This problem is one I insist on trying to solve for some reason lol
Here's a quick mock-up of the idea with combinators that I suggested earlier:

1. Zoomed out view of the roboports/silo setup
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2. Zoomed in view of the intersection point
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3. Blueprint ...

Did you link to the wrong thread? That one seems to be related to cargo landing pads, which aren't involved in the silo -> platform transit.

No, I was just in a rush and failed to properly explain what I was thinking. I was referring to the suggestion of allowing us to select the behaviour of a ...

TL;DR
The settings menu is inaccessible from remote view if a character is on a planetary surface even if the corresponding key ("Toggle Menu") is remapped away from Esc.

What?
On mapping an alternative key for "Toggle menu" other than Esc, I had expected to be able to open the menu while ...

The mall and its silos are already in a separate logistics network from the bulk export silos.

To prevent the mall's silos from being used to satisfy holmium plate requests, the mall would have to be isolated from its own silos, which means every produced item needs to be transported from the ...

Waiting for an "overhaul" to completely change a core aspect of Space Age's logistics system doesn't seem like much of a plan -- have the devs even said they're considering such a thing?


No, I have no idea if the devs are considering it. I mentioned an overhaul here to imply that it's probably ...

+1

It's interesting to see all the various pieces of advice and perspectives here. Thanks a lot! This gaming session isn't going to happen soon (if at all), so I still have time to prep my approach. Might post a follow up question here later.

TL;DR
A way to toggle entity checkboxes at scale, e.g. enable/disable "Request from buffer chest" on all requester chests in a bot mall to control priority, without having to stamp the (parameterized) blueprint again for each item.

Why?
My use-case is requester chests and the power of that ...

While we wait for an overhaul to makes rocket logistics more train-like than logistic chest-like (requested in many forms, afaik), have you tried to play around with the logistic chest priorities? In my experience, SA makes it absolutely crucial to use buffer chests and requester chests ...

I can see the utility of introducing the ability to select behaviour, i.e. "passive", "active", "storage", and so on, but I think the current behaviour makes perfect sense in the context of the existing logistic chest prioritization chain. Rocket silos act as highest priority requester chests and ...

Necro'ing because I was looking for something like this and found this topic. I have seen and understand all the alternatives suggested here, and they are all perfectly valid. I just have a strong feeling that the ability to do exactly what one would with text fields in a signal selector should be ...

+1 Was just about to make a post on this myself. I wanted to use this functionality to setup logistic network based quality upscalers that don't send lower quality items to the trash unless an overflow on a minimum storage threshold is met. I can still do this by connecting a nearby roboport to the ...

Hi folks, I'm looking for some social advice around Factorio. I've got nearly a 1000 hours in Factorio and would like to drag some friends down to ruin with me introduce some friends to the joys of making the factory grow. I've ruined someone's first forays into gaming before since I was ...

Seeing all the problems people have had with Gleba was kind of validating. I think the direction the devs want to take with Gleba is fascinating but it is definitely still rough. There are already mods out there trying to play with different balance changes that I will check out once I'm done with ...

+1 for toggle-able turret range display even when zoomed in (emphasis on toggle-able!) as well as other similar entities, e.g. fulgora lightning rods

D’oh, I didn’t realize GitHub doesn’t show the “downstream” Repositories which use this Template under the Forks page. Here is one that adds Pipes capable of holding Plasma from fusion reactors, for example: OGorbitz/plasma-duct .


Yeah, I was quite baffled to see just a handful of forks ...

Foundries rely heavily on imports too, so do you think foundries are useless too?



Not entirely, foundries have a massive utility even without calcite due to the in-built +50% production bonus even for recipes that don't rely on Calcite





Also, why are you even so opposed to rocket ...

There are a couple on Github / Factorio Mod portal that I have encountered. fgardt/factorio-mod-template seems to be the most complete & up-to-date.

Good Luck!


This looks quite interesting. Thanks!
Although on close examination, it seems like less of a template and more of an automation ...

Im not sure if this is just an oversight or a bug.

If I mark, for instance, a wall for deconstruction then I (via remote view or whatever) place a ghost wall of the same quality in that same tile, it would make sense if the wall that is already there but marked for deconstruction were to just be ...

I'm having trouble figuring out how to disentangle the amount of fuel in a biochamber that produces nutrients from a buffer of nutrients buliding up in its output. Let's see if I can come up with a solution to this riddle.


It is possible to subtract produced nutrients from the current ...