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...

This one took a while to stabilize but it is input balanced:

This is why I like using different items on the input belts, it allows you to see that no items from the bottom belt are consumed: This balancer is not input balanced.

So if you only care about output balancing the standard 4 blue belt balancer works: Screen Shot 2019-09-06 at 9.04.57 PM.png 0eNrtnd9uo8gSxl9lxO3ao+6m/0bap9i9OxpZ2O6ZINlgAR7NaJQHOA9yXuw8yQLOxg50xV3lZLXIXEU2djX8qK76Gj6TX8l6d/SHKi+a5OFXkm/Kok4e/vMrqfNvRbbr3mt+HnzykOSN3yeLpMj23asi/5H7ZXNc++RpkeTF1v9IHv...

... "Balancing" in the context of Factorio means transforming one or several (n) rates of input (i1, i2, in) to one or several (m) rates of output (o1, o2, ... om), where all the rates of output are equal ! ... "Balancing" in the context of Factorio and in common language mostly is used when referi...

Not with my balancer above, uneven input OR uneven output have stable ratios. It’s only uneven inputs AND outputs that the ratios are different. Does that mean, that one could chain two of those together and have stable ratios in all cases? Unfortunately not. The way splitters work chaining two may...

disentius wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:35 pm

yep. Any uneven input or output screws it up.

Not with my balancer above, uneven input OR uneven output have stable ratios. It’s only uneven inputs AND outputs that the ratios are different.

Turns out you are right. Ratios change when both inputs are starved and outputs are backed up. I think I know the reason. When inputs are starved empty spaces are are introduced if the balancer is throughput unlimited the empty spaces are passed to the outputs, this retains ratios by replacing an it...

The Wiki states left from the Inserters perspective. The pic attempts to have its left the same as the inserter’s left. Never mind, read Wiki wrong/mis remembered.