>Have fun
>Get to oil stage
>You need a literal PHD in mathematics / engineering just to balance advanced oil production
Why the extreme jump in complexity?

>stop playing for 7 months
>come back
>have to do the tutorial and watch YT videos to get back to where I was
>don't play again

>>715601309 (OP)
You literally just need a tank and a pump configured to send heavy oil to be converted to light if there's too much of it.

>>715601309 (OP)
Here friend, it's on the house.

I don't like Gleba.

>>715601309 (OP)
There is a game by the name of Amazing Cultivation Simulator where you need to balance a bunch of stuff and have a guide with you most of the time to create capable characters

>>715601542
I like Gleba

>>715601542
I dont know what Gleba is but ill say I hate it if you tell me the names of whatevers in that ladys hand.

>>715602021
those are called caterpillars, they turn into butterflies usually

>>715602180
What kind of caterpillars? Thanks by the way. Fuck Gleba, Gleba sucks. Roundhouse kick Gleba to the curb, fry Gleba in a wok.

Last Next Fest I played MoteMancer (magic-alhemy Factorio)
Did anyone see if its worth the price?

>>715601309 (OP)
>build one chemical plant that cracks heavy oil into light oil
>build one chemical plant that cracks light oil into petroleum
Wow that was easy

>>715601542
I know everyones wondering so ill tell you the name of those adorable little guys.
Spicebush Swallowtail Caterpillar.
>The spicebush swallowtail is found only in the eastern US and southern Ontario, but occasionally strays as far as the American plains states, Cuba, Manitoba and Colorado.

If you're planning a vacation near any of these spots id recommend packing suitcases full of them so you can wipe out the indigenous/ugly caterpillars in your area. Lets spread these babys the the far corner of the earth, they are so cute they deserve supremacy.

>go to lightning planet after swamp planet
>use free steam to power everything instead of lightning
Accumulators suck!

I hear they gonna nerf this next patch.

>>715601309 (OP)
>You need a literal PHD in mathematics / engineering just to balance advanced oil production
Being so retarded you can't even into trial and error.

>>715601309 (OP)
>Could balance oil production
>or
>just build 500,000 units of capacity for all oils. Then remotely flush half the tanks if something clogs up

Yes. Placing a single wire across a tank and a pump and giving it a single if statement is PHD level stuff.

>>715602907
Or just use it?
Why are you holding onto all the fluids?

>>715602907
This is literally what I did when I first played factorio. I didn't know circuit conditions were even a thing until I started trying to find a way to stop by steam turbines from kicking on when accumulators were full.

>>715602951
It looks nice to have a huge storage tank area for all the different fluids

>>715602951
>Needs more of fluid A
>Making more of fluid A creates excess of byproduct fluid B
>Fluid B storage fills, stopping machines
If you can't be fucked working out how much of each fluid to make, what makes you think said person is gonna build a factory dedicated to eating problem fluid

>>715602951
>just use it
If you don't balance production then you will run out of lubricant by turning everything into petroleum.

>>715603181
>>715603212
That's not what I asked retards
I asked why are you having a massive stock of oil in lots of containers.
>HURR B-BUT IF YOU ARE FULL ON ONE FLUID THEN DEY ALL STOP MAKING THE MORE FLUID OF OTHER TPYES?S?!!!
I know.
You can do that and keep up production with very few containers and balancing.

I asked why someone was building "500k units of capacity for all oils "

>>715601309 (OP)
>Get to oil stage
I almost started the nuclear stage and dropped the game because it became too time consuming and I realized that my whole nigger-rigged oil-stage base should be remade from ground up to actually enrich uranium
I just gave up and never played the game again
BUT, I love Factorio, it's an actual GAME and a really good at that. It's made by nerds for nerds, the ideal outcome for any game. And it fucking looks good, I absolutely LOVE those 2D sprites that emulate 3D objects just like in early 2000s RTS games. Good tasteful stuff
But playing it felt like a second job sometimes to be desu honest

>>715601309 (OP)
Oil is easy now, its all about Gleba. Get with the program grandpa. Oilwhining is a decade old now

>>715602617
>adorable
Those are just your usual caterpillars with cartoony eyes though...
Why can't I fucking draw cute anime eyes on my face and become likeable??????

