And also not like the scrap recipe has unpredictable behavior. The ratio is fixed. There is nothing random about it. Because of the way it has also to work with Multiplayer, by it is an algorithm with a replicate-able pattern Definitely. The only thing that can go wrong is if the random number gene...

not like you are throwing real life gold bars into the trash. But it feels like it! :o You're right of course. I am also one of the guys who try to painstakingly use up all given resources, even useless junk, and not to throw anything away. One man's junk may be the most precious resource for anoth...

Is it possible that the surface oil is not "heavy oil" but regular surface oil like was used in history to make wooden boat impermeable to water, but it get some residual mixed in during the recycling process and is treated as heavy oil after it ? May be the surface oil is the bodily rema...

There is no simple solution, because you can either read the content of a requester chest or set the requests, but not both. One problem is that you never know how many items are really in that chest, or you cannot adjust the requests. You can use two chests, one requester chest and one regular, and...

This is expected behavior. You seem to expect that splitters move items from the left lane to the right lane, if the left lane isn't full and the right lane is. However, splitters don't do this. Both lanes are strictly separate. The left lane behind the splitter has a gap, if there isn't enough inpu...

Well, uh, it cannot be stated often enough.

If you can select red/green wire as input source then you can divide a red input by green input. Unfortunately, the screenshots in fff-384 show you can select the input source (red/green wire) with the new decider combinator, but not with the arithmetic combinator. The enhancement of the arithmetic...

My question was how people view steam engines through mid-late game. I mean, for me, nuclear > boiler/steam > solar. Once I get a nice, good nuclear setup going, that is my primary with boiler/steam being a backup/overdraw source. I'll put solar in, but more as a supplemental/isolated power deliver...

I agree that the steam engine and boiler setup act like/emulate a coal fired power plant. Do you know how coal fired power plants in the real world work? Inside, the burning coal heats a boiler, the boiler heats water to steam, the steam drives a turbine, the turbine drives an electric generator. I...

First idea: you didn't observe the game thoroughly enough. Trains will definitely be reassigned on the fly. It doesn't happen immediately, but it happens. In a setup similar to your first idea with a train limit of 4, it happens for me that one empty station has 4/4 reserved but all 4 are somewhere ...

The problem with dynamically adjusting train limits according to free space in the stacker is that trains with one item (for example iron ore) can completely occupy the stacker while stations that require a different item (for example copper ore) will starve, because all lanes in the stacker are occ...

It's funny if they really do add a Lightning Rod as a power source because a single Lightning Strike on Earth has only enough total power to run a Lightbulb for a Day and that is it. That is what high Volts and low Amps gets you, after all Humans have proven to be able to survive a Lightning Strike...

The only thing I'd like to add to the "Steam / evil" part is that you need to actually use Steam and observe its behavior and explore its features to judge them. Give it a chance. From what I read between the lines, some people flatly refuse use it and never got even one game from them, so...

Steam doesn't do anything but take a cut of your money. That's simply not true. After you bought a game, steam provides the steam cloud for shared saves. It provides a one-click-install process and keeps the game up to date. It provides installers for decades - even long after the original game web...

Inserter item/s is no primary value. It isn't defined in the game engine. It results from the environment the inserter is used in. To obtain it, you need to establish some environment, then measure the value. Such a value cannot be shown in an encyclopedia whose values are based on the ingame define...

I did a cursory search of "rollback netcode" in the forums and am mildly surprised to see nothing at all about it. It seems quite usable in Factorio even, given that the game is completely deterministic and player inputs generally aren't as complex or frequent as fighting games. The game ...

Almost everything has been done before, this is a possible solution:

https://factorioprints.com/view/-NQHYf_XCsdl_ChkKKMW

Your log seems ok, no apparent issue for me, but I'm not used to how logs are supposed to look like with AMD GPUs. Common PC issues that lead to the whole PC crashing are bad/outdated drivers for GPU and audio, overclocking, overheating, insufficient power supply (includes bad power connectors withi...

Oh, you used a chest for buffering. I guess this will last longer until it congests than the lifetime of a map. You added a quite complex belt+inserter setup. I did that too in my designs, however I was never satisfied with the added spaghetti. Not simple enough any more. I resorted to wiring 2 belt...

Examples for manipulating lanes:
(I practiced this by creating no less than 5 different purely belt based malls)