Here is an older 4k SPM save of mine - I had huge performance problems with my old potato, but even with a new high end PC it's not too great. https://derpumu.de/factorio/megabase2020/Megabase2020_1.1_EE.zip - idling, it is just about 60 fps, but seems close to dropping below that. - research artill...

I wasn't aware, so thanks for the link. However, minimal properties are not the issue here. The inability to truly hide the mentioned equipments is the problem

For the Pacifist mod I tried to remove all active defense equipment and energy shield equipment but could not. Upon start, the game displays an error that basically tells me it can't deal with no existing prototypes of these types. The obvious solution that worked with all other kinds of "must ...

Pacifist is a mod that not only disables biters (even kills them when you load it in an existing save) but also removes many military technologies. Why? Well, I like to play without biters, e.g. when I try out a mod pack that's new to me or want to try some special challenge without setting up a pe...

Print is setup to ignore multiple calls with the same parameters. If you call print("hello") five times in a row, it'll print once and ignore the rest. It doesn't want the console spammed with the same message. If you really need to see them all, switch to the log command which logs every...

Hi, I am relatively new to Lua and modding, not to programming though, and I came across a piece of behavior that I absolutely find no explanation for. here's my striped-down control.lua. Down in the for loop I have marked a part in the for loop that only gets executed once even though there are mul...

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Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:13 pm

I do wonder why you decide to use uncompressed belts so often.

Not sure where you see that where it could be avoided.

below the solar fields, there are some sites or production complexes. What are these? Smelting? other basic production? Directly below the solar fields is one uranium mine with (way too much) Kovarex and the necessary acid production, All other sites down there are smelters directly beside the ore ...

Xterm has done one of his base tours about this base: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kFcnggT4w

http://derpumu.de/factorio/20200906083833_1.jpg I started the base around January. My main goal was to build a megabase with independent blocks, so it could scale over time. I wanted round numbers, so I thought about having 1k spm per block at first. Since that would be quite big and require 3 rock...

In my save game, I have multiple "memory cell"/"tick counter" combinators that were storing signals accumulated over up to an hour, namely this kind of throughput counter: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=494936#p494936 . Reloading the game after the update to 0.18.33 ...

accumulators are possible power producers, e.g. imagine thousands of lasers firing at once - that power spike could be caught by the accumulators, in your case up to 72GW

@Rseding so it should have alerts if there are no items available, right? Robots are there, items are not. No alerts shown, at all, for more than 600 ticks.

Define "minimalist save" please? This happens in a megabase (save file is 95mb), sporadically. I have yet to see if this is reproducible after saving and reloading the game in such a situation. I'll save a copy when I encounter it next time.

I have a situation where I first put down a couple of roboports and then a blueprint that adds mainly substations and ~22k belts, 2k underground, and a couple hundred other entities. I unload items from trains into storage chests to make them available in the network, but of course there will be tho...

Sorry, most important information missing, of course.

Version 0.18.30, build 52572, win64, steam, confirmed behavior without any mods

See the following image: - when I edit the tech queue by resuming a tech level (artillery range 6 in this case), it says "Resume" on the button also for the higher levels (range 7, 8, ...). Closing and reopening the tech GUI fixes this and it says "Start Research" - A progress in...

I hadn't realized there was a whole thread of these, so I'll move my original post here: The production stats display is nice, but I wanted to see how many items a certain part of my factory produces/consumes, so here's a simple but informative combinator setup: http://derpumu.de/img/ThroughputCount...

I have a Angels/Bobs game running on 17.34. When I open the tech tree and select "Desert Farm Upgrade" or any of the other "... Farm Upgrade" techs, the game freezes and can only be killed via the task manager. OS is Win10. I attached the savegame; please let me know if you need ...

I am getting a crash when placing Textplates with Nanobots . It seems to be something in the interaction between the two mods. Reproduce: In a game that has only Textplates and Nanobots mods active, place a few text plates. Make a blueprint of them. With Nanobots in the active weapon slot, put down ...