While not specifically what was asked for, I like https://factoriocheatsheet.com/

Reminds me of the years old thread here, asking the question how much energy can you get from a blue belt of coal.

Nice to see that the answer has not changed (solid fuel is best in terms of energy gains).

The train starts at Refinery station, automatically moves to Oil Wells, loads up with crude oil, and then runs back to Refinery, without issue to that point? Would definitely need screenshots; of the layout, of the Refinery station (whatever you call the unloading station for this particular train),...

Work on the expansion is still the top priority for the team, and controller support is no easy task, so if it comes to Factorio, expect it much later this year. "Sometime this year" is a reasonable deduction from the above snippet. And given controller support would take time for develop...

Honestly, that internal buffer is NOT something to worry about. It is the belt’s throughput that is the concern here. And that yellow belt can only move 15 items/sec. It takes 48 stone furnaces to turn a full yellow belt of iron/copper ore into a full yellow belt of iron/copper plate. If you have th...

My solution would be trains.

If one train is supplying the “starter” defense port, that train can also be sent to other defense ports as needed, just by using rail (and its accompanying stuff, signals and stops etc).

IMO, never tear something down until its replacement is up and running. You are limited to what has already been produced (and I hat you hand craft) if you tear a production facility/line down before building its replacement. On the other hand, if you build the replacement first, hook it up (and dis...

Minimum frequency for resources, but I like to bump their size and richness up; I want a few good patches rather than a lot of lesser patches. I always bump both water settings to the maximum. I leave biter expansion on (which is turned off by railworld default) but TBH I don’t find them much of a t...

Nuclear is only scary until you dive into the numbers and start building it… I understand why you chose to do the 3x3 reactor setup, to best demonstrate the SRE diagramming. I just hope others realize that 1040 MW is not the highest amount of heat possible to be generated from 8 reactors being autom...

Always expect an ARM to go up. (That’s what Adjustable Rate Mortgages do, eventually.)

Controller support for Steam Deck strikes me as one more hurdle removed for having this game appear on Playstation or Xbox consoles.

Flamethrower Towers are deadly enough with Crude Oil, that I find it wasteful to use Light Oil on them. Go for it if you want to through. But you are missing out on petroleum and heavy oil that way. It's wasteful to run crude on them, since crude could be reprocessed into something more useful. :D ...

Flamethrower Towers are deadly enough with Crude Oil, that I find it wasteful to use Light Oil on them. Go for it if you want to through.

Or remove the Coal from the Furnace so the Inserter can have some place to deposit the Coal it has in hand.

Personally, having run into that issue multiple times myself, I make it a habit to insert half stacks rather than full stacks when using furnace columns to drop off excess coal or smeltables.

You can read a train’s ID at the station. Use that. Connect both stations to global circuit network (or at least get the two wired up together). Station A : Read Train ID. When Train ID < 1, then output A = 1. Station B : Read Train ID. When Train ID < 1, then output B = 1. Trains : At Station A, wa...

That’s why I said they can only decrease complexity for specific applications. There are many things that can be done (just look at the Combinator Creations part of these boards!) that these things will not affect at all. And there are plenty of things that they will make somewhat simpler, but an in...

I get the sense that there is one thing in particular that could be made as a circuit network device. Its commonly suggested as an answer to some problems .. A SR Latch. Sends a signal out when an input signal drops below some configurable amount, and stops sending that signal out when the input sig...

I use garbage trains when I use the Concreep mod, to pick up the stone, coal, and wood that automatically get picked up to place the concrete. That train is basically a reverse builder train, where anything in a pickup station sets the limit to 1. The train then automatically returns to its offload ...

There is still a potential use for enable/disable stations. It just involves having exactly one train trying to service stations, with either multiple loading stations and exactly one unloading station (such as a train that goes to stations to pick up extra stuff such as wood/stone/coal, or deconstr...

Ideally you use a belt balancer before the loading station, and after the unloading station. This is to try to supply, or draw from, each cargo wagon chest set evenly, ideally resulting in even loading and unloading of the train. Also, this assumes you are using homogeneous loads (all iron ore, all ...