Several people messaged me asking what mod I used to do my interesting Pricy Green Circuit challenge.
Changing recipes is straightforward, I just used this forum post as a guide. Have fun!

So: "ONLY belts" challenge. No trains, no bots, no splitters, no underground belts. If you want to drive it to the extreme add: only loaders, no inserters, no chests, which should completely break any attempt to build "fake splitters". Oh, that "only loaders" twist mak...

Just finished a "challenge" game where I made a single change: green circuits cost 20 iron and 40 copper coil.. OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive. Other recipes unchanged. This made green circuits precious and made a very interesting and different midgame. Tech research was SLOW and was the main limi...

You can build on ore. What's the point in destroying it? It interferes with other mining placement since the miner gets jammed without H2SO4. Though you bring up an excellent extra point, the DangOreOus mod makes it so you can't build on ore. This burner miner feature would be even more useful for ...

Part of the micromanagement fun of Factorio is dealing with the difference of U ore mining.. it's slower to mine and also requires H2S04. In late game, sometimes this is really annoying, though. A small U patch that you want to get rid of requires annoying manual H2SO4 logistics just to destroy it. ...

Wow, this is interesting. It is indeed a system stability problem, and not factorio at all. I had not even considered it because, indeed, I had previously validated my machine with overnight Prime95 which passed with no errors. And I just reran it overnight.. no problem. I then ran furmark (seperate...

I'd post the crash log if there was one. Nearly all crashes are full system freezes and reboots and nothing in the factorio log at all. You mention that it may be a system stability problem. I will experiment with that. I have tested the hardware with overnight Prime95 testing, but maybe factorio is...

Hover over a miner, you get the set of details like name, health, status, fluid temperature, etc. For a miner, the MOST IMPORTANT detail is "expected resources" so you can see if a miner is out of ore, or what it's mining or will mine. This line of info is third-to-last out of 13 different...

Just crashed again, same cause of zoomed out view, though I was passive in the middle of my factory with no orefield nearby. The "zoomed out a lot" tends to
be consistent. Wild guess, more zoomout means more entities/tiles on screen at once, but that's just ignorant guessing.

Another hint, I'm running in windowed mode (taking up most of the screen, but still windowed.) --------------- Also some output on the command line leads to the graphics being cause.. (nautilus:9457): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections ...

Loving v17, but I crash Factorio daily. It's slightly unpredictable, but mostly happens during heavy combat when I'm zoomed out view and I'm rapidly strafing while firing rockets. It can happen even in quiescent views too. again, it tends to be when zoomed out. It has happened while in Radar map vie...

Extend the same idea of some starting materials from the ship, and include one modular armor, 10 construction robots, one mobile roboport, and two or three portable solar panels. Now you have a way to (slowly!) place blueprints in the early game. You'd have to be very careful not to lose your (very ...

When you accidentally cross-connect two fluid pipes, the liquids "jam" and it is a real pain to clean out the "contaminating" liquid. Usually you just tear up all the pipes since it's too annoying to identify exactly what parts of the pipes are still wrong! Other solution methods...

That's interesting. Maybe you could make peace with local biters (by being a clean neighbor) but aggro distant biters because you're dumping waste in their home region. Thus biters themselves become factions hostle to each other! And you can manufacture weapons for your biter allies, transport them ...

There have been ideas (and mods) to allow for ways to reduce or absorb or manipulate pollution. It would be fun to make pollution interact more with base design. The basic concept is to make pollution transportable. This might be done using existing Factorio code by having a buildable pollution abso...

Ratzap, that's a good question. Are concrete tiles entities or decorations?

If they're entities, maybe Factorio could use the same "not a full entity" optimization for brick/concrete in 0.15 to reduce map size and speed up computation when you've concreted vast swatches of paved space.

ske's original idea of "capacitance" for power really, really has merit, more than most players may think. Yes, you can imagine it like a fluid network, too. The main change is that the flow of power is constrained by the power pole type. You can't just string everything together with smal...

"No pipes" is a winnable limitation. Probably not very interesting consequences though.. you'd have to use storage tanks to "connect" all the fluid users. So more annoying than interesting. There's a Let's Play with the self-imposed limitation of using only a single assembler . H...

I saw an interesting stream once of someone who refused to cut down trees as much as he could help it, and had put himself on a small peninsula. The geographic bit of course depends on your map but he had a very cramped factory. I would recommend this challenge for people (such as myself) who get s...

A steam engine will consume any liquid, even unheated.