This seems like kind of a "Doctor, it hurts if I do this" issue.

You're creating track that crosses itself, and then creating a train long enough to hit itself, and then asking how this can be prevented.

Maybe by creating longer track or a shorter train?

Thank you!

Once again politely asking for the Gleba! thread to be unlocked.

Is a big train with 5 resources better than 5 trains with 1 resource? this mostly regards the time that the big train has to gather resources from each section


It depends on how quickly you can fill the train.

If you can fill 5 cars as fast as 1 car, then you're getting 5 times as many ...

For some reason this thread was locked:

https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=131828

This was about the only positive thread about Gleba on the board. I don't understand why it was locked.

If it was due to people arguing, please moderate them; don't kill the whole thread because of a few ...

Tertius wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 12:39 pm Kyralessa's solution works only if the belt isn't stalling and all output is being consumed.

Which, to be fair, one could say about any purely mechanical splitting/balancing mechanism at any ratio.

Yes, you just need to split into 4 belts, then feed one belt back into the original splitter, like this.

(Obviously you can combine two of the belts to make it 2:1 instead of 1:1:1.)

If you connect a heating tower to something else using a red or green wire, you'll see a couple of properties on the heating tower, one of which is temperature. By default, it uses T, which means the T signal value is the temperature value, e.g. T 903.

This guy has over 5 thousand hours in factorio.

After spending tens or hundreds of hours figuring it all out he's declared Gleba was actually easy the whole time.

That whole Gleba thing both new and experienced users are telling wube is not fun and is ruining the game? No problem - it's the ...

Good point. If you can run over nests and damage biters with a tank, why can't you poke them with Spidertron legs?

What weapons do you have available in your research so far?

One thing many players don't consider: The bugs are attracted by pollution, so see what you can do to stop the pollution.

If you're in a desperate situation, it might make sense to shut down most of your factory :


Clear your research ...

All it took was one nudge of the mouse scroll wheel for me to guess who wrote this.

Green Cat, you might get more traction for your ideas if each one didn't take three hours to read.

I would like to second this suggestion. I run into this often.

Wiring is the worst, but other types of close repetitive work also get messed up in remote view due to accidentally dragging.

I'd like to have the option to completely disable dragging the view in remote view.

Green Cat, when you write your wall-of-text suggestions, please take pity on the rest of us. Learn from Antoine de Saint Exupéry:

It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.

What mods are you using?

Are you using the selector combinator? One of its modes is to take a random signal from its incoming signals. You can set how often you want it to switch signals.

Another good option is to ship fish. Even though one fish only yields 20 nutrients, a fish also has a spoil time of just over two hours, vs. 30 minutes for a biter egg. Then you can save the biter eggs for overgrowth soil instead.

Fish are nutrient negative. On average, 100 nutrients gives you ...

Another good option is to ship fish. Even though one fish only yields 20 nutrients, a fish also has a spoil time of just over two hours, vs. 30 minutes for a biter egg. Then you can save the biter eggs for overgrowth soil instead.

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I would like you to add transport airplanes to Factorio, and also bombers that can drop grenades. On Fulgora, transporting things by car and roboports can’t reach from island to island. And those bombers too, because the monsters already ...

In terraria there are secret seeds that really change how the game is played. It would be cool if that came to Factorio. Maybe some start you off on different planets or even in space. One could make every type of enemy spawn on all planets. Maybe it changes the tech tree around or completely ...