Nice to see the wire shadows finally fixed. I remember thinking about it ~5y ago and coming up with an easy fix. I am happy to see that exact fix got implemented. It indeed does look a lot better. Pop quiz: can you spot the shadow problem I want to fix next? Shadow stacking. Where all the wires conn...

This is kind of what made me quit the software industry. I've used these practices in my hobby programming projects for years and knew how well those worked. Then when working at a company, I was forced to abandon these practices. Whenever I mentioned them, I got accused of lacking experience or not...

Version: Factorio 1.1.35 (build 58756, linux64, steam) How to reproduce Build a constant combinator configure a value focus the text box enter a value hit ctrl+z What happens The constant combinator is marked for removal There is no redo function, so trying to remedy this error by hitting ctrl+shift...

TL;DR When right-clicking a non-focused, single line textbox select the text contained therein. What ? The current behavior for non focused single line textboxes is that when you click them they get focused, which allows you to type in them. There is no difference between using the left or right mo...

One neat solution that would completely bypass all the rendering order issues, is to also export depth information when rendering the images. These can then be used during rendering to fill the depth buffer (or z-buffer) for occlusion. Another benefit of that is that you only need 1 image+depth info...

an infinite number of books Books can now also store [...] every item in the game. So... infinite inventory? It is based on proposal 4, where "the quickbar is just an action bar idea explained in the FFF-191 ". So no infinite inventory, only infinite actions. Would be fun though, as those...

Proposal 1 & 2: Those introduce different types of blueprint: Those linked to the library and those which are not linked. What happens if you clear a linked blueprint? Is it then also cleared in the library (i.e. the library now contains an empty blueprint)? So I'm against linking blueprints to...

To me, the correct solution here should be to not allow landfilling the area that the pump is in.

I agree with Kovarex on the Queue button. First the semantic meaning of the labels is inconsistent: Queue = Action Queued = Status Researched = Status Unavailable = Status It is not clear whether clicking 'Queued' will in turn unqueue the research. Is suppose it is not, as it is not rendered as a bu...

[Edit] I'm curious... does the blue belt handle the amount of fuel needed at this kind of power generation? 6252 fuel every 200 seconds at full burn... 31 fuel per second... ~16 fuel per second per side. Yea, blue belt will handle that. Had been wondering what a belt design could handle reactor wis...

olafthecat wrote:A tinsy bit of Necro going on here.

OP referenced this thread in the thread on the latest FFF: viewtopic.php?f=38&t=56218&start=160#p331077. It makes sense to further discuss this topic here than in the FFF-thread, because there it is downright impossible.

I've looked into what it takes to turn this into a mod. I found that it can be done, but only as a proof of concept, or in a very limited fashion. The biggest problem is drawing the belt lines and animating the buckets. One approach is to bake the belt lines and buckets into a single animation, howe...

A lot of the posts here talk about why bots are overpowered, I agree with them. A lot of the posts here talk about why bots shouldn't be removed or nerfed, I agree with those too. If you don't like bots, don't use them. Factorio is most of all, a sandbox game, so in the end, it should be the player ...

Second tier belts huh? Why not use buckets: bucket.gif There is a forgotten feature that you could put cars on belts as a way to significantly improve their throughput. However, cars are too big to be used for this purpose, and wouldn't look right. I hacked a mod that adds buckets (prototype: car) t...

I found myself in need of something like this, though managed to come up with a work-around. If the signals are all positive then: Create a constant combinator with all the signals you want to keep set to 1. If you need more than 18 signals, use multiple combinators and connect those. Then attach th...

Rocks used to look different: I'm using the creative mode mod, so I can just use the deconstruction planner to remove them. However, I have to do this every time before I can chain paste a blueprint.

For creative mode design and testing purposes, it is nice to have a clean empty world with no biters, trees, rocks , cliffs, water, ores and oil patches. In the resource sand terrain settings in the map generator all can be set to none , except for rocks, as there is no option to control the amount ...

Consider what happens when two trains enter from opposing sides and both want to turn left:

Koub wrote:
I would definitely post the save of this insanity there

Ok, done: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=17501&p=330742#p330742.

I've build a 1TW nuclear reactor , here's the save file . Even while it's being idle, the frame rate is already as low as 10fps. However, when turned on -- turn on the constant combinator that is on the hazard concrete, which you're standing when loading the file, such that the light above it turns ...