When you are making a big base the smelt arrays are huge. Once you have all your furnaces beacond and moduled up it is a lot smaller but then you need more and more blue belts worth and the smelt array expands in width. I wondered if you can stack smelters to make them longer so you can stay within ...

I have a big base and wanted to upgrade my science labs but the thought of using bots was just a little too easy. But i wanted the labs to be beacond too so i needed to build something new. With the new splitters in mind i could create this new setup. research-labs-beacond.png It uses 2 blue belts w...

So i have a few spots where the ore patches are overlapping and/or small but multiple near each other. I just want to clear those fields because of reaons :D For the most ore patches i have a dedicated train but for these patches i want to have a multi ore train. Now with the new splitters i though ...

Ahh and since I already post there it got merged in my posts thx a million

Hello I must admit I am new to forums so maybe I am just overlooking something. I added a post under balancing about log bots and accessing chest about 30 minutes ago but now it has disappeared. I clicked on my posts but it is not there either. I have no messages or anything so I am at a lost of wha...

Well the new ff has brought many replies but i scrolled through them and this one came up many times that I think it deserves a spot here. Logistics bots are very strong late game due to reasons already discussed in the https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-224 the fact that you can teleport with i...

Hi just my 2 cents. I think that you have already done good work by making logic bots easy to get but the requester chest research expensive. So that personal logistics is earlier then base wide. I also think bots are too powerful. For this I can think of a few things to make it more difficult. add ...

Hello, I have an idea about the iteration over the electric network items. Because most of the time you have enough power the second loop can be skipped. So all machines have a default that they take 100% power in the first iteration you calculate the total power need. If you have enough you stop th...

Hello everyone, We were doing an eight hour achievement run and we're 4,5 hours in and we had the launch pad ready and then the server admin decided to ban me for no reason what so ever. Now i get the server admin is in charge but there is no way for me to get into contact with him. I just wanted to...