There's no such thing as perfect but lua's got tons of upsides *as a language* at modding/console interface scale. Yes, it's inadequate for large-scale development, and yes, its weaknesses at scale start showing up before then, but on its home stomping grounds it's more on target than tcl or ...

Powering down can save UPS if you drain buffers and idle inserters before powering the subsection, but that doesn't work if you're using belt backpressure to stop production since the unload inserters will never sleep, the stuff in the picture will save power but last I looked will also drain UPS ...

I think just rewording the operator tooltips will do it for any who are blindspotting when they try to tinker and interpret

ANY:

Input: If any input signal meets the condition(s), the test is passed with every input signal
Output: the first passed signal respecting item order is processed ...

Ah, I see, turns out ffmpeg has its own opus codec that's better than the generic one.

libopus 1.6 decode cost vs vorbis, 20ms frames, 1.63× 120ms frames, 1.54×
ffmpeg's opus decode vs vorbis, 20ms frames, 1.26× 120ms frames, 1.01×

and the larger frames get much better compression vs vorbis, 71ish ...

From what I'm seeing the newer libopus versions are nearing cpu parity with other decoders. To check I did ffmpeg -i ambient/after* -acodec libopus test.ogg, time ffplay -showmode 0 -autoexit test.ogg, time ffplay -showmode 0 -autoexit !?ambient?% and got about 30% higher user cpu for opus but about ...

Iron plate takes 3.2s at cs1, 1.6s at cs2, but both furnaces use 90kW. So steel furnace, crafting speed 2, uses 1.6s*90kW = 144kJ to produce one plate, 27 7/9 plates per coal, stone furnace 288kJ/plate, 13 8/9 plates per coal.

Here's a compact steel smelting line I've been tuning for maximum ...

Hurkyl wrote: Sat Feb 28, 2026 1:58 pm Pro tip: super force build can rotate inserters. So if you make a blueprint, you can quickly click and drag a line of inserters and then use the blueprint to get them oriented properly.

I hope you feel the gratitude coming your way every time I use this from now on. It's… it's going to be a lot.

Yes, on input "Any" passes all the signals if any signal matches, "Each" passes only (and all) the signals that match.

Each > 0 ⇒ Any does what you want.

Here's an idea: color the existing sync-mods-with-save frame button acceptance green.

It doesn't give me the sync option when the save's mods are a subset of my loaded mods, I can't play a base-game map after playing pyanodon without manual intervention.

edit: oh, wait: I see it now, there's a "sync mods with save" frame icon at the top right, easy to miss, I'm used to just seeing a ...

Pyanodons is not just more, not for people who can feel the attraction in the phrase "pleasingly compact". It's possible, it's *fun* for me in a way I can't feel in the base game any more, been there, done that, those puzzles are solved, to find such designs here. The puzzles are more varied and the ...

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Yeah, I hear you especially on the trains, who's going to see having the game do something like that for them as an improvement and who's going to mourn the loss of a (in this case truly great) puzzle is always going to be a real question for people making games.

For the ...

The short shelf lives of puzzles also forced them to have more depth, which I perceive as a good thing.

I suspect I've gotten far enough into the devs' heads that I understand enough about how they imagine and choose puzzles, that the new stuff I encountered in 2.0 just wasn't new enough to be a ...

Have you tried spoilage, scrap recycling, or quality? Rather than complaining about the obsoletion of your old skills, you can pick up new ones. Never blame the kids, chance is they're better than us at our old tricks and they just find them too boring. Been there, done that.

There's fair points ...

[…]Where exactly has Factorio been dumbed down, seriously?

While I don't agree that oil processing has been dumbed down, the three-fluids problem was still there and still not optional last I checked, a *lot* of things that used to require in-game cleverness now only require knowing which ...

Problem with that resolution is, hex is used to specify bits. The "best acceptable value" you're choosing doesn't have the specified bits.

In a game where the equipment uses signed-32-bit-wrap arithmetic (and for instance with filter setting the game mechanics *rely on it*) refusing to wrap input ...

A canary accumulator on the main power net but not on the emergency net should do it, canary charge <25% throw the isolation switch and turn on the emergency power.

Watermelon_lover wrote: Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:13 pm

thermomug wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 6:35 pm

KillerAnt wrote: Fri Jun 07, 2024 6:23 pm Who in their sane mind crafts items with fluids? Isn't crafting of these items blocked?

It probably is about mods

I am both scared and intrigued as to what type of mod uses fluid handcrafting.

Maybe it lets you write your name on the ground.

If you think there might be some limit on how much a game can demand, then you have to also think the best games will push those limits, and what a game chooses to fill that capacity with, what it chooses to demand of its players and their rigs, will involve tradeoffs.

Satisfactory and Techtonica ...

11.2/7 is 1.6, your 7800x3d is delivering 60% better performance, you were cruising at 70, the new rig blows by it at 112, kinda leaving it for dead. That's right in line with what you'd expect if the extra cache was not enough to tank most or all of the working set. So ~20% better core clock ...