Q: What can you do on water? Not the shoreline, but deep water chunks? A: You can remove it with landfill. How about adding more things to do on water? Some ideas: 1. Aquatic biters 2. Trenching 3. Bridges 4. Offshore drilling and mining 5. Items that can be built directly on water like the big elec...

Do you have any idea why that board costs as much as it does? Mostly because of the Z590 chip. Do you know why Z590 boards are expensive? Mostly because they provide up to 24 lanes of PCIe bandwidth. Your CPU also provides 20 lanes all by itself. We can see you are using a whopping 4 lanes with your...

Ever wanted a train with 1780 fluid wagons? No? Well, if you did for some odd reason, here is one way. There are 25 stops, each stop is accompanied by an s-curve. 1780-1.png Aligning the pumps proved impossible. I had to mod the pump to get it to work: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/fluid-wagon-curve...

Nice! Worked like a charm. Thank you!

I also thought about modding the mod.. I found some info about control.lua and on_init or on_configuration_changed, but don't know what to try. If I use on_init and remove and re-add the mod, will it run? Also, where do you say "on_init"? This is the code snippet I wanted to try: for _, fo...

Here is a link to the mod in question.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/burner-pump

This is what I get when I try to fix. I don't want to disable achievements. 2021-11-14 12:50:17 [WARNING] Player <server> tried using the command "game.player.force.technologies['fluid-handling'].researched=false". 2021-11-14 12:50:17 [WARNING] Using Lua console commands will disable achie...

I downloaded a burner pump mod and added it to an existing game. The item is researched with fluid handling. I have already researched fluid handling and the item is not unlocked unless I start a new game. My question is, is there a way for me to unlock the burner pump without starting a new game or...

Here I stamped BP and removed extra switches.

Trains are definitely the way to go. When you're dealing with a low power situation you need things that work without power such as fluids and train stops ms.png The master switch combinator controls the remote power switch and turns on the light wirelessly. 0eNq9Vk2PmzAQ/SuVz7DC4SMJUnvZc0/dWxUhA5PE...

It bugged me, so fixed it. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/smg-require-pistol EDIT: I also made a few additional mods to address what I feel are under-utilized items or items made obsolete by other items. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/car-require-smg https://mods.factorio.com/mod/steel-chest-require-i...

Pistols.. In vanilla, pistols have a recipe for both manual and assembler crafting. But I can't think of a single scenario where either would be used. Every time the player respawns, they get a pistol. How would you ever actually really need to build another? If you drop it on accident? What about t...

At least the game already supports more than one player / force. So those components are in place already. Just need to make a distinction between AI and human player and then script the AI.

Course, I'm no programmer so have no idea how hard that would be.

Would be nice to select a number of computer players as either allies or enemies.

If you make it very small you might want to tweak stone so you don't wind up getting stuck with no landfill

I've played with the map generator myself a bit a while back trying to get more circular islands with clusters of them close together and bigger gaps between clusters. And much more shallow water so you walk across water between island that are less than 10-20 tiles apart. You have to define your o...

Sorry I went backwards on that last post.

"terrain_segmentation": 0.7,
"water": 20,

May be closer to what you want. Heres a comparison

0.7 - 20 0.2 - 20

Hmm.. You might need to explore a bit. What I call islands you might call continents. "terrain_segmentation": 0.2, "water": 20, Might make the shores closer to the starting area. EDIT: Actually this makes it further The islands follow the same awful swamp pattern you see when you...

If you've played with the map gen sliders you probably realize it is hard to get repeating isolated islands. But you can go beyond the GUI water scale sliders with the command line. To make a new save file with mostly isolated large islands, try this method: Edit Data\map-gen-settings.example.json U...

Curious.. Could the new 3D artist position hint to a first person mode?