When you make super UPS optimized factories and use assemblers with direct insertions between trains. Inserters and assemblers have all odd numbered width and rails can only bee and even amount of tiles between them, so you may need to use cars/tanks that have an even numbered width. you can place ...

Could be done but the effort is way to much. In Order to fill up a cargo wagon with uranium ore you only need to use 6 slots for barrels (three for full ones and three for empty ones) which gives you enough to mine 1500 units, 34 slots, laving space for 1700 uranium. With mining productivity 7 you p...

My current map (no biters, normal resources) has a big roundabout around the main base. With several lanes and enough space for the trains to accelerate to full speed before merging in. I watched it for quite a while and never noticed trains to slow down for each other. Anyway, for smelting I often ...

About endgame: launching one rocket is a massive task try launching one rocket per minute get all achievements (lazy bastard) play without biters, deathworld, train world spaghetti layout, main bus, train based production, bot based production only use solar, coal, nuclear or even nuclear fuel play ...

You mirrored the balancer layout
the setup on top is not the same like on the bottom.

You need to move the belts to the left and feed them from the right side.

With a total number of 797 chunks (29×29 − 7×7), it takes one radar 7 hours 20 minutes

Any radar always scans the oldest chunk outside the active view.
So you can update the 6 oldest chunks at the same time, every 33s another six.
Which means the oldest chunk could be more than one hour old.

1. Signals on the inside, big plus 2. no space wasted outside the tracks. The reason I started usid LHD were my walled train tracks. I leave a gap of two tracks between them and I can fit lasers and roboports between the rails easily. By now I switched to more massive walled rails (5 lanes, two in e...

pro: can also be used for dynamite con: -except for dynamite it is only used for sulfuric acid -one petroleum pipe has much more throughput than a belt of sulfur -sulfuric acid is only needed for three things: batteries, blue ciruits and uranium mining. Best thing is to have one central production a...

The train will only go to the nearest station. You can use logic wires and deactivate stations, that have a certain amout of fuel stored. Once the nearest station has enough fuel it is deactivated and the train will look for the next station. You should also add some logik that delays the activation...

how to display accumulator charging / discharging: http://passiondriving.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/vw-e-golf-3.jpg Would show the charge/discharge rate related to the total power consumption in %. For charging: x% are used for recharging of the total power consumption Example: factory needs 50MW...

Crude oil is the better option for the beginning since you have more of it. Production has to step back for the sake of defense. I place flamethrower turrets between one almost full length of underground pipes. 8 tiles of gap between the underground pipes (9 are max). For the beginning I leave out e...

I like the new casting couch.
You should setup a camera tripod in front of it.
for the lolz and to scare new people.

thanks.. to few on a 370k patch :/ will try pipeline or train :) how to get the optimum ratio for trains: reserve 32 slots for uranium ore 4 slots for acid barrels 4 slots for empty barrels If you want the precice amount of acid limit the input to 32 barrels (don't forget to reduce the stack size t...

TL;DR Ground tiles that slow you down. As the title says. What ? I would like to see some ground tiles that give you a penalty on movement speed. It could be used in areas close to buildings to automatically slow you down so that you can control your vehicle better. It would make it much more conve...

Here some numbers One wagon plastic bars contains 40k peotroleum plus 2k coal. One tanker sulfuric acid contains 37.5k units Petroleum and 500 iron. One wagon rocket fuel contains 40k light oil (or 80k heavy oil or petroleum) I think these are the main oil products that you need to ship. For most th...

Doesn't a green light mean go? This is the simplest thing in traffic. If the light is green, that means the vehicle looking at the green light can go. If the light is red, the vehicle should stop, but in factorio the train looking at a green light stops. What is the point of having red and green li...

How come you end up with so short trains?
Do you smelt on site?

It works good for an unloading station with multiple stops next to each other since they are really close together. It gets more difficult to setup mining outposts where the stations share one name. The clostest outpost will be occupied all the time and the remote ones are rarely visited. It require...

krios wrote: But in Factorio i can't figure out how it works. i never used Pre-signals in OpenTTD so chain-signals are new terain for me and the regular signals don't seem to function as OpenTTD's pathing signals

Is it still a mystery to you?
Functionality and layout are almost the same.

+1 for hopper cars actually "pileable" items like ores and coal are not handleable with inserters. I mean it's literally small crumbles or even dust. In real life inserters are not used for such things. Inserters are actually super rare. We use the concept of gravity and belts. Technically the whole...