It's one boiler for two engines. Best practice is to have the two engines behind every boiler. And not transport steam with branching pipes and such. You probably consumed so much power that your steam production was no longer enough to run as many engines as you need.

And water pumps were buffed ...

posila wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:50 pm I assume you don't have issues with color vision. That's not the case for everybody, though.

That makes sense, but this could be adjusted when activating one of the existing color blind filters or be another setting there.

The wire icons are terrible. The old ones just need the white border removed and be larger.

The new green/red new ones ones should have the same shape, only with a different color.

There used to be a mod or two that did this. It's still not possible in vanilla I think

In this case, it seems you set the train limit of these stations higher than 1, so multiple trains are sent there.

It wasn't trains going there at the same time, but another train pathing to the mine after the first one left. Train limits don't help with that.

Maybe one could set the priority ...

Wube teased completely generic trains in the FFF, but those don't seem to work so well. I tried completely generic loading stations and what happened is that I had multiple trains going to stone and coal mines when I really needed only one. And I needed those other empty trains to get iron and ...

This really seemed like a no-brainer when they introduced elevated rails in the Friday Facts

Just take the rail base and stick a power pole on it

Might have spawned under water given the high coverage

Yeah, I find myself trying to do that all the time

I had the same issue with my own blueprints. Just started a new game and things were broken. I already fixed them though

I attached my backup file, but I haven't tried reproducing the problem with that.

I'd wait for 2.0 and check out train interrupts. That opens a lot of possibilities without massive combinator contraptions

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-389
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-395

With productivity mods you should start at the top of the chain. Science labs, rocket silo, hier tier sciences, blue circuits, green circuits. Then the saving also get multiplied as you move down. Furnaces are actually one of the worst places for them.

This chart is a good indicator:
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Flying bots don't recharge by sitting in a roboport. They are clearly waiting outside to charge. The long queues waiting for a free charge slot has always been the sign that you don't have enough roboports.

With the roboports I have long wanted some features from Bob's mods: network extension poles and charge pads. Not as a replacement but to supplement the normal roboport.

I wonder if something like that could help. With an entity that only extends the range and doesn't have storage, charging, or ...

Having them shoot nukes sounds like a spectacularly terrible idea

As far as I know, Factorio runs almost entirely in the memory, unlike most other games, which is why even slight issues with your ram are noticeable in Factorio while everything else seemingly runs just fine and you need so much more for this game as the factory grows.

It seems you're mixing ...

Can we have four digits of precision when the numbers are in the thousands? So it's 1430 instead of 1.4k

Rounding is fine when it gets into the tens of thousands, but with thousands having the exact amount would still be useful. For example when testing beaconed builds where just an inserter swing ...

The islands type map could be nice as an optional preset. There are people looking for that kind of stuff. For example to use with the Cargo Ships mod. And the existing island map is just one larger island.

Justderpingalong wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:50 pm Quality is something that feasibly can be turned off.

One screenshot here lists scrap recycling under "quality". So it doesn't look like it can be turned off :/

Wasn't is always said that Quality is optional? But now the game is balanced around it and assumes you will have a lot of production that needs much higher belt throughput. I know there are other things like the new miners, but it seems like it's just assumed that you use Quality items when available.