That sounds reasonable, but the edge case is making me hesitate. What happens if the center of a tile is outside the reach but the nearest corner of that tile is inside the reach? If the game rules state that such a tile is within reach, I don't just need to know what tile it is, I also need to know...

Working on a mod that will spray tiles (e.g. stone-path) around the player, bounded by the player's reach and what's available in the player's inventory, very similar to placing tiles in the core game, just automated. I got set_tiles working fine, but it doesn't care about the player's reach. How co...

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Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:59 am

Amazing! Did you consider using bots? A TAS blueprinting could be very efficient.

Thanks! I did consider bots. I think there may be potential, but ultimately I decided against it because the TAS mitigates some of the key benefits of bots. The mod has a FAQ which explains my rationale.

Zulan wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 27, 2020 9:00 am

Great job! Do you have any idea how much time you spent on the preparation?

Thank you I did not pre-design the layout, it grew organically. I spent about 50 hours throughout the process figuring out scale, ratios, and testing various builds for the various pieces.

I made a tool-assisted speedrun in the Any% category for 0.18. Goes from nothing to rocket in 1:21:20 on a pre-selected map using base rules. You can check out the video here: https://youtu.be/qYIplmAQcWU The mod portal page here: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/AnyPctTAS The reddit discussion here: h...

Please also consider adjusting mining speeds. Otherwise we'll need a bunch more miners (before prod bonuses) to fill belts. as V453000 said in this post 30 miners to fill yellow belt is quite nice. Eh I'm cool with it. It means new belt speeds will improve consumption, not production, which would k...

As the smelting recipe change, I am proposing the following: - Iron plate, copper plate, stone brick: 3.2 - Steel: 16 That would mean exactly 48 stone furnaces per yellow belt, which is the number that people already build, but some of the last ones flicker with inactivity in 0.16, now all of them ...

I really like seeing the care and thought the devs bring to these kinds of topics and decisions. One thing that jumped out to me as out of balance was the amount of steel needed for Production science. It's not at all on par with the 30 copper cable needed for high-tech science in 0.16, not even clo...

This is incredible, thank you so much for sharing! Did you program every action directly or did you have some kind of script that helped generate part of the syntax? You also seemed a bit confused about my version of the mod, and the version by yournamehere: We are not the same person :P I forked t...

Video link: https://youtu.be/9F8PI_VYdV8 World's first Factorio any% tool-assisted speed-run (TAS). Inspired by AntiElitz, Rain9441, TAS mods by YourNameHere/Bilka and the steelaxe% TAS run by Xpert85, this vanilla single-player speed run goes from nothing to satellite launch in 2:05:31. This beats ...