A suggestion (although you seem to have done things differently): Create a new Windows account on your gaming PC and install Factorio from *.zip or from Steam. This way both Factorio saves and configuration reside on the same computer, but in different Windows user profiles. In case you used Steam a...

You have 2 storages for blueprints. One is global ("My Blueprints" category) and one is save-specific ("Game Blueprints" category). Seems a valid way to move all blueprints from "My Blueprints" to "Game Blueprints", then upgrade the save, then move the bluepri...

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I'm currently building a 5k spm megabase in my sandbox environment, and it's about to start to scratch the 60 UPS limit with everything in place except mines (the mines are currently just infinity chests for ore). Currently, max is 68 UPS in editor mode, so I guess I can build some but not all mines...

It seems you're missing a small but important thing about balancers. They can be input balanced, and they can be output balanced. An output balanced balancer tries to fully satisfy its output, no matter unevenly pulling from the input. An input balanced balancer pulls equally from all input, and if ...

There are no circuit to deactivate station. My stations can only be deactivated if its content is "more then NN", but this can only happen when train is there and station is not acceptable anyway. Now, is there or is there not some circuit that will deactivate a station? A plain wire is a...

Great that it works. Now that you're in supply stations, next task for you: develop a loading station that dynamically requests items from the logistics network that are missing in the train and doesn't hardcode the chests and inserters with one material.

Train stops can read the id of the stopped train (default signal T). If T == 0, the station is empty. This (T == 0) is also true if the train is in manual mode, so this is an approach to prevent train filling if a train at a station is switched to manual mode (your second issue). A common approach ...

A train stopping in the middle of nowhere with "destination full" can only happen if the station the train is driving to is deactivated, for example with the circuit network, and there are no other train stations with the same name with a free slot. Or if the station the train is driving t...

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If you're designing some kind of railway grid with 2 parallel unidirectional tracks, one back and one forth, and add tracks to all 4 sides, you have the dilemma that you cannot overlay the tracks with the next tiled section. It seems you tried to resolve this dilemma by using bidirectional tracks. H...

I feel laser turrets are very convenient, and from my experience, they are sufficient to defend anything if enemy settings are default or less than the default. However, their passive drain is substantial. You need to offset this with a sufficient amount of solar panels + accumulators (at least this...

Just a remark: I was not confused about this unlock behavior when I started Factorio. I saw I were able to barrel all kind of fluids, some already known and available, some not (yet) available. Since barreling fluids is not one's first priority on the first playthrough, I didn't spend more thoughts ...

I didn't have a use case yet for the combinator combinations you posted previously, but this kind of filtering is something I actually use. However, my solution is slightly smaller: screenshot_899h_01m_26s 1.png 0eNrFV12OmzAYvIufYbWYvyzal0p97gWqFTLwkVgLBhkTNY04QG/Rs/Uk/Qwblm1MgW3UjZRIxvZ845kxds4kKVq...

And what the logistics network (bots) can be used for: I use them for construction of course (all my blueprints include roboports, so they build themselves, so to speak). And for items of low demand that needs to be transported long distance. For example fuel supply in train stations. And the outski...

I decided against smelters near the mines, because mines will run out sooner or later, and I want to set up smelters and forget about them - only explore new mines if necessary. Actually, for steel I already planned a completely separate train network with iron ore only. Somehow, I ended up with thi...

I guess from your opening post, this is one of your first satellites you create, may be without having built the rocket silo yet. Or you didn't really look into how long it will take the rocket silo to produce one rocket and how many space science are created by one launch. A non beaconed and non mo...

It depends on what you mean with "megabase" - how big mega is for you. If you want it really big, you need to plan a totally different factory than you had before - currently, you probably have a factory that is able to launch single rockets. If you want a moduled factory, you need differe...

A brainless method to check if some mod creates the issue: - in mod manager, disable one of the enabled mods - load your map with the current set of mods (if some modded item is removed on loading, ignore it) - Check the fps. Now ok? if yes: it's the mod you just disabled - if not ok: goto start and...

This repeater combinator is not yet completely defined. Consider a not fully compressed belt, where items pass randomly, with random space between them. Connect one belt piece to the input of this combinator. It gets a random input of 0..8 each tick depending on the fullness of the belt. The conditi...