I do not see what problem do you have with stopping steam. Let all heat exchangers output to single pipe. Add pumps(one per 11 heat exchangers) to it. After pumps put another single pipe connected to all tanks and turbines. It will work even faster than stopping water flow because steam takes 10 ...

The specific use-case that prompted me to notice this problem is in my nuclear plant. I have a large steam buffer in my design, and when the reactors don't have any fuel in them, I like to shut off my heat exchangers and run off the tanked steam exclusively. This way, the heat exchangers remain at ...

TL;DR
Be nice if we could set the upgrade planner to only affect objects that have actually been placed and ignore ghosts, or the opposite; this would be especially handy when working with quality modules.


What?
Give the upgrade planner config page a little dropdown (like the one the ...

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Heat exchangers should be included too.

TL;DR
Since 2.0.7, 1 water turns into 10 steam, meaning boilers and heat exchangers use 1/10th as much water now, but the amount of water they store has not been updated to match; it should be.


What?
Reduce the amount of water boilers and heat exchangers can contain from 200 to 20.

Why ...

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In my opinion, this request can be closed, because it is obsolete.

About the inventory: It's now possible to request bots into the roboport. You can read the bot statistics. So to balance bot amounts in the network, you request a small amount of bots into one roboport and read bot statistics. You ...

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In this other thread , it's explained that wildcards are only filled when leaving a station. I also show a proof of concept, that allows you to send trains to wildcard stations and keep the icons in your station names. (So we don't need to add any new features to solve this problem.)

That system ...

An option that might be simpler to implement would be to allow the fuel interrupt to be configured in number of stacks rather than number of individual items.

Note that if you add 'is damaged' as an interrupt condition, you also need to add it as a train stop departure condition, both so that you can depart immediately if you're getting damaged, and so that you can wait at the depot until fully repaired before heading out again.

This has been done and can be moved to the 'Implemented' board

I suggested this myself some time ago: viewtopic.php?p=642409#p642409

I remember legendary biter nests producing more eggs per bioflux, so it should be 1 bioflux per 225 promethium, compared to 1 legendary holmium per 405 effective cryogenic. Stack inserter is limited by stack size so the non-stacking mech armour doesn't make sense as each swing can only take one ...

"Of course, just moving items from the landing pad to a chest doesn't help: we need to get them out onto belts"

Actually you can use legendary Stack inserters to unload from landing pad to Cargo wagon or to the Rocket silo, and then legendary Stack inserters to green belts, so you will have ...

Cool analysis! The only factor I can spot that you're missing is rocket part ingredients import to Aquilo, but I doubt they'd make much of a difference at 300% productivity.

I think the theoretical maximum botless SPM is actually much higher if you put labs on your space platforms. In this case ...

Maximum Botless SPM

TL;DR: Without using bots, the maximum possible SPM, before Lab Productivity research, is somewhere between 'slightly less than 2154.5k' and 'slightly less than 1139.8k' normal packs of each type per minute.

So, this is an exercise in theorycrafting, looking at what the ...

Here is a blueprint for a basic parameterized bot-served biochamber*. (Note: I play with Bob's Adjustable Inserters. This blueprint contains only basic straight inserters, so it should be compatible with vanilla Factorio, but if it doesn't work, then install 'bobinserters 1.3.2 ...

If a parameterized blueprint has a parameter which sets the recipe for a machine, then normally when placing the blueprint the user is offered a dialogue which allows them to select from the recipes that machine can perform. It is even smart enough that, if the blueprint contains multiple types of ...