Instructions unclear; I accidentally funged all my blueprints. I can still trade my blueprints with other players, but I can't trade any specific blueprint. Even after the trade, the blueprint constantly changes to another one of my blueprints while still in the other player's inventory. I think the...

--->>> 9 iron plates start <<<--- With 9 iron plates, a new player could mine a big rock and immediately build a 2nd burner mining drill+furnace, allowing for a more 'flexible' start (without the obligation to need to smelt a single iron plate before being able to do anything else). I second this s...

Haha thanks luc. :D Took me about 20 minutes. Towards the end I figured out that the secret is to just copy and paste the streaks that already look good. Stretching = bad. Repositioning top and bottom streaks at the top and bottom of parts in the ground = good. Between that and knowing when to use a...

Oh man, you guys. That crashed ship looks so good! But one tiny nitpick I have is the dirt underneath it. The state of the ground tells us the story about how the ship crashed. Like, not just "a ship crashed here" but how the crash played out. Those round silver parts and yellow panels loo...

I think the green lights should only light up after you complete the circuit. Partly because this might let you get away with using fewer animation frames, but mostly because that's how electricity freakin' works!

I'm gonna be honest. It needs some damage to the ground beneath it. I don't care if said damage just looks like cracks and lumps of dirt. I don't care if said damage magically appears when the drill is set down before it's even had a chance to run for the first time (I.E., it's a baked-in part of th...

About "Players Not Wanting To Restart..." I've noticed that in Freeplay, when I change my mind about something important, if I haven't got massive amounts of construction bots already researched and built, I find that tearing down a build is always a huge PITA. Some part of my brain is muc...

I actually like the new look? But I feel like it's slightly disingenuous to call this a "restoration." Old colors looked like a rusty industrial oldschool 90's PC game. Like Duke Nukem 3D or Fallout 2. New colors look more like Serious Sam 2 or something. The entire Look & Feel is diff...

I learned about factorio when watch CGP Grey on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey -- he makes science/politics/explain videos of extremely high quality and is just an incredibly smart guy. He never promoted or endorsed Factorio, but in at least one video mentioned that he's spent over 1...

I applaud the (surely difficult!) decision to rename player to character now, as opposed to later. This was the least bad of your three options, and the FFF post explained the situation well. Take that, Technical Debt!

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 23, 2019 8:13 pm

Obligatory :

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Flammable_Oils

Flamable Oils mod. Because bootstrapping your blue science is just too dang easy!

I think the username ' or 1=1; -- is little Johnny Tables's account.

I think one of my posts just disappeared.

~TEST~

While I love how compact this is, I'll probably keep using Katherine of Sky's version since it lets you drop stacks of old belts into chests to be upgraded, a must when replacing vast swaths of mainbus mid-game.

Gotta say, I'm not happy about the belt nerf at all. I know, I know, "it's not a belt nerf, it's a biter fix." Semantics. Fact is, there are fun designs for belt-based defenses on factorioprints that won't be viable anymore come 0.17. Just like when you floated the idea of removing bots fr...

I feel like the new accumulator doesn't "show the sparks going up the tesla coils" as much as the old accumulator did. This may partly be an optical illusion caused by the timing of the sparks appearing and disappearing. Either way, I read the old sprite as the electricity "going up&q...

TigBits wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:23 pm

Terrain generation updates

Will we still be able to do these things?

1. Create a map without trees
2. Create a map without cliffs
3. Restrict water to the starting area

This.

Add all the fancy features you want. Just don't take away our ability to take them away.

Seems like your kovarex process is the bottleneck.

What if we like using the older, low-rez textures for nostalgia reasons?

Klonan wrote:https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-251

What happens if Batch Size exceeds Buffer Size?