Lemme surround my base with a moat and solve the defense problem forever while i'm out there exploring space and getting infinite ressources ....


I think we can all agree that creating lakes on Nauvis is too broken but I think this idea has taken over the topic a bit.


In Aquilo you don't ...

tl;dr
Add transparency to the power/electricity warning icons when blinking is disabled.

Why?
So, I recently disabled the "Enable Warning Icons Blinking" setting because I was getting concerned about monitor burn in. Primarily on the quick-bar since that blinking icon is always in the exact ...

Yup - dozens of us! Once Construction Robots are unlocked I park my player-character in a circle of belts at 0,0.


That situations sound like it is solved by just not equipping or disabling the exoskeleton though, doesn't it?
Since my outline was specifically about the need to have the ...

I'd suggest simply adding the behavior of belt immunity to the Exoskeleton.
That way it could also be extended to the spidertron. Given its eight legs it doesn't usually get dragged off by belts but I've actually equipped my spidertron with belt immunity before because the belts caused the 'tron to ...

I like the idea. I've always hated building over ore patches for the same OCD reasons as everything being symmetrical.
Of course, you have to bite the bullet eventually since I know I'm not going to use the tiny patch that is square in the middle of my factory.

Especially since this mechanic ...

I hadn't considered using pumps to measure the output. So I based my design only on the idea of what design works continuously without ever triggering the "Fluid ingredient shortage". Mainly because all of the calculation tools I use expect the machines to run like that to produce their expected ...

You are definitely right that using legendary cryo plants is a waste.
But I think the actual speed limit seems to be 9.5.

I did a brute force setup in which I just checked how much I can push the speed with the condensation plant working continuously and this is what I found. I used a latch to ...

A tank makes no difference since the problem seems to be that the Condensation doesn't fill fast enough.
The tank here holds 12k steam. If I use pumps I can get the fluid content higher (around 20k) but that doesn't make the SC work continuously either.
I can get the same result by using pumps ...

I'm trying to design a megabase but I've run into somewhat of an issue on Vlucanus.
For all the water I need to handle my oil processing, the calculator shows that two legendary Cryoplants powered by a legendary beacon with legendary speed modules would be enough.
And I suppose in raw numbers it ...

I'm afraid the basic idea of faster trains has gotten a bit derailed (Ba dum tss) through discussions on infinite research, whether that is infinite breaking force upgrades or speed upgrades.

My general question was just basic faster trains.
To sum up a few potential ideas on what could be used for ...

1)One of the "problem" with trains is that they require "pathfinding" which from what i understand is a "costly-one-time-request-that-need-to-finish-in-less-than-16-ms" to the CPU and that scale with the complexity of the network


I don't think trains need to find the optimal path every frame ...

Have the devs ever stated that they didn't want to have faster trains in the base game?

Obviously there are mods abundant that can do this but given the suspicious lack of base game means to make the trains faster.
In 1.1 Factorio there used to be a number of things that you get early and never ...

TL;DR
Optionally read spoilage percentage (either min or max) from storage instead of item count.

What?
When a belt/container is hooked up to circuit network you usually get the item count.
I think it would be beneficial if you had the option to read spoilage percentage instead, returning ...

Vulcanus is the planet closest to the sun, thus providing the best solar panels of any planet.
Except, a single Chemical Plant making steam from calcite and acid is outperforming them all.
Solar panels feel completely wasted on Vulcanus given how trivial it is to make power from steam turbines ...

FactorioBot wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 5:55 pm [space-age] Container sizes increase with quality.

We actually got them... now we just need to convince the devs to give us longer underground connections for quality belts/pipes.

When using the "Ingredient of:" parameter in a Requester Chest it can set the filter to a fluid.

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Example Blueprint
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(This might be a feature request instead of a bug depending on the whether this is intentional or not)

When a Roboport is connected with a wire to read the logistic network content it correctly detects the Repair Pack sitting in its inventory.
But when a Construction Bot uses the Pack it ...

I'm surprised Aquilo, the cryogenic research planet, doesn't add some form of refrigeration or other preservation technology.

Amen.
I haven't been to Aquilo yet as I'm currently revamping a lot of my infrastructure with the new machines from Fulgora, Vulcanus and Gleba. From what I can tell with ...

Well, time for a correction!

I did some testing in a lab setting and as it turns out, all of the relevant Gleba recipes seem to a trash slot(s). This slot is shared with the actual output slot of the machine (e.g. Biochamber).
Inserters will not pick up "trash" items like spoilage but should they ...

So, another thing I discovered is the fun of deadlocking by accident.
I handfed Nutrients to one of my Biochambers since I had a ton in my inventory after cleaning a belt.
Well, turns out that an inserter was just trying to insert some Nutrients before I filled the Biochamber to the brim, causing ...