Can't do that without editor tools though.

Edit: I've used "editor extensions" to create hot water, which is not possible outside of mods, but the underlying system is implemented fully and utilised by some overhaul mods for actual gameplay.

tldr: new map turns into a painted city around your spawn (only floor art, doesn't block building), with teleports, rail corridors and ore fields that grow the further out you go. you can use it just for the look or with the kit for a mega start. it's my first mod and still wip, so I really want to know if this is interesting to anyone

so a bit of background. I'm a dev and got into factorio not long ago and I'm pretty hooked. wanted to build a real megabase and was looking for a mod that skips the slow early game and also gives you a really cool map to build on. didn't find something like that so I started building it as a hobby project. it's for 2.1 + space age, not on the portal yet. also full disclosure, I'm not a very experienced player (around 300 hours), so I'd especially love to hear from people who've actually built megabases

you can use it 2 ways: - just the look and feel: only the city, no free stuff, you build your base on top of it - mega start: the city + a warehouse full of sorted items, research and gear so you can go big right away

what's in it now: - a round city, works from 1000 to 10000 tiles. big circle around spawn, straight main bus with nothing on it, 4 themed areas with landmarks that glow at night - city blocks of 96 tiles with fast roads, and a grid overlay (ctrl+alt+g) that matches blueprint snapping - everything is floor tiles + lights + map labels, so you build on top and the map view still shows the city - with klonan's teleporters: a pad in every grid cell named like A1, C4 etc, plus pads at the landmarks - rail corridors next to the main roads (didn't want trains on roads), and a book of rail blueprints that fit the grid - ore starts small near spawn and gets bigger further out so you actually need to expand - train stops name themselves like "IRON 4 · C3 load" (works with LTN)

the kit (optional): - warehouse next to spawn with sorted chests: belts, inserters, poles, drills, furnaces, trains, rails, robots, roboports and more - research done up to blue science + trains - power armor already filled with roboports - small ore patches + oil + uranium right next to spawn

would love to hear: 1. is this interesting to you at all? would you start a megabase on a map like this? 2. which features do you think are cool, and what would you add if you could? 3. what do you think about the look and feel?

all screenshots are from the game (with HD Age and Alien Biomes)

I think I'll post it later, once I've polished it.

Bugs broke into the iron/copper outpost, so I broke into the family atomics for the 4th time this week.

this is the lab deseighn im planing to use but im not sure this is optimal or would even work what do you guys think

I've been trying to create some compact belt designs that fit within the 32x32 grid - here is one for green circuits. The design will work with lower level assemblers and belts at a lower output level. Let me know what you think. I'll put the string in a comment.

Hi! There's just so much stuff to do in game now (and do properly now that I have drones)... My thought / work process goes something like this, but point 5 is the most impactful if you don't wanna read all that:

1. Do I go for purple or yellow science? Well, my progress is slow as a rock and am gonna get more powerful enemies soon, so I'll target yellow science for more firepower

2. Now, what do I need for it? Damn everything! But first of all iron

3. Since iron spots are gonna run out, I gotta make a dedicated refinery scaleable for up to 8 lvl2 belts of production capacity, which will get ore shipped-to by trains from different ore patches (currently at 1 belt capacity). This adds 3 stations (ore export, ore import, plates export), plates export has 4 waiting areas (as do all my next stations for every non-raw export)

4. Same for copper, plan +3 stations, currently +1 as ore is on site

5. Uh, but these stations needs A TON of space... But expanding means destroying biter nests, which raises evolution a lot! Game already taxes my slow ass with evolution from time+pollution, does it even want me to expand or not?! And so I cumulatively spend literal hours thinking of the best way to squeeze everything I need, given all the space requirements by train stations. I don't wanna ship stuff over distance by belts, trains are much more flexible for adding new importers / exporters

6. Green circuits time! I'll need a lot, so they must be easily scaleable. Made an OK spammable blueprint for those. +3 stations (pulling resources from copper and iron refineries)

