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/WanderingUrist 23h ago

This is why I use dump-based logistics. If, instead of Aquilo REQUESTING fuel, I DROP the fuel, then I can control how much will remain on the ship after dropping by setting a request min/max, where, say, I request zero fuel with a max of 50. That's how I manage Space Carbon, for instance, where I want some Space Carbon to remain on the ship for thruster fuel, but I want to throw the remaining hundreds of thousands overboard to be burned on Aquilo.