I have been trying to make use of https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Updated_Construction_Drones. I get the 10 construction drones in my inventory. Now what? I can't deploy them on the ground and they don't exit my inventory when there is a blue print. I have tried Tiny Start in addition, and the flying ...

Excellent!

Is it possible (even if a mod is necessary) to edit the map of an ongoing game? I would like to do some light terraforming there and there (removing ore patches I find excessive for my gaming style)

Is it possible to connect painlessly a circuit over long distance, aside with a mod? I need to check the fuel level at a point some 300 tiles away.

Oh my, 15 mn ... IRL? Meaning 15 hours in game I think, as the time compression is 1 to 60 ... The problem is the spawn point was very, very far from where I died.

I think I lost my equipment.

I have scoured and scoured and searched the area where I died, extending even further than where I'm pretty sure I died (I know, I guarded my car by a turret and I died west of the spot) and there is absolutely no body anywhere. Did I lose all my precious inventory? Is there a timer? Occurrences whe...

Deadlock lamps always generate errors when I try to load it alongside the other mods I have installed. Too bad, I could use a more powerful lamp than the vanilla one.

I was fiddling with the parameters, and somehow I stumbled upon this setting. Deposits: all 3 parameters down to 17% (frequency, size, richness) Biter evolution: only from pollution, x4 Starting area 17% More desert / few trees (low pollution absorption) Increased biters base, 120% Rampant (AI actio...

Not sure either, I checked the Rampant thread and it seems there is not much change here. I have a question about expansion party, is it handled on a per base basis (meaning possible exponential expansion speed...) or there is one and only one at a time on all the map (meaning the bigger the explore...

Biters and spitters don't require anything to spawn around spawners and this is unchanged from vanilla In vanilla, to form attack groups they require pollution that the spawners absorbs and stores which is reduced by the number of units sent to the attack group. Rampant can form attack groups indep...

This seems the same issue that I have here:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23042&p=541609#p541609

Basically, no biter base in pollution = Rampant doing nothing.

Is the expected Biter behavior to not attack your base/outposts, if no pollution reaches any Biter Base? Because even with Rampant, my pollution being rather limited (not because I play green, but because I obviously suck at Factorio and seldom go beyond 1k iron plate per mn), the Biters base never ...

Very interesting article. I was thinking doing the same, at my very humble scale, because I just don't want to make a main bus. It seems that's the only efficient way to mass produce stuff though.

Yes, I feel I'm happy, but I don't want to miss a Great Mod that so many people seems to be using. Somehow I wonder what I'm missing that makes it the most downloaded mod. So a first mandatory use would be to play with extra ores, right? Vanilla don't handle that at all or well, distribution wise. I...

I have the same naive question. Now, with 1.4 million downloads, I have no doubt it adds something, but I don't get what. I have been using the vanilla ore generator with very very low frequency and richness, and I definitively needs railways to get to new ore patches, which are very distant from ea...

Thanks & Fair enough Oxyd!

I'm not unfriendly to the devs. I would even understand if they decided that pathfinding is good enough. Color me instead surprised. We are talking of a team of devs who put thousands upon thousands of hours into a finely tuned game, but somehow the pathfinding is not making justice to it, and is no...

So really you're asking why a tool that wasn't designed to be used a certain way doesn't work when used that way? You should be less certain that your way of playing is the only way. That said, Spiderdron also have an issue. Biters have constant issues, stuck against cliffs. That's part of the vani...

Yes, the issue is the Biters AI, which is indeed used in several mods using vehicles. I would beg to differ though on what the goal of the game could be! The community, probably like the Anno community, is split between people who put first and foremost the Logistic chain of the game and the ones wh...

The pathfinding in the game is just atrocious. Between vehicles wandering off by +50% then backing down and vehicles who get stuck constantly ... I can't understand why the dev team, which is obviously very good and talented, don't have a pathfinder which is somehow at the level of the x gazillions ...