I like the idea of putting defenses on the path where the biters go... which means paying attention and being able to identify the paths used by the biters... Ah ha! Data! I <3 data! Show me the data! :lol: Wouldn't it be cool to have a mod that traced all the biter tracks through your base? A map v...

Yes. I do have a standard blueprint that I use for a starter base when I start a new game, and that starter base is small and easily demolished. Several times I have built a fairly large base, and wanted to demolish it, and decided it was easier to start over than take it down. I am actually current...

What did I do? I was creating a train, adding more cargo wagons to reach desired train size. I ran out of wagons in inventory, so the UI defaulted to placing ghosts. What happened? When I was done, that is the train was the desired length, I pressed "Q" expecting the ghost to go away, but it remaine...

On this day in 1948 the world was introduced to Marvin the Martian "Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!" And cue 3... 2... 1...

<Insert new atomic explosion gif here>

Now that is an earth-shattering kaboom. This makes me so happy Thank you!

exi123 wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 22, 2020 8:34 am

a bit more corporate?

Is that like a little bit pregnant?

Koub wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:52 pm

items that can hurt your UPS as your base grows into the mega-base range: belts and bots

afaik, bots are not an issue for UPS.

Sorry I missed the other part of the comment which was about needing a lot of power, which included beacons and bots.

I haven't actually got all my science converted yet, so I have yet to run any research with this new challenge. So far I have red and green, and I am working on blue. This will bring on the challenges of dealing with oil production and delivering liquid ingredients... the factory must grow!

I am using both filtering the cargo wagon slots and limiting the wagon size as needed.

For items with different amounts and different stack sizes, it gets to be more challenging. Green circuits aren't too bad, 2 stacks of iron at 100 per stack for every three stacks of cables at 200 per stack. But what about science packs for the research labs? Space science at 2000 per stack! Six oth...

When using trains to deliver direct to the factory, the train has to have the right ingredients for the factory. Now I could just add ingredients and leave whenever I run out of any of them, but (is my OCD showing) I am choosing to set the trains to have the exact amounts so that everything runs out...

Now a train station has be placed on a straight piece of track, and two side by side straight tracks are two spaces apart, so you can't use fast stack inserters. But there isn't anything to prevent the rest of the train being on a diagonal track, and diagonal tracks can be a single space apart. So I...

A recent post on reddit caught my eye with a comment about common items that can hurt your UPS as your base grows into the mega-base range: belts and bots. Now you have to have some means of moving items around, and for a large base that typically already means using trains to bring in raw materials...

I think you will need a latch - the wiki has a good description https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Circ ... ok#Latches of how to make this. Set the latch to turn on when items >= 50K, and to turn off when items <= 30K. Set the inserter to be enabled when the latch is set.

I set it to have two slots dedicated to the ammo. The problem is the inserter keeps inserting after the two slots are fully packed. Any slots that are not filtered are considered open and able to take anything, including more ammo. The rest of the wagon needs to be filtered so it only takes ore or ...

Welcome Steve I am sure you will find lots of ideas on factory building... because the factory must grow!

+1 this would be great

TL;DR Make the command to show UPS easier to find by changing the name of the command to "show FPS/UPS." What ? The name/description of the debug command to show UPS is "show FPS." Changing the tag to "show FPS/UPS" would correspond to what the command actually does. Why ? I spent half an hour or s...

I have no interest in PVP, and I really appreciate games like Factorio, where you can PVP but you don't have to. So please take the following as the view of one who has seen a lot of passionate PVP players (15 years in WoW), but isn't one. What I have seen, is that those who enjoy PVP, are passionat...

The rainbow bus is big enough now that I have given up trying to walk - I take the train from one end to the other...

It's been rather a long time but I was waiting for... uranium processing... to get enough U235... to start up a little nuclear reactor 8-) So I have combined uranium processing and kovarex because they have the same outputs (U238 and U235). I also combined producing fuel cells with reprocessing. And...