>>715601309 (OP)
>Build seperate production for every oil
>Petrolium build turns everything into petrolium
>Light oil build Turns heavy oil into light oil and burns off Petrolium with flare stack
>Heavy oil build burns everything but heavy oil with Flare stacks

Problem solved.

>>715603639
>Why can't I fucking draw cute anime eyes on my face
Because you're cute enough as it is, anon. <3

>>715603345
>I asked why someone was building "500k units of capacity for all oils "
He told you why in that exact post dumb dumb. Learn2read

>>715602090
Not OP but I just tried searching 'factorio' in Google image search and it's the third result. Posting a thread requires an image, someone wanting to make a thread but not having an image to hand will google one, and it's not exactly out of the question that two people would do that in a whole week. Not everything is a repost schizo. If you want to fight the good fight and be a volunteer janny, the guy who keeps posting Crash NST achievement stats is in the catalog right now and I've seen two Temmie threads today already.

>>715602660
what is this? some retarded materials buffer?

>>715601309 (OP)
>Filtered by 3 pipes

Any news on Space Exploration mod?
When will it be updated?
Is there any other actually good mods to go for a 2nd Space Age playthrough?

>>715605190
Krastorio 2 was updated to work with Space Age

>>715605190
>Is there any other actually good mods to go for a 2nd Space Age playthrough?
There's a lot of planet mods, of highly variable quality

>>715605240
>Krastorio
Miss me with that shit
I might actually give it a try even if i dont really like it that much

>>715601309 (OP)
You are meant to barrel the overflow up, send it into space, and then throw it over the edge

>>715605274
If you try it, play the normal version
The Space Age version completely messes up the balance

>>715602660
Are they even patching it anymore? They seemed pretty checked out after it released.

>>715603345
>I asked why are you having a massive stock of oil in lots of containers.
So that you don't have to flush it as frequently, if it's imbalanced.

>>715601513
yo, this gameplay fire

>>715605672

>>715605274
What's wrong with it? More Complexity than Factorio+ but not as much as some other autist overhauls

>>715605318
Tbf id rather play Space Age unmodded than Krastorio (classic) again
I wonder if The Cube mod will be made for Space Age, could even do a peaceful playthrough
>>715605796
Early game dragged on for no real reason
Overpowered shit like Air filters make the game already laughably easy, then you got the weapon stuff
Krastorio was pretty good with Rampant (multiplayer) i must admit, the overpowered stuff actually makes sense there
Too bad Rampant is basically like grinding your teeth against a blackboard for "fun" and you need friends that can deal with the pressure and cooperate

>>715603573
This is one of the ugliest game I´ve seen. It makes me furious and it shames my country. "Oh look, those poor Czechs can only make ugly games!"

Would be better if they made no game at all.

>>715602021
I looked it up, they're called spicebush swallowtail caterpillars

>>715601513
>unrestricted lubricant
Sure mate

this is the most throughput I managed to squeeze out of a scrap recycling setup on Fulgora. 10 full-stacked green belts of scrap.
and it still provides barely enough holmium ore for my holmium plate upcycler.

>>715606118
You seem upset. Factorio is a good looking game that masterfully uses 2D sprites for everything, even complex fast moving objects
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-425
>it shames my country
You have some kind of White guilt, cuckold

>>715606361
You can have bridges for train tracks now? Waow

>>715606606
hehe benisleg

>>715606118
>Oh look, those Czechs can make games that are very fun, polished and the graphics rightfully are no the main focus so you can run the game on your calculator!!
Thank you Czechs!

>>715606671
>Gleba base consumes eggs too fast
If I put efficency modules the Bioshambers crafting Agri Packs will consume less eggs?

