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?

https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... on_design/

Why do you use speed modules and beacons here? They increase energy cost per produced item. If you need throughput, just build bigger assembler array. The payoff is in the production modules. They increase the number of solid fuel you get per coal (both by giving more oil products per coal and by g...

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 open the blueprint and (right?) click on the walls, concrete etc in the top overview they are all removed from the print

Relative fuel value of rocket fuel decreased by 10.6%, relative value of solid fuel decreased by 4%. Rocket fuel was nerfed in Factorio 0.17, it is no longer profitable to convert solid fuel to rocket fuel. You might come out ahead if you play version 0.16, even with less coal on a blue belt! Accor...

Liquefaction is fine (not sure how else to get more power?)

Water fluid is ok, steam is not (op specifically mentions water fluid sources). But steam should be a small fractions of energy costs, main gains will probably be optimising modules and beacons..

First entry: 669 MW net production (681 calculated, maybe it needs more time to get there...)

Perfect ratios aren't that bad if you stop caring about hitting them all at the same time. Here's my 1.1GW plant that supposedly wastes 31 turbines (had to look up the numbers ;p), but has "perfect" heat exchangers. The real limit here is pipe throughput. If you use one-sided input you need maximum...