There's some interesting logistics bottlenecks like ingots that are so much more efficient to ship than plates that it complicates things, but once you start getting the really cheap logistics options the savings from beaconed productivity setups go wild.

I think the unsatisfying answer for SE is almost always "depends on your tech levels"

boskid wrote: Mon May 11, 2026 7:37 am if there would be some stray characters nearby or biters they should be also grinded and output onto belts

Sounds like a fun mod idea. Turn off resource patch restrictions and put biter drills in wall choke points. Outputs spoilage.

Try this wiki page:

https://wiki.factorio.com/Inserters

It has a ton of data and tables that you can use to get all the information you need for every inserter at every research level and every quality.


https://wiki.factorio.com/inserters#Inserter_throughput Specifically this subheading. OP ...

Differing quality of ammunition can't be stacked, so it will indeed run out of ammunition while the switch happens because the inserter can't start work until the turret is empty.

I started a more in depth reply on break points, but realized I don't have enough info on how lightning works beyond "about one strike per chunk per 600 ticks". A lot of it comes down to the probability distribution and timing of strikes and other than averages I haven't found much to work with.

My ...

I cannot remember the last time i paid anywhere close to $90 for a computer game, its just out of touch.


With microtransactions the expected lifetime value of a customer is much higher than $90CAD. Heck, a lot of them get more than Factorio out of their players the first time they swipe ...

Looks like a classic "sorting alphabetically instead of numerically when able"

What shall i say?


Probably start with what the graph is? 😅


The catch is that you have more electricity storage capacity with standard collectors, so when the night is over you're running from the stored energy in your collectors for a longer time.


Any collector runs dry on its own in at ...

and because even legendary accumulators are slow to charge, a lot of power is lost if that happens.


This doesn't really have anything to do with the quality of the collectors tho? The number of strikes your grid can absorb per second is mostly forced by your accumulator input.


Legendary ...

Instead of liquifying it at the mine for some % better packing fraction why not just centrifuge it at the mine for 20x better packing?

Rseding91 wrote: Wed Apr 22, 2026 4:01 pm Simply: the fusion reactor won't connect its fluid inputs/outputs to pipes.

I think the potential for confusion is if someone tries connecting fusion machinery directly to a pump.

Say a Stomper stomps your biochambers and biochamber production. Fruit processing by assemblers lets you reboot Gleba remotely if your landing pad and a few construction bots survive without having to visit in person.

No, I don't know what this is about. If you were serious you wouldn't post link to YT promotional video to catch likes, but explain it instead, to avoid posts like mine.


It's not my video...? It's also decently large tech news among people interested in hardware, intended mostly as a joke to ...

TL;DR: he wrote obscure C++ library to speed up memory operations. Probably vibe coded, no idea as I did not watch the video. Library is here:

https://github.com/LaurieWired/tailslayer

@Tailslayer where are benchmark results you did before and after? What speed gain are we talking about?


I ...

boskid wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2026 5:35 pmNo.

Totally understandable

TL;DR
Implement tailslayer for RAM reads (all? hottest?) to lower average read latency and address the most common megabase hardware limitation

What?
Avoid waiting for DRAM refresh with clever software tricks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbgulTp3FE

Why?
Bigger, more performant ...

You are right that this change does not eliminate all possibilities for collisions in self-intersecting paths, especially when a train path crosses itself at (e.g.) a right angle, since in that case there are no segments (which are delimited by intersections, signals, and stops) in common between ...

Could you explain why the cost adjustment I suggested won't work?


The one you suggested, a penalty at pathing time, only applies to the train's initial position and doesn't actually eliminate self intersection, even in all the examples you gave (the 270 degree turn). It also would result in ...

A minimal example of a self-deadlocking setup if the "never pass red signal" rule is applied, that is avoided with current logic. The train in this example is short enough that it will not self-collide, but the proposed pathing logic would deadlock it anyway.