The problem with barrels is that you pay a double handling cost. Once to send them to your consumers, and then again for the return trip. They can theoretically let you build extremely flexible, non-linear setups with bots; but they don't scale because you're doubling your bots' flight time, as ment...

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Hello Factorio Team, I am an avid Factorio player with over 1200 hours logged on Steam, and currently, I am enjoying the game through a non-Steam install on Linux. Factorio has been a significant part of my gaming life, and I have spent years perfecting my city block and sector layouts. Initially, I...

The next thing to try is pictures.y . Your selection is 6 pixels past the bottom of the image file. It worked! Thank you! It's an honour to get a reply from the author of Recursive Blueprints, as well. The goal of one day creating my own self-replicating system is what keeps me playing this game. I...

Hey everyone, One of my favourite mods from 0.16 was this , so I've spent the last couple of hours trying to get it working for 1.1. I first encountered a couple of more minor errors which I was able to find answers for, but with the third one I've hit a wall. The error message I'm getting is:- Fail...

Hey everyone, I bought Factorio probably two weeks ago now and am really enjoying it. I've known about the game for years; I'm not sure why I never got it sooner. Anyway, there's this quote from an episode of new Doctor Who that has been in my head ever since I first found out about the Biters in th...