The artillery is weird. It doesn't lob. It just shoots straight across and hits anything in the way like a tree or a bug which wastes the ammo if you want a nest. I assume you mean the tank cannon, rather than the actual heavy artillery. Yes, it's a direct fire weapon. So (mostly) are real tank gun...

The point to me is that lubricant is literally the only thing in the entire game that requires you to provide extra space for whatever side product you're forced to make. Perhaps the only thing in the infinite game (i.e. when you have all non-infinite tech), but in the midgame (before uranium-tippe...

Whenever I go for more Oil, I usually dont think of how much I can get off the Oil Spots, because in the end it is always the same 2 Oil per second (yes they can spawn with lower but when does that ever happen apart from starting areas). It's the other way round: 2/s is the minimum, not the maximum...

In my games I basically never build lights Me neither; do without until you get night-vision, problem solved. Until that point, what actually irritates me most is that the headlights of the car and tank are noticeably less powerful than the miner's lamp on the players helmet. Sometimes I'm reduced ...

There is a simple circuit trick that can be played with belts and that I have found useful for a number of different jobs. I've not noticed it discussed anywhere here (but doubtless will now be pointed to a large number of previous posts). I call it a 'sparse belt'. It's just a line of several belts...

Why become bluer at night when things get redder as the sun goes down? Direct sunlight gets redder as the sun is going down; but once the sun has gone down, the remaining twilight illumination is via the sky, and is, yes, blue. Later again, there's just starlight (and moonlight, if Nauvis has a moo...

In the attached save, the hovering conbot can't place the rail, since the cliff immediately to the left is blocking it. But the cliff didn't get marked for removal when placing the track ghost (and still doesn't if I repeat the ghost placement). This seems to be exactly the opposite problem from top...

I'm just wondering why the chemical science is listed first in the crafting menu, but military science is listed first when doing the research queues. All the other science packs seem to be listed in the same order across the board. It's a historical artefact. Until quite recently, red, green and b...

Did I miss energy production? People often say, 100spm but how much power it consumes? As I said, it consumes a shade under 1.2 GW of power which is produced by this: reactor16.png (Blueprint: reactor16.txt ) I notice based on the screenshot the speed modules seem to be tier 1. Is that just a pecul...

I think of this as my 'intermediate' or '2nd generation' science factory, with 200 spm (i.e. 1 rocket every 5 minutes) being a natural halfway step between a 30 to 45 spm bootstrap factory and a full-blown 1000+ spm megabase. It all fits in 5 chunks square, including smelters and refinery. Iron ore,...

I assumed you both posted the one from %APPDATA%\Factorio, not the one from Steam's local Cloud cache. Bullseye! I hadn't realised there were two versions (how does Factorio itself choose which to use?). The current player-data file in my Steam cache is correct, but a backup from just before the 0....

Open folder where you Steam client installed (e.g C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam), open userdata subfolder and search for player-data.json in it (it should be in userdata\########\427520\remote\player-data.json) and see what version is saved in that. Both Allaizn and I posted our player-data.json fil...

This has gone away for me (at least for now).

The upgrade to 0.17.71 seems to have been correctly registered in the required place, wherever that is (evidently not player-data.json), and Factorio no longer thinks that the last time I played it was still 0.17.60.

Note that for the same job an assember3 will give off less pollution than an assembler1, even granted it uses more kW per minute, it will operate less than half the time... ... and on top of that, you can put in a couple of efficiency-1 modules. Similarly a Fast inserter only uses 20% more power th...

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Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:47 pm

Do you use the [Exit] button in the main menu or Alt+F4 to close the game when you're done playing?

Usually the button, since I would normally quit immediately after saving, and so already be in the menu; I might use Command-Q if I were in a hurry.

Same happens to me when new release happens and then i am trying to crash factorio. If it crashes, next time running factorio will again show me changelog. Maybe related? No, this doesn't have anything to do with crashes. I can't remember the last time Factorio crashed for me. Could you post your p...

I've just returned to playing Factorio after a couple of months gap. Naturally, the first time I started the game after the gap I was informed about a whole bunch of updates (from 0.17.61 to 0.17.69); I clicked 'Confirm' to acknowledge them. That should have been a 'one-off', but now whenever I star...

- Different default order for temp stops. [...] - Shift-click blueprint should landfill if needed just as it removes cliffs - A way to place a blueprint *without* deleting cliffs (and landfill, if suggestion above implemented) would be great for placing defensive structures while using natural feat...

It seems to depend on the precise relative timing of the two streams of items; in a quick test I got a complete exchange instead. splitter.png I suspect that you can't straightforwardly get the output you expect and simultaneously preserve full compression of the belt (unless the two inputs happen t...

As a general rule of thumb, the circuit network interacts with distribution and storage rather than with production. You can't use it directly to control the operation of mines, smelters or assemblers. The usual way of turning these off is simply by allowing their output to back up. Expect to have m...