I like everything except the double row of tabs in the crafting menu. There are 6 options (in vanilla; 4 craft categories, character, and logistics), I don't think 6 options need a two-level menu structure. Most annoyingly/confusingly, one of the craft categories is called logistics. Thus, when you ...

I would like to propose some new circuit signals to help monitor and control esp. fluid and heat flow: - Pumping speed signal: Pumps have a new (ish?) feature where you see actual "pumping speed" in user interface (i.e. pumping speed: 1259/12000). It would be nice if this could be measured on the ci...

So it seems like even with the one place buffer in front of loading stations you are subject to the Thundering Herd problem (lots of trains all head for one enabled station; one or two get there disabling it; rest of Herd charges off to next enabled station, probably on other side of map; rinse, re...

[... trains ...] With vanilla there are some things that are difficult to do with trains without very elaborate circuit network structures, timers, and triggers. However, I'm pretty happy with my current setup with one-to-many and many-to-many connections. 1. Fuel There is one place that produces fu...

Thanks for this mod! I would wish some way to generate and consume full belts of resources, maybe including loaders would do the trick? Anyway, I have a bug report: Game crash when returning from blueprint lab. Seems reproducible - if I reload the autosave and exit the lab it triggers the error. sta...

Nice, thanks! I was doing the same (after discovering that chunk alignment is actually quite important, mostly for ensuring radar coverage for automatic building) One point of feedback: You can place normal (i.e. non-chain) signals directly after the last crossing in each intersection, since after t...

Yeah that video is a mess.

You can use ~infinite bots from stationary roboports, so why not make a 64 wide (or whatever that was) blueprint with roboports integrated so you can fire and forget?

39991.665 ms - DaveMcW trains only I don't have access to factorio for the coming weeks, so I can't check the save - but I did have a question. How do you control the trains? Regular signals, or circuit timing? And did you consider having a dedicated rail for each production line so you don't need ...

which is why I always use crude: easiest on logistics, can often find a local source, no danger of running out if other processes back up

I generally have a armor dedicated purely to bots: two fusion reactors, one or maybe two exos, a bunch of batteries and multiple personal roboports. I have no trouble with largish build projects, and usually run out of inventory before running out of bot power...

What I do* is combine a number of blueprints that automate most of the chore of outpost construction while staying fully vanilla: 1. Use personal conbots to create a small starter outpost (station, radar, roboport, supply train unloading) 2. Setup train routes to/from the outpost, unless all outpost...

Pretty sure it's too late for my opinion on the oil changes to have any weight, but here goes: 1. I agree with the devs that (1) blue science has always been a huge difficulty bump (the "oil wall"), and (2) that it's weird that players are supposed to learn managing multiple outputs before they can ...

All rail bounding boxes are now hardcoded/not moddable. This is to avoid unexpected collision/rail block merging behaviour. I bet that means that the Rail Bridge mod doesn't work anymore. :( Any reason for removing this? I understand it was an unintended feature, but it also feels harmless after fi...

Why does the game state need to know what entity the player has selected anyhow? If the player executes an action, pass that action to the server rather than passing the player.selected property. This seems like an unnecessary linkage between view and controller of model/view/controller design. I h...

Feature request: might it be possible to add statistics counters on sources/sinks, so you can see exact number of items created/consumed in past minute / 10 minutes? In a way this would be a workaround for the production screen not showing full accuracy, so you can't tell the difference between 1101...

After thousands hours spent in Factorio in the past 5 years, here is what this FFF learn to me :"mobile version of supaplex" O,o Factorio is one of the least mobile-like games I know. I assume you meant it's like a spiritual successor or something? But the wording is bad. Doesn't make much sense ei...

Deleting the rocket fuel production indeed had a net positive effect, getting me to 703: I was hoping using one fewer refinery (with an extra beacon) might give me better results, but I would obviously have to optimize my other beacons (a lot) If you connect the heavy oil at the top instead looping...

There's a mod that adds landfill to all tiles under a blueprint, quite useful for situations like this!

It can drastically improve small intersection, but in mine intersection and some others the limitation of throughput is merging lanes. I consider using this as cheating and taking away challenge. Yeah it would be more of a gimmick / proof of concept. But in a way you can see this as a railway bridg...

This might be patched really quickly, but it must be possible to use this 'feature' to improve intersections quite dramatically, no?

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