>>715601309 (OP)
My problem with this game is once you figure it out it just becomes tedious work

>>715603573
>I realized that my whole nigger-rigged oil-stage base should be remade from ground up to actually enrich uranium
Uranium is way easier than it seems at first. Even without kovarex or a circuit limiter/steam batteries it only takes like 12 miners and 3-4 centrifuges to keep a 2x2 reactor going indefinitely. There's really no reason to not pop down a reactor or two and tear down your coal power as soon as you can unless your preferred solution is pollution.

>>715606894
Efficiency modules do nothing but lower the power requirement for your buildings
So if your building runs on electricity, it lowers the drain
If it runs on nutrients, it lowers the drain on those nutrients

>>715604947
the automated orbital paltform that basically produces legendary raw amterials for free in good amounts
>>715605383
dev specifically in blogpost adressed it so nerf is incoming sadly

>>715607003
So speed modules on beacons it is.

>>715606972
That's why you play overhaul mods

>>715605723
small white penis spotted

>>715606653
They are beautiful

>>715607196
The smallest condom in a white country is still too large for 90% of asians.

>>715601513
This diagram was made for 1.1, in 2.0 pumps do not "strengthen the flowrate". Just put circuit conditions on the chem plants.
Also you can get away with not doing any circuit conditions at all in the base game, the ratios will just work themselves out because you need more petroleum gas than everything else anyway

>>715606361
How do you even find this much land on fulgora. I had a huge island and this is still bigger i think.

>>715606341
Yes, unrestricted, you barely use any of it anyway.

>>715604947
it's storage for the post game asteroid chunk. It only stacks to 1 and the science it's used in requires biter eggs so you're limited in trying to craft the science on site. A single tile of belts can hold 8 items and you can increase that by weaving underground belts like that. Doing silly stuff like that gives you more storage per tile than building storage expansions for the hub (again, because the chunk only stacks to 1)

>>715601309 (OP)
Oil's pretty straightforward. You just need to have pumps and cracking and a simple circuit condition to pump oil whenever there's a demand.

>>715601309 (OP)
>filtered by oil
lmao
never go to gleba, it would break your brain

>>715607409
it's the biggest island in my entire territory, and I still overshot it by a bit. you need to mass produce foundations on Aquilo if you want a sizable base on Fulgora.

>>715607897
Anon, please fix those power cables

>>715601542
What kind of garloid mutant is this?

>>715606972
That's why you install a robot start mod and get rid of the early tedium

>>715608551
Earthworms in costumes. Clickbait fake video.

>>715606992
>Even without kovarex
This game is all about scaling and efficiency. I knew I would have to learn and do everything to progress and leave the planet (which was the end goal of the game at the time). And those nasty fucking bugs kept getting angrier, bigger, and more annoying to deal with. I sometimes regret stopping playing the game, but then I remember it was too much for my lazy brain

I really want that train cannon, though. The sexiest thing. Overall, the trains in this game are amazing. CHOO CHOO

>drop biter eggs among the pentapods in an act of biological warfare
>return minutes later, expecting an arthropod battle royale
>instead they've become best buds, the biters joined the pentapod nests
also I came back hours later and found packs of biters hanging around my base, *inside* the defense perimeter. all my automated egg imports are guarded by a bajillion turrets so I'm left to assume the feral biters somehow teleported past the perimeter.

>>715607897
Fix that fucking light, what the hell

>>715608839
>This game is all about scaling and efficiency.
It is, but I've found that worrying too much about that early on hampers more than helps you. It's way easier to worry about all that efficiency and scale shit once you've spaghetti'd your way up the tech tree and have a base that can produce another, better base. Premature optimization can be just as wasteful as no optimization.

Pic related, many times I find it much more convenient to cludge some shit together to make progress while you figure out how to do it properly.

>>715609282
Damn, this moron >>715606118 looks at this image and thinks "what an ugly game"
What a moron!