How can this be considered a stable release candidate when oil is still an abomination? I’m still sticking with .59 until this is fixed

after 700+ hrs on steam in factorio this is the one change that has made me log onto the forums to post that i think this is one of the worst changes in factorio history that not does it not solve the intended problem, it creates a mess of new ones. turning off auto updates until this is reverted.

That's how I had it set up originally with the water going in between the heat exchangers and turbines. The issue was my water source was not large enough to supply both halves of the layout. Each water pump is supplying 960/s so the water pipes have a length limit before their throughput diminishes...

So with the latest change to heat pipes my power went out. After a little bit of panic, some swearing, i eventually got around to redesigning the whole power part of my factory. The goal was to build off the 2x2n optimal layout as best as i could. In order to minimize the heat loss due to long heat ...