The Production-Window currently has 3 Tabs:

Items, Fluids, Buildings, each scaleable to some certain timeframes.

I'd love to have a 4th tab, showing each item that is NOT currently produced in some factory.

Basic purpose:
Review, what kind of items are not produced, so you know if you can ...

This was pretty clearly the intent.
Also, there have been several posts on how to do this in 'Show your creations - Energy'
They even fixed a bug in it when some one used productivity modules to get even more out of it.

Okay, if it happens on "purpose", then there isn't a problem i'd say.

I just ...

Today, I played Factorio since about 2 months again - And (I think) I found an "Design Flaw" with the Uranium Enrichment Process.
I read some Posts, and people are deploying massive amounts of enrichment-centrifuges - why?

First, it's about maths: The Enrichment-process is an equation, which can be ...

To distribute Items accross a longer distance, I have setup a train-line (filled by Requestor-Chests),
which throws the items into Provider-Chests at various stations. (In order to be picked up by local drones)

This works fine, as long as the supply is higher than the demand, or Source ...

Right, that was the cause

While "Logistic System" is not yet developed:

https://abload.de/img/lognwmdjky.jpg

"Storage chest" is available already (not sure if a bug so far, but "Logistic System" reports to effect "Storage Chest"):

https://abload.de/img/stor_av1vkaq.jpg

Using the "Deconstruction Planer" (after ...

Let's first think about what "pathfinding" actually means. It seems like a lot of people are expecting a "massive, complex" algorithm,
taking forever to determine a single path, cause each and every option needs to be evaluated.

While this ofc. would increase the CPU-Load to an unacceptable level ...

Well, I guess it's safe to say, that examples here are way off the designed scope of usage of logibutts. On the distances like that you're supposed to set up the supply train. And those don't look like default generation settings either.


In "my world" the logistic network is only used for ...

ps.: I only use the Logistic Network for construction purpose and delivery of very very rare materials.

So, even if my network is made of 15.000 Drones, only a fraction is active.

Thus I expect the logistic network to be able do deliver a "stack inserter" anywhere within a reasonable amount of ...

Maybe a more realistic example:

Consider a base like this, with a drone that should deliver something from "ORE-2" to "OIL-4":

https://abload.de/img/1ilu10.jpg

Non-Path-Finding-Drones will do something like this:

https://abload.de/img/35jujj.jpg

While Path-Finding-Drones might do this ...

Assume a base has 20.000 robots in a network, they always have something to do and don't need to recharge. If we assume an average travel time for each robot to be 4sec then 20.000 / 4 = 5000 robots need to pathfind per second.

Factorio runs at 60UPS which means that factorio would have to process ...

Technical Example:

purple: Drone port connections
gray (thin): theoretical way, if the center would need to be reached.
red: actual way.



(Basically the "Movement-Model" applied by Blizzard for Warcraft II Map Designer)

Currently, drones which should deliver a good from A to Z are taking "bee-line" to reach the target.
Meanwhile they need to return to Drone-Ports very often.

Drone-Movement can be improved as described bellow:

1.) Consider a Base build around a big Lake:

https://abload.de/img/1iashq.png

2 ...

So much Usecases based on "personal" needs:

The larger a factory becomes, the harder it is to oversee everything.

Sometimes (important) assembly-machines run out of raw-material, sometimes trains are stuck, sometimes you just want to know when "300 Construction-Drones" are available to be released.

This could be solved by ingame-mechanics ...

NVM, douchebag-dognose deleted the condition to "leave early", leaving the one waiting for full cargo, which never happens, since "coper/ore" are sold out here .

ps.: Ther is no "No Path" Error - Trains just dont move.

Moving the "stuck train" just one inch ahead and put it back into "auto" mode makes it work as expected...

Update: More Details to the bottom.

Nothing Blocking AFAIK...