you don’t need this at all, since what you’re describing can be done with only one or two arithmetic combinators and some judicious bitwise operators:


to check if a bit is set (to get its value), you just need to calculate the bitwise AND of the input and a constant with just that bit set (here ...

Actually, with the "set recipe" circuit signal option, can't this be pretty easily automated too? Especially the productivity > 100% case.



Actually i cant reproduce this exploit at all


i just tried this in‐game: it works when deconstructing the machine (whether by hand or with bots) and ...

TLDR
asynchronous productivity can be manually exploited for free crafts, so make productivity output synchronously.

what?
when a machine’s productivity progress bar fills up, add its productivity results to the output of the machine only when the “main” green crafting progress bar fills up ...

this is a great idea! i can imagine construction bots moving over to the logistic chest containing the item and repairing it like an entity. they could also repair damaged items in the player's inventory by hovering over them. personal roboports would be even more useful!

speaking of which, being ...

when dropping items on a belt, if you continue dropping them ever so slightly behind the items already on the belt, the items will be dropped exactly where your pointer is, arbitrarily close (compressed) to the items ahead. this always happens and is independent of the save used.

i expected ...

Koub wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2024 6:40 am More like a balancing issue, hence

[Koub] Moved to Balancing.

my bad, i only saw there was a Balancing subforum immediately after i posted.

+1 bump. i think this is even more necessary in 2.0 due to interrupts: let’s say you start setting up a wildcard interrupt with a destination of [item] unload , finish setting the complex wait conditions on it, then realize you misspelled it as [item]unload (without the space). you then have to add ...

TLDR
the different fluids the flamethrower turret can take as input have different damage multipliers, but this isn’t shown in Factoriopedia.

what?
display the damage multiplier of each fluid the flamethrower turret can take as input in its Factoriopedia entry.

why?
the mechanic of each ...

the names of magazines in the bullet ammo category go like this:
firearm magazine
piercing rounds magazine
uranium rounds magazine
notice how they're all named [qualifier] rounds magazine except for the first. for shotgun shells, cannon shells and rockets, this kind of pattern holds with no ...

in the tooltips and Factoriopedia entries for regular and piercing shotgun shells, their pellet counts are reported as 144 and 256 respectively. this is actually the square of their respective real pellet counts (12 and 16).

TLDR
“piercing” shotgun shells aren’t actually piercing in 2.0, so make them so or rename them.

what?
increase “piercing” shotgun shells’ pellets’ damage to something like 12 physical or rename them to something like “dense shotgun shells”.

why?
in 2.0, the only difference between regular ...

the new “Steam power”, “Electric mining drill” and “Advanced combinators” technologies lack flavor text summaries. they’re the only base‐game techs without descriptions.

when selecting the “Pump connection” demo in the tips and tricks popup, nothing happens for quite a long time. so long that i thought the demo got completely broken by 2.0, but after around 25 seconds , the fluid train shows up. as far as i can tell, no other demo takes anywhere near that long to ...

a loud noise plays when selecting the “Requester chest” tips and tricks entry. a similar, quieter noise happens when selecting the “Personal logistics” / “Passive provider chest” and “Active provider chest” entries. it sounds like all the robots are placed and start flying the instant the demo is ...

Did you miss the massive thing where Unity tried to retroactively change its license agreement?

And which license is it under? Because the link you gave only said "royalty-free" which leaves a whole heap of nasty stuff open.


the format and algorithms of JPEG XL are standardized as ISO 18181 ...

Factorio 1.1 contains over 1 GiB of graphics data and over 128 MiB of sound data, encoded in PNG and Ogg Vorbis, respectively. both of these codecs are quite old and have been superseded in recent years. i hope that the Factorio devs implement support for these better codecs to reduce download sizes ...

The thing is… inserter speeds don’t have any meaning except “it’s fast enough” or “it’s not so add more inserters.”


i’m just saying that it’s quite difficult to calculate when a certain number of inserters is “fast enough”, even for chest‐to‐chest transfers without any items‐on‐belt ...

i think inserter rotation speeds are much too complicated to reason about, especially for new players. for example, without looking it up, how many full turns per second does the regular, basic, yellow inserter make? (equivalently, what is its chest‐to‐chest throughput, without any capacity bonus ...

yes, exactly this! i’ll also add that this “maximum range” should be shown while placing the first half of the underneathie, so that you can place it exactly right the first time! right now, i often place the “out” underground belt first, then reverse it, then place the “in” underground belt at the ...

+1. i just ran into this problem and thought of the exact same solution. it seemed so obvious that i was shocked it didn’t work.