So I have been trying to beat shattered planet, trying various things. One thing I've tried is throttling by cutting off engine fuel to engines based on damage taken, on the theory that the slower the platform goes, the fewer asteroids it has to deal with. I have a big, 6 ending platform that runs between a max of around 190, and can throttle down to about half that by shutting down all but two engines.

To my eye, it doesn't seem to make any difference in asteroid density. It just takes longer, with the end effect of using more ammo to go less distance. Coming to a complete stop, of course nearly shuts off the flow.

So now I have it in my head that controlling velocity doesn't affect asteroid speed or volume, which would suck.

I also can't get interrupts to work properly, and nearly stranded my platform before I noticed :-/ But that's a different post.

Anyway, is velocity affecting asteroid density, or not?

Going for the speed achievements. I had the great idea that fewer asteroids meant I could race to planets and Solar System Edge with lighter ships.

...turns out it also applies to asteroid chunks. My ships needed a full hour to refuel, and space science took several hours to get the research for getting to Vulcanus.

RESTART

The mod changes the recipes very weirdly.

When my 6 x nuc reactor design finally reaches 530 degrees all at the same time

If this is spam let me know and I'll remove it, or a mod can just delete it for me ^^; Factorio posts welcome here as well!

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Intended to replace the dead [email protected]. thanks to its instance dying and its mod not recreating it elsewhere.

Shows how https://www.factorio.com/galaxy grew over time. Also has a tool to show where your star is and find whom you're neighbors with :)

There's a mod I want to make, but I've never made a mod for any game before. What resources are there for starting out?

I know programming well enough so that's not a barrier, this is more about mod structure and testing

These look neat!

My favorites:

Drag building produces one merge undo action per the whole drag, instead of the individual undo actions for every entity built. Space platform "request missing materials for construction" will no longer request items for entity ghosts which can't yet be built

Decided I wanted a run that forced me to scale up instead of just "winging it" because hey after a few research steps I will be able to make it better anyway.

Thought to play "marathon mode", which is vanilla except research cost is multiplied by 4, but ended up going for a multiplier of 100 instead.

To give an example of what this means: Researching solar panels costs 25000 red and green science.

I found this to be an interesting challenge! I not only have to build large and optimized builds with low-tier tech. I also need to be extremely careful with managing biter evolution and pollution. Just red ammo is locked behind several thousand science packs, and I have expanded to 8 ore patches and my perimeter is just tightly packed turrets, because I have not let myself afford researching walls yet.

Do you think assemblers are for suckers? Do you want to pack everything into one assembler because that's just efficient? Well say no more fam I've got your back! The Chesterizer is the all in one solution for all your chest needs. Just set some values conveniently split across multiple locations and away it goes. It's like magic!

By neuroplastic on YouTube.

Here's the reddit post inspiring it: https://old.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1c9glkz/the_antiqualityoflife_mod_list/

And a list, commentary removed. This isn't what's in the video. The video addons are in a follow up comment below. https://lemm.ee/post/55333560/18207221

Maintenance Production Scrap 2, Rampant Maintenance, Bot Servicing , Dirty Barrels , Small Fluids ,

Logistics Belt Overflow, Powered Belts, Limited Logistic Bots , Spilled Items , Undeletable Fluids , Realistic Underground Belts , Smaller Stack Sizes ,

Enemies Armored Biters, Explosive Biters, Frost Biters and Toxic Biters , Will-o'-the-Wisps Updated ,

Fire Power Overload , Wildfire , Explosive Biters , Arson (Optionally, add Water Turret and Fire Extinguisher ),

Environment Alien Biomes , Dirt Path , DivOresity, Wreckage Pollution , Pollution Visuals, Oxygen (Patched) , Nauvis Day , Careful Driver ,

Misc Amnesia , Hardcore Start , Death Curses , Heavy Inventory , Add

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I started a second space age play thru. I felt it was a little fast so I upped research 5x. I also decided to embrace quality, as I barely touched it in play thru #1.

It's expensive. Let's just assume 10% quality. If you have 10% to get uncommon, then you have to make 10 to get 1. If you recycle the other 9, then you get 25% back and 10% of that can be quality. So you get roughly 2 normal back and 0.2 uncommon.

If you make 50, you get 5 on first run. On recycle, you get 1 uncommon and 10 normal back. So you can count those as -10 on the initial cost. Net result is 6 uncommon cost 40 normal.

Am I doing that math right?

I used a blueprint because im real bad at platform design right now. Took me a few days to get the legendary stuff to build out the ship, and 12h travel time to get there.

I was a little let down there wasn’t anything at all, not even an Easter egg. But at least I did it!

Mostly bug fixes.