You should probably consider using a synthesizer & sequencer for procedural music.

My solution is to place virtually all bot-based logistics in a small logistics zone, use a mod ( Construction Probe ) to obtain construction events and convert them into localized circuit-network signals, and a pile of combinators to use said signals to direct logistic bots at to load construction m...

I thought about this a while back, but didn't really want to make it (partly due to having only an introductory understanding of chemistry, and partly due to it being a lot of work). A chemical reactor should accept arbitrary ingredients (any item or fluid, though it may be sensible to exclude finis...

Sometimes, particularly while riding a train without first preparing for the task at hand, I'll use an immediate solution for an immediate problem:

Another option might be use a more permissive system for rail signal placement - switch from a colliding entity occupying a 1x1 tile adjacent to a track to a non-colliding entity anchored to the track, and allow them to be freely attached to any rail segment that does not join or intersect another r...

I decided to follow-up a bit on this mod a bit. I now have a practical build that uses the mod to automate the requesting and delivery of construction materials to an outpost (maybe the qualifier expressing a combinator proficiency requirement can be toned down a bit). The build consists of two comp...

The infrastructure needed to support releases on ARM would also be useful for managing micro-architecture builds (compiler option "-march=<whatever>"), which supposedly should improve performance on many systems.

I do occasionally have a specific opinion on Factorio balancing. I don't have much motivation to do anything about it, but on the off chance that anyone wants to run with the idea, here it is: If it where up to me to rebalance, the game would start peaceful and without any biters. The early challeng...

Construction Probes [/size] Type: Mod Description: Scan new constructions within and around a logistics network to assist in automated delivery of construction materials. Proficiency in the use of combinators for mixed shipments is recommended. Or a good set of blueprints. License: MIT license Vers...

If you want something which compiles to an arrangement of combinators, then Verilog would be a reasonable starting point (because combinators are much more like digital circuits than like conventional computer software).

this thread is split from https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=99001 We need more control over bots You need to carefully read the first 4-5 articles where the idea, that combinators / circuit network is indeed a programming language is developed. — ssilk The easiest solution would b...

What do you think happens to all the current performance optimizations and your UPS in general if a turing complete ruleset was executed before any bot action? The easiest solution would be two types of bots. Current bots as basic bots and then high tech-bots with sophisticated and preferable progr...

In my estimation, significant improvements can be made without a major rework to the assets and without requiring a lot of system resources (aside from extra video ram) - instead of baking everything in during pre-rendering, consider putting geometry & material properties into a set of textures ...

I like the algorithmic music from my open-source browser-based 3d puzzle game:
https://eketek.github.io/orthot/

What bothers me is the absurd difficulty of setting up nuclear reactors. It ought to be as easy as cake - Drop load of high-enriched uranium into a chest with a tank of water next to it, then walk away and think no more about it. Just like it would work in real life. But... that's not the way it wo...

What bothers me is the absurd difficulty of setting up nuclear reactors. It ought to be as easy as cake - Drop load of high-enriched uranium into a chest with a tank of water next to it, then walk away and think no more about it. Just like it would work in real life.

I would also like to know what problem this would solve. Basically the idea is that a *script would monitor the inputs and outputs of all child blocks, and it would run the parent block while all inputs have material available and all outputs have open space, and pause it at all other times. The pa...

I think a decent way to support this would be to allow simulation ticks to be processed per-surface, independly of other surfaces, and managed through the modding interface. ( think ScriptManagedSurface.tick() ) Optionally include the ability for mods to determine what gets updated during a tick (ma...

I have an idea for a mechanism which could feasibly be used to make parts of the factory virtualizeable. Also seems like it would fit into the game reasonably well and has additional uses in general gameplay. Concept: Synchronized Factory Blocks A synchronized factory block would be an arbitrary col...

When I consider the question, I come up with a simple solution and a complex solution. The simple solution is to set up an updater/launcher/configuration program which maintains multiple versions of Factorio (and which would load and run whichever version is requested by the mods/modpack). The compl...