Yeah, it's better balance-wise since it a. incorporates its own flare and b. starts primarily with heavy oil. Trouble is the enormous pile of coal you need to shovel in to get the same production as from an oil plant, and still leaves you with 'how do I balance my oil plant' as a problem :v The use...

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That leaves lubricant. Since lubricant can only be made from heavy oil

You could also check coal liquefaction. This might be better for lubricant only

I'm finally back, and now with some time on my hands again. Nice to hear... I'm currently deeply stuck in seablock and almost abandoned Xander. I wanted to check out therax' great fork, but somehow not much motivation. I see, the mod has changed from scratch. Looking forward to see more progression...

I'd love to see a "wheels!" module - 2x2 or exoskele sized - that: 1. Gives belt immunity 2. Increases the player's top speed, but gives them momentum (like a car) 3. Allows the player to run on train tracks for even higher top speed (I'm a train, yo) to 3) Nice idea. I would also say, that you can...

With there being a huge pollution overhead in producing fast inserter and assembler mk3 instead of regular ones, are there calculations as to when they start being more pollution friendly? Something like: fast inserter becomes less polluting after 500 inserts and assembler mk3 after crafting for 90...

Is it intended that Seablock disables heavy mud washing in Washing Plants MK2? It used to work before and I can't find the change note describing it Sounds like something is screwed up with mod settings or such. Or maybe you got a fluid mixing pipe somewhere? In my experience washing plant mk2 shou...

I have a wall with gun turrets (red ammo, all damage upgrades without space science) + flamethrower, which resists 92% evolution pretty well. I need a roboport with some repair kits, though, because sometimes a spitter is able to spit once or twice. Or a biter gets near the wall. The key here is, th...

So if i need 15 magazines in each of 20 turrets that's 300 times it has to tick down one by one? That's hideously slow :( I was hoping there was a way to put a certain amount of item in your hand (lets say 15 ammo) and then every turret (object) i mouse over gets 15 ammo. I think, the best bet is t...

one unupgraded lab Yea, but. If you only have a single lab you have other things to worry about. Just saying that prod labs aren't as perfectly free of side effects as i initially thought. It depends, which science you are researching. Only red & green might not be better, but from blue/military it...

efficiency 1 modules in miners are very good. efficiency 2 or 3 are not worth IMO. eff2 in electric furnace could be viable at some point to get from 60% to max. 80% with 2 slots. level 3 assembler support 4 modules, so you can use 3 eff1 modules to get the max 80%. first mining productivity researc...

I'm not sure, if that is possible. (Maybe there's a setting in the config file somewhere...) Manually saving the game to a specific name is the usual way to handle it. The game should also popup a reminder, that the game is unsaved. You could have multiple standalone factorio installations via the z...

Usually, you smelt 5 iron plates in a furnace to get 1 steel.

Desert maps, with low trees are incredible much tougher compared to green ones with lots of trees, because trees and green tiles eat pollution and it doesn't spread so far. Deathworld is also tough, because biters evolve much faster from just time passed compared to default settings. So you need to ...

I bound it to Ctrl + Mouse wheel. Works perfect and much easier to use.

Would be nice, if the current size stays after restart.

However, my original point was about things being over/under powered. Something can't be "creatively overpowered", so I dont think creativity can really be considered part of the gameplay loop in this way. If we say its all about creativity and making a cool base then sure, bots et al arent OP, but...

...players who play with biters disabled; which virtually removes 100% of the challenge from the game, it just becomes a waiting game at that point. Your super base is an inevitability. What actually is the gameplay loop for such players? Does one exist? I've played f.e. vanilla marathon deathworld...

Seablock changes a lot with Bob's and Angel's as core, but from a different angle and a tougher balancing.
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But it's also very hard, maybe just the right thing, who knows...

If I wanted my locomotives to run on a lesser fuel if the preferred fuel was unavailable, I would simply use a priority splitter or circuit priority mechanism. Works, if you are able to (over)produce desired fuel to fill out train buffers. It's more about finetuning and optimizing the fuel usage in...

+1 You would also be able to limit the amount of (expensive) fuel in a locomotive. Most of the time, i don't need 3 full stacks of fuel (or more for modded locomotives). Currently, I manually put in some cheap fuel in the last slots to prevent it from filling up with the provided fuel. Works ok, but...

The first thing you need is just an assembler 1 and electricity, then you don't have to handcraft anymore. How to scale up from this in another topic, you still have the burner drill, but no furnace. So the first thing to craft via assembler are probably some furnaces to be able to get more iron and...