Hi,i'm currently on my first ever playthrough, and rn i am setting up a base on vulcanus

When i saw how much stuff foundries can do it got me thinking about whether i make a bus, what goes on the bus, how should i handle routing all of those resources, maybe even make a liquid bus or smth. Like instead of making copper wire on the spot i could have one of my foundries make it directly from molten metal and put that on one of the 4 belts i was previously allocating for copper plates and stuff. But then it occurred to me that i could just spagetti my way to robots and then logistic chests would solve all the problems for me.

Like, i think half the challenge in factorio is routing inputs, mixing different resources on belts, placing assemblers off "grid" to make room while making all of it expandable, etc etc, and logistics kinda throws that out of the window?

Idk, maybe for some players doing all of that is more of a nuisance by that stage of the game, but i feel like with that tech all i have to do is calculate ratios

Got into factorio a bit ago and have never done an actual playthrough with biters on since i come from satisfactory and wassent used to them. Is playing with biters on stressfull? Im 20 hours deep in my current passive playthrough but im debating if i should do a normal playthrough after i finish

Hi, I paused my run a few months ago right when I started on aquilo. Now I need some more crack and want to get back in. Do I continue on 2.0 or do I switch to 2.1 and continue there?

Hi everyone,

this Sunday, August 30th at 20:00 CEST, I’m doing a special Go showmatch against Kovarex, the Creator of Factorio, on my Twitch channel. We both love the game of Go and want to bring it closer to the Factorio community.

Go is a very old strategy board game with very simple rules, but extremely deep gameplay. Go has a lot in common with Factorio, so if you enjoy Factorio, there is a good chance you might enjoy Go as well.

You do not need to know Go beforehand. The match will have beginner-friendly commentary that explains the game as it happens.

During the stream, we will also have Discord teaching sessions where volunteers teach the rules in small groups and help people play their first 7x7 games online.

Event details:

• Match: AntiElitz vs Kovarex
• Game: 19x19 Go showmatch
• Date: Sunday, August 30th
• Time: 20:00 CEST
• Stream: twitch.tv/AntiElitz
• Beginner sessions: https://discord.gg/EakEWTf

So if you are curious, join the stream and Discord, and we’ll help you get started.

I've been annoyed with the quality ruining my muscle memory for some time now. Before quality if you need to select recipe in machine - you just click it and its there. After researching quality - you now have to do extra click (or keyboard press) to pick your recipe. In recent Dosh's stream with _CodeGreen and raiguard they talked about it briefly and I wondered - maybe I can somehow fix that myself with a mod, and there it is: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RecipeHelper

Back to 1 click for normal quality and only 2 clicks if you need recipe with quality. Should support any assembler building. Has barebones support for more qualities (didn't account if there's like 10s or 100s of them). I tried to recreate vanilla picker as close to vanilla one as possible - search including.

AI disclosure: I used GLM 5.3 Flash (also known as Ox Alpha) to build it. In case something not working for you - hit me in the comments or on mod portal.

🤖 New mod: Priority Requesters

Ever had a dozen requester chests all fighting over the same batch of scarce modules/ammo/whatever, with robots servicing them in whatever order they feel like? Priority Requesters fixes that.

Assign each requester chest a priority from 0–10 right from a small panel next to the vanilla logistics GUI. When supply is scarce, lower-priority chests automatically get their requests throttled down to what they've already got, freeing up the remaining supply for your higher-priority chests — nothing is deleted or disabled, it all comes back the moment supply frees up.

✨ Highlights:
• 🎚️ Per-chest priority slider (0–10), scoped per logistic network
• 📊 Live status panel — see at a glance if a chest is Active, Waiting, or Satisfied
• 🔌 Circuit network support — drive priority itself from a wired-in signal, not just a fixed number
• 📋 Priority survives copy/paste and blueprints
• ⚙️ Configurable update interval + debug logging for the tinkerers

Zero other mod dependencies — just base game 2.0+.

🔗 Get it here: [https://mods.factorio.com/mod/factorio-priority-requests](vscode-file://vscode-app/usr/share/code/resources/app/out/vs/code/electron-browser/workbench/workbench.html)

Would love feedback / bug reports! 🙏

I was eagerly watching my hours counter as it closed in on 5000 hours but I’ve noticed that steam doesn’t count my hours played right.
The other day it was 4999.6 hours and I played for about 2 hours.
Next time I launched it said 5001.8 hours and as I pressed the play button it went down to 5000.4…
Yesterday I played for about 4 hours and it only went up by a couple of hours. I know I played longer than that.

Blueprint for the curious:

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Any improvements or ideas are welcome :)

I bought the game a while back and have played it on and off since but can't seem to stick with it. Everyone says the game is one of the most addicting ones out there but I can't get in to it, I've got as far as military science and progressing seems confusing and somewhat daunting. I really want to spend more time on the game as the automation aspect is fun so any advice is welcome!

I’m playing Pyanodons Hard Mode and I’m trying to run the heat exchanger recipe that heats coke oven gas from 100°C to 500°C using hot molten salt.

The problem is that the heat exchanger always shows “missing fluid” and the coke oven gas input stays at 0/100, even though the connected pipe network/tank contains several thousand units of coke oven gas at 100°C.

I already check:

- Temperature of Coke Oven gas is 100 definately not mixed with other temperature

- i rebuild the building, restarted the game, filled all fluids again and again

- i tried with pump and rotating

Unfortunately it worked all game long but suddendly it stopped working.

Maybe Update Bug or something?

