Went ask one of the others what they were doing and turns only just me desynced!

So it's definitely related to ghost actions, potentially undo. At some point one of the other players visited where I was planning things so their robots might have done things.

Fixed. It's great that I double checked before posting...

No mods.

There was 4 players total with one being the host, at least 2 maybe all 3 other players desynced including me. One player was AFK, I was designing rail blueprints with ghosts in Nauvis with remote view. It happened rather unexpectedly, after rejoining it was just fine.

https://drive ...

When a technology has an unit cost with no ingredients, selecting it in the tech tree keeps the research cost of the previously selected tech.

When opening the tech tree with that tech selected, an empty ingredients is displayed instead of how long it takes and how many crafts are needed.

It can ...

I'm playing a multiplayer session of Space Exploration and my Linux dedicated server is sometimes crashing. This happened quite a few times in a 3-4 hour period, after not hard-crashing for over 250 hours.
There were about 4 players and the most suspicious thing is that 2 players were flying around ...

I'm happy you bonded with your son over the game and it managed to help you recover from your low.

Steps taken after loading the file to led to crash:
1. Opened the map
2. Placed the T rail intersection blueprint that is on the inventory between two Iron Ore patches to the left of the player
3. Drove the train backwards until it was inside the blueprint and robots started building
4. Replaced a ...

Hello!

Using this binary: https://www.factorio.com/get-download/0.17.8/headless/linux64
While trying to apply this update: https://dcdn.factorio.com/updates/core-linux_headless64-0.17.8-0.17.9-update.zip


~/ $ factorio/bin/x64/factorio --apply-update /tmp/core-linux_headless64-0.17.8-0.17.9 ...

Regarding the Production vs High-Tech packs, just seeing the tech-tree for what's unlocked by the Production research shows how pointless the split is: it appears you unlock 10 researches, but 4 of then also requires High-Tech.
Never mind that 2 of the unlocked tech is just high-tiered belts and ...

Do you plan on ever making petrochen optional for the smelting mod? I really love refining+smelting, but I'd like to lower the complexity of the game a bit.

Since there are so many good looking bases here, I'll share mine:

http://i.imgur.com/UOD7D46.jpg
Partial overview of the base. It's bot only because last time I played with Bob+Angels the mess was impossible and I half used bots anyway.

http://i.imgur.com/hCUkoom.jpg
Here we have my ore, slug ...