I don't think it's a water issue but I not sure.


You can see if it's water by hovering over the heat exchangers. If they have 0 water *while the problem happens* you have a water problem. By intuition your pipes look insufficient (too many pipes between boilers, too many straight pipes) and ...

Without a better view of the entire power plant, we can’t really proofread your power plant.

What I can tell you is, that those 4 reactors in that two 1x2 configuration cannot provide more than 320 MW of power, at 160 MW each.

160 MW calls for ( factoriocheatsheet.com/#nuclear-power ) 2 ...

Are the stations on the correct side of the track? That has been my issue before.

I don't understand why, out of seemingly nowhere, my power production will drop in half and I will get low power warnings on buildings. I should be generating around 460MW, and sometimes I indeed do generate that much. But then out of nowhere I drop down to what I show in the screenshots. I have 9 ...

Factorio Train Automation tutorial (Parts 1-3) expands on this. Although now quite old, it is still applicable and remains the best written explanation I've seen (in my opinion).
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Thanks, I have that bookmarked and will be reading through that.

There is no way in hell I would have ever figured that out on my own. Thank you so much for the easy to understand and detailed reply!

I am trying to figure out signals. I have read the Wiki, and in game help but I am just not getting this, what I believe to be simple, intersection to work. The blue arrows are the directions trains run. Basically, a train can run both ways on all 3 tracks, but there is only 1 train on each track ...

Omg, I feel so stupid now... I was using an old shortcut that was taking me to 1.0.0 and not the steam version. Once in the right version it's working again. Thanks so much for the help!

I went through the attach process, not sure why they didn't show up, I will try again. I did start my game in an older version, but I have 60+ hours of it in the current version of the game. All 4 save games I attached are from the new version.

Hello, I went to load my game tonight and my actual save game, along with all the Autosaves are all saying they are corrupted. I have a ton of time into these and I will be sick if I have to do all this work again! Is there anything that can be done to help a corrupted save game? It's saying that ...