Speaking of lateral thinking in optimizations, I'm curious as to both why electric network updates do have such a heavy memory bandwidth impact, and whether that impact could be avoided in the common case. This is not about programming, this is about CPU and memory hardware. To be able to speed thi...

Why do I find the optimisations so exciting? I don't think any of my bases have become noticeably slow. My mega bases were never really very mega. :D What you consider mega base might not be the same for everyone. My last base is down to ~30 ups on a i5-13600k. I didn't design for ups, I just built...

Optimizing the game this way is great! I really don't like it to always have in mind: "If I build it this way, what would be the ups impact?" instead of: "If I build it this way, is this nice enough for my technical/aesthetic senses?" My biggest time consumer is always the insert...

An interesting suggestion. In the real world, the more polluted the environment, the lower the harvest yield, and it's possible the more of the harvest will spoil. However, if the pollution contains CO2 (carbon dioxide), the more CO2 the air contains, the stronger the plant growth, so the higher the...

I've been looking for a such mod that checked a number of boxes. I need the time to stop while I'm designing blueprints : I sometimes spend hours designing stuff, and I don't want to get out of the blueprint lab just to discover the evolution factor went from 18 to 53% while I was creating the perf...

Do you mean to imply in your comment that there is only one correct way to play the game? I feel that can reasonable be inferred, but I don't want to put words in your mouth or argue about a point you aren't making. I take the liberty to answer on Loewchen's behalf, because I know exactly what he m...

I voted "maybe", because I cannot decide what is better. Both having a shared blueprint library and not having one has valid reasons. I thought about what I would do with such a library. I would look into it what others have done, then be overwhelmed by all these crap blueprints I would ne...

Why would *1 be needed or all that inverse stuff? I feel like something has gone completely over my head. In general, additions within the circuit network are free in terms of combinators. There is an implicit add for all connected wires. You just connect wires, and the resulting signals are the si...

My personnal order list : 1) Other planets environment 2) The space platform's mechanic to go there 3) elevated rails/ new curves 4) combinators rework / crafting combinator 5) the new sound system 6) spoilage mechanic 7) quality feature 8) map view improvements / remote view 9) stacking things on ...

As long as the camera is centered on the Spidertron, not on some map position, there is probably no chance to get anything changed. Actually, not the Spidertron is wobbling. Its screen position is never changed and always fixed to the center of the screen. Instead, the world is wobbling (and that's ...

NB: Programmers like to use the numbers (0-9 and A-Z) where the first position is (0) because in many computer languages that is the default for array indexes It's not really because 0 as first array index, it's more that the signal name could represent the exponent for base 2. All values are power...

If some reactor has lower temperature, for example because it was just built, or it had no fuel, and is still warming up, it pulls heat from the neighboring reactors and heat pipes. The same with heat pipes. If you just added a number of heat pipes, they need to heat up and are pulling heat from the...

As with many existing overhaul mods for 1.1, I doubt you will be able to add all the expansion content to an existing save in a useful way. However, I expect vanilla saves can be migrated to Factorio version 2 (that will be available whether or not you buy the DLC) as has been possible previously. ...

Benchmarking bases and Factorio performance is a huge topic everywhere and for ages. I didn't collect links, but googling for "factorio benchmark" will get you a start for performance research in general (connected with PC hardware), and "factorio benchmark map" for map-specific ...

These are my most negative changes: 1. Quality 2. Fluid 3. Inserter These are my most negative changes: 1. Fluid 2. Quality 3. Inserter Order is different but the list is the same. My top negative is Fluid without flow. It's extremely hard to not comment this. Really hard, and I failed. I'm totally...

(overdesigning) Best decision. soon its gone. Lifetime saved, Useless knowledge avoided. (no offense meant to the elitists here) and i will not start any new factory unless the new thing is out. Hehe, that's a very pragmatic approach. I don't know if I'm counting as elitist, but I always want to kn...

The single yellow top right yellow belt has no other function as to make the lower yellow belt piece sideload instead of merge with the vertical line. The other non-blue pieces help balancing. If they were all blue, the chests will not fill as equally as if they are yellow/resp. red. This setup is t...

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Sun Jul 07, 2024 8:18 pm

Will travel between planets take place using portals?

See FFF-373, first section, how Space Age will look like in general.

It is just, I get a joy out of solving a complex recipe chain, not stamping down 20 copies of the same thing. There was a strong theme in this Friday Facts centering on UPS and SPM. This is closely tied, and it's actually supporting your play style. Improving speed and SPM for single machines mean ...

You're speaking about the quickbar. There are already keyboard shortcuts available to select a specific bar: SHIFT-0 ... SHIFT 9. It will show the selected bar on the top quickbar row. To pick one item from the top quickbar row, there are keyboard shortcuts 0..9. So you need to type a "chord&qu...