So,with the benefit of hindsight, it was obvious from the beginning :-) and I can confirm my earlier post. Problem solved. Well,not really, as I'm still lacking petroleum, but the refinery setup is working. The fact that the refinery shows light oil in the output obviously tells you that this output...

Thanks, I think I just misunderstood the visualization of the refinery. I added some extra chemical plants for cracking light oil into petroleum, and watched the pipes coming from the refinery. There was a constant flow of between 0 an 5 (what is it, by the way - m³?) within the pipes. So it seems I...

For some reason, my refineries suddenly only produce light oil as you can see from the screenshots. This setup already worked pretty fine, but now it seems to be broken. It is set up to work the following way: produce lubricant above 24000 lubricant >> crack heavy into light oil and produce solid fu...

You could also use a mod that gives you straight pipes that don't connect. It's one of Bob's mods if I remeber correctly. It features straight, L, T and underground pipes coverung longer distances. But just search for pipes in the mod section, there seems to be a wider variety of mods covering that ...

Ok .. it's because I built a fill level display, where the last (green) light should be active when the tank is full. SO I wil set it to 24.500 ..

THx

Hello there, I just created a system to evenly fill my tanks using combinators. Now I have stumbled across somthing interesting, that I cannot explain: When I connect a full tank to the circuit, the signal reads 24.000 instead of 25.000, see picture. As you can see, this has nothing to do with inter...

Thanks for the huge amount of in-detail explanation I guess the nost important issue is that I missed the fact that the input values are not altered by modules. I was assuming that the same happens at higher process speed, but that obviously is wrong for productivity mdules

I'm currently trying to set up an efficient lubricant / light oil / petroleum production using beacons and speed / productivity modules. I always read that the basic production ratios (in that case the ratio refinery:heavy oil cracking:light oil cracking) are no longer valid when using modules. But ...

I'm using the electric furnace in order to avoid the coal supply. And I'm using express belts, so tht is not the problem. I already activated the "show-transport-lines" in the debug settings. When activated, there are white and blue lines shown atop the belts, but I haven't found a informa...

I am uterly confused about the input-to-output ration for producing (copper or iron) plates. I'm using the "Factorio Caclulator" by Kirk McDonald which tells me that 2700 ore will result in 2700 plates per minute using 72 electric furnaces. However, when setting this up using expressbelts,...

Well, the regular Ubuntu update, but I doubt this changes the permissions for my NAS share ... question is how should I set the permissions on this share to allow for Factorio to set the neccessary permissions runtime?

I'll follow these hints, however I don't understand where the problem comes from, as I didn't change anything on my settings regarding NAS, ... and Factorio has been running fine for several years now.

Im running Factorio 1.17.36 in Ubuntu 20.04. Out of the sudden, I receive an error message when starting the game: "Error while running reload_script: filesystem error: copy_file "<my_game-dir>/factorio/data/base/scenarios/freeplay/image.png" to ".../factorio/temp/currently-playi...

On Ubuntu 18.04 I have been running the experimental Factorio version without any problems. After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 (fresh install) and changing the graphic card (from a Nvidia 1080 to a Nvidia GTX 1660 Super), I'm experiencing significant lags. My FPS is at around 6 .. 7 on average, with pe...

Good idea, thanks!

Ok, I think I really miscounted my furncaes. With 2x24 along a red belt it's now working. Thanks for the debug inf And geeee! I really buildt ALL my 4x4 balancers wrong all the time, as I was missing this one splitter. Just oversaw that all teh time

I'm currently utterly confused of what I'm doing wrong in terms of setting up a continous supply for my steel plate production. According to the Kirc McDonalds "Factorio Calculator", I can feed 48 electric furnaces producing steel with a full red belt of iron ore. However, this does not wo...

You can use an arithmetuc combinator that sends a certain signal to the chest. In the network setup box of the chest, select the "read request" (or similar, not in front of factorio atm). I've done so to end my coal-feeding of my trains and switch to solid fule: I replaced the steel chest ...

Hmmm.. for me this feels like running through a maze and never reaching the exit. All I want to do is thave more robots. So I need to produce plastic to get rid of the petroleum gas. Now I have to either build warehouse after warehouse to stockpile plastic, or build advanced circuits. Which in turn ...

I'm really stuck at provideing lubricant, currently especially for my flying robot frame factory. I basically now how to produce lubricant, but I'm alwas reaching a kind of dead end because I cannot make use of the surplus products (light pil and petroleum gas). I started to produce solid fuel from ...