7. I'll need plastic and other oil derivatives, gotta design a scaleable derivatives refinery instead of the pipe lasagna in my starting base! +5 stations, maybe 6 if I make it produce rocket fuel in mass later

8. Might as well set up an acid-processing plant too, and it might as well make batteries too, I'll need those for my Grand solar panel idea (building solars in a single line along a railway stretching out into infinity, worked-on by a separate logistics network). +6 stations (yeah even importing water because I like trains)

9. Oh, now my first oil patch is running low... I gotta get a new one! And so I venture to set up a new one, discovering that laser turrets are quite neat. I decide that my starting oil patch will be the central oil storage, polling oil from remote patches and distributing it wherever needed (currently it's the starting base and refinery from #6)

10. Gonna need steel too! +3 stations (2 for steel refinery, 1 for new ore patch)

11. Hmm, I use trains a lot, they could use a dedicated refueling/waiting station array with rocket fuel, that's a neat idea

12. Now, what does yellow science need? BLUE circuits?! I haven't even made red yet! And I think I should produce greens for reds on-site instead of importing them from #6, just feels like a better idea...

13. Tomorrow I'll do a red circuit station, but... Is my current solar setup even good enough to support everything when it's turned on?! Maybe I gotta expand to using uranium? Idk... -1h of pondering

14. Oh, and the new oil patch is already down to 633%, first is at 400%, maybe I gotta get a yet another oil patch first... Maybe I should turn off the battery factory for now?

15. Ooh, and I'll need stone products for lots of other stuff too, maybe I should make a stone pipeline that exports both raw rocks and bricks, which could use separating stone providers from refineries too...... But I'm running out of biter-free space, should I expand into some nests? But won't that raise evo?

Aaaaaaaa! So much stuff to do and consider! And I'm already at 0.71 evo, I'm afraid imma just get run-over once max level of biters spawns because I didn't get dmg upgrades from yellow science. Am I doing smth wrong?

Thank you in advance ;_;

Does molten iron in iron pipes make no sense to you? Are you sick of tidy and efficient foundry setups? Would you rather be forced to build spaghetti in tight spaces? Then I got a mod for you!

I took inspiration from fusion power: molten fluids cannot go into pipes, and foundries must be connected directly to each other to pass lava or metals between them. Factories have to be built adjacent to or between lava lakes to have access to lava, instead of sitting in open ash plains far way from Vulcanus' primary resource.

I like how fusion generator plasma connection placement requires spaghetti arangements, and I tried to replicate the same feeling with foundries. Foundry being a square makes it way harder, but I think I managed to get something usable yet sufficiently messy.

I rebuilt my Vulcanus base with this mod, and I quite like the result. The factory feels very different - lots of manufacturing happens right at the edge of a lava lake, and the planet feels much more about lava processing than plain Space Age does. Lava lakes also become a much more useful area because of much easier access to lava.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/passthrough-foundries

only after throwing biter babies into the vacuum of space did i start thinking we might be bad people, but on the other hand if i didn’t do this i’d just be forced to kill them when they matured anyways🤔

I have an assembling machine which switches between crafting pipes, rocket silos, and other things for non-negotiable reasons. I tried setting a constant for how many times the ingredients to request, but it is too high for the rocket silo and too low for the pipes. Without manually inputting the rate for each, how would I natively output the rate as a signal?

if my calculations are corect, this "should" eventually be able to support 2 4-wagon trains per second per space science kind. hopefully.

I'm about leaving Nauvius and something tells me that it's better to set up some perimeter defense. For now I have small groups of lasers (2-4) in all choke points. 1-2 random biters bother me once in hour at best. So what is the easiest/quickest solution?

This game is pretty good, cant wait to put in like over a 1000 hours lol

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Logistics requires space science, and once I have logistics building and stocking rockets gets easier.

So this is the interim step.

Combinators do a simple inventory control 10 of each in the collectors, 10 of each on the belt. (Could probably increase that a bit, I just don't want them too full to collect, so limit of 14 or each might be fine)

Hub unloads spare chunks so they sideload.

Not many spm, but some. Should be enough to unlock logistics requests to make loading rockets easy.

