You guys implemented my LD Auto Circuit mod (more or less) into the base game!

And here I was getting all excited by the changes to how ghosts handled wires so I could make it work for hand-placed ghosts as well!

This is absolutely amazing, and I have no suggestions or complaints. I'm already trying to come up with high-throughput junctions of all varieties. This just opens up the design space to an amazing degree. I also wonder if I could manage my overall desire for forest preservation by elevating all of ...

One thing I would love to see would be a rail planner that allowed you to plan long distance rails with multiple parallel tracks and the ability to separately (and/or together) route around trees, rocks, or cliffs. Personally, I really hate harming trees, and can't harm cliffs until I have cliff exp...

I actually need to write my article on NFTs and scams. NFTs of game content land very squarely in the scam territory. Note, that I don't think all NFTs are inherently scams, but you aren't really buying what you might think you're buying when you buy them. No, just because it's connected to game co...

That was hilarious. I wasn't taken in for a moment, but it was funny all the same. I actually need to write my article on NFTs and scams. NFTs of game content land very squarely in the scam territory. Note, that I don't think all NFTs are inherently scams, but you aren't really buying what you might...

This may be the problem I was experiencing when a biter nest mysteriously appeared on the wrong side of a cliff once. I still think though, that this was the nest appearing on the other side of the cliff when the biter created it.

I've never seen the problem reoccur.

I just had a very similar (likely the same) issue. I fixed it by clearing all the cookies and site data associated with factorio.com and logging into both the forum and the mod portal again.

Before that, multiple browser restarts didn't fix the issue.

This is a broader solution to the filter selection problem than the Each option for the stack size idea that I proposed, and therefore a better one. Thank you DaveMcW!

tsiebecker wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 11, 2021 8:04 am

You can, but not with RHD. Take mmmPI's layout, switch it to LHD, and you get full signalling.

Is there an analysis of how this compares with an ordinary LHD roundabout without the extra cross-tracks throught the middle of the circle?

It looks like this might answer my question. And the answer would be "No", but here are a whole bunch of hacks to get around it. I'll see if there's a way that works for what I want to do. But if anybody else has any better ideas or knows differently, I'd really appreciate knowing. Accessi...

How do I discover what other power poles a ghost pole is connected to? It seems like it's very hard get to any but the most superficial information about the entity contained within a ghost.

Ghosts are just another type of Entity so all the standard events should apply. When you build a ghost of electric pole you will get `on_built_entity` event with created_entity pointing to the entity-ghost for which ghost_name=<pole name>. Oh, nifty! Thank you. That definitely solves my problem.

There is an event for when the player (not a bot) builds an entity. Is there a way to detect when a player places a ghost? Not a blueprint, but a single entity ghost. My LD Circuit mod automatically adds circuit wires when the player places a long-distance power pole with a small supply range. I wou...

Making your perimeter a convex hull* is overkill. Just making sure it is a rectangle is simple enough and works with just straight and and maybe corner pieces for your perimeter defense blueprint etc. Making it less rectangular isn't going to save you time or effort since you now get a short defens...

I "Diamond Grid" everything, and my base is always a rectangle so I never lose bots flying over aliens. So for me the spidertron is mostly a better tank, turn off auto fire and fill with nukes and laser defense. I no longer have to do the little dance of jumping out of a tank to let off n...

Just out of curiosity, does biter creep permanently change the landscape? Do the associated decoratives ever fade? Does it permanently change the tiles for some parts of the landscape?

So, exactly as posila said then. So why are you saying "So no, not all mods automatically transfer from 0.18" when you are agreeing? That's confusing. :o :shock: Here is what I've noticed... Almost all mods for 0.18 work perfectly on 1.0 without any changes of any kind whatsoever. No upda...

I posted this on Reddit as well.... You've missed that your FFF blog posts have given invaluable insight into game programming, game development, and optimization techniques. They are a serious contribution to the body of knowledge surrounding these things. I understand and appreciate the effort you...

Looking at the log it looks like bogus memory corruption. I recommend running a memory test: https://www.memtest.org/ I discovered that the memory I was shipped for this machine was much slower than the memory I ordered. I was having the motherboard force the speed higher (thinking it was just mist...

JaJe wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 12, 2020 6:32 pm

1 Bug, 40,2Mb...interesting

If a change involves a piece of executable code, even a small change can be rippled into a lot of code by the compiler. Additionally, doing binary diffs isn't trivial. So, the size of a download doesn't bear a strong resemblance to the size of a change.