One thing that you see some speed runners do in some categories is start running boilers and steam engines on solid fuel from oil instead of coal. Or if you want to continue using coal for power, running it through coal liquefaction and converting the result to solid fuel also increases efficiency o...

Maybe there's another weapon that can cause damage, even if the Engineer is flying around at a high speed (I only use personal lasers)? Rockets, especially explosive rockets. The way the jetpack works removes the slow-down drawback of handheld weapons, and once you do that a rocket launcher with ex...

It's a setting in the jetpack mod that damages shields while moving, proportional to speed. Before that and the "taking damage from biters makes the jetpack turn off" functionality you could become a hovering god that biters couldn't touch, massively trivializing all combat on foot. Person...

But vehicles interact with inserters, so they have issues using it. I'm not sure if it would be better to apply it to vehicles when they're more than a few chunks from inserters, because the jerk when you enter non-hiding range would be pretty severe. You can actually notice that jerk on foot when ...

This is probably going to be impossible to diagnose without pictures.

Crafting time per science pack of Blue/Chemical Science packs are out of order compared to the rest. Red 5s Green 6s Grey 5s Blue 12s Purple 7s Yellow 7s Just cut the craft time in half to make it in-line with the rest. I'd like to push back on this idea. I think blue having a large crafting time i...

Does it still do the same when you set the hand read mode to "hold"?

I think this is already in the pipeline:

https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-382

You can see from the attachments that to make blast furnace you need clay brick. to make clay brick you need Lime which can be done in a blast furnace and blast furnace require clay bricks to made.Screenshot 2024-01-23 at 03.32.23.pngScreenshot 2024-01-23 at 03.32.11.pngScreenshot 2024-01-23 at 03....

It can be done in 10. Try leveraging the fact that wires are a free addition as much as possible. I think you'll need 8 decider combinators for the threshold expressions. After that, though, you'll only need two deciders. For each threshold condition have them output 1 of a signal unique to its OR g...

You can also do the trick of one station right after another for up to three stations and control them with local circuits. There will be four tiles of overlap between the cars of each with two stations and two tiles of overlap with three. It's a bit jank but doesn't require global circuits or mods.

P1tta wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:40 pm

with the last fff - is this being considered or maybe already included in the 2.0 branch?

I don't think anyone figured out what you were asking for the first time around. Were you asking for being able to rotate a building by building another of the same over it?

If you can guarantee which miner will run out last you could count active miners by taking its output on a separate wire, converting just that one to a math-only symbol, and divide the summed outputs of the whole field by it. The problem of course is that this could quite easily overflow the signal ...

I'd point you towards Helmod or Factory Planner. They're not exactly what you're looking for but what you want is a subset of their features.

someone1337 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 07, 2024 8:00 pm

Show me where you would put that one decider per chest in my first screenshot.

For the ore just stick them in next to the train. There's an entire free column there.

If you wanted to do it for plates too you can lose the lamps.

First, I think you should redesign to avoid asymmetric drain.

Second, you can get what you want from a decider with "everything = 0, output 1 placeholder" attached to each chest or set of chests you're interested in.

A base level tank car fills up with 25,000 fluid. I don't know if this is well defined anywhere, but I think it is reasonable to treat 1 fluid as 1 liter. A real life tank car starts in the 20,000 liter range and gets bigger (much like AngelBob tank cars) A single Factorian Fish squishes down to 20...

Without version 2 to play with I can't be sure, but I think this would work. 1) Have all generic loading stations disabled by circuit logic unless they have one train's worth of cargo ready to load. 2) have a depot full of trains waiting to service any stations that are ready to load a train. 3) lo...

The research cost (which is essentially dictating the pace of the game = how fast you'll have access to new machines and options) is hard to properly calibrate for all games : - Either it's too high and it's frustrating to wait a long time for new research to unlock - Or it's too low and you discov...

I am not building 100 more trains just so that after 99 trains block all iron mines, iron input depots, iron unload stations, coal mines, coal input depots, coal unload stations, stone mines, stone input depots and stone unload stations I still have 1 train available to transport some copper :lol: ...