… The rendering cost and simulation cost to them is miniscule, and if it actually matters to your computer it might not be suited for Factorio in general. For my PC, the high load is not a problem. But for my nerves, it is a serious problem, waiting for the drones to bother to build what I need. It...

Some people would argue that this is part of the challenge of dealing with belts and inserters.

I'd be one of those people. Lane selection would trivialise part of the fun of the design process.

Depending on your target SPM, double the production, then double it again!

*shrugs*

Stupid question, but what is the advantage to naiive system like follows: - Trains have schedule "pickup -> depot -> delivery -> depot" - Delivery and Pickup set their own train limit to 0 if they cant supply / have enough, otherwise it is 1 Train limits didn't exist back in 2019/2020 whe...

I logged the same thing a long time ago (can't find the original post), and apparently it's too much of a performance hit to auto-sort the Spidertron inventory.

I haven't used it myself, but this might help: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/FARL

However, I suggest you still learn how the rail system works first. You can probably still make a "bad" rail network with this mod, as I believe that you need to design the blueprints that FARL will put down.

If you put a splitter either before (and/)or after the double-splitter in the middle, you will at least get some mixture between the two sides. And I assume the yellow belts will be updated to red...

Green and especially blue science takes a god-awful amount of time to produce, especially at a small scale. And modules don't help much. Then increase the scale. That's the core challenge of this game :) Also judging by the screenshots (fix:) purple and yellow science (as we know them today) are go...

This might give you some inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM5yo95 ... oo6-07kaJk

You may or not may not be aware of the debug feature (<F4> by default) that can enable the map grid-lines. The dark grid-lines are the "chunks" (32 x 32 squares), so one approach is if you make all your blueprints to take up and fit in full chunks (1x1, 1x2, 1x3, 2x2, etc), then you know c...

Dial-up wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 06, 2024 12:56 am

why in the 4th iteration there are inserters in the member list?

Probably because they are holding items in their hand.

AileTheAlien wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:05 pm

I actually don't even understand why barrels are in the game - they do the same thing as fluid-wagons or pipes and they're also overpowered.

Bots can't move fluids but they can move barrels.

While I can see the merit of your suggestion, there are plenty of times one wishes to saturate an area with roboports (eg, around an unload station) and not being able to "tile" them would be annoying. Given roboports are regular placeable items - like assembly machines, furnaces - I think...

I'm not sure what you mean about the inactivity. Artillery wagons on an automated train will only operate from when the train arrives at a stop until the wait conditions in the schedule allow it to leave. The fact a train may not move away from a stop when the wait conditions are met (eg because it...

Maybe I'll make a shameless plug and reshare my idea for an improvement to roboports.

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Fortunately, I did a search and found this issue before I reported it again! In my case, I had a Mk3 assembler ghost with 4 level 1 speed mods. I downgraded to a Mk2 and the 2 speed modules were delivered (after I hand-crafted them), and the module request icon remains. This is really confusing. 202...

Do you mean this color picker? Or do you mean as a game startup option?

What about high-speed-tunnels (or -bridges) designed to traverse very long distances? They would ignore trees, cliffs, buildings, intersecting regular rails etc. and trains could reach a higher max velocity. As a trade-off, no train stops could be placed in them and you couldn't enter or get off a ...

Alt-mode could be extended to allow the player to choose what to include/exclude, like the mini-map options.