most of the time, if i want to have about a full stack of something, i set the requests to something like from 80% or 90% of a stack size to one stack, so when bots deliver slightly more than the minimum, neither i get another stack, nor they have to fly all the way back to put it to some random st...

It not being 0.5 is because the circuit network operates on integers...but they could've made it round up instead of down. I don't know what the rationale for doing it this way was. You're mistaken in saying that circuits round down. As an experiment, divide -7 by 3. Since the game truncates, the g...

I really like the new beacon design. I think it's a big improvement over the original, and an even bigger improvement over the previous design you considered. I do think Walkable Beacons and Down The Rabbit Hole make them better. Though I think the first of those two makes the hit-box too small. I a...

Would be interesting to see the animations at max speed :D <.... nifty animation elided ....> I really like the new mining drill. I'm still not necessarily sold on the new icon. But, it does indeed much more closely resemble the actual entity than the old icon. Is there any fluid sloshing or spatte...

FactorioBot wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 01, 2020 2:19 pm

Graphics

• Reworked Engine unit icon.

I like the new engine icon a lot better than the previous one. Thank you for updating it. It looks a bit like a hot-rod engine now.

5thHorseman wrote: ↑

Sat May 30, 2020 10:16 am

Aww this somewhat implies that the iconic look of the miners will be gone. I understand because they make no sense (I mean, flywheels? fans? what are those?) but still... Iconic.

Why do you assume they're going to change the electric miners and not the icon?

Heya folks (first post), I've written a guide to creating fast & exact inserter systems: https://mason-larobina.github.io/factorio/2020/05/23/logistic-train-evolution.html I'm using an index trick to isolate individual items for processing one at a time. This allows me to set a second signal for th...

It seems to me that you could just filter the cargo wagon slots: Yeah, I tried that. But the inserters would get stuck holding an item that couldn't fit in the inventory and not pick up any of the other items that could go in the inventory. That works for one chest per item, (and I notice that you ...

No. If you select '*' and '+' for an arithmetic combinator, then the '*' on the output means "Apply the operation to each input signal."....So, having many request slots on a chest is extremely useful for 'some of everything' kinds of trains. ...The filter inserter would just automatically use the ...

It would be even more helpful if '*' was allowed for setting the stack size on filter inserters. ;-) I'm confused... isn't that just the same as not limiting? No. If you select '*' and '+' for an arithmetic combinator, then the '*' on the output means "Apply the operation to each input signal.". So...

In general, I really like the new icons. I especially like how most of them are clearer and cleaner than the previous icons. Many of them also look better on belts. And I really like the new icons for batteries. I always considered your replacement for the trademarked batteries to be something of a ...

arrow in my gluteus wrote: ↑

Tue May 26, 2020 3:46 pm

Increased logistic filter count for requester and buffer chests from 12 to 30.

You have no idea how much helpful this is for me.

It would be even more helpful if '*' was allowed for setting the stack size on filter inserters.

To be learned: never ever update the first few hours after a release - this holds for EVERY software everywhere. The final test step with mods I maintain is to have a game that uses the mod and test out loading it up and updating from the mod portal. I did that after a couple of hard lessons learne...

Heh, prompted by Pi-C's society scandals in long past newspapers, I checked the API doc history of course. The first mention of "all" and "script-only" being dropped was in fact 15.24's change notes as Koub has just revealed. At that time, LuaCustomInputPrototype wasn't even documented, and didn't ...

There's a bug report on the mod portal for you 321freddy. 0.18.22 broke your mod by finally removing the "script-only" custom input flag for CustomInput prototypes. They deprecated that value for 'custom' sometime in the 0.15 series. :-/

so that means those mods stay dead until they get updated? (broke like 5 mods for me) Yes. If you want to help the authors of the mods you like, and possibly increase the speed at which those mods will be updated, go and post a bug in the forum for the mod, or wherever the mod author says to post b...

mitchellhalliday on GitHub was kind enough to open a pull request for a 0.18 update, which I did some quick testing on and have released. Note that the mod is still marked as deprecated in the portal, so it won't show up in search result pages but (I think?) should still be available for install in...

This no longer happens in 0.18.19

This also fixes "Harmless error dialog pops up when saving (82539)". Thank you.

While this bug was minor, I found it to be a major irritant.

So... let me get this straight, currently, the methods for decoration removal are as follows: Placing entities Placing tiles (sometimes repeatedly to remove all decoratives) Grenades (and possibly other explosions) Assorted mods Am I missing any? Removing decoratives in the options menu. I've done ...