You're so damn crazy!
That's why I love you!!!

If I were a game developer I would code like you, have a website like yours, and brainstorm like you do!

You are my computer role model!

One icon looks like a melting plant, so I think we could expect alloys and new minerals. That's not very surprising, I think.
The other I don't know... some electro-thing to modify items?

disentius wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 2:07 pm For burst purposes, you want to empty the buffer faster than it fills.
One way to do that is this:
2021-03-30 16_06_22-Factorio 1.1.30.png

My input and output are connected, so it's not necessary, what isn't grabbed from inserters will simply run down the line

Bigger vanilla chests are not a thing, neither is excess production. The awnser lies in finding balance between supply and demand.

No chest will be big enough to utilize two output belts out from 1 input belt in a continuous matter. (example: making science pack production) With a second input ...

Actually, there is. If you have an irregular production, demand for specific component will vary greatly. Having a "buffer" allows to have a smaller factory that can satisfy the average demand without becoming supply constrained instead of requiring a bigger factory that need to satisfy peak ...

Hi,
should bigger chests (2x2, 3x3, 2x3) be a thing?
They would be useful to store excess production.
ATM this is what I do, but it is not beuatiful nor practical (let's not mention wagons).

This would be useful.
In alternative, a simple total power graph owuld be enough.
At the moment, we have only the top bars that are in rreal time, it's not possible to see the total consumption/production graph for different timeframes.
It would be useful to correctly dimension the power grid

In my experience, when I am in map mode, I almost always keep SHIFT pressed.
My pinky finger is aching...

TL;DR
When in map mode, entities should be always placed as ghosts even if you have the item in your inventory.

What ?
I did check this collection (https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=45635), but it looks like this is missing.

ATM, when you are in map mode, if you have an item in ...

Thanks!
You really were kind! <3

Hi
I have had this message in drafts for months but I never found the courage to post it. Maybe it's time to let it go...

It's been years since I started playing Factorio (20 june 2016, on Steam, to be precise).
I always really like the intuition I get about its development that I get from FFF.
I ...

I think that splitting a blue belt into 2 belts should not require blue belts anymore.

Otherwise I'm not sure what you expect. Yes, inserters take time to swing back and forth and any gap passing by in that time is lost. Using side loading belts as buffers can cover that time and keep your belt ...

Hi!
I post here instead of general discussion, because this post involves a link to a design I posted on reddit, but I'd like to hear from the "official community". :)

Maybe many of you already know this "effect" tht I call "the inserter effect" , but while designing this thing (https://www.reddit ...

It's not about inputs. They have put the cart before the horse, by defining pipe contents based on what the machine expects to be coming in, so you can't switch the recipe because the new recipe wants to redefine an input that is being defined by the existing recipe. The more I look at it, the ...

1. Total Power Capacity for the Grid.
Let's say I have 2x1 Nuclear plant with 28 turbines, 100 solar panels and 10 Steam Generators. It would be nice that on top of graph the value 175 MW would be displayed, to avoid remembering it constantly.

2. In the graph section, it would be nice to have a ...

Correct behaviour: When selecting 1 underground belt END with Upgrade planner (Alt + U and then click and drag), both ends are marked for upgrade.
Incorrect behaviour: When DESELECTING to cancel upgrade 1 underground belt END with Upgrade planner (Alt + U and then SHIFT + Click and drag) only that ...

Please ignore this topic. I forgot to attach the copper cable to the switch.

No input or output pipes are yet attached in the screenshot, there is only the left "pipe to ground" but there is no "ground to pipe" placed.
The upper chemical plants are correct (they are the source of copy), the lower four are the copied entities.

The lower Power switch lacks electricity animation, but does make the connection animation (the bridge attaching from left to right).
Steps to reproduce: unknown. I attach game save.

Hello.

When copying and pasting (default ctrl-c) if the copied entities are Chemical plants with their connecting pipes, it's not possible to change recipe of the chemical plant even if the pipes are still empty and not yet connected to the full pre-existent pipes.

In the screenshot you can see ...