Advanced oil's obvious benefit is its more favorable ratios (10:45:55) and 10 units extra output product, but it's interesting that it's not strictly superior to basic oil because it produces less heavy oil.


The ratios are “more favorable” because 90% of the final/intermediate products can ...

Advanced oil's obvious benefit is its more favorable ratios (10:45:55) and 10 units extra output product, but it's interesting that it's not strictly superior to basic oil because it produces less heavy oil.


The ratios are “more favorable” because 90% of the final/intermediate products can be ...

Regarding NOT newcomers:

Can we vote?
A - Easy Oil and Delayed construction bots
B - Less Easy Oil and Regularly available construction bots

I'm B all the way. Is there really a repeat player who is an A?

I mean, I guess so, but I haven't met them yet.

That's where my whole anti-Oil change ...

I posted this over in Friday Facts #305 - The Oil Changes
So I won't repost the whole thing here.

Pre-17.60 Science:

Automation (Red) – No Oil products
Logistics (Green)– No Oil Products
Military (Grey) – No Oil Products
Chemical (Bule) – Solid Fuel (HO/LO/PG) and Plastic (PG)
Production (Purple ...

Now that the mania over the 17.60 oil change has passed and the thread posts have slowed down a bit, I would like to look at oil fractions as a whole.

The devs believe that the “oil wall” exists and I am not here to argue that point. Rather, I would like to look deeper in to Oil refining and what ...

Ambaire wrote: Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:37 pm
Why change basic oil processing? Why not instead add 3 new specific oil processing recipes that produce heavy/light/petro gas at lower rates?

+1

Walls

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/entity-symmetry
https://mods-data.factorio.com/assets/ef08ce8196b6e76889ccba7edb98d2a8c609b04c.png

Like this ;)


Nice! Very elegant.
Problem: you cannot make a hard right from the cardinal directions(0 to 315, 90 to 45, 180 to 135, 270 to 225).
It looks like ...

I propose that incompatible mods should be greyed out and sorted to the bottom of the list, and that their description should explain if it is too old or too new, and what the compatible versions are. This way the user can understand why they can't install a mod, and has the info they need should ...

Updated to 0.15.x
-Dakamgi

I re-read your post a couple of times now and I can't quite grasp how you could possibly have the throughput required for you setup. Say you had 2 mines with resources ready to go, either all 10 of your trains path to those two mines which require a decent amount of stacker lanes such that your ...

I will give your ideas a try though, with new 4x4 intersections including that roundabout square you have. By chance do you have a blueprint?

I currently have 4 blueprints and they are shamelessly based of the rail layout from Zisteau's Factorio Meiosis youtube series.
https://www.youtube.com ...

I've decided to let trains equal to (iron ore available at all outposts/8000) be released from the waiting bay. In order to make this work properly, I will only output the total ore available at a station if that station has >=8000 ore. So if a station only has 7000 it will be closed and output 0 ...

Essentially, most of the time my distribution trains are staying on the central stations, ready to depart to whatever consumption station gets enabled first. There may be several distribution trains per central station, each with identical set of orders.

I've gone the other way on this. To build ...

Hi everyone,

My current goal is to name all of my outposts the same so trains can path to whichever one has enough ore for a full load (>= 8000).

Ok. So we have the same goal.

I am able to enable/disable to stations fine, but the problem is (I don't have loops, my locomotives are LCCCCL with ...

I'm confused by the statement "Not setting the train destination".

Since all of my copper mines are named "Mine-Copper" the destination is built into the schedule. Your destination(s) is(are) built into the schedule for your trains as well.

I'm confused by the Seeker Station. Is this an ...

They go to the closest mine first of course. But the Mine (Station) is disabled when the train arrives (cyan light). This causes the next train to path to a different mine.

The trick to the thing is to only have a number of active trains <= the number of available destinations.
Having more trains ...

I came at this from a different approach. Now my setup works only for raw material, Coal, Copper, Iron, ect.

I have 10 trains (this can be scaled without difficulty) for each resource in their own set of waiting bays.
Each Resource has a Scanning device that sequentially selects the mine(s ...

Updated with Video

Updated OP with V15 Video.

Now with State Machines.