Barrels have their uses. I've used them in sushi belts and in long defended beltways, where just a little fluid is needed to be moved and letting a few barrels hitch a ride on a shared belt was easier squeezing in new pipe and widening the walls. They add flexibility. No reason to remove them at all.

Just FYI: the current pump is 11.4 megabytes across 222 sprite sheets. It's already insane with all of the directions and animations it has. Would it be possible to remove all of those variations and correct the connection issue by splitting the graphic into two pieces, and have the telescoping arm...

TL;DR Allow fluid wagons to work when part of the train is on a curved rail by changing the pump arm graphic. What ? https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=500666#p500666 The way it is now looks dang pretty, but pumps wont connect to fluid wagons when part of the train is on a curved rail due ...

Here is what a dev says would need to be done in the mod.

viewtopic.php?p=522078#p522078

Although I don't care much about the graphic. Could just remove the pump arm animation as long as it works!

best possible solution for this would be to change pump graphics to not have this overhanging arm for which a precise alignment is required to not look odd - in such case allowed alignment could be increased a lot. Couldn't the graphic itself be stretched to suit? It is supposed to be a hose anyway...

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Mods should be able to do that (change gfx and increase alignment tolerance to 1 when pumps would always connect).

Just curious if anyone knows if such a mod exists? How hard would it be to create for someone with zero modding experience you think?

Really I just want my pumps to "connect" to fluid wagons when the wagon and stop are separated by a curved rail. Also, would be nice if the spacing between cars in a train snapped to ideal distances at the moment a train stops at a train stop. Hopefully this will make loading and unloading less prob...

Also, you only need connect one tank to one pump to one fluid wagon. Using pipes will slow down the filling process. Multiple pumps are unnecessary as one pump will fill a tanker in 2 seconds. Normally I wouldn't use more than one. I was illustrating my confusion since I still thought there was an ...

Gotcha. Sad to hear though, the entire premise of this playthrough was to use extremely long trains.

Good thing there is an endless amount of land because looks like I'm going to wind up having stupid long bases. Which poses an awkward problem for my mining plans lol.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Can't get my train to load any liquids. Regular wagons load, but fluid ones dont.. Train is 20 locos - 120 wagons - 20 locos. Spent a while laying it all out and testing advancing wagons across loaders with multiple stops. This whole process is loaded with problems, but I found that using the inner ...

Oh sorry. Forgot to mention, the entire base is isolated. When it goes to sleep, all power is cut off. So, the only signals that can wake it up are ones that do not require power to update, such as from a train stop, belt, or tank. Which is why I read oil from tank to signal O which doesn't update w...

Blueprint attaches a copper wire between the 2 medium poles which needs to be removed.

Also forgot to connect lamp to adjacent combinator and set it to enable with M>0 and use color.

Also, the tank needs to have oil and power needs to be on momentarily so O signal can be updated to match oil signal.

I have a base which goes to sleep when it is not used. Sometimes biters attack after this happens. I set up a circuit to activate a power switch when a flamethrower uses oil. Then a timer to make it last more than a couple ticks. I think I've over complicated the thing. Anyone feel like taking a loo...

I was just searching forums on how to copy paste stops in schedule and came across this.

Manually updating a single stop in the schedule of many trains is annoying. I take it you cant copy paste without re-writing the whole schedule.

Shift right / left click on drag bar would be nice.

Just wanted to congratulate your team on the 1.0 release and to thank you for creating a game that I have enjoyed for many hours.

Awesome! Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Howdy, I have a set of labs and beacons wired to a power switch. I have an isolated accu and solar panel with a single lab that I use to detect when is a research happening. The goal is to power the beacons when they're needed and shut them off otherwise. I did this with a simple SR latch A<90,S A=1...

I don't like the oil changes. There are plenty of ways to balance basic oil. Working out how was part of the fun. What's next? Reduce the game to a $30.00 "I win" button? "New players aren't able to launch a rocket in their first sitting, by god someone do something!" I always wonder where the dumbi...

Could also be that there aren't enough bot spaces due to a lack of roboports. Each roboport can dock a max of what, 350 bots?

Well, you could create a massive blueprint of your map, right click / remove all entities in the BP except belts, splitters, and undergrounds, then create a deconstruction planner that whitelists all belts, splitters and undergrounds. Then use the decon planner over your whole base, and re-stamp the...