FactorioBot wrote: ↑

Mon May 02, 2022 1:48 pm

• Fixed that cliff deconstruction wasn't issued when the corrected cliff collision box overlapped with ghost entities. (66400)

At last! This has been a recurring irritation, for ages now the only obvious bug in normal vanilla gameplay.

Making, using and tweaking your own blueprints is a core part of Factorio gameplay. Being inspired by other people's blueprints, and learning from them new ways of solving problems or optimising production, is a core part of the Factorio online community experience. Using other people's blueprints w...

Mostly default; it's a well-balanced game. Just two tweaks:- Research queue always on; this should be a UI setting, not an advanced(!) gameplay setting. Starting area size turned up to 150% or 200%; being swarmed by biters when you've only been going for 20 minutes and don't yet have any defensive t...

Tallywort wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:30 am

How is the system we're looking at non-ergodic?

I fear you are taking my tongue-in-cheek comment more seriously than intended.

The assumption of ergodicity is entirely reasonable. Major mathematical kudos if you can actually prove it ...

Tallywort wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:17 am

I wonder how those test results stack up if you take into account that you could run that 100 lane test 6 times longer than the 500 lane one.

This assumes that Factorio is ergodic.

Isn´t heav oil more effective then light oil even if the damge would be same? Because you nee less crude oil for it? Yes, heavy oil gives the best damage per real cost. The main downside is that it is produced in a (comparatively small) steady stream, but consumed in occasional tank loads whenever ...

escfoe2 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 30, 2021 1:58 am

I've made one here: https://factorioprints.com/view/-Ms80Wm07C0K7wvNXTe8

Just requires the Miniloader Mod

You might want to look at the much more recent and extended discussion in this thread. No mods required.

quyxkh wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 05, 2021 2:18 pm

Oh, you sweet summer child.

I think these are much more impressive. The any% runs use such rich and dense resources, and such large starting areas, that there isn't really much to learn from them for normal gameplay.

Nice... you describe it as "inspired by" so not a criticism but it would be closer to The Magic Roundabout if you removed the central circle, so the rounded square becomes the innermost part (which trains travel around in the opposite direction). Yes, when I did this I was under the impre...

I'm surprised no-one has yet mentioned The Sorcerer's Apprentice (mouse optional).

Prompted by the post on unloved junctions , here is a Factorio rail junction inspired by a real-world road junction that is not merely unloved, but actively feared and hated: the notorious magic roundabout . MagicRoundabout.png 0eNqlnetuFEkShV9l1b/dKDMj8sY77BOsRisDrRlLYJAxo0Uj3n1t6K6GdhT+TvnfwNiHqLh...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 11, 2021 1:13 pm

The simplest solution is: Produce more green circuits.

In fact, just produce more of everything. The factory grows ...

How do you want to select the tiles that are below other entities? How do you want to exclude them from being upgraded? Or not upgraded? What makes stone brick better for all kind of vehicles? This objection applies equally to all upgrades. If you don't want an upgrade applied to a particular tile,...

mrvn wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:20 am

All that realism with correct units and honoring the start and end temp and then they ignore that a ton of energy in making steam is evaporating it.

Yes, indeed most of it. In the real world the main point of high-temperature steam is its higher pressure, not its greater heat content.

Pre-Kovarex a large stockpile of surplus U238 will have accumulated, and that stockpile is unlikely to be used up during the startup. So it's a pretty safe bet that the U238 output will be fully backed up while it needs to be. That really depends on where that output belt leads. At the start for ex...

the number from OP the 10/0.97 seem to fit everywhere means that it must be the correct number, but it doesn't look like a number someone would have deliberatly choosen over 103 if not for a particular reason. The factor of 0.97 turns up naturally (and annoyingly) in Factorio nuclear power plant de...

Then I feel the priorities are wrong. You prioritize the output belt which allows the dark uranium to be drained from the belt loop. Sure more is coming in but the bootstrap not-overfilling only works when the dark uranium is backed up. Same for light uranium actually. Shouldn't overfilling take pr...

And here's exactly the opposite approach: once the output U235 is backed up, the excess is directed back to overfill the centrifuges deliberately. (Yes, the belt braiding could probably be simplified.) uraniumProcessing3.png I think you messed up a belt. One of the undergorund belts isn't connected...

Here is a variation of the magic inserter design: ... for startup all light uranium passes to every centrifuge but once output happens each centrifuge only recycles it's own output. And here's exactly the opposite approach: once the output U235 is backed up, the excess is directed back to overfill ...

[*] For my particular version, I find that the first three centrifuges have minimal overfills (occasionally a few more for the third), but the fourth gradually accumulates to the usual maximum. I think this is because you use blue inserters which can transfer at most 3 pieces in one swing. But over...