Well, updating the MediaWiki software is quite important anyway. Or did someone backport security fixes to the 1.19.3 version currently in use?

So maybe this is a good time to upgrade to the current stable release. And maybe check if there's some kind of spam bot / botnet client / … hidden ...

Maybe this? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Errors_and_symptoms#All_pages_have_no_content.2C_but_when_editing_a_page_the_wiki_text_is_there

All pages have no content, but when editing a page the wiki text is there [..] This is caused by a change in PCRE 8.34. You need to downgrade PCRE, or ...

Good point on using the heavy and light oil for power, I didn't think of that. Just hooking up a couple boilers and steam engines (does someone know how much fluid/s a boiler uses?) might save time, as I'd have to set up power anyway.

You could simply use 2 steam engines (and 0 boilers) to ...

No, sillyfly is right. It makes no sense to replace a short-handed inserter with a long-handed one.

It never happened to me, but it really makes no sense. It's like fast-replacing belts with inserters.

The only argument in favour of allowing this is probably "it makes re-designing my factory ...

The 0.12 circuit network plans sound awesome. Exactly what I was waiting for, and so far my modding attempts have not been very successful.

There's a thread in ideas/suggestions forum about advanced circuit networks, maybe you can get some sensor ideas from there.

Well, we're all bound by local laws. And most of us are probably not lawyers, at least I'm not.

In my case (Germany, which is probably similar to most countries when it comes to copyright laws), I think it is illegal to take a file that someone offers for download, then modify it by adding other ...

$ ./FactorioLoader.lua /home/xxx/factorio/data/base/
This runs for a very long time, but never prints anything to stdout. The stacktrace when ctrl+c-ing the script after a few seconds indicates that it's at "./library/loader/loader.lua:98". Maybe an infinite loop, or is it really that slow ...

@n9103: Okay, thanks – that's a hint. Now the problem is that this error occurs in a file that is part of Factorio, and it works with Factorio, but fails when trying to use that file with Lua 5.2 (i.e. Foreman). Maybe the "module" variable no longer exists in 5.2, or at least it doesn't exist under ...

Hm. Lua is lua. (A bit simplistic view, I know :) )
Of course :) However, as you can see from this git repo and its history (it's the lua version used in the Foreman tool), there are a lot of API breaking changes between the "NLua-lua" and official lua. Just one example here . They add a lot of ...

Smaller save files? great!

The "fixed-point floats" should be "fixed-point numbers" though. If the decimal point (or should we say "binary point"?) is fixed, it's no longer floating.

Oh, I don't mind late responses since it often takes me quite a while to get around to posting as well. ;)

Now I think I understand the red/green wires + bridging ideas. I still haven't looked at the API (haven't even played 0.11 yet… :( ), so I don't know if it's possible to do that. It sounds ...

As I said on the previous page, there are 2 issues: One is easy to fix (adapt to 0.11 format of some lua files), but I don't know how to fix the other one. The source code doesn't help in this case. This tool does not use the same version of lua as Factorio does to load game files. Maybe there is ...

It's important to remember that this game is not mainly about building rocket defense. Sure, it's the official end of game, but most of us probably have their own ideas of how to play and what to do.

So if you're not trying to achieve perfect efficiency, putting everything on a belt might be a nice ...

Well, my point was that we shouldn't call the old behaviour "realistic", because most real material handling systems are probably designed so corners don't cause jams (assuming that the conveyor can handle jams, like in Factorio). I'm not saying that factorio belts are realistic, regardless of ...

A switch, which turns on "realistic slowdown in belt corners".

I'm not sure if the slowdown in corners is actually realistic. I should probably know since I minored in logistics (esp. intra-logistics / material handling), but I don't. :D

See for example this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch ...

When I *really* want to fill a yellow belt, I just use red belts at the furnaces where inserters have difficulties finding a free spot on the iron plate belt. This will enlarge gaps between iron plates and inserters can drop their items. Then switch to yellow belt again where no more inserters try ...

The fix for this issue appears to be quite easy: Change "smelting_speed" in DataCache.cs, line ~465, to "crafting_speed" and "smelting_categories" to "crafting_categories". There was some work to unify assembling machines and furnaces for 0.11, so these names have changed.

However, the "attempt to ...

In v0.10 there's 87.
Wow :o

if you manage to research everything in a single cycle it will still take you 40 minutes before you research all red + green tech.
Oh. Setting up a massive red science pack production and a lot of labs (I guess 10 should be enough for a minute or two, but you'll ...

38? you nailed it

How many red / red+green techs exist? I guess that's the upper limit for what can be done in 60 minutes.

Is it actually PVP? I always thought this was co-op. Or do we get to decide on our play style and -root prefers PVP? I haven't tested multiplayer yet, and it seems like I won't be able to do so for some time because the game decided that it prefers crashing over playing. :cry:

Or maybe "PVP" was ...