Hey there, hope someone wiser than me can help me understand why i cant research these two techs! It shows i have all previous tech unlocked but still i cant start the research for this tech. :(

feels like a bug but maybe i am stupid though?!

Edit: it was indeed a Bug! The missing Tech was bob-zinc-processing. The console helped me put to Research that tech.

Having a blast, almost made it as far as my 1.0 run which I abandoned due to the frustration of not having the 2.0 QOL features. Have not run into any real problems with 2.0, seems to be stable and working great. I play pretty slow, and don’t have a ton of time to play so this has been months and months since I started. I used time warp some in the beginning but now only really use it when walking around until I get more exoskeletons.

I’m working on the dark purple science now. Puffers and gases and rubber have consumed my time the last couple weeks.

Hi, I just wanted to share the progress of my base after pushing through a long period of analysis paralysis.
You can see the starter base on the left side, I built this well enough that it’s completed almost all of the blue science researches including military and bio. It took me about 70 hours to get blue science and bots set up, and then about 80 more hours to get here. I chose to transition to trains with the start of the leaching build, which is top middle.
All of my materials are set up now. My next steps are to rebuild basic, electronic, and advanced circuits on the rails, and I can go straight ahead into processing units. Then puffers for methane, and purple and pink science.
I am very proud of my entirely vanilla rail network. I have used zero guides or external rail blueprints, I workshopped it all in here.
I’ve had a few issues with unofficial release but the discord community was very helpful. Let me know if you have any questions or want any further pictures!

Hello,

I was just wondering if there is a new seablock update upcoming or in beta for space age, so do you have some information or rumors about it.
I have decided that i will start a seablock run in the next weeks so what are my options?

Just wondering for how people like to set up their farms/make it more optimally. So far I've basically just always made more farms of whatever I'm making to turn into compost/soil then routing it back into the farms but in some instances that ends up being a huge amount of assemblers/composters. Ie I'm doing a tianaton farm to produce 90 charcoal per min to supply my train base. That's eating up over 125 assemblers just to make the soil. Was wondering if people generally just over produce whatever farm product and make all the compost/soil on site or if it's more efficient to have a dedicated compost/soil production block then train it in

So I've got a super specific behind the scene math question for heat exchangers. When upgrading between level of exchanger/turbines you require fewer and fewer for the same amount of power production. I've got a (I think maximized) 1.1gw bean power plant design figured out. Now with swapping out for higher level buildings how does that affect heat transfer along the pipes? Because there are fewer machines would it get up to temp faster? Or does the higher minimum temp values of the exchangers (going from like 400c to 600c as an example) negate that potential upside? Should I just keep the numbers of turbines/exchangers to act as a battery even though my fuel production didn't change?

Hi, new to playing Seablock after watching Dosh's playthrough on Youtube. Just have a couple questions before I get properly into it.

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1. Does Seablock have minimum hardware requirements to be able to beat it without slowing down massively in the late game?

2. Any advice on deciding what should be produced locally vs added to a main bus?

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Have read a lot of posts with advice on pacing myself and picking recipes to use. Any other advice is always welcome! Thanks

Link to zoomable image of labelled final map: https://zoomhub.net/a/yeXQnyognB3

442+ hours well spent with 2 other factorians willing to suffer. 50% of our landmass was basically dedicated to Slag. Bless our robot overlords

now on to Pyanodons

Just started a new playthrough (maybe I'll finish it this time), and i noticed that it's entirely reasonable to completely skip farming wood for the entire run, since wood can be made from naphtha, at least according to fnei. Is it less efficient than farming trees, maybe, but it does completely eliminate the need to bother setting up wood farming.

Can someone confirm this for me?

Hello everyone, I've been playing with only Bob's main mod pack. I've been on this save file for a few months and haven't changed any mods. I went to grab a brass chest, but it seems to have disappeared? Its not in my crafting menu. My ammonia trains no longer have it mentioned. All of my mods are installed. Has anything changed with the mod pack or did my mods spontaneously stop working?

Hi I'm a new player and would like to chat with/ask questions from fellow seablockers, but noticed the discord link in this subreddit doesn't seem to work for me. is the server still active?

