A gap of two fields is enough for any biter.
But biters can block each other and when too many are rushing your wall maze some might start attacking the walls because their path is blocked.

It depends on the size of the group of biters.

From the wiki: https://wiki.factorio.com/Electric_system Electricity is provided on a priority basis. The demand for energy is satisfied by generators in following order: Solar panels – Top priority; they always work at maximum performance available, unless they can cover all demand of the network, ...

AlphaFortyOne wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 04, 2023 10:17 pm

it has to have some value over free mods).

Kind of obvious and I guess the devs already know this but:
The devs should look at what mods cant do at the moment.

catalysts allow to "cheat" Putting 90 HO out gives you a lot of free HO when you use production modules. Thats also the reason why production modules are disabled for Covarex. Its also annoying that you need to bring a barrel of HO to jumpstart a new coal liquification plant. I would also ...

Thanks I was thinking about something like that.

I dont think this will get implemented.

Is it possible to see the total pollution generated over time? All I can see are the entities like miners etc. I would like to see them added up in a single graph. A stacked bar chart would work https://chartio.com/assets/9bfb20/tutorials/charts/stacked-bar-charts/073137bf11f1c2226f68c3188128e28d661...

Removing split fluid wagons also broke some designs.

I actually miss the old steam boilers.

Do any of you have any other knowledge when it comes to how optimised Factorio is, from the side of game development curiosities or anegdotes/stories? Well its hard to measure how well this game is optimized. Only way I could think of is a benchmark megabase. But some changes make it difficult to c...

thats partly the reason why I have a redundand power supply to basically everything.

If you care about the build order you should use multiple blueprints.

Well there are theoretically infinite resources on the map. You can increase them by 10% with every research. What it actually saves you is the need to find new ore patches sooner and gives you free ores. The ore ouput from an ore field is increased. You can fill a train faster. Cost also becomes ir...

I think its good that there is no real mission. No HQ that gives you the next task to do. The tech tree is more than enough to guide the player through the game. The back story does not really matter. You end up on a planet, there is no contact to where ever you came from. Help is not expected. You ...

Artillerie range, send some shells in the unknown areas.

I use exclusivly blue underground belts and splitters once I automated them.

Even when I use slower belts and dont need the additional length.

I usually leave my initial setup for my mall. Science gets a new place where I start from scratch. But to be honest it took me several attempts to be able to start with a fairly good initial setup that can be used later on. But its still hard to build a good inital base. Every piece of belt is value...

I believe this would be fixed if the tiebreak applied to trains was wait time rather than train ID. This would give on average fair scheduling in these kinds of situations and a more repeatable and intuitive over-all train network behaviour that didn't depend upon what order bots placed things. Ins...

was it always like that?

with 0.17.0 it was changed from 1h to 168h

If I remember it correctly ghosts of destroyed buildings were there from the beginning and not locked behind research before 0.17.0

A workaround is to add several train stations to the low priority station.

If there are enough stations and the path penalty is very high the other station will be preferred, if available.

read more: Railway- Factorio Wiki

I feel like this is prioritizing putting to storage vs taking from ? In the first step yes. Active provider chests are usually empty or close to empty. Bulk storage happens in storage chests. Priotizing storage chests means that everything is in storage chests. Construction bots have to take items ...

If you want to priotize storage chests you can use active provider chests.

Active provider chests are usually empty.
Produced amounts are controlled by the inserter removing the produced item from the assembler.

Khagan wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:13 am

And the further you go, the richer the patches are.

Does anyone know which parameters affect this?

I think its only based on the richness, not the size of the ore patch.