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 ...

I thought I'd ask before I post redundant bug reports since I think I saw similar issues on other planets with e.g. concrete... should I simply ignore them all for now? Case in point:

@admin I'm a dum-dum and didn't post this in the modding discussion section. Could you kindly move this there?

Hello dear modders! I was browsing through the ideas and suggestions forum today and saw a whole bunch of suggestions that looked sensible and minor enough to be bundled into my own ...

I suggest allowing players to easily control the buffer sizes for burnable fuels. [...]
Similarly, if I'm pushing a buliding's power consumption up to insane levels, I would maybe want it to stock up on perhaps an entire stack of nutrients.

Biochambers can read their fuel and send it onto ...

I think the biggest problem is the lack of self-sustaining nutrient setups without Gleba dependence. Even if nutrient mechanism were good enough for its annoyance, it's not really usable outside Gleba (or Nauvis) right now.


You send rockets of calcite from Vulcanus, sending rockets of bioflux ...

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I hear you, and I am definitely not saying Gleba needs to be made more difficult! I really meant that the game has mechanical limitations that make it difficult to really lean in to the Gleba mechanics. The examples I gave were mostly spur of the moment things. Consider, when I saw the lava in ...

The ones that hatch from eggs will only attack players and turrets, they won’t break the factory around them.


Is this how it is supposed to function? Have you tested this/do you have a source? Because I just repaired a starter base on Gleba after it was damaged by egg outbreaks and the damage ...

+1 on the need for a toggle between "Press E to accept, use = for formulae" and "Type all formulae in-line".
+1 on the default favoring new players and non-power users

As much as I'd appreciate this, were it to be implemented, I can see why the devs might not want to do so. The more we integrate such "redundant" pieces of the circuit network, the more we move away from the need to have multiple pieces with distinct functionality in the first place. Basically ...

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My opinion is that the reason Gleba doesn't feel very satisfying and like a drag is that it doesn't sufficiently lean into the unique mechanics that Gleba introduces to the game.

Why?

In my opinion, the key mechanic/challenge that Gleba is pushing, just as Vulcanus pushed more fluid ...

As much as I'd appreciate this, were it to be implemented, I can see why the devs might not want to do so. The more we integrate such "redundant" pieces of the circuit network, the more we move away from the need to have multiple pieces with distinct functionality in the first place. Basically, why ...

Interesting idea. Might I suggest a departure from the "inserter" visual paradigm to instead "grabbers" to make this more in-line with Gleba? I am imagining a tentacle-like thing that seems to attach itself (visually) to the building on the output side and pull things into itself in lieu of swinging ...