- If your machines are literally slowing down to a crawl, check if you're producing enough power. - You should never have to move your main base unless your starting area is too confined (or there is just not enough water). Just bring resources to your base with belts, pipes or trains. But you may ...

I usually walk around going "Why isn't this backed up? I need to find the source of this!" Or "Ah, now everything is backed up nicely. I can add in another 4 labs and break everything again." True, but I'd rather have backups of Iron/Copper plates than backups of Raw iron/copper...

Webby_Gamer wrote:Thanks, I'll just need to add more furnaces to the belt.

That's the whole idea. Spend time walking around your base going, "Hey, why are these backed up? I'll just add more furnaces/assemblers/etc."

I like that too. I suggest that lasers become slow-firing, one-hit-wonders. If they take a second, or even 2 seconds to charge but they instantly kill anything they hit, then they aren't viable by themselves, especially against swarms of smaller biters. This would be even better with intelligent tar...

justjosbin wrote:Thanks, only bought the game yesterday morning.

Don't feel bad, that stumped me for a good 30 minutes. Wait till you get to oil, that's a whole new barrel of oil... er, umm... fish.

The info box for the roboport tells you robot stats. I don't believe it's detailed enough to tell you exactly how many you have. As for how people do it, you'll find both ways. Arumba has upwards of 1,000 robots in his videos, others have far fewer. It's a matter of taste, though if you've got tons ...

Also note, extra fuel doesn't make them burn any faster, just longer. If you've got enough automation to have inserters feeding furnaces, you probably have a steady source of coal which means you don't need it to store more than 5 because you shouldn't have any shortages that aren't caused by a lack...

You're producing less pollution, but it takes time for it to dissipate.

I'm going to second that. Dwarf Fortress's not-quite-smooth linux support is disappointing comparatively. I find it ironic that the most "linux-y" looking game of the 21st century is so difficult to install on Linux. I mean, I know, "Just install the 32 bit libraries", but they d...