Probably not, I just don't personally like pointing inserters at/against turns, splitters, or undergrounds entrances/exits; but I think that's just an aesthetic preference. (I could be wrong, though - there might be a real difference)

Otherwise you're going to have to find a way to compress the iron as it comes onto the blue belt. this is only way I know of (36 furnaces on each side should compress it, if you can keep the ore coming) compression.png I'm not sure what the numbers are if you put PM3s on the furnaces and SM3s in ba...

My cake, I can haz it and eat it, too! I mean, the curvy rail thing was working okay, but it was soooo ugly in the T-junction and turns. And it wasn't signaled perfectly, just closely. And there were caveats to using it like having to overlap the last rail segment, and remove signals between junctio...

This makes me think of "economics of scale", which is somewhat lacking in Factorio. The closest we have to it is beacons.

Just like javascript. maybe Lua won't be so bad to learn.

Thanks again!

You are truly awesome, thanks!

data.raw.recipe.blueprint.ingredients

don't suppose you know the magic name of deconstruction planner that would sub for blueprint in there?
I might hope for "deconstruction-planner" but that would be too easy, no?

or, as I would write it: robo_roundabout.png but then to be consistent with my doctrine, I'd have to do this: roundabout_consequences.png and, of course, I'd have to delete things when I convert a straight to a turn :( or I could take leave of my senses and declare this to be my "straight"...

It should be a dirt simple mod, but I don't want to learn Lua just now... the requested mod would do the following things only: 1) change name of tech "Automated Construction" to "Construction Planning" 2) make it cost 100 or 150 red science and NO green science (from 75/75) 3) m...

Right after I did 'edit 3' I got another deadlock. I removed some chain signals and it resolved. I'm thinking my rules are still wrong: 1) On every *output* lane, put a regular signal. 2) Right before every cross-over, put a chain signal. 3) Right before every choice between two or more lanes, put a...

Nevertheless, knowing how to be compact can be helpful when you have too many... let's say Welcoming Parties from the Natives.

Fortunately, my Roboport Rails Mk II design seems recoverable - just move the outermost turns out a tile so one can fit in an extra chain signal in the spots you indicated. Maybe I wasn't just pipe-dreaming. Hooray. I think. I'm going to try my Very First Mod (I'm such a noob, I know. I'm sorry), an...

Probably the easiest way is to hook smart inserters to your roboports/robostorage that filter mk I bots into chests

well, that didn't long... BEHOLD, the triumphant Complete Failure of Roboport Rails Mk II deadlock.png Well, at least it's fuel efficient. I shouldn't take up any more of your time, and thanks for your help. I have... some learning to does. I'm guessing my dream of logistics-tight no-thinking bluepr...

Thanks a lot, this is super helpful. The zone-pictures on the t-intersection are helping me understand betterish. Yeah, the smelters ... I guess I just need 4 lanes instead of 2. I can only peak at 3.2 Fe/s but can easily demand in the neighborhood of 6. I intentionally left space for beacons, but I...

Any structure you like. Wooden chests are cheap if you're near the woods. I use iron chests, but that was just a habit because I started in a desert and wood was more expensive to me than iron for a while. Too much details: biters won't build new bases within 2 sectors (as the Radar calls them, they...

Vuliev wrote:The other thing they really need to do is change their energy units from joules to watt-hours

what, you don't like having divide their value by 3600 put it in a useful time frame? it would also help to know how many hours are in an alien night, of course

So this is my "third" base (my third game, first with violent biters, but I've shredded and rebuilt my base and each component of it so many times its hard to call it only my third base) silverchat.com slash ~silver slash factorio slash silver_base_three.zip I thought I was doing okay, but...