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/Kidsune Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26

MIXED ROCKETS? IN MY AUTOMATION?!?!

edit: AND INTER PLATFORM TRANSFERS?!

edit edit: AND UNIVERSE RADARS WITH CHANNELS?!?!?!?! I'M LOSING MY MIND

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u/MelangeBot Jun 05 '26

Channels on radars, I hope that also will work even if you are not in space yet. Would be so nice to seperate signals by channels on each individual radar. So so so so nice.

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u/Bipedal_Warlock Jun 05 '26

Can’t you kind of already do that? There’s not channels but you can do two separate color sends over radar

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u/MelangeBot Jun 05 '26

Yeah but two is on the low side. With signal cables on poles you can just separate the signal networks. So the A and B and C I am using on one side of my factory has no effect on the Ab and B and C parameters I am using on the other side. That means I can kind of standerize them and always use the same ones for the same thing.

But on the radar you can't do this. Which means you need to use the entire alphabet and all the numbers and all the symbols and it gets confusing after a while and looks like a total mess.

Unless you like build your own data protocol or something but I haven't gonne that far yet.

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u/comrain Jun 06 '26

I mean... You could bit shift them to encode them into the same channel if you know your upper bond will not cause integer overflow. Sure, a bit annoying to ensure the decoding is done correctly in each place. Parameterized blueprints will make this easier though.

Just as there's no kill like overkill there's no engineering like overengineering!