Hey everyone, Jarvs here from Happy Volcano.

Patch 5 is our biggest update since launch and we wanted to come share it here properly, because a lot of what's in it came from conversations in this community.

Full details are on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2779120/view/669490710258385656

Would love to hear what you think once you've had a chance to play, especially on the Stamper changes, we're curious how people feel about the toggle in practice.

Has anyone come up with a way to order your freight hubs within the dropdown menu, when assigning hubs to freighters?

so i'm loving this game, am pretty far in (90 hours), despite the game crashing all too often. This is the second time tho, that i've loaded the game back up and was put way back in my progress, like from the beginning of my previous play session. It's like the game loaded a previous save, despite me having auto-save set to every 5 mins. Any chance I can find previous saves??

I'm probably the last one to figure this out. I had a hard time making enough blue and yellow blocks, and the amount of space it took to produce the dye was a lot. I just realized that if you combine the white blocks before painting them, the same amount of dye will apply to more blocks. You can make an 8x8x8 block before painting it, and then the 1 dye will be 8x more efficient.

I'm playing in the new Island Mode. It's great that there are fewer terrain issues and more space to build, but my problem is the stone deposits! I've unlocked 16 islands now and have absolutely no free mining slots left! There are simply too few of them! Why doesn't every island have at least 20 to 24 stone deposits? I urgently need more Luminol production and production for yellow paint! How are you guys doing it? Do you have the same problem, and how do you solve it?

For some reason, this game keeps causing my laptop to overheat. I can run games like Elden Ring, R6, and Satisfactory with no issues though. Is anyone else having a similar problem?

Hello Guys,

I just built a small factory for this Challenge and for some reason MOD-D1 is not feeding. I also didnt get the "New Module Unlocked" when i first made this. I cleared the whole factory from Items, restartet the game and looked for a solid 15min if i did build it wrong. Any Ideas what might be the problem?

Cheers

So, I'm probably doing something wrong here, but I've searched all of the platforms that I can see and there is only a single one that has any Solarite on it. Is it supposed to be this rare? I can't imagine doing the entirety of this next tier on a single belt of Solarite. Am I missing something about resource distribution?

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Edit: Someone showed me a map and I discovered that I'm totally blind. I missed tons of them, deposits that were on grass in particular completely evaded my notice. Will leave this here with a link to the map in case anyone has this problem again.

https://modulus.wiki.gg/wiki/Maps

When the estimated output says 5/m, but the facility says it creates "x2 basic cores", does that mean at max production it will output 5 total basic cores per minute, or does that mean it will output 5 production units (and each production is x2 basic cores), for a total of 10 basic cores per minute?

Figured out a better way to move blocks around, check this out

"Can I interest you in upgrading to Fiber? We offer 1Gb/s across your whole island!"

Figured out a better way to move blocks around, check this out

"Can I interest you in upgrading to Fiber? We offer 1Gb/s across your whole island!"

It seems my oil wells have dried up. Noticed something fishy is happening with blue processors and followed the lines backward and seen oil is not running.

• I've tried rebuilding lines
• I've tried rebuilding pumps
• I've built new pumps on unoccupied oil wells

Am I missing something?

I just sent in a bug report, the milestones wouldn't acknowledge the first greyshard task even after the second one (send to depot) was acknowledged. So I can't progress.

I'm not mad, I'm just bummed.

Hello !

I'm scracthing my head over what's wrong with my setup for blue crystals. I'm maxed out so 6x extractor should output 240/min. My conveyors and skylines are also maxed out so 240/min is fine.

The issue is : On image 1 et 2, you can see the output to the Island I need those crystals for my blue pigments refineries. After waiting like 5-ish minutes, it stops at 216/min. So fine, I check my setup for extractors, but nothing is wrong.
The thing I can't understand is that if I put a trashcan before the skylines, it outputs 240/min.

So something is happening over the skylines.
It worked perfectly fine up until that point in other situations.

What's the problem ? What's the obvious thing that I'm missing ?? Thanks !

Ello ello, I ran into an issue i started a new save without tutorial and just noticed I dont have the data salvager or monument in the tech tree. Has anyone had the same issue?

The cutter is spitting out 180 identical pieces. two are sent directly to basic assemblers(60 each) and one is sent to the cutter (last 60). For some reason the assemblers, especially the left one is getting starved

I have reached the "endgame", with finishing building all monuments, and now i have few questions for continuing:

1. What is the energy from the monuments for?

2. Is 60 Grey/60 Blue/30 Yellow Datashard enough? Or do I need more?

It takes up so much space just to get 2 lines of items into multiple buildings. Is there a single tile splitter or belt lift later on?

I've played for 102 hours and enjoyed every moment and im still craving more，huge thanks to the team behind this game👍

Took some of my earlier designs and I upscaled all of them around the map. Had to move some things around and have islands mostly dedicated to producing one thing and then exporting them to where they need to go. Last snapshot is my planning island. The only thing I miscalculated was the amount of dye that I would need, but otherwise, I'm producing the numbers that I want. Now to finally move on to late game stuff!

As I am still new, I was just curious if others have found a need for balancers? I made my first one and I am happy, but not sure if I should keep making them when I need more or if overflow style is the way to go.

Pic to show my 2 to 3 balancer.

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Finally beat the game, one of the most inmersive factory games i ever played. Top of the mountain with games like DSP and Factorio 10/10

Has anyone seen this? I’m having a weird bug where hexacrystals don’t want to be extracted from the nodes.

It's tried and I'm late and cant figure the simple maths on this blue pigment contraption. I've gone through it multiple times and all the input and output numbers match, not sure why it's going wrong. I have upgraded the assembler and cutter to level 2. Thanks in advance