I routinely abuse this. I will make a Train Fuel train. This train has two stations on its schedule : Train Fuel Pickup (where it does just that) and a number of Train Fuel Drop Off stations. Those Train Fuel Drop Off stations are only turned on when the fuel I’m using falls below a certain amount ...

I just tried some (that is no all) of Py mods and had a problem as I couldn't make red science (Automation science packs) because I didn't have any coke. With a little research I found that Py Coal changes the recipe for red science to require coke but doesn't give you a recipe for coke until after ...

Koub wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:39 am

It is shown when you mouse over :

Underground belt

2020-06-20 10_38_48-Factorio 0.18.29.jpg

Look closely at the hood, it is shown.

This also discusses lane balances:
viewtopic.php?f=202&t=74911

impetus maximus wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 31, 2017 7:03 am

i just load them with gravel or wood first then not worry about it.

I couldn't find a single person who wouldn't prefer that the temporary train station would put train in manual mode once reached! Developers please change this! In my eyes as moderator I don’t see that there isn’t “a single person”. There are quite mixed opinions about this topic and many dozens of...

Question from a non-modern: Is it possible to store extra data in entities you create? Can you get the current tick?

There’s also this thread: viewtopic.php?p=452645#p452645

The last lane balancer is pretty good.

Can we work on making the alien / survival dynamic a little more... deep? Like, I'd like to see other forms of life on the planet. Birds? Mammals? What do the bugs eat? DO they eat? Maybe there's some kind of earthquake activity, or volcanos, or I don't know, acid storms. I guess I'm just sad that ...

ssilk wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2019 9:31 am

Technically the game needs to add an angle for all items.

The item angle could be tied to the belt direction, so no extra memory needed.

bleistift2 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 09, 2019 1:16 am

I never knew burner inserters could feed themselves That adds some real usefulness to them!

This why many backup steam power units incorporate them, they will startup on their one once fuel is restored.

jodokus31 wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 09, 2019 6:16 pm

However, there's an initial barrier to overcome: Handling empty barrels, which can end really bad

Oh yes, I’ve done that so many times. (I’m still using barrels though.)

What are the pros and cons of coal vs solid fuel vs rocket fuel for making steam for coal liquefaction?

Could the tiles be marked so the player can’t build on them?

Is there an UPS difference between an entity connected to an electric network that has no fuel and one connected to an open switch?

Excellent idea (like anything including more bottleneck-mod‘ish features in Vanilla) both the proposed tooltip and the visual representation in alt mode. What about a bluish „item bar“ filling up (analog to the depleting health bar), if you set a stack limit the bar is drawn with a vertical pointer...

welens wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 1:19 pm

With new tooltip system I have small suggestion to add number of stack allowed being shown on tooltip.
Something like:
woodbox-tooltip.png

+1

This loads just less then 3 blue belts:

There’s a power pole mod with a 3x3 area for just this problem.

Edit: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/TinyPole

48 = 8 * 6 (8 items on each of 6 belt tiles). The right most column shows how many items are on a belt (output belts), the bottom row shows which items are being consumed (input belts). The other number show how much of an input belt is on an output belt. ------- I propose 3 attributes for categoriz...