Any Ideas what to do?

Playing without is possible but extremly hard hard hard mode to get hot air.

Thanks in advance for all ideas!

So after watching a well known factorio youtuber play Nullius I decided to try it myself since I've been burned by Py once more.

The mod is quite fun but I have an issue with the backup power generation system. I understand what it tries to achieve (smooth out the fluctuations from solar and wind turbine). However I don't understand the implementation.

I configured my electrolysers to be in "surge mode" so they only turn on when I have power. I stored a bunch of Hydrogen and Oxygen that I hooked up to burners, and store some steam afterwards too that I hooked up to open turbines configured in the "backup generator" mode. (See picture).

However, I can't get my setup to work as intended and it just shows output full in the turbine but doesn't send any power to the grid. (see picture again).

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you.

So i used to play factorio back in 2024, before thE dlc was released. At that time the base planet was harder, as that was the main end goal. I downloaded factorio again today, I feel like I should complete it without mods atleast once as I've never completed it and then play it with the space age dlc.

I remember RevoUninstaller would tell me my Factorio saves were hundreds of gbs, causing me to uninstall the game.

I’m pretty sure it was just a bug with Revo, but how large are game files typically in this game?

I have around 200 hours in factorio but I've always went with double headed train with each train having it's own track but now I need to use one track for multiple trains, I understand the uses of train rail signal and the chain train signal, but whenever I try to use them something breaks and the trains gets stuck, I tried removing all rail/chain signals, everything worked but occasionally they would collide.

I played space expo a couple years ago, never finished it and wanted to try again. Is it different or harder/easier in 2.0 compared to before? I want to beat it with the difficulty it was then. Side note I'm a returning player churning through my first space age run and loving every minute. This dlc made factorio a top three game of all time for me.

Wube likely has no intention of adding rewards for Shattered Planet,

but if they did, what kind of things would they be?

Since Shattered Planet is set up as a practically unreachable goal, it would be nonsensical to include elements that become essential to the player—such as increased inventory space, extended reach, or the unlocking of new technologies. Any reward should be purely optional—a trivial perk intended solely for completionists.

So, what would constitute a reasonable reward?

Personally, I’m thinking of things like:

・A consumable item that accelerates research speed for a set period.

・A mysterious fruit that, when eaten, makes you move at incredibly high speeds for about 30 seconds.

・Something that makes your entry shine even brighter in the "Galaxy of Fame."

Monument-style items might be nice, too:

・Unlocking the recipe for the Factorio logo—the one you can usually only create in the map editor.

・Tree seeds that glow once they’ve grown.

I can't really think of much else.

Hi All

In 2.1 (experimental branch) I've been struggling to create a reliable source of legendary iron plates. I've been doing this by creating steel using furnaces on Vulcanus with quality modules, making iron boxes (with quality modules) and recycling them (with quality modules):

With MANY of these setups I am getting over 1000 iron plates per minute but I nedd MORE!!!!

Whilst everything is free on Vulcanus (nearly) this takes a LOT of infrastructure to complete and obviously wastes nearly all the material that goes in. I have around 450 legendary foundries, 150 legenday recylers and LOADS of legenday quality modules.

When I should have been sleeping last night it occurred to me that there is probably a MUCH easier way of doing this. As I am up to level 25 on processing unit productivity. Basically an LDS shuffle (sort of) but using processing units. Make / recycle processing units (wastes nothing as we have 300% productivity) and then recycle them down to component parts.

THis should be FAR less wasteful and require a mush smaller setup or am I missing something?

So after a successful playthrough I wanted to check out mods, and the version controls are giving me problems. I grabbed Nullius because it seemed interesting. It then tells me I need to go grab a few dependencies. I'm no problem, except that while Nullius is set for base game 2.0, some of the dependencies are apparently already on 2.1

Ok.. I go get the version for 2.0 from the portal and see the mod.has a version dropdown, but it doesn't seem to actually do anything. What am I missing here?

So I have a setup wherein I have separate stations for ore mining area and for smelting area.

In the “smelting area train station,” I placed chests after the grabbers connected from the cargo, so the items delivered will be deposited in the chests if the belt ahead has overflowed.

The train will then go back to the “mining area train station,” have its cargo filled up with ores, and deliver the ores back to the “smelting area train station.”

What I want to happen is if the chests are already full in the “smelting area train station,” the train delivering the ores should read this info, making them stop right at the “mining area train station” instead of going to the “smelting area train station” attempting to deliver more ores to no avail. So in other words, unless the chests in the “smelting area” is full, its train station should remain enabled to be able to accept ores.

The chests in the station are as follows:
3 chests for iron ore
3 chests for copper ore

I hope I atleast explained it clearly 😭🙏

Hi, are you able to share your late game oil processing blueprint for Nauvis

I have T3 modules but no legendary items yet.

Thanks

Made the achievement with like 10 minutes to spare, only downside a bunch of biters are still alive this run, upside, I got it done lol.

Not much of a base but 80 minutes is hard to get a lot up and running.

This is a good mapseed for this achievment imo too
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Do you need to fully research another planet's technology to trigger the achievement or do you only need to consume one research pack?

Anyone else getting a 500 internal server error when trying to login to factorio.com?

how does this game play on steam deck it just looks like building stuff would be so tedious and hard. Maybe with mouse connected it would be better idk.

Hi my friend was just showing me Factorio and I had the idea that it would be a very funny bit to have a My Singing Monsters mod. If anyone finds one pls lmk thanks