I'd also like some kind of "crowd control" so that when you get a huge wave of biters, you don't only have to count on the thickness of your walls to soak up damage until the turrets kill everything. Like net throwing turrets, that entangle biters, slowing the horde, or air / water blastin...

I totally +1. Experienced Factorio players are used with this kind of little oddities (or are so much used to absolute overproduction that they never have to care for how much they use up), but to the new player, it's pretty hard tu understand. A single bar like described by CreeperDaReeper seems th...

I know this thread is a little old, and I don't know if moderators prefer a little necro (for a good cause) or a new topic start, but I feel it would end up as a thread fusion, so I'll go for the slight necro. I really feel that Factorio needs this feature : the ability to import/export blueprints, ...

That reminds me so much of Dune 2

tetkris wrote:if you have low coal, you can use replacement solid fuel craft with heavy oil

Bleda wrote:I have a lack of oil fields

I'm not fond of modding whatever bothers me in a game, especially when it's still in development :). The thing is : - if the radar does rescan the discovered chunks, but at a such a slow pace, why use a radar ? - if the radar doesn't rescan the discovered chunks, then well ... why use a radar ? Eith...

Owww now I understand !
Maybe it's just me, maybe it's maybeline XD the description of what the radar actually does is a little misleading.
Anyway, now that I know, radars seem pretty useless once chunks are discovered => foud an efficient way to spare 1.5 MW ^^

Hi everyone, I was wondering if the speed of the radars had any chance of being tweaked in some future : I really find extremely long the time it takes for my radars to rescan completely all the area surrounding my base. I mean it's so slow that they never spot new spawns before I discover them myse...

It's 5x5 : 3x3 is the actual drill size, plus 1 tile all around of mining area :

M = Mining area
D = Drill

Yeah I still remember when I was trying to take 100 items from a chest with stacks of 256 and struggling. I am emotionnaly attached to the 2^x, but I'll be nonest, I have 10 fingers, not 16, and apart from endlessly splitting stacks down to 1, 2^x has no added value. Note : I'd love now to have the ...

Your pipes automatically make 'T' like junctions placed appropriately

Concerning your question ... it's a rather vast and the answer lies in many places : youtube tutorials, posts in this forum, ... a little use of a search engine will give you more answers than you'll be able to process ^^

Poison capsule is yummy too

You're probably right. However, I think that when these RTS command center and robots will have been added, if they are not available before a very long research path, they'll arrive "too late" to improve that very specific part of the game.

I admit that I have the exact same problem, I tend to focus on my mouse cursor, forgetting my char is not at the same position, and then buzzz >.<.
I'd love if an auto-goto place option was added.

There is also something I have learnt while playing : if you try to play green style (produce minimally, try to research solar panel and replace all your steam boilers as soon as possible with 0 emission clean electricity, ...) you'll end up losing the race against time : because even with 0 polluti...

Hi, I will first write down the exact way I use the game as I don't know yet which step(s) lead to the bug. Startup of my computer. I Launch manually Factorio (last version, I use the .zip version extracted in F:\Factorio_Win32_0.9.8\Factorio_0.9.8.9400). I am asked if I want updates, I click on &qu...

You have automated them. The inserters will start to insert when the number of coal pieces get lower than 5 (if I recall correctly). And only the number of needed boilers will consume coal to boil the water.

It's (too) easy to have some structures damaged : take your shotgun, fire on a structure, and voilà ! Bug-free damage

I wouldn't mind if higher tier belts had some sort of upkeep. But as always (or at least as most often), the hardest part of the game is the beginning imho. The moment when every single bit of resource counts. I think it would be OK for people who have been playing alpha for months (years ?) and who...

Great idea ! However, I would prefer something like a helicopter, which would allow stationary flight