I would say in a sandbox game like Factorio, there is no cheating. No ladder, no competition, ect. There seems to be a bit of competition in speedrunning, but it also seems to be a pretty small community of players, with very few (or none) that are "new" players. If using other's blueprints enriches...

The collective noun for cockroaches is an "intrusion".
I think it fits well.

An intrusion of biters.

Thanks for the comment! Yes, you only need raw ores. The inputs are marked on the left side of the bus with combinators. 1 Red belt Coal 1 Red belt Stone 7 Iron Ore 7 Copper Ore 1 line Water (as long as under 200 pipe segments between pumps, which is a pretty long distance. Four stacks of undergroun...

For whatever its worth, updating to .18 seems to have unstuck all the stuck colonies in my save.
I fire artillery, bugs group up, then attack as normal as far as I can see. I'm no longer having any issues. (I think)

My advice is keep your Steam game as is, and DL the standalone version from the website. Make sure to backup your blueprint library (blueprint-storage.dat in the game files) if you plan to switch back to a older version. Not sure if still required, but better safe then sorry, if you care for those....

Can I easily switch back and forth between versions through steam? I want to check out some of the changes, but also what to continue with a modded save.

As requested by a steam forum user, here is my "bootstrap" science production. All seven sciences are self contained, just pump in the raw materials! 68 SPM.jpg The blueprint book contains all the components broken down into separate blueprints as well as the whole thing as one unit, like the screen...

At least a prompt for deleting a blueprint or book from a quickbar shortcut. It is not obvious what will happen from the quickbar.

I've had stuck colonies for tens of hours now, maybe 50-80 hours plus. They don't de-spawn. Those stuck colonies don't even send pollution attacks. They are in the pollution cloud. Some screens: 1. Colony within the pollution cloud with bad attack chunk overlay on (not that I know what that does/mea...

Is there any way to reset the "bad-attack-chunks"? This bug seems to be quite contagious indeed! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1963768594 This is a different map then the previous save I posted. I don't know but, I think the confusion started when I started firing nukes and ...

4 Roboports will fit within the span of 6 power poles. 2 Radars will fit within the span of 6 Roboports 0eNqdVu1ugjAUfZf7uxguULC8yrIsoI1pooUUXGYI777CsunwVmj/mFTOPZwPvekA9fkqW6N0D+UA6tDoDsq3ATp10tV5+q6/tRJKUL28AANdXaaTaeqmbUwPIwOlj/ILShzfGUjdq17JH475cPvQ10stjQU8TzNom84ONHp600SSiR1ncIMywh0fR/bEkvyx1Oo...

I seem to be having the same problem. The turret outposts on the far east side are attracting biters as they should be, but the northwest turret outpost, the most west, and the most southerly turrets seem to have "tainted" all the biters and nests in those areas. None of the biters or spitters will ...

Kinda be like Factorio style Flavor Flav!

If you are just trying to avoid power poles getting destroyed, then don't even bother with the laser turrets. If you are bringing in a train anyways, just fill it with raw oil, ammo, and wood (or coal), and use flame throwers with gun turrets fed with burner inserters. Then you only have to power th...

You can set your tooltips to "never" to avoid the blueprint crashes for now.

Easy reproduction: Open blueprint library. Hover over blueprint book that is in the library. I get the same behavior. It seems to happen when showing the tooltip, since if you have tooltip delay, you can briefly mouse over the blueprint without it crashing. This also happens when a library blueprin...

Same, just mousing over blueprint book causing crash at any location. (quickbar, inventory, blueprint menu)

And my "final" kovazex. Pros/Cons Features: -On demand production -30 U235/minute at full production -308 U238/minute (minus 70 using kovarex processing) -Just add ore -Set it and forget it. No babysitting, completely automatic self priming and auto start-restart. -Easy introduction of already proce...

@disentius. Wow really nice! I fired 'er up for a test run, and your design performed great. It was really easy to tile on some more primary uranium processing units on the right for quicker production/priming. The only issue i found was, after U235 belts are totally saturated, if you are using ONLY...

Question: The pipes are part of a different build, right? They are, sort of. They actually provide acid for the uranium miners. That (uranium) production row was spliced out of my big end-game military block. I posted a screenshot of part it in this thread (everything is produced from raw material)...