Man, great fast intro to mod on those screenshots. Good job, sir \\('_' )

Smart chest... I'd love to be able to do on smart chest that cargo wagon/toolbelt thing, where you reserve one spot for exactly one item

if you want, you can send me Theocrafting also as pdf or per pm ... so i can patch the parts to a book if you want ... like >example<
and of course link this to first page (but this means not much more read)

After I'll finish all parts I'm gonna to send you it again in another file. For now I'm ...

Theorycrafting Saturday
Part 3.1 In-depth Profits From War part 1

I counted beacons hitting only 1 building each, so in more clever designs you can get even better results.
I used 1 beacon per Crusher, 2 beacons per PFW Factory and 2 beacons per Trade Node
Modules with 40% energy reduction are ...

10^2 + 13^2 = 269
Why those numbers? Because it's good idea to have 13 boilers for each 10 steam engines.

Thank you fellow Factorio makers!

And randomness - see the threads about generating maps (cause maps are pure random in Factorio and that is the problem with them) - doesn't guarantee a good game-play, sometimes the opposite is the case!

I played on like 6 different generation settings and another 6 times with like resource ...

TY ssilk, those are good suggestions. But as I said, reason of this post is not to suggest features, but general element of game that I think is not used much. That was the reason I wanted to make another post about it.

Strange, I don't have this error even with wrong file name
If it's not working for someone else also, I'll reupload it.

So at current stage there is not a lot of randomness in-game.
It could be said that it's development choice, and I'm not saying it's wrong idea.
I'm looking forward to new rockets system (*_* )

My opinion about game:
But the problem is, that Factorio does not have a great replay value.
(Mods are ...

If it's possible I'd like to have option of choosing output temperature for fluid recpies.
For example: recipe that takes 20 water and 1 coal and outputs 20 water with set temperature of 100.

I saw modders solution, which is accesing output fluid box in some fashion, but it's more expensive ...

Hm, about orginal problem. Solution already exists - there are like 3 different Boxing mods, that let you use belts much more efficient (but robots also) and they all have different drawbacks. In short: They are like oil barrels, but for items.

About solar power issue. Problem is not about how free ...

New version 1.0.1 added in main post.

I still haven't had a chance to test this out for balance but I really like it. It feels powerful but takes time to get running.

The only thing I don't like so far is the number of steps it takes to recycle boxes. Really, it seems like it would just increase the size of the recycling center ...

If you drain Mechanical Power too fast from GearBox it does not heat it up to 200 :(
For now I'm trying to count how much machines I can put so gearbox is working without temperature fail.
Edit:
Currently none of Mechanical Power recipes is efficient. At most I reached like 56% efficiency
Another ...

Help needed - Not sure if that's because of patch 11.22 or something, but GearBox is not working properly -.-
Edit: GearBox is working only if mechanical force is staying in it's output buffer -> If we use more force then Gearbox can produce it'll stop working.

Theorycrafting Saturday
Part 2 Energy production after Blue Science!
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Blue Science and Purple Science
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Power Setups:
Rensuir Turbine + Obnisk AM for a total of 121,5% efficiency

Possible Fuels:
Top tier "Simple v2.0" Reputation->Fuel Cell C - Very big energy gain, but very ...

your post reminds me to update my website
Can you link your website?

i suggest cimota->wood->gas->cimota cycle against the coal-oil-cycle.
What do you mean? I use Coal->Oil to make Solid Fuel, as it's very efficient.
Cimota->wood->gas->Cimota is very simple, but you need chemical plants(green ...

Theorycrafting Saturday
Part 1 Energy production before Blue Science!
I don't use modules/beacons in this part!
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No Science
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Power Setups:
Normal Boiler + YI Steam Generator for total of 52,5% efficiency

Possible Fuels:
Coal + Wood
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Red Science ...

What about making battery not refill anymore after it has charged to max once?