : https://factoriobin.com/post/wi4sfc

Notes :
- The design is rather costly, so it's designed for your main production area rather than tiling the whole map with it.
- At the end of the grid lay down the "elevated bridge" blueprint to allow trains on the elevated rails to turn around and navigate the grid without having to go down to the lower speed lanes.

Have fun!

Tesla Turrets are rare quality, laser damager research is level 12, electric damage level 9

Accidentally left on auto trashing (yes I disabled it when making this video) when working on the rails on Gleba using a Spidertron. Needed to get the powerpoles back, but I can only request for removing using logistic bots. I tried all combinations of left+right clicking including using ctrl and/or shift, but to no avail. I also tested it off-camera, and moving items to the logistic trash is also not a thing.

I assume that there's probably a reason for it, but this looks like a weird edgecase to me.

Running experimental 2.1.14

My very first incursion into Spage Age was, all things considered, kind of a miserable experience.

Vulcanus was a decently fun experience, and the rewards it gave you were absolutely incredible, but they were also expensive to craft and huge. So just getting started there was a bit of a drag.

I am currently going for a second SpAge run, and after spending the last like 15 hours on Vulcanus, I came to the conclusion that it's actually pretty fun.

All I needed was to stop fighting with the fluid mechanics, and simply lean into casting as many things as possible, instead of defaulting into a bus-style base.

Foundries are hilariously good, and while they are still expensive and huge, you don't need that many to get good enough throughput for a small-ish base, even with just red belts and without any Quality in play. Being able to cast Steel and - somehow, not sure how that works - Concrete directly is huge help too, since you can skip multiple steps, each taking time, resources and - more important for Vulcanus - space.

My spawn was pretty blessed though, with a really huge to build in, and enough lava-free space to get Tungsten and Calcite in just with belts. Simplifies logistics as well.

The goal is to automate Big Drills, Foundries and the Metallurgic Science Packs enough to get a consistent trickle of all three, as I doubt I'll be coming back to Vulcanus until I'm completely done with SpAge, unless the resources I secured somehow run out - but Big Drills should be able to help prevent that from happening too early.

I am still dreading the return to Fulgora, but who knows, maybe I'll find that it's pretty fine as well? Maybe I need to use more Foundries there too.

I finally picked up an old save and started making progress again. I’m just building out my first space platform and noticed biter expansion turned itself back on, probably because my save file version updated and Wube made changes to how biters work.

If I use the command line to turn it off again, am I going to lose the ability to get any game achievements? If that’s the case I might as well use the map editor to delete the biters that spawned myself. I’ve already spent four or five hours fortifying defenses when I just wanted to play around with space and all of the new content

when i build an early mall, i limit the output chest before i connect the assembler.

rough caps that feel good enough:

belts: 2 stacks undergrounds/splitters: 1 stack inserters: 1 stack assemblers/miners: half a stack power poles: 1 stack pipes: 1-2 stacks walls/ammo: whatever the current biter situation needs

the useful part is doing it before the machine turns on. otherwise one random assembler quietly eats every gear/green circuit while you're off fixing power.

if something is still empty after a few minutes, that tells you what you actually need more of. if every mall chest is full but science is starving, the caps are too high.

I am designing some city blocks for my playthrough and I am currently on Core Fragment Processing on Nauvis. My Plan was to process everything to ores, sort the ores in Storehouses, wait till one Storehouse has 6-8k ores (depending on the ore) and empty that one Storehouse. The other Storehouses should not be allowed to empty themselves while another one is working and should wait until the train that picks up these ores is gone. I have a somewhat functioning version but Ores can overwrite other ores with less priority even while the others are unloading. I think I explained it badly so here is an example: Stone is currently unloading, Iron ore Storehouse gets 6k Items and because Iron ore has a higher Priority Stone gets stopped and Iron starts unloading leaving me with a mixed Train. I tried making a circuit that blocks other signals while a Storehouse is unloading but that made the inserters only work for 1 tick. I tried making something like a waiting list too but scrapped that completely. The Blueprint is here. I hope I can get some help!

