In the last example picture why can't some of the segments and junctions be merged further resulting in fewer entity updates? Consider a scenario where the segment on the left is attached to some fluid producer and the 5 segments on the right are each attached to a fluid consumer. pipes.png If A and...

I made a fix. Is it possible, that all of you that got the problem specified inventory size limit for the provider chest in the meantime? (After loading 0.16.8 ?) Because I fixed a bug that this action could corrupt potentially random amount of providers in that network. It is "probably" ...

Why does the assembler keep producing if there is empty space in the chest? Because it doesn't know you don't want that. Otherwise you would have set it up to not producing the items if there are thousands of them in storage chests via e.g. logistic condition. You shouldn't have to do that though. ...

Why should active providers, storage, and passive providers behave differently depending on what type of bot is fetching items? That's seems like a very inconsistent game mechanic. If you'd like I can move this to ideas and suggestions, but it was specifically changed by kovarex in version 0.11.17 ...

It makes sense for logistic bots, not so much for construction bots The construction bots pull from the closest, it is your design decision whether that closest chest is a passive provider or a storage chest There are many ways to set up the chests and inserters so that none are placed in passive p...

Construction robots are not prioritizing items from storage chests over items in passive provider chests. They seem to pull items from the chest closest to where it is to be placed instead of pulling items from storage chests first like logistics robots do. Steps to reproduce: 1. Put down a robot po...

I'm curious to the reasoning behind changing the underground belt length. It's not like having different lengths for the different tiers is a new idea, there have been mods that do that for quite a while I believe, so what prompted the change now?

Factorio has been crashing consistently whenever I resume from hibernate on my machine. Reproduction steps: 1. Start factorio and load a map 2. Pause the game 3. put computer into hibernate mode 4. resume from hibernate Upon resuming factorio has already crashed with this message: Unable to create s...

It was fine in .14 though.

The default config now enabled the "show decoratives" option. When this option is enabled my FPS drops to ~25 when I zoom all the way out (not in map mode). Disabling Show Decoratives fixes this issue immediately and I get constant 60 FPS.

Any word on rotating the train stop names in the map view so that they are readable if you have multiple stops next to each other?

DaveMcW wrote:Splitter-based balancers only work properly under constant load. When lanes back up they start to become unbalanced.

If belts are going to back up at some point what options are available to mitigate or fix this?

I created this train station to unload ore from my mines. station.png My understanding of belts and splitters says that if the chests are all full, all the belts between the chests and the balancer are full, and each train car has the same load then all the cars should empty at the same time. This i...