Michael Bay can't wait to play with the new special effects ! Factorio - Directed by Michael Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6mc0QYjU0I In regards to other milestones... we might have something else to announce in the weeks to come :) . You are going to break the 2M copies sold, aren't you ? :...

The particle FX on the Roboport ain't looking so hot. It doesn't make sense for the "shot spark" to pop up randomly within an area. A random shot spark should happen relative to the position of the last shot, within a circle. Either do that, or make the whole area circular and smaller. Th...

Unless I’m not understanding the picture, you are simply using Reactors as a heat pipe. Does that make a difference? Fewer entities, basically. And I would say fewer pipe intersections, where a lot of CPU usually goes (heatpipe transmits heat as a fluid). In addition, the thermal mass of the nuclea...

The change to the brightness and contrast looks great on my properly configured IPS monitor( http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/ ). Yes it looks less gloomy, but midday actually looks like midday due to increased contrast. Additionally it substantially helps usability to use the entire dynamic range of th...

I agree that the way *no* assembling machines have a 1x rate is an unnecessary complication. Though if you're using assembler 3s you're probably using modules and beacons anyway - without modules I think assembler 2s make more sense. 0.5/1/1.5 or even 0.5/1/2 would be good speeds. You can just go &...

RAM performance is affected by AMD Infinity Fabric clock. Basically if it's not on the same "tick" level (I think /4) the Infinity Fabric needs to overclock and slows down the whole CPU/RAM etc. as it needs to find the middle ground for both. More info here and in other sources (google th...

For some reason I don't like the idea of random ores. I think mainly because it would make it hard to see at a glance the number of items. At the end of the day, the icon is just a representation of "there is an item of this type", no particular need for it to look pretty. Yes, but this i...

I would personally always use Crude oil in my flamethrower turrets. Refined products for Flamethrower Turrets don't really help much, since even un-upgraded Flamethrowers utterly demolish biters. Using pure crude also lets you do something like a solar powered electricity isolated flamethrower setup...

Because you're cooking the biters.

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--->> WhistleStopFactories_0.1.12.zip . As you can now see / view in the picture below. - No more duplicates in the crafting pane on the right.. Its sad though, because I really like Whistle Stop Factories mod. hopefully they fix it as I posted the link to this forum post. It gave me an incentive t...

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:34 pm

Yeah, it seems to be quite a bit cheaper, at least until the end of the game... but maybe it was a bit too expensive before ?

IMO it was a bit too TEDIOUS before.

Using a bunch of researches to get +2% productivity at a time was just painful to queue when the other researches cost an order of magnitude more. Since the cost of the research starts at some flat value, and goes up by a flat value; any benefit will soon become practically a rounding error (since t...

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:35 pm

Doesn't nuclear fuel kinda stack to 2 and rocket fuel to 11, because of the fact it consumes one when you add it?
And if so, how badly does that throw calculations off?

Not by much... You get an extra slot of fuel, making rocket fuel have 31 pieces... but nuclear fuel gets 4 instead of 3.

Issue persists. Steps taken: Backed up %appdata%\factorio\saves Deleted %appdata%\factorio\config\config.ini (I had some modifications in it, like use sprite atlas) Rightclicked factorio in steam, and uninstalled... then installed afterward (downloaded ~1.1GB) Started New game, Default Preset, Seed:...

Can you provide any other steps which may help cause the crash? Instead of closing the dialog via the "trashcan", click export to string instead (I believe this is what causes the crash, it is 100% reproducible on my end if i click the export button.) factorio-dump-current.dmp factorio-cu...

Using Q to clear cursor with an opened deconstruction planner causes factorio to instantly freeze (but still monopolize a CPU core), necessitating a taskkill on Factorio.exe. (When using a fresh map, the crash dialog comes up nearly instantly; but on a 15-minute or so save, it did not detect the han...

Otherwise the entity would be blocking a ghost placement, or blueprint placement. Marked for deconstruction entities are deactivated, and are practically just waiting for a construction robot to come collect them. Once you mark something for decon, that space is instantly "free" for BP gho...

You need mining productivity level 1,905+ (1,539+ for stone) for each drill to saturate one side of a blue belt. Of course you could use logistics bots, but if you're that late into the game; UPS is probably a concern... and you can't get much more efficient than a parked train right on the drills.

Usually I do one row between miners for power poles. On small patches I put the miners next to each other and place the poles within the output belt using undergrounds I always use the same BP for miners, it works very well until doing something like full bots or direct-drill-to-traincar. 4xMiners....

1.) I'd imagine that the shortcuts still work on a per-stack basis, the toolbelt is only a pointer to your inventory... you can never hold more than one stack of any item in your hand. 2.) If you can set your inventory to not autosort items, then making arbitrary stacks should work just fine. The to...