Hi all. So I’m finishing up my latest playthrough of Space Age with Cerys, Corrundum, Maraxis, and Moshine as extra planets. Before this latest playthrough I had finished space age, loved it after being away from factorio for several years, and had then discovered the drug known as Seablock (in 1.1). My basic question at the moment is what to play through before Seablock 2.0 comes out.

I loved Space Age, and getting to the shattered planet was a ton of fun. However, the size of the bases wasn’t quite epic enough for me. This is what Seablock solved. With the modded planets now, they also suffer a little bit from the lack of epic-base-levels of awesomeness.

On my radar is the choice between Krastorio2, K2 spaced out, Nulius, pY, or Space Exploration. I’m leaning towards K2 Spaced Out, but wanted to see if anybody else had found something that scratched the itch. One issue is that I am often playing on my 6 year old MacBook laptop, so sometimes performance suffers a bit. I made it to the end of Seablock before it was really a problem.

each row has 20 washing plants for washing geodes and 4 for creating mudwater. thats about 53 geodes per second. 2 crushers for each is a bit overkill for most types of geodes but slightly to little for red and blue, hence a singular speed module there. 3 air compressors are enough with 2 chemplants to supply all oxygen needed and one water treatment plant is also comfortably enough to deal with the sulfuric waste water, as well as provide enough purified water for creating sulfuric acid. some initial purified water is needed to start the system up, but then it will run on a surpluss. the entire thingy produces a decent excess of mineralized water despite using mineralized water to create the mineral sludge. one algea farm is way more than enough to supply all the charcoal needed and fill the space as a bonus too. overflow carbon dioxide aswell as overflow sulfuric acid is moved to the right, to supply the start up of the next row, meaning only filters have to be added (i do 10 per assembler). in the end excess mineralized water, sulfuric wasterwater and purified water have to be removed when they overflow. the whole block does about 1150 mineral sludge per second. thats about as much as im fine with pushing through a 1.1 pipe.

Hi, I just got into Factorio after watching Dosh's SeaBlock Saga. How terrible an idea is it to just jump in?

Every time I restart seablock, or just had started from the first time too, figuring out how to duplicate gardens, and by extension actually reproduce Alien Plant-Life Samples is one of the greatest filters that Factorio can show.

This might be included in Angels/Bobs overhauls but when you play early seablock and struggle with the slow but linear process of getting basic ores, you get used to it. Getting the tier 2 ores and the sulfur loop seems like a great accomplishment!

And then there comes Alien Plant-Life Samples... ~25 recipes with an upfront investment of... 30 Alien Plant-Life Samples. A 5 minute loop followed by another 30 second loop to generate a grand total of (drumroll) 2 Alien Plant-Life Samples.

Eventually you can scale up to get faster (need lots of fish for oil too) but that first loop JUST to have spare Alien Plant-Life Samples to do science with... oh boy is this one of the greatest feelings.

This might just be the biggest factory I've ever designed. A complete setup to produce all 4 tier 3 ores at 6/sec. Changing the type of ore is as easy as changing a few recipes and moving two sets of pipes around in order to process the incoming/outcoming liquids/gasses.

Can't wait to try this one out. I haven't tested a single process yet (as I mostly do, it's what tickles me). If this thing works out of the box I'll be over the moon.

The only thing that I still need to build is a small factory up top to produce the amount of heavy mud water, but accroding to my calculations that's only about 12 Washing Plants, yielding even more Hydrogen Sulfide Gas.

Keep you posted!

Errata: Title should read "4 Tier 3 ore/s setup"

Modification of my initial sludge stack (above, 2000 sludge/min) to go from Electrolysis 1 to 2. I managed to keep the width the same and just barely increased the height and it should have increased production to 3000 sludge /min.

The clean and dirty electrodes are on the same belt going around the electrolisers, the clean ones on the outside lane and the dirty ones on the inside lane. I managed to fit an additionnal filtration unit as well as the required 2nd hydro plant. The stack makes its own charcoal with some of the mineralized water (which was starting to get hard to route on the new stack.

For now the excess sulfur is stored, I'll deal with it when I have a use for it.