I'm working around this in my game by just always sending trains to the trainyard in-between other stations. That has the advantage of also allowing them to refuel there. But it would be nice if I could define the trainyard as a "fallback station" for a stop, so if we can go straight to th...

Aw, but I really want it to be a bug -

Could there be a wait condition "Until next station is free"? That way it would still be counted as "stopped" at the station where it can refuel.

I wasn't doing anything particularly interesting at the time, just looking at the power stats.

This is from a client/server game running on localhost. No mods.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2BGd ... VV5Y0FhN3c

Got this on Linux as well, in a slightly different situation: this one happens when you place a rail in the gap, connecting the train line. Perfectly reproducible. Stock, no mods. Save attached. It doesn't happen if I switch the train to manual, place the rail, then switch it to automatic. 94.217 Er...

I see this has been sorted into "Duplicates"; maybe it should be added to the "Known Issues" list?

I think the correct behavior is to recalculate train paths when 1) your preferred way is blocked, and 2) any of the exit signals of the next block of the preferred route, not just the signals on the preferred route itself, change state. That way it should notice that the adjacent queue spots had bec...

I have a mixed smelting area with multiple stations (copper load/metal load/ore unload), and a combined waiting area before it, of the sort >---[chain]--\----[signal]--[queue 1]--[chain]----/----\----[signal]-[copper load]-> \---[signal]--[queue 2]--[chain]---/ \---[signal]-[iron load]---> \--[signa...

Easier: just have the new client buffer packets, then fast-forward when it finishes the download.

I've improved the help text somewhat. Is it easier to use and understand like this?

[edit] Added an example picture too.

I ported the code to JavaScript! Also added a small optimization that made it a whole lot faster (to avoid checking the same train state twice).

http://feepingcreature.github.io/trainsearch.html

This is now the official version. I'll add it to the initial post.

It was actually written in Neat ( https://github.com/FeepingCreature/fcc ), my own language! The syntax is largely compatible with D, so that's why I usually use that highlighting option. Somebody who knows D can probably convert this program to D in a few minutes. I don't think this is feasible to ...

Oh, good. Thanks.

In that case, devs: please don't forget to fix this for 0.12!

When you start up Factorio on Linux, you may get a bunch of libpng warnings along the lines of "libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile". From googling, this is because Photoshop actually puts weird invalid sRGB profiles in the PNGs it saves. (source https://wiki.archlinux.org/i...

Update ! The Intersection Checker has been ported to Javascript and is now available here: http://feepingcreature.github.io/trainsearch.html Train intersections in Factorio are easy to get wrong. In this post, I'll give an example of a naive approach that fails, show why it fails, then demonstrate ...

Okay, to clear up some confusion. pngquant is a "lossy PNG compression" tool. It does something fundamentally different from an image editor. Usually, with an image editor, you want to save your PNG in full quality. PNG is a lossless format, so the only tweaks you can do to reduce size are...

Hey, useful info: if you use pngquant (http://pngquant.org/) you can usually significantly reduce the size of the generated PNGs for little to no quality loss.

I got my map data from 750MB to 110MB in exchange for slightly wrong colors.

Good question, and I have no idea. Depends on how the game stores and exchanges station information internally? If the clients just send inputs to each other, the naming should be purely decorative.

I realize the crucial importance of backers in getting the game this far. Nonetheless, here's a shell script to replace the list of backer names with a list of English towns taken from Wikipedia. Save into your factorio folder and run with /bin/sh rulebritannia.sh #!/bin/sh BACKERS=data/core/backers...

I apologize for that! I'd messed up my port forwarding when I rebooted my router and server, somehow, and didn't notice for a while. It should be back now.

If you select petroleum-gas, why does it use the light oil cracking recipe but not the heavy oil cracking recipe as well? Ah, sorry about that, the code was aborting at the first recipe producing an output. I've changed it to check every recipe; it should show heavy-oil-cracking as well now. Also: ...