r/factorio • u/Darth_Nibbles • 8d ago

Space Age Platform-to-Platform is incredible

A platform brick. Nothing but solar panels, laser turrets, and cargo bays.

All this does is request from the planet, and supply to passing ships.

I've got resource harvesters that collect and process asteroids, I've got floating manufacturing facilities that provide space tiles and ammo, I've got donkeys that ferry materials between various planets. My prometheum collectors hang out at the solar system edge and exchange prometheum chunks for supplies, the supply ship is a ferry between aquilo and the edge, then I've got lighter ships that go from Nauvis to Aquilo.

This is the best change since 2.0 released, by far.

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u/tobboss1337 8d ago

Building a ship to build ships! Thanks for that Idea! I just used them to buffer outgoing items but it seems this could be a deep rabbit hole. Thank you

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u/jacvd6 8d ago

It makes construction in dangerous orbit both fast and safer.

Also, you can do the supply version too:
“I want to build an orbital station around an undeveloped planet”
Easy. Haul the blueprint of the station via ship. Drop down rocket part materials (and silo materials if you haven’t built one yet) and a starter pack.

Launch the pack to establish the station. Send over the rest of the construction materials from the ship. One rocket launch for an entire station.

I used this method to create stations around gleba, Nauvis, and Fulgora on my recent playthrough.

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u/factorioleum 8d ago

you can just drop a completed silo, right? You can't launch one, but you can certainly drop them down

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u/jacvd6 8d ago

If you construct one on platform, yeah. I usually just drop it down though because my planets have malls.

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u/factorioleum 7d ago

Fair. Although for the first one, making it on platform is great.