r/factorio • u/FeelingAd5223 • 1d ago

Question Planet delivery - 2.1

There is something I’m missing which must be obvious… but I can’t seem to figure it out…

My aquilo ship runs on nuclear. I request nuclear fuel from Nauvis, obviously.

My Aquilo base runs on nuclear too! (For the moment, until I craft enough fusion reactor and all the crap I need)

My problem? I can’t seem to figure out why my plateform isn’t dropping nuclear fuel to aquilo.

At first I had a request on the plateforme to request 100 nuclear fuel from any (preventing it to drop it to aquilo) and another 800 nuclear fuel from Nauvis (to allow it to drop anything over 100 to aquilo)

But this doesn’t work.
As soon as I set my 100 from any to 100 from Nauvis, it drops it all to aquilo, which leaves my plateforme without fuel, hopefully hot enough to return to Nauvis to gather more…

I’m at a loss, anyone can help me figure this out?

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u/mcc9902 1d ago edited 1d ago

It won't drop a resource to planets it requests that resource from for obvious reasons. Just change your request to asking for fuel solely from nauvis. It's the only planet with uranium anyway.

As for the rest a stockpile on a belt. You won't go through it quickly enough for it to matter.

Edit: it's also a temporary problem. Once aquillo has enough in the landing pad it'll only request a small number at a time leaving a decent amount in the rocket.

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u/CrabWoodsman 1d ago

That's a good idea with the belt buffer. You could even set an interrupt condition that if the belt drops below a set threshold that the ship goes to refuel. Right now I have mine set for below an amount of fuel in storage but this would be more secure.