You can save even more UPS by eliminating the trains and just teleporting items directly.

data-updates.lua -- Remove pipes and pumps data.raw["item"]["pipe"].place_result = nil data.raw["item"]["pipe"].localised_name = {"entity-name.pipe"} data.raw["item"]["pipe-to-ground"].place_result = nil data.raw["item"]["pipe-to-ground"].localised_name = {"entity-name.pipe-to-ground"} data.raw["ite...

data.raw["item"]["pipe"].place_result = nil data.raw["item"]["pipe-to-ground"].place_result = nil For the refinery problem, you can move some recipes to the chemical plant in data-updates.lua data.raw["recipe"]["fill-heavy-oil-barrel"].category = "chemistry" data.raw["recipe"]["empty-heavy-oil-barr...

With the new 1.1 feature "divide by each", we can simplify multi digit displays. 0eNrdXd1uG8sNfpVCQO+c050fkjPBuTnPUQSBbG+SBWTJkKW0QeAH6Fv02fokXTk9kS0uJQ5lxZ25CWLLorTkkN83HA75fXa92Pb362G5mb3/PhtuVsuH2fu/f589DJ+X88Xud5tv9/3s/WzY9Hezq9lyfrf76eFuvli8W8zv7mePV7Nhedv/c/bePV7Z3ugfP1zN+uVm2Az9j49/+uHbx+X27r...

The basic concept is still exponential growth. The details are about how long it takes for the player (or CPU, or size of the universe) to become the bottleneck.

Since everything is implicitly powered, you don't need any coal. I am going to ignore the starting 100 stone, but also assume that growth is a continuous function. You can use the extra stone to accelerate the completion of buildings so their output matches the continuous function. There are two pha...

In your latest blueprint, you are effectively multiplying the satellite pulse by -1000. You can do that more directly by using an arithmetic combinator.

I see. You have a memory cell that outputs a signal every tick (not a 1-tick pulse). Then when you calculate it is time to reset it, the reset signal lasts for several ticks until a new calculation is finished. The solution is to make a self-resetting memory cell. Instead of "science + 0 → science",...

an Arithmetic Combinator's "Pulse" is actually "2-4 Pulses" by default. So I had to add an extra pulse generator section. This only happens if the arithmetic combinator has low power. Try putting it on an isolated electric network with a solar panel and an accumulator to make sure it is always full...

You have 5 options. 1. Build LDS in the middle of nowhere. Requires 3.7 wagons per 400 LDS. 2. Build LDS at the rocket silo. Requires 2.7 wagons per 400 LDS. 3. Build LDS at the plastic plant. Requires 3.2 wagons per 400 LDS. 4. Build LDS at the steel furnace. Requires 3.5 wagons per 400 LDS. 5. Bui...

Nice job on the Googlebomb.

I dislike posts by adding the author to my ignore list.

data.raw["locomotive"]["locomotive"].burner.fuel_category = "chemical","rocket" You need to use fuel_categories if you want more than one fuel. Also you need to delete fuel_category. data.raw["locomotive"]["locomotive"].burner.fuel_category = nil data.raw["locomotive"]["locomotive"].burner.fuel_cat...

I also needed to find the items on a single transport-belt, and I found a workaround.

If you mark a transport-belt for deconstruction, this breaks its connections. Then get_transport_line() returns a LuaTransportLine containing exactly the items on that belt.

This is a latency hiding trick. The client user is allowed to peek at the gui, until they recieve the gui close command from the server.

If the client tries to do anything on the preview gui, it should stall until the server confirms that the gui is still open.

Is it possible to generate a location ping, similar to the one created when a player shift-clicks the map with chat open?

Anything that can belong to a force also has a unit number.

No, you need to build your own table.

Handling zero ls always an issue when using EACH signals. The solution is to have a constant combinator generate a 1 for every signal, so it is never zero.

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0.839 Error ModManager.cpp:910: Mod package read error. JSON parser error in package metadata: Unexpected character ([) at C:/Users/DELLPC/AppData/Roaming/Factorio/mods/spex-def-recipes/info.json:7

The dependencies line should be:
"dependencies": ["base >= 1.0", "space-exploration >= 0.4.26"],