Actually, if you set up a test, where you take a Refinery (with 3 PM3’s), hook steam up to it, put an Assembly Machine to it set to Unbarrel Heavy Oil, and then put two Storage Tanks down directly fed by the Refinery to capture the Heavy Oil and Light Oil, and then give the Assembpy Machine 2 Barrel...

Coal Liquifaction takes 25 Heavy Oil in, and spits out 90. IF you keep the Heavy Oil input and output separate (which is not realistic because the process is your most readily available source of Heavy Oil for the next cycle) then it looks very strange, as the normal cycles spit out 90 Heavy Oil, 20...

Always figured fuel upgrading would be accomplished by feeding it better fuel as it consumed the (now obsolete) existing fuel, not by draining the existing fuel and replacing with better fuel.

22.5 fuel cells per second, times 200 seconds per cell per reactor, yields 4500 reactors. How you choose to array those reactors, how much power you withdraw from that power plant, is up to you. FWIW, 2xN is the optimal (vanilla) reactor layout. Every time you start a new 2xN instead of extending it...

That was a deliberate move, because the right side of the screen can be covered by a large enough logistics window. The lower left corner was not occupied by anything so the weapons window got moved there.

IIRC people used to add Py to the AngelBob pair, but that’s no longer possible. I’d say that Vanilla -> Krastorio 2 + Space Exploration -> Angel + Bob -> Py… There’s also Nullius to stick in there somewhere, but IDK where it belongs. BZ mods, as well. Personally, I’ve barely dbbled with Krastorio an...

If both sides of the belt are the same material, then mixing the sides is not a factor, so sideloading is a possibility. However, if the primary side of the belt is full, then the other side can be drawn upon. The only way to really avoid that is using underground’s. The one side gets in and the oth...

When i was implementing train stop limits i was aware it will not work nicely with enable/disable exactly because of that case but i kept it because it gives different behavior for controlling trains (allows trains to skip some schedule records instead of waiting). I guess i have enough of those is...

I tend to turn resources up a bit (maybe more, maybe less than Rail World size/richness), but I turn the frequency to the bare minimum of 17%. I’d love to be able to reduce that a bit personally, as I feel that resource patches are still a little too close together at that setting. I always max out ...

TBH once I reach a certain point I don’t bother saving wood, I just send it all for burning. For that I just use a couple boilers on their own power grid to power some useless, redundant radars. Does it matter that the wood only gets burnt in that large batch? Or is maintaining 1000 wood what’s real...

I suppose the biggest question I have is, why put it on the weakest dedicated game platform? I would have thought that with built in mouse/keyboard support that either of the other two big platforms, both of which are stronger and more capable platforms, would have made more sense to port to? Referr...

I’m not sure how it decides which bot gets which task, but I strongly doubt that it has anything to do with proximity.

This is why its best to have small discrete bot networks, as someone else mentioned above.

I think, and I could be wrong, that the roboport is not actually considered a chest type entity. So you cannot get the contents of that particular port.

You can get the bot network statistics, but I don’t even know if any Repair Packs in a port even count towards the logistics network contents.

Well, usually you have either slot locking on the chest (which you can do with cargo wagons, and you can filter the cargo wagon slot, something you cannot do with chests) OR you have a wire connecting the chest to the inserter. It takes 1 tick (1/60 of a second) for the signal to pass through a devi...

It’s deliberate because that bottom right corner can become filled with container inventory. Learn to live with it

I’m going to guess that the train’s schedule is A, B, C. With Enable/Disable, the train SKIPS whatever stations are disabled. So, regardless of what it was doing, it goes to C (the one that is Enabled) when you turn C on and A+B off. Assuming my guess is correct, it goes to A first because its the n...

While this does not address your concern, you might want to invest in flamethrower turrets as your primary defense keeping the lasers as the secondary line (to kill whatever gets past the flamethrowers). Or mix in regular turrets as those only get red ammo and not power.

Besides, copying a machine to a requestor has the requestor seek what, 30 seconds of ingredients? Nuclear fuel cell lasts 200 seconds. Would it even request anything if you could copy/paste it?

RNG is a factor. Frequency * Size * Richness = Resources available. So long as you come out to the same Resources amount, then in the game, the total Resources on the map should be the same. But, RNG is a huge caveat : Water overwrites ores. Placement is random. The map is HUGE, 2,000,000x2,000,000 ...

If you have one train servicing several resupply stations, you can safely use Enable/Disable on the resupply stations as long as the supply station you load the train at is always on. NEVER turn that supply station off. If you are using multiple trains to service those resupply stations, then do NOT...