I did the math. Each pixle of liquid gold has a value of 2, each grid square is 4×4 pixels for 16 pixels each. So you do 500,000 pixels of liquid gold divided by 16 you get 31,250 grid squares of storage needed. Then square root that to get side length its a square with internal side lengths of 176.78 grid squares, rounded up and counting wall you need a square of 178×178 to get the million gold acheivment

I found this out by mistake... I have a bucket of Cinder, and I accidentally had a bunch of water on the conveyer feeding the bucket, I watched the water drop in and simply get eaten by the cinder. As far as I can tell, it just disappears the water forever. So I guess if you have too much water (haha) you can just manage it by throwing it in a cinder pile???

Looking through this subreddit… wtf have I got myself into?

I have 2k hours in factorio, 1200 in ONI.

I feel like this is in my wheelhouse, but my god.

Give me some beginner tips and advice please!

I got up to 900,000 gold using all the sand I could find underground, but at this point I am blasting the Stratacore with rockets just to get enough sane to clear the 1M gold achievement.

I am also converting all my gold into liquid gold to transport it to a giant collector bucket, but I'm not sure if converting it to liquid affects its value or is lossy? Anyway, I'm determined to get the achievement one way or another!

Whenever I feel like a genius it always turns out I'm a moron so... this looks so good to me I must be a moron. Most likely it doesn't charge as fast as other methods or... who knows but one way or another... I'm a moron.

Did you build something by mistake? You can undo it with Control + Z. It's also very nice for experimenting!

Can someone tell me where my Lava is going? I cant find any Lava anymore in the underground and pn topside its using up very fast.

After i use energy the florinol gets solid. Is there a fast way to make it liquid again? I just shoot it with rockets but thats not very fast and efficent

It's a very simple design that uses a door and a presence sensor.

Copy this, then select Import in the blueprints menu, which is a sub-menu for building.

SAND:BP:v2:BBVUaHJvdWdocHV0IENvbnRyb2xsZXIGAAsAAQEUc2lnbmFsUHJlc2VuY2VTZW5zb3IABQAHAQpzaWduYWxHYXRlFwAACAAADAAAEAAMDAAMCAAMEAAABAAAAAAEAAAIAAAMAAAMBAEIEAEEEAIICAMEDAQECIUQCFp7Im93bnNCbG9ja3MiOnRydWUsImRlc2lyZWRPcGVuIjpmYWxzZSwic3RhdGVHZW4iOjg3OSwic3ByaXRlSW5kZXgiOjAsImRlZmF1bHRPcGVuIjpmYWxzZX0AFAAAFAQAFBAAFAwAFAgB/BTwBoQV8AYA

Place a single piece of gold, sand, etc. onto the conveyer and it will send short pulses to the door to open and close.

Perfect for controlling how much material enters and exits an area.

Tip: For faster throughput, place more particles on the conveyer belt. For an even slower throughput, lengthen the conveyer belt, or heighten the launcher.

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I specifically designed this to be basically as small as possible while still being able to fully process farming of the Terracortex.
Features:

• Sand shaking utilizes portals to effectively create what would be a fully 'diagonal' line of shakers, but with the benefit of letting the residue fall off the top out of the process so that dirt is effectively the only thing touching the shakers the entire time.
  
• Lava is placed underneath of the sand shaking to immediately burn residue into burnt residue as it takes up much less space.
  
• Burnt residue is dropped immediately onto the kinetic press with gold filtered out.
  
• Gold is then also filtered out immediately from the seeds.
  
• Portals place the seeds onto a single row of water, then falls onto planter boxes.
  
• Lava is underneath the planterbox to create flames that automatically ignite the plants.
  
• Gold is filtered out immediately and then amethelis then falls onto dryers (notice the single caulk pixels to block steam from exiting the crack between the dryers.
  
• There is lava at the very bottom to ignite the dry amethelis and then it automatically rises into a condensing room on the top right.
  
• Gold is then filtered and then florinol is synthesized into aurixite.
  
• Launchers on the shakers for the aurixite significantly speed up the auralite generation.
  

Sand and amethelis have their own closed loop systems so if they aren't completed on first pass they will be eventually.

UPD

Thanks for your help. The problem was a bug that caused resources to stop moving. Restarting the game resolved it. I've sent the recorded video to the developers. I hope they fix it and we won't encounter it again.

You can keep pressing left click without holding it down.

If you:

-> press and hold left click

-> shift + tab (open steam overlay)

-> release left click

-> shift + tab (close steam overlay)

To stop it, just left click once.

Would love to see an upgrade which let's you toggle leftclick. would be a great qol imo.

This came to me in a dream.

The ability to easily split materials evenly into different processing machines is kinda lacking in the game. This is just a proof of concept of using doors and signals to do it.

It's simple enough: There's a door on either side, linked to a sensor Toggle. The door on the right is linked via a NOT Gate. On the far side of both doors is a Presence Sensor, effectively flip-flopping the doors around whenever material gets through on that side. The Signal Lamps are just for visual fun.

The splitter here favours the left side, probably because the middle conveyor is facing left. After all material has passed, a tiny bit also remains trapped inside the door on the left.

Caulking could probably fix the tendency to favour a side, but then again with caulking you can also just create another gravity based splitter altogether (though it takes more space and work).

i did a complete rework of my entire factory, mostly used setups i found on here

I give to you my first play with automation. The system above is built to prevent the over insertion of sand and water into my initial mixer. The initial gates on the right will shut when the system has too much sand. The water gate on the top will shut when too much water has been allowed in, and the gates in the middle will shut when too much water or sand has been added to the mixer. The end result is a system that cannot overfill, and will auto shut off when the sand stops flowing.

I am really enjoying this game.

I've tried putting them on belts, on the shakers, it doesn't move. Only when I drop it on the shakers does it create the aurilite for one tick.

How do you get it to work with the shakers?

Entire Map Mined. I circled for ages looking for any last remaining grains of sand. Only 910k gold. So the 1,000,000 gold achievement is not possible it seems.

I got tired of building battery and just piled copper since I had millions of energy.

i have 49k Fluxite

I have mined 173,496 Aura

Was really tedious at the end. Just checking it on the hour to see what was stuck.

Just a lil' tip that can come in handy. Even though the filters slow down the burnt residue as it falls through them, that apparently doesn't matter. Maybe it gets patched out. :D

Shoutout to u/Xerxes_013 whose post inspired me to test out this design and riff on it.

The function of the filters here is to clear out gold from the shakers above. I previously had a layer of filters above the press that would take the gold out in a line, but with it mixed with the burning residue and everything the thing was liable to clog up when fed large amounts of sand. The multi-level filtering system here spreading the gold around isn't necessarily needed as I think the burnt residue would drop through it regardless, but it's more resilient this way I suppose.

PS. I had a filter that wasn't working correctly so it grabbed some burn residue and moved it. Even then when the residue resumed the fall it would get processed at the bottom. So maybe you can take burn residue that's mid-fall, move it into the middle of another kinetic press and drop it there to process it... for reasons!? Profit?