I for one don't know why one would ever want to stop the entire factory while playing. I find difficult not to be outrun by time based biter evolution (on standard settings) to the extent that I have a second installation of Factorio just to take my time designing factory parts without the time tic...

And for 1.1 :

Yeah, and I'm getting the impression that testing (whether automated or not) as a specialized job seems to be currently booming as a profession ? (I'm currently helping someone that hasn't "seriously" used a desktop in years to get "back into it" as she is taking courses to becom...

You *should* see them on the map - what are your game settings and how many chunks out have you explored ?

Also, Fantario would be somewhere between IR2 and (non-seablock) AB, I guess ?

5-dim [...] seem like WIP and aren't quite entertaining enough yet for me to give them a score.

Heh, wasn't 5Dim literally the first modpack around, predating even the mod portal ?

You have to be careful to not to put in too many of them - or the whole system will lock up ! For simple 2-machine setups I use a rule of thumb of "two items worth of production for the main building, one worth for the recycler". (However, sometimes I still find my cooling towers to lock u...

WIIRUF doesn't pick it up for some reason.

Well, it does - it's just indeed that you have to think about looking at the barrel recipe directly...

(Also why looking at the tech details can be useful !)

Forget about the "computer" there is no current way to make something with logical elements in it other than the building interacting with signals. There is only so much that can be done with the API. The usual ugly, space-consuming, two-colored logical network seems to be the only way to...

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Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:22 pm

Bugfixes

• Fixed that items with fuel value would be put into furnace fuel inventory when there was enough fuel but item could be smelted. (99924)

Ah, happy to see this longstanding annoyance to be gone finally !

I assume that admins that abuse their ban powers will end up getting put themselves by Wube on this "recommendation to ban" list ?

I should have said "almost".
Still, turning 100 cold coke oven gas into 95 hot coke oven gas is a massive boost.
Now just need to find a good way to replace the lost power from not burning that gas (and converting that coal), lol !

How do you get Helmod to show power output, by the way? I've not yet encountered that feature. Use the "Select energy" button. (Looks like an IRL atomic plant's cooling tower.) Thing is, coal dust is a byproduct of making hot coke oven gas from coal... well until the Heat Exchanger, which...

As you can see, I'm not. In my case at least, the coke versions of combustion mixtures are quite inefficient : https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=538403#p538403 (Especially after unlocking coke oven gas ?) (I kind of forgot about the biomass ones as I hadn't researched composting at that po...

Landscape-hugging FTW ! Lol, and I'm mid-green science, and still on a "single" Destructive Distillation Column ! Screenshot from 2021-07-24 12-27-09.png (Using (non-)pY Pollution & Energy.) BTW, why not syngas with oxygen ? EDIT : you are, but it's very hard to see on that screenshot,...

Not an outrageous amount : IIRC mk1 with drilling fluid 1 took me like a quarter of an hour to drill for natgas with 1 of every building ?

Also : potentially an exploit : natural gas derrick doesn't (directly) pollute, so biters ignore it !
(Though this should be in this thread I guess ?)

In the already mentioned Picker Inventory Tools, auto-limiting :
- wooden chests to 1 stack
- iron chests to either 2, 5, or 10 stacks (I like 10 stacks for 100 barrels.)

Pretty much the opposite from the Lazy Bastard achievement, while still keeping full control (unlike with HandyHands). https://mods-data.factorio.com/assets/521e18c38734c96edd9b733dd4fa8aac72545b68.png HotCraft (directly handcraft items by hotkey) Directly handcraft items from your inventory or tool...

Also here, on IGN's video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVGH-G_Y_sc&t=53s

The Mechanized Assault & Exploration (M.A.X.) games (1 : 1996 and 2 : 1998) could potentially have been an inspiration : in them you have to mine metals, oil and gold, and then all of these resources, including fuel and ammo need to be physically transported to their destination via units with c...