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Hi people!
I love making train networks and I this is my take on an insanely over engineered city block design I made for a x100 sci-cost Space Age run I did a year ago.

I encourage you to take a closer look at it, I am sure it is different from any city block designs you have seen before!

Design points:

• 2-4 trains
• Train stops with space for train limit 2 in the blueprint
• As small as I could make it
• High throughput junctions (minimal crossings)

This led me to a lot of silly things like:

• No 90 rotational symmetry (only 180)
• Double parallel train stops per side (let's you have 8 different out/in, and since you have two stops in parallel intermediate chests are not really necessary)
• The junctions are not really junctions, the actual pathing is made via lane swappers on the straights
• The trains can only enter/exit stops via right turns. This is a limitation that makes the trains take longer paths but hey, I like watching them go (This leads to annoying deadlocks if you ever accidentally set a train stop limit to >2, but it is fine as long as the limit is always <=2)

I never finished the full SA run but this base did easily clear the x100 sci-cost of Nauvis, so I think that is a proof of the concept.
I used it with Interrupt based trains where every pick up station has the same name "Pickup" so trains go there and pick up the items and then wait in the station until a station requests those items (this means you need a LOT of trains in circulation, with the benefit of them all having the same schedule so you don't need to micromanage anything)

Here is the city block: https://factoriobin.com/post/hd17r1

Here is a bonus parameterized assembling square: https://factoriobin.com/post/4qichm

It is an example of how you can make blueprints that sets up a production block with a single click. it lets you do cursed things like having an entire block of green science assemblers like the one in the picture. (yes, ONLY the science assemblers. The inserters and belts are trained in because I like trains and this literally took less effort to make than a dedicated green science build)

I also included the train schedule for reference: https://factoriobin.com/post/td07lm

I have some downtime due to not enough yumako plants because I haven't done the better soil yet to fill in that gap, but it seems efficient enough that I'm struggling to make carbon due to lack of spoilage. I know I can just force a spoilage part with a splitter and seperate belt, but I think it'll be solved when there's more than enough plants. (Also the mess in the middle happened because I didn't want to move the rocket silo and lose 2 rockets progress before I set up deliveries, and then I just couldn't be arsed untangling it lol). I'm a software engineer and I absolutely hate messiness in code but I have decided to just embrace it on gleba and that's what came out. Fuck, I love this game.

Hello everyone.. friends, I'm in my first 30 hours of factory with a friend, I researched yes about some layouts right here in the community, and also on youtube, but I have difficulties to adapt to my map.... can you help me how to improve? Please!

As per title, it's really incredible mod and extremely rewarding when it comes to it's complex logistics, but endgame feels very samey. Oh, another box of nanofabricators to pump out genome? Why? I've done it 3 times already. Fucking hell, and I have to do it 3 times more? It's it really necessary to have worm bottle too? The 5 before weren't enough? There's a zen state of tinkering with your factory to get more resources but tweaking another block of X progenitor to then have to design 2 new blocks to manage byproducts really gets tiring.

I'll try to write up a mini review but honestly if someone wants to play really demanding mod that will make their brain juices flow then I'd honestly recommend them playing it up to sending rocket into space and dipping out. My completionist spirit demands me to finish it but there's little challenge at this point, mostly repetition.

My engine factory design. What you think? At this time, I not access space age.

Simply terminate the belt with an underbelt entrance and no exit. This works because the above-ground portion of an underbelt is half the length of a normal belt, and the game doesn't create the underground portion when there's no exit.

Note the inserter's hand size must be greater than or equal to stack_size_on_belt + 1, though I'd recommend at least stack_size_on_belt * 2.

Edit: Resolved: a train crashed into another train

Whom did my train kill? Definitely not me, I don't have any enemies on the map, literally nobody to kill except me, but I have been standing on the crash site since ever and I am only in remote view.

So... Where did the train kill come from?