OK I understand. Thank you. Should I delete the post?

BoilerBug.jpg Some fully fueled and watered boilers and heat exchangers output no steam, or output 1 unit of steam. In the case of boilers, this is accompanied by a large increase in rate of consumption of coal. In the above picture, none of the boilers in the first two columns from the left work, ...

Biter Island Nuclear.JPG Here is a compact robot-free solution for the complete nuclear life-cycle from uranium processing, enrichment, fuel cell production, power generation and spent fuel reprocessing. I've stolen the breeder reactor set-up from someone, and the turbine, heat exchange ratio from ...

Biter Island Start.JPG Medium-sized island with just enough resources to "tech-break" out of it. I have almost a 1000 hours in Factorio, but most of it has been spent polishing the cannon-ball on an end-game mega bases in peaceful mode; I watched a few Anti-Elitz speed runs and wanted to ...

Seems to me you don't need the constant combinator, because you can just use the steam signal directly (as in: steam < 1,000,000). For that matter you don't need the decider combinator, since you can enable the inserter directly using the steam signal as well. I tested this with your blueprint (putt...

Probably missed a compact set-up on these forums or reddit, so here is my attempt. http://imgur.com/a/4ZcFF And a zoomed out version showing the associated circuit and silo (for the white bottles). http://imgur.com/uRDdVE5 This is all "train-bus" fed. I thought I might try the 1 RPM + enou...

I do! (like it)

How do you have the decider and constant combinator set up (near the tool chest)? Perhaps you found a solution to my tool migration problem (from chest to roboport, as a pack of ten gets picked up by the bots and the leftovers are returned to the port instead of the chest).

The main reason to isolate them is to solve this problem of requester chests not getting filled by bots that are sitting in a port right next to the chest. I am assuming this is because a far-away bot was tasked with this job before the local bots were installed, or before a closer supply chest was ...

Sorry I thought you meant you had a single tile separating orange zones when you said You do need to have a single tile in between roboport zones to do this so, yes, there is one tile of a wall that will not get repaired. I haven't noticed a construction bot migration problem. Do you have a spiffy w...

Actually no - check out Tubbles' post. Everything in the green zone gets repaired so you can actually separate roboports by a complete orange zone and still have touching green zones.

Yep it sure does. I'm embarrassed that I didn't know this, after a few hundred hours of game time, but I suppose that's part of the reason I like it so much. Thank you! Moving the ports a tile or two farther apart fixes all the problems - no more lazy bots, no bot migration. Use the Y and T outputs ...

Also I have a chest which inserts construction bots into that isolated logistics network in case they get destroyed as well (which they like to do as they are repairing a wall as 20 biters are trying to break through.) Wait ... how? Do you keep each roboport out of range of its neighbor? I am in a ...

Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing it. Would you be so kind as to post the blueprint?

Here is mine. Seems to be over-kill and it's a bit resource intensive. Still, it's quite fun to see waves of biters crash and burn on these walls. Blueprint string: H4sIAAAAAAAA/8Va7W6jOBR9lSq/YYQdQkAVT7JaVTTxUGuJYQ2Z2W6Ud19DyBQSG+6xdrU/qirpse+959wvUI/1S1UfiurlLb8I1clOija/XFRxEvmm7Wol wp9FVW2Cpm7NH2...

Perfect I'll square it up! I am so delighted to get this feedback from a community that has been such a great source of inspiration and support. I planned out the assembler ratios (not the smelters) with this tool http://rubyruy.github.io/factorio-calc/ but I forgot the additional rocket parts that ...

Instead of trying to mirror your network drain on a trigger accumulator with lights, why not just connect your accumulator to the real network? Then you can isolate your steam power poles from your network poles with the new power switch, and set its turn on condition to A < 10. (in 0.13, the accumu...

90s Rocket Base_annotated.jpg Here is my take on the beautiful and efficient designs of DaveMcW, Spock, DerivePi and others. My "innovation" if you can even call it that, is to use the new wait conditions to create an expandable load balancer with a closed-loop train circuit and a migrati...

Yes! Perfect. I made the modifications you suggested. Works ok afaik. Just went a little crazy with chain signals there on the left. Spattered them everywhere until stuff stopped blinking. Thank you!

Is this the right idea or is it best to just start fresh? I've read many of the tutorials and posts on the subject but I'm still confused obviously ... I'm guessing two unloading stations on the same line was a bad idea. Thanks for any suggestions you can provide (particularly with signal placement ...