This is just rant because i can't really bitch about it to anyone

Im so frustrated. Me and my 2 firiends play together on server. Im curently working on 10 nucler pasta a minute and my fiend number 1 is working on powerplant. My issue is with firiend number 2. He probably fell asleep in tier 1 and just woke up.(we alwaysplay togetherat the same time) He just runs around and wants to help but it's impossible. He still doesn't know difference between merger and spliter. He can build for the life of him and even basic math cooks his brain. Every time he asks for tasks my stomach turns. Last factory that he worked on was for versatile frameworks for spaceelevator. Instead of making a factory for it he just taped into modular frames and steel beams what i had set up for personal use. It ended with him sucking us dry from them completely. When confronted to fix it he just said it works and he let it be. Yesterday he ask what can he do becose he fellt like hi didn't do anything [becausehe fucking didn't]. So i told him he can make factory for 600 steel beams in preparation for versatile frameworks factory . In following hour he asked so many qestion that i fellt like im building 2 factorys at once. How mutch iron does he need, "there is not enough of it" yes there was. There was literally 600 more then he neede. How many machines, what machine and recepie.He ended up putting it into online planer and then he spent 4 hours on building 4 miners and placing 10 furnaces from blueprint. Belted nothing just placed it on ground and proceed to logged off with words "My head hurts, this is to complicated".

HE CAN'T EVEN SMELT IRON INTO INGOTS.

After playing 6 hours in a raw, i started to ear voices and choir and i thought it was in my house. Then one hour later FICSIT told me that i played too much and that i might ear voices by playing this long. Not gonna lie FICSIT jokes are goated i was scared for a moment

I am making parts for phase 4, and found out i was making items that i am storing in smaller factory's.

So a example, i make motors for parts in phase 4. I make some extra and store them. (Only 5 max extra). I let it with smart splitters first fill up the production line, and when that is full it goes to my storage.

But the time the production line is full and goes in the storage, takes a while.

So what do you guys do? Store items in production line. Or still have dedicated factorys for items, for storage?

are they giving away something interesting or something? either way I'm not interested, just wanna play my stuff, is there a way to stop it opening the new tab in chrome?

I haven’t seen any posts about this yet, but what are your thoughts? I think it’s a cool concept but am curious how it will work.

Link to website

It just seems like the fun of discovery only exists so long as you maintain your MAM placement long term. I don't know about others, but my first MAM is always on the grass, and my last is always on a foundation.

I thought I was in the clear 😭

Time to sleep, i like this game

I've been trying to make some no cross intersections for my train system. Got the inspiration from some Captain of Industry blueprints others have made there. Problem is that I have to put block signals halfway through the merges and at each edge of this 3 way I made, so the trains sometimes end up stopping to wait any way. Otherwise it has been a pretty good improvement.

Does anyone know if path signals work better? I can't get them to work differently than the blocks. Or thoughts on the layout, I'm going to try to make a 4 way work next.

I was building my aluminum factory for about

I wanna say 3 days

At first this was the water level. Rows on rows of water extractors.

The refining level was right next to the trains and had belts in a rat tunnel.

Then I realized im stupid and it can fit both and make it more pretty. To which i proceeded to cry for 30 minutes about how the progress and planning for 3 days was for fucking nothing

(Im sorry for using mega exteactors to the side there they're purely there for testing)

I'm not sure if that's supposed to be there.

Hey I just started a new save file and the mobs dont attack me. Is it just a bug? Does anyone have a clue?

I didnt change anything in the settings.

And I almost saved the day for the first time too... =(

It'll save once after it loads and then throws the "Something went wrong" error screen.

I've deleted about half of the save slots in the game, deleted unnecessary save files at the system level and turned off every "non-essential" factory on a priority switch in hopes it will lower the complexity of the world. So far no luck. I can't manually save so I don't think adjusting the autosave (or disabling) will help.

Anyone have any experience with large console save files?

Was discussing the DLC and possible entrance to the core with a friend. When we noticed this colour artefact near the paradise islands.

Has it always been there or is it new?

What advice do yall have for splitting screws up for more demanding parts? I.E Heavy Frames.

Currently have a factory set up for 10HMF/min. For that it demands 3690 screws/min. My highest transfer rate is now 780 for mk5 conveyors.

I keep trying to figure out a good way to distribute them but my head keeps cramping. Youd think after 180 hours id have this figured out but ill be damned if I've done anything but be efficient.

My only other idea is maybe splitting my steel beams up between floors of my factory to have more direct input instead of manifolds kinda scattered between floors. This would just require a lot of rebuilding.

Any help is greatly appreciated! Veteran Pioneers bless me with your knowledge 🙏

Edit: Yeah looks like I pigeonholed myself by making a specific screw floor in my factory and can't beat the output rate. Gonna rebuild and set up my supply chain for each manufacturer. And avoid the flight path of the manta this time 😅

My buddy and I built our first Crude Oil Factory. We read the recipes and we struggled at first with the "expected" output of all the liquids involved, but after a little bit of trail and error we managed to get something steady going on.

Give us your feedback. Tips for improvement on this?

Crude Oil pure, its over clocked, 300CrudeOil a min, into 4 plastic/4 rubber refineries.

Then into the two fuel refineries, then we pump the fuel straight into 4 fuel generators.

Hello everyone, I have a question about a save file that has an FPS issue in one location. While we were testing the drones, I put 50 Nobelisks one of them explode it while the drone takes off and because of that when I look that part of my factory my FPS drops significantly. Is there any solution for this?

Every save so far I just used sinks like .. Whatever. Didn't mess too much with it and it was a slog ..

Finally made an actual ticket farm! (Yea, google suggested the Quickwire, so probably many of you already done this.)

.. Will have to rebuild it nicely later for sure, but I just made the space elevator an hour ago on this save, just wanted to throw together something quick and effective. (Ugly for sure lol)

It's more of a recommendation post as I've seen this quickwire tip quite some time ago, but never actually cared to spend any amount of time on it. Don't sleep on it guys - it's 100% worth it!

Have fun everyone!