I get what the aim is here with the 'Loader'; it allows a high throughput of items in/out of chests/wagons which may seem like a great idea. But honestly half the magic of Factorio is working with complex builds and designing things to be the 'most efficient' or balanced etc. As such I really think ...

This is the one I made a while back, hope that helps.
Blueprint String found here

what version is this from? I recently bought the game (in the last week or two) and I've got a free play game where I've done all the research but I don't have access to a few items mentioned in the wiki such as the combinator's or the personal roboport I am guessing you are running on version 0.11...

I am releasing the build I made for the sign that was seen in the megabase by Colonelwill on Twitch and in the Break the Game Episode 143 which is a Factorio Youtube series done by RootNegative. I decided to build this for two reasons: I wanted to learn combinators. When I started this I had never u...

I would like end game content more than graphical upgrades and somewhat silly little things. I think you're really missing the point here. A game development team consists of many members who take upon different tasks. For example you might have a few coders, sound engineer, graphical department an...

I'm happy to send my save in - I'd rather not have it public at the moment since it's my stream save. Should I send a private message with a DL link to your inbox?

Make a single clock that counts up to 60. This is done by connecting a constant combinator outputting a signal of one (I will call it "A" == 1) to the input of a decider. Then attach the output of the decider back to the input and set it to [When "A" < 60, output "A" (...

Use a simple clock that adds -1 to itself. When it reaches 3, a decider combinator sends the write signal. (Since there is a 3 combinator delay already built in) When it is less than 1, a decider combinator adds +1 to the clock. (Locking it at a floor of 0) Start the clock with +30 when you get the...

I am currently trying to use a read/write mechanism for my current build and need to implement a system in which a pulse is sent to 'read' then 30 ticks later the same pulse is sent to 'write'. Both of these signals are the same actual signal, just with different destinations, but I basically need t...

No, you can't run more than one signal through a test bank in 1 tick. But you can run 200 tests in 200 ticks over a single wire. 0.3 FPS is acceptable for slowly changing output. How would I achieve this? I don't really care if there's a delay of 0.3 FPS in the change. Do I have to add a counter to...

I am hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction in terms of creating a setup whereby I can make an alphabet for lamps that I can call on given an input signal. That makes no sense does it? Let me try to explain: I have a row of grids of lamps that are in a 5x7 shape with the int...

This is a simple and (hopefully) easy to implement feature that I believe should be in the base game. The ability to connect power to lamps through wiring. Why would this be needed? Let's take a look at the recently featured Dancing Girl build that was in the Friday Facts #103 . Really cool build an...

This is just a minor bug, but I thought it worthy of reporting anyway: If you have the interface open for a constant combinator (and possibly other types) and the game starts autosaving - it is still possible to add in signals to the combinator. However these do not 'save', so if you then reopen the...

If you want something a bit more compact you could go with this:

I'm not an expert on belt mechanics, so check it for compression etc!

Regarding the Steam release and a few things in the game - obviously you want to polish some things off (eg. the previously mentioned menu's etc) as this will overall help to present Factorio in the best possible way on Steam which is of course the idea. With this in mind might we see some changes t...

I replied to posila in PM but thought I might add it here for other peoples interest: The issue has actually been resolved as of 0.12.1 - I have no idea what fixed it I am afraid, I now get 60/60 FPS/UPS in my very large world. I have however just loaded a fresh world in 0.12.0 and the FPS/UPS was s...

Max threads at 8 already and Factorio is the focused application also. The reason I believe it to be a bug and not hardware or technical related is because it caps at exactly 40FPS/UPS - like the game is limiting it to that; not that something is slowing my hardware. Adding to this the game runs at ...

Hardware: Core i7 2600K @ 3.4Ghz 24GB DDR3 RAM Windows 7 Ultimate 250gb SSD + 4TB (2x2TB HDD) - Note factorio runs off the SSD Palit NVidia GTX770 4GB Gigabyte G1 Sniper M3 Motherboard The main screen runs off a Dual-Link DVI-D straight from the GFX card, the second screen also runs off the same car...

Repair packs can only be used whilst stationary, so if you are trying to repair something that is moving (a slow train for example) basically what is happening is; Character stop > Repair > Out of range > Character Move > Character Stop > Repair .... and so on. Since this is all done so quick it app...

I run Factorio on my main screen and use a second screen for web browsing etc. on the side. I am noticing that my FPS/UPS max randomly switches between 40 <--> 60 whenever I have this second screen plugged in, but stays at a constant 60/60 without the second screen. This occurs regardless of whether...