Am I the only one who is missing the squealing noise from trains when the wheel flanges contact the rail? Could be added in switches and curves at certain speeds.

I would still expect the motors to be in front of the pipe from that viewing angle

I think it's odd for the belt with the motors to be behind or below the chemical plant. Not sure if it's intended that way.

I prefer not too much effort into mines. Instead I use a setup, that is quick and easy to build and plan. I build all drills in rows right next to each other facing the belt. Also I leave one tile between the rows for electric poles and to be able to run in between the miners. That way I don't need ...

That's ok. Thanks.

i dont understand dont put cables on belts? If you look at the production ratios you will see first that you get 2 cables from 1 copper plate. That means you need double the amount of belts/trains/whatever if you want to transport cables instead of plates over larger distances. This makes it very i...

One general tip: don't put cables on belts. They need double the space of plates and are fast and easy to produces. They can always be directly fed into the following assamblers. Especially with processing units that need 80 cables per piece your cable belt will be your bottle neck. With that red be...

Ich habe schon einmal versucht konsequent die beiden Begriffe "Brennstoff" und "Treibstoff" zu trennen. Aber das ging nicht, so wie ich das wollte. Das Problem ist: Im Englischen gibt es keine klare Abgrenzung zwischen "Treibstoff" und "Brennstoff". Beides is...

I understand you have a (probably rectangular shaped) belt going round and a problem because the number of items on the inner side of the belt is lower than on the outer side. If you built a figure-8-shaped belt you don't have that problem because the number of right and left turns is equal.

Is there any blueprint mirror mod that works with 1.0?

Automate everything and start as soon as possible. A beginner's mistake I made was crafting too many items on my own. I often had to wait a few minutes until my crafting queue finished. Now my first objective after starting a new game is getting my automated production for miners, furnaces, inserte...

The outer turrents are fed from the central one

Mir sind ein paar Begriffe aufgefallen, die ich durch andere ersetzen würde, die weniger sprrig und präziser sind. Beton/Stahlbeton mit Gefahrenmarkierung -> Beton/Stahlbeton mit Warnmarkierung (Warnmarkierung dürfte der korrekte Begriff für diese Streifen sein. Ist außerdem kürzer) Wärmeleitung -> ...

It needs so many sub factories and 3 ingredients, can somebody share? ANd when will I be able to invent electric mining? so I do not need coal anymore? Yes, chemical (blue) science is definetly the biggest step in the game because of all the new stuff that you need to build with the oil branch and ...

Base case: With 2 mining drills we mine 1 coal/s to put into our burners. The coal gives us 4 MW but the drills need 180 kW. This gives us a net power output of 3.82 MW. First without modules: 1 solid fuel per second equals 12 MW. But the production consumes 1.08 MW of electrical power and we must b...

Some photos from my trip to Ras Laffan in Qatar a few years ago. https://www.google.com/maps/@25.914897,51.5241321,4868m/data=!3m1!1e3 An enormous industrial area with mostly petrochemical industry but also other stuff like an abandoned solar panel factory and fertilizer plants afaik. They're buildi...

I often cogitated about how to make the electric power grid in Factorio more realistic. Currently it's a "copper plate" model. Any physical properties and limitations of the lines are completely neglected. Only input and output need to be balanced. In reality it's much more difficult of co...

Main problem for me why playerlike movement is not applicable for vehicles is that vehicles have momentum but the player not. You can instantly change direction and stop. A vehicle behaves different. It will continue going in its current direction until friction stops it or a force changes its direc...

Just add Burner, that produces heat from chemical fuel. The reason why I am not a fan of this solution is that the heat system to me feels like it is not really integrated into the game. It feels like there's something missing. At the moment it is just there to make the nuclear plant bigger. You ne...

I agree, that the step from steam engines to nuclear power is a rather big one and that there should be a step in between. I would like to two things in this intermediate step: a boiler that burns oil or gas introduction to the heat exchanger system Basically a setup that builds the nuclear power pl...