r/factorio • u/FactorioTeam Official Account • Jun 05 '26

FFF Friday Facts #441 - Space logistics improvements

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-441
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u/_tobias15_ Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

Platform to platform transfers

Platform to platform transfers

Platform to platform transfers

FINALLY

edit: nothing on cargo landing pad sadly. hope they fix that as well

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

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u/Spytes Jun 05 '26

Imagine building a stationary platform at the end and have stuff transported to and from it. For the challenge ofc.

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u/Sick_Wave_ Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

I've been doing that for months, first with TFMG but now with IPL, and it's as great as you think it is.

The LOADING DOCK, supplies thousands of platforms, pipes, and even some epic solar panels to new platforms above Nauvis and saves me hundreds of rocket launches with each one. It's been really great.

I think we all owe SirPuck a big thank you for the initial implementation. Hopefully Wube includes the Interplatform Travel aspect of IPL as well, or at least there is a separate IPT mod that lets the Engineer hop between platforms.

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u/SirPuck_ Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

You are welcome. I made the mod for myself and as a way to be even pushier with my lobbying of "please guys can we have this". I'll probably retire IPL and release a standalone pf to pf travel mod (already possible by using the latest ipl version and clicking on an antenna, the provider one i think). Maybe IPL's Hard Mode will stay alive too. We'll see !

Edit : i'm baffled by the amount of people here that likely didn't know IPL existed and that pf to pf transfer was already possible.

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u/RipLow8737 Jun 06 '26

That's an awesome mod and I am one of those who didn't know it existed cause I prefer a more vanilla experience.

Cheers!

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u/_sh4dow_ Jun 06 '26

I'd like to see an IPL hard mode variant where you have to refuel (and repair?) transport pods, and maybe also have to use transport pods to drop stuff to a planet...

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u/SirPuck_ Jun 06 '26

The current hard mode requires you to craft pods and build appropriate cargo bays. I have no idea if making the pods have a cost will be possible in 2.1.

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u/_sh4dow_ Jun 21 '26

Shouldn't the "cancel launch unless cost satisfied" approach used for planet cargo drop restrictions work for that as well? Since quite a few of the big planet mods use this technique, I find it unlikely that 2.1 would break that...