Hello, I have been playing OceanBlock for quite some time now and I finished all sciences, which can be finished on Nauvis only.

Now I am in the process to build a proper space vessel, but noticed that there are no asteroids containing metals (I don't know if that is different on other planets). When it came to space science, I just sent iron plates to my space station to craft the science there, but now I am in the process of wanting to make fuel as well, which needs iron ore.

I wasn't able to find a production chain which would allow me to make iron ore in space, since I cant build vents to vent any unused oxygen or hydrogen and now I am rather stuck thinking about it. I do realize that I can ship in the required resources, but prefer not to. I also realize that in later recipes, I can exchange asteroids for another type.

Is this the intended way to play the mod or am I missing something?

Lastly, thank you for creating the mod, I have been enjoying it a lot so far.

oh, I didn't realize the vents can't be built in space

Hey this is also a problem for me is there any ETA on a fix for this :)? @engineer

Hey this is also a problem for me is there any ETA on a fix for this :)? @engineer

Hey if you want to fix it for yourself in the meantime it's really easy. Just go to your factorio mods folder (it's something like 'C:\Users\Yourname\AppData\Roaming\Factorio\mods'). Open Flare Stack_3.0.6.zip, go into prototypes folder and open entities.lua in notepad. Then scroll down to where it says
local gravity =
{
{
property = "gravity",
min = 0.1
}
}

and change it to

'min = 0.0'

Done!

Is there a way to re enable metallic asteroids? I would rather deal with those than have to constantly resupply my platforms with iron

I've not tested it but it looks like the asteroid changes occur in the file marked planet-updates.lua (mod folder/prototype/space-age/planets/planet-updates.lua)

It looks like if you just remove all contents of this file it will restore normal behaviour (don't delete the file, just delete everything in it), but I'm not at my computer and can't test atm.

I'd recommend backing up your save before testing, and if it doesn't work you can just redownload the mod from the workshop.