The picture in the tech tree does a pretty good job of explaining how the chests work. purple goes to blue and yellow (think this is the active one, which means keep me empty) yellow receives from player trash and purple, and empties to blue (storage chest) red only goes to blue (passive, which mean...

i could, but that looks really cool. i can do it the most efficient way, but wanted to make it work the depicted way. If you really wanted to do it efficiently (and probably the way i'd do it, even though you don't seem interested in efficiency) then have 2 train cars and load it up with fast inser...

For that matter why don't fast long inserters exist? I don't really use smart inserters often (although they are very useful when needed), but I've found several needs for long inserters and wish they were faster. And once again this does exist in certain mods (yuoki and I think 5dim has a smart fas...

This website (link below) has already done all the numbers for you and says how many of each machine down to the furnaces and ores needed for that item then you can even say how many items per second, minute, or hour you want made (also has some mod support). http://factorio.rotol.me/pack/base-f11/f...

robots from your personal roboport flying to fix something while on a train This happens to me a lot! I somehow lose several of my personal robots because of this (although most eventually find their way back). Usually by the time I stop the train they're long out of range so they stop what they we...

I like the idea of this mod, but v0.0.1 is the only version that worked for me without any "nil" errors and without the ability to upgrade previously placed belts it's not that useful since I have to upgrade them 1 row at a time still. Keep working on it though and hope you get it working ...

You could try to make the biggest factory imaginable. Constantly expanding it to make as many rockets as you can fast as possible. That is true after the 1st rocket launch it does keep a running total of the number of rockets you've sent off. However I usually start a new game after rocket launch, ...

I've done a little experimenting on my own and found that chain signals and this zigzag pattern to be the answer. 4Rails.png From what I understand chain signals are the color of the the signal in front of it. If there are 2 signals in front of the chain signal with one being green and the other is ...

Kinda surprised this topic lasted this long, but anyways... Lately I've been building both and not building accumulators at all. The trick is to build more than enough of both so that the steam comes to a halt during the day when solar overpowers them, then as the solar panels die out the steam kick...

RSO and FARL are must play mods even if you are trying to do vanilla only. Foreman is also nice because you can save your blueprints from one game and load them into another.

Try Yuoki Profit from War mod, you can't use everything it adds directly, you trade it for "money," (hints: Profit from War) but it still has a few functional items. You can turn your player into a mech walker (it's basically a really good modular/power armor with 12x12 grid that makes you...

The steam engine can use any type of liquid to generate electricity. This can be used to get rid of unused oil-products. Just fill unusable oil products into a steam engine and it will destroy the liquids (cold liquids will be destroyed at a rate of 6.0 fluid / second). That is from the wiki link i...

I've been using FARL, RSO, and Yuoki mods. Since resources are so far away and the Yuoki trains mod adds several new trains and cargo that have different speeds, I want a double lane rail line for the long stretches of my rail so the slower trains don't slow down the faster ones. I have something li...

I know you can set item filters for train cars so 1 inserter will only fill certain slots with certain items, unfortunately this is very counter productive to what you want, like everyone else said just use 2 inserters. (although I would just use a fast inserter putting the items directly into the c...

I think I came up with the belt Equalizer you were looking for and also works as a 4 to 4 equalizer. It's 12*6 and uses 30 belts, 8 underground, and 9 splitters. BeltEqualizer_1.png BeltEqualizer_2.png BeltEqualizer_3.png BeltEqualizer_4.png do local blueprintData={icons={[1]={name="basic-split...

After reading all the comments it seems like oil processing is the only useful thing for logistic network unless you want to buffer items or prevent belts from being loaded up with items 24/7. The other use which is just for fun is to make light shows lol. I did sorta try the item buffering to only ...

The FARL mod simplifies trains so much, basically the only track building I do manually is stations and crossings (T and +). FARL is kinda hard at first until you know what your doing then it does everything for you except steer. FARL clears trees, places signals, electric poles, (and anything else ...

Ah, i now i get what trying to solve. The most simple and straight forward solution to your problem would be to implement 3 decider combiner and only when all 3 conditions are true the pump will run. Exactly, except I thought it'd be easier to just subtract 1 when lubricant was low except the arith...

I started off skipping all the tutorials and campaign but then was like what do I do, what is this, so I played 2 or 3 tutorials (which were boring, sorry, but still helpful) then went straight to custom game. Don't think I even completed the tutorial, but after 2 play throughs (launching rocket) wi...

Im not a programmer but can read some programming languages, but i have a hard time figuring out what you are trying to accomplish. If you want to maintain a certain minimum level it enough to connect both pump and tank to the network and set the pump to: Lubricant < 1000. However im suspecting u w...