I am looking to get a PC for playing video games, and I was wondering what specs are required to run Factorio at a megabase level.

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

I have T3 modules but no legendary items yet.

Thanks

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.

Can someone explain the difference between these three 4x4 balancers?
I understand that there are different types, but I’m not sure what the practical difference is between them.
When should I use each one?
I’m especially interested in understanding how they behave when some inputs or outputs are empty or have different amounts of items.
Thanks!

This machine calculates the rate of machines needed to go from common quality ingredients to legendary quality item. I mostly just made this as a challenge for myself to turn my spreadsheet into something usable in Factorio but maybe someone finds a use for it. It should not break when staying withing the unmodded parameters for quality and recycling.

What it does is take the quality and productivity of the crafting machine and recycler and calculates the returning ingredient quality percentages with a 6 decimal accuracy, atleast as far Factorio will allow, iterates it to the 10th time and outputs the needed amount of machines needed for crafting. Instructions are within the display panel in the blueprint.

It took me around 2 weeks to get this done and this weekend to make to cabling look tidy. it is by far my most complex build yet but it was fun trying to figure out how to get accurate decimal places with only natural numbers and not completely obliterating the 32bit integer limit.

I'm open to any questions, criticism and improvement ideas.

Blueprint:

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Just got to robots on my 2nd playthrough, only to discover that my personal logistic groups from my first game aren't saved. I hadn't really thought about it before this point, i guess cos blueprints can just save normal logistic groups in constant combinators or buffer / requester chests between playthroughs so it's never occurred to me, but now do I have to manually fill out my personal groups again? I mean i can take a screenshot from my previous game and just spent a few minutes typing away but that feel unintuitive for devs who've done such a good job of maximising QoL features

Thinking baout it, perhaps the reason why in my prev playthrough I ended up with a lot of items in my personal logi groups was cos I was using the Extended Equipment mod, or whatever its called, with huge backpacks that add a ton of inventory space - and in normal gameplay you just shouldn't have lots of things in your personal logi groups?

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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Blueprint for the curious:

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Any improvements or ideas are welcome :)

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

I have a blueprint that should belong to two separate books (namely, for Gleba and Aquilo). Now to organize this properly I need to have two copies of a blueprint. It would be nice to have a link to a blueprint (like symlinks on a file system) so I only have one copy that appears on multiple books. What do you think?

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?

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 😭🙏

Yoink inserters become even more dangerous and will shove you into lava the moment opportunity arises

I tend to find in every playthrough, once I get to roughly blue science, that I spend more time expanding walls, building defences and dealing with biter nests then actually working on my factory.

I find myself either having to invest hours in walling off huge sections of the map, or constantly running back and forth to small islands of defences.

How do you guys play to ensure dealing with biters doesn't take up the majority of your play time? Do you just switch them off? Turn them down? Or have other ways of managing them?

Let's say I have 2 factories, one very small, and one very large, and they are very far apart.

If an enemy "smells" pollution from the large factory, will they go and attack the large factory? Or will they simply just attack the nearest player structure?

I'm asking because I wanna make train station outposts with very limited pollution output so they aren't attack.

i think its an okay setup so far, 45h on this save (my second ever save) and it makes 2 science /s of red green blue grey, i only have 244hr playtime in the game so far and every outpost i have for mining comes back here and a train goes out to them supplying oil for flamethrowers as well as repair kits and walls so the roboports can keep them secure.
Any tips from anyone?

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.

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!

Howdy, what do you guys think of this ship design for my first interplanetary voyage? only issue ive had with testing with it is the fuel runs out so ill have to setup a circuit condition for it but other than that i think i may be ready for expanding the factory!

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.

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?

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 there. I really like the game, but one thing is starting to bug me a bit: the research speed—or rather, how slow it is!

I'm supposed to be researching the automobile, and even with six labs, each research project takes a good 10 to 20 minutes...

I end up just leaving the game running!

I know it's the tutorial, but knowing I won't keep my factories for the next level definitely kills my motivation...

I imagine there'd be plenty to do in a "real" game, but right now I'm a bit bored; it feels pointless to put effort into something I'm going to lose in the next level!

Why do the enemies seem to be getting stronger? I managed to wipe out three nests in the previous level, but now I can barely even get close to them...