Good evening all,

I am far enough into the game that Fulgora is becoming a quality ingredients farm and factory. I don't plan on keeping anything except a chest of each resource in normal quality and then stockpiling and using epic and legendary quality ingredients for all other builds. To do this, I am using a recycling block, that exclusively does scrap before it enters an upcycling block that attempts to upcycle as much as possible before going through a separate recycling block and repeating until void or high enough quality. I've seen plenty of boxy requester chest upcyclers, but I am trying to make this all belt fed. Below is what I have so far, just looking for people smarter than me to give tips or thoughts on my current thought process below. I will be building and tweaking the blueprint over the next few days and will send an update with a blueprint when I am done.

There are a total of 18 ingredients that can be made from scrap either on the first or second recycle, these are the items that we are looking to upcycle, with productivity whenever possible.

First, red and green circuits get sent to EM plants to be turned in to blue circuits due to it's a researchable productivity bonus that can get up to 300% with the proper amounts of science. I ship in sulfur from Gleba to get the sulfuric acid needed for the blue circuits.

The next one is LDS which also gets productivity from science. Copper, plastic, and steel all go in to this line making the products in an assembly machine. (I know it is more efficient to cast it with a foundry for the LDS Shuffle, but this is on Fulgora so an assembly machine will have to do.) The extra steel that comes off of this is getting turned into steel chests before being fed back in to the recycling line.

The only way I found to nicely upcycle batteries is to turn them into accumulators in an EM plant. The only other ingredient they take is iron plates which we will get further down the line.

holmium ore and stone are sent along a line to have the normal qualities be turned into solution which can be pumped elsewhere on the base. Any other quality of either product is sent into a recycler loop to destroy it. (High-quality stone can be useful for legendary heating towers, but that's it, so I might try and keep a small quantity)

Wube broke my heart when they took out the concrete -> hazard concrete upcycle path, so it joins copper wire, LDS, blue circuits, and iron ore in going straight through the upcycle loop in to the upper recyclers to try again without upcycling. (These are the products that I'm not sure if I should be doing anything other than recycle)

Stone bricks are turned into stone walls, while the glut of iron gears are recycled directly into iron chest assembly machines.

Ice and solid fuel are kept in small quantities as normal quality before the rest is voided.

I am also using flowthrough belts for all of the ingredients to prevent backing up, making sure that the whole system continues to cycle.

I'm sorry there aren't pictures, I'm not at my own computer right now but can post some later if anyone has questions or thoughts. I'm happy to hear any thoughts or feedback on this potential design, Thank you for reading!

I've thought of supplying the outpost with ammo for turrets as lasers eat a lot of energy, but, given that my solar arrays currently provide a hefty reserve even at night, I think I'll be fine with lasers

I'm finishing up a K2SO run and want to try something different. I was thinking K2SE as it seems like a different experience. If it's not that different what are other recommended packs? The ones I know of and plan to play eventually are:

AngelBob's (the SA modpack)

Nullius

Py (I tried, got 100 hours in then stopped due to irl stuff) also might wait until their space addon is out... whenever that is)

Seablock (depends on if it gets updated to 2.1)

Pyblock (if not seablock/Py)

I made a big space platform a while back in 2.0 SA. I was inspired by Angkor Wat, a temple that covers one square mile. This required 2.7 million platforms, is propelled by 2.2 thousand legendary thrusts, and reaches a whopping top speed of 135 km/s.

The platform is largely self-constructed with an onboard platform factory. Interestingly, production isn't the bottleneck; the platform placement algorithm is, topping out at about 60 tiles per second.

there really isn't a place for them because trains and belts both cover whatever niches trucks could have and trains would almost always be better

but i think it could be cool to build intersections and avoid traffic accidents

Blueprint:
https://factoriobin.com/post/kf7683

Lots of of combinator logic in this one! Sushi belt buses everything in and out of the hub, including fusion fuel cells and fluoroketone cold barrels. Many features see on board display panels and quick startup logistic menu. This was super fun to design and test!