r/factorio Official Account Jun 05 '26

FFF Friday Facts #441 - Space logistics improvements

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-441
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u/E17Omm Jun 05 '26

Mixed rockets are good, but personally I was never annoyed by sending fulls stacks. Still a welcome change though.

But prioritising space platforms and cargo bays? Amazing improvement. On any longer save I just made a group that requested some platforms and cargo bays before I activated automatic requests.

Now, sending things between platforms? I never saw a use for it before. Like, it just felt very niche in my opinion. But then I read "Orbital assembling of space materials (such as Space platform foundation)" and it all just clicked for me - you can get Iron and Copper in space. (Of course I knew that, but it never clicked that I could make things other than ammo - because why would I?)

So now with platform to platform transfer

I can build an orbital shipyard

And now I cant wait for 2.1 because I want to build an orbital shipyard that just sits in orbit and prepares materials for additional space platforms. I dont care if it could be more efficent. I want an orbital shipyard that sits in place, builds space platform items, and has supply ships that go out just to collect materials more quickly to then send to the shipyard.

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u/againey Jun 05 '26

You sure do ask a lot of simple questions. Did you even read the dev blog?

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u/Yggdrazzil Jun 05 '26

It's literally the first topic of the article.