As for single threaded - I've set task manager to show individual cores, and they're all equally balanced at about 45-55% utilization. Individual cores view is usually pretty meaningless, apart from showing the number of cores. Each thread will typically be scheduled on different cores effectively ...

Hello 4 year old post, I noticed your blueprint strings are incompatible with version 1. Does anyone have these blueprints and could you please share the new blueprint string please? I very much like the look of the low density structure factory and would like to use it in my game, especially now t...

Theikkru wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:31 pm

+1. Doesn't have to be a size change; shifting the icons a bit in any direction except right would do it too.

Like this, for example?

So I guess yellow bottle is the last bottle I need to produce right? Am I almost at the end of the game? After utility science you'll also need to build the rocket. You can also put a satellite in the rocket, which will give you space science packs. You can keep going with them, faster and faster; ...

I have so many accumulators, maybe 100 and also solar cells but still at night battery gets juiced up..... also as you can see I have so much power at disposal but accus are not filling that fast, what to do? https://pasteboard.co/JrZkR23.png Your image shows 341 solar panels (producing 20.5MW), 61...

attached is a photo of what is happening.... Trains are going to 4 locations and jamming up the track.... One simple approach is to have only chain signals between the stacker and the train stops, apart from the signal at the start of the block containing the stops, which must be a regular signal. ...

The primary benefits of chain signals (when used correctly) are to improve throughput at junctions and avoid the risk of deadlock.

I found Factorio Train Automation very useful when I first wanted to set up a "proper" railway network and highly recommend reading it.

As a first year undergraduate (some years ago...), I learned a lot from "Computer Organization & Design: The Harware/Software Interface" by Patterson and Hennessy. There may well be better alternatives, but it sounds like that's the sort of thing you're after. Look up the authors!

I tried using a train speed mod , because I was interested in an increased maximum train speed (like maybe 400km/h instead of 300), but this mod was really overpowered. IIRC it gave me something like 3000 km/h and instant Braking Force. ... Does anyone know how to reset the braking force completly ...

If I open a blueprint book, the various blueprints in it are apparently fixed in a specific order. There's no easy way to rearrange them in version 1.0. Previous versions would let you insert a blueprint in between two existing blueprints, which was more than enough to allow pretty much any rearran...

A good chunk of the extra raw resource cost of N steel furnaces over 2N stone furnaces (to have the same output) is made up by savings in belt and inserters. Indeed you half your use on coal... on paper ! What I wrote could have been more clear. My point was that reduced coal consumption means redu...

Interesting (if long) post! I agree with a lot of what you wrote, but a few points I wanted to comment on... which have ended up making this rather a long post too :). Phase 1 : ... grey science don't make any sense even if not going for a run, it really cost a leg and it produces more pollution tha...

Im planning in mid game to configure a train line with attached large power poles, roboports, lights and red/green wires - is there a ideal setup? A BP known to anyone? If you're thinking of extending a logistic network by building roboports along your railway: it doesn't usually work very well. Lo...

May i run Steam Engines after Steam Turbine or got they damaged because the steam is to hot? You can run steam engines off 500C steam, but it is not advisable because for 30 steam/s consumption they produce 900kW where a steam turbine would produce ~2.9MW: "the energy that was put into the steam to...

Does placing an underground belt at maximum length ("max. length 5") make the belt five or six tiles longer? Placing the 2nd one makes the belt 5 times longer than just placing the 1st belt. Adding a maximum length underground belt to a single belt makes the result six tiles longer (from 1 to 7 til...

Here is the Newbies(*) point of view: Belt2.png <sarcasm with a smile, ON> This is clearly a one length belt, measured center to center. Strange I have to use two tiles. Let's say you are placing items on the ground and want them to travel via belt a distance of 1 square. Would you place 1 belt or ...

When I press tab to move the focus into a numeric textfield containing "50", it is really unlikely that what I want to change it to is "501" or "50999", and very likely that I want to change it to "1" or "999". To that end, the UX would be streamlined if the contents were selected when it was focus...

5thHorseman wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 05, 2020 3:56 pm

I tried to think of everything, but probably forgot something.

Like "Drive Left / Train Right" .

efficency modules? I have 2 sorts, speed , energy saving and efficiency which one is the best? "Best" depends on how you measure it, but in the context of pollution: on their own, a speed module will increase pollution per item produced and an efficiency module will decrease it. This is quite a sim...

I have a lot of energy from steam and sun cells.... ... So I wonder what is going on why the accumulators are not fully charged? The amount of energy stored in accumulators varies; you can't tell much from a single figure. Did you just have one or more attacks, so you've had additional drain due to...