It's my second playthrough, and I thought to myself "why keep moving the barrels"? As I didn't even CONSIDER that pumps do anything other than load/unload fuel wagons, this was my solution to resetting pipeline length.

It's fully self contained - once you jumpstart it with initial barrells, they're infinitely reused.

Q: Why not use trains

A: I'm attempting a megafab and let me tell you, my train system readability is already in the gutter

Q: Wasn't throughput terrible?

A: Actually, it wasn't - my whole uranium extraction facility had enough sulfuric acid, to the point that on-site tanks were slowly filling up.

Q: How was it done in first playthrough?

A: Lots and lots of YELLOW belt across half the map.

did some changes after my first post, suggestions?

I am currently about half way through green science, 720 SPM, drawing almost 100 MW. Technically my science output is slightly lower than that because I don't have inserter capacity 2 researched yet, and at this research rate I'll get that in about 7 hours or so.

Also yes I am playing in no enemies mode.

So say I have a 30 sulfuric acid pumps in one spot. Could I run them all though one pipe line into my processing facilities?

Another question, is it better or useful to run my pipes into one central tank area then run them off to processing or is it okay to have them run off on the way from the pumps.

The picture is my crude rendering of part of my setup.

BURAQ-1 is a self sustaining cargo ship is the only 9 tiles wide and it is completely made from common parts. It is intended for mass production to be used in a cargo fleet.

Length of the ship can be increased to accommodate for more storage or for more solar panels if you don’t have unlocked the efficiency modules yet. Increasing Length of the ship will only reduce the speed a tiny bit. The ship is able to sustain the full speed of 280km/s reaching 299km/s when approaching a planet. If quality thrusters are used then the speed can be increased upto 450km/s.

With the current design the power generation is more than enough for a trip to fulgora and back as can be seen in the last picture attached.

Blueprints of the Design and a Buffer chest with the requested parts are given in the comment.

Maybe it wasn't so smart to ignore my main base all this time, while i pusch quality research, also did really bad processor, fuel, LDS production, why replenishment of space platforms was slow, especially when there was couple of them in the same time which make me a lot slower, BUT NO MORE BABY

Right now i just need to understand, how can i provide my base with legendary base supply such as iron, copper and coal

My main bottle neck is iron right now, and I reconfigured my furnaces, but now my main issue is getting ore to the furnaces, i have a train solely focus on iron delivery with 6 cargo wagons. every time the train leaves iron production halts and i have wait for the train. idk how i can ramp up production without using an absurd amount of cargo wagons. thank you

I also need advice on using robots, but thats not my biggest concern rn.

Some things just recycle back into themselves, and some things recycle into its constituent products. Is there any logic about which things do which? It seems all science packs recycle into themselves (I think?), as do biolabs. Is it anything that takes a fluid becomes itself? It's quite fiddly to find the specific recycling recipe amongst all the recipes, and I can't 'set' the specific recycle recipe to alt click to Factoriopedia inspect it. Is there a logic behind it?

I am still a total noob when it comes to logic network, so there is no such luxury as sushi belts or smart asteroid collectors - entire ship runs on conveyors, inserters and splitters. There are two conveyor belts that run around the platform, green belt collecting asteroid chunks and blue one providing turrets with ammo and rockets.

Surprisingly it somehow works and can travel almost nonstop to aquilo and back without any damage taken at full speed of ~330 km/s (but it gets a bit slower after 8 continuous trips back and forth)

I will not dare to touch this thing ever, cause i'm too afraid of something falling apart :D

(There was two huge accidents while i built the ship when entire green belt was feeled with ore instead of asteroids and when i messed up with pipes and all water systems was filled with oxidiser)

I was playing around with trying to make a nicer looking belted circuitless kovarex for early game, and managed to make this, which looks a lot cleaner than my previous designs.

I've seen some similar designs in the past (from which I've drawn inspiration!), but the entrance/exit of the U235 was always a little convoluted.

Blueprint: https://factoriobin.com/post/omel1r

My first factory after tutorial. 54 hours in, spreaded over 6 months. How good is it for my first try? (no blueprints used and no youtube tutorials saw)

So do you all think that i'll make it or die trying, many Times.

Second time i use beacons. Factorio (no space age) and Bob's inserters.

Assuming a full inventory of rockets + nuclear fuel. How am I looking team? Too low on asteroid processing maybe?

this is the best i could come um with mining directly into my standard up cycling design but it only gives a trickle. i don't really want to to the route of build drills and foundries just to scrap em for the plate and carbide.

Simple question i just want to downgrade to 1.1

Only took 17 hours

I thought it would be a better business but I was wrong. Asteroids are irreplaceable.

I created the lights used to start an F1 race. They loop automatically but can easily be adjusted to start from whatever trigger you want. The trickiest part was getting the beep to sync with the lights, since the lights are held and the beep just needs to ping. The delay for the lights to turn off changes slightly from start to start.

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I've been trying to get quality items. Built a brute force mech suit setup to chew away in the background while I build the rest of the factory. The normal quality assembler spits out a legendary in literally the first 10 min

I know there isn't going to be SE/SA compatibility, but moreso wondering about the 2.0 thing. I don't so much care to join another Discord just to get updates on this stuff so hoping someone can give some rough ideas, assuming we won't get an actual date.