I think last time I tried bioindustries ~7 months ago it required concrete for the normal rails … not sure when/whether they changed the recipe, or whether there was yet another mod interfering at the time.

The current recipe for rails in vanilla Factorio 0.17 has three ingredients: iron sticks, steel plates, and stone. See its description in the wiki here.
Which recipe for rails are you referring to? Why does it contain wood? Does that come from a mod?

Need I go on? No need. But especially those examples you picked out fluids backing up, fluid flow in long pipes being a problem, pumps helping in the latter situations are exactly things that need not be explained necessarily. By just looking at the problem and thinking about the logic of the game,...

OP does have a fair point in saying that the game does not explain that very well. Luckily the wiki does it in detail here

0.17.45 is no longer available. If you do not have that saved somewhere (I don't) I recommend downloading the newest versions of all the mods listed and then add the modpack specific files. If that doesn't work, then you can try to figure it out the errors yourself, or you can wait until Sopel upda...

You're doing great! Sounds like a very successful first game so far. My first game was horrible in comparison. No uranum processing, just a couple solar panels, mostly steam engines, repeated power problems. Incorrectly planned out main bus with more patches than structure. Heaps of spagghetti in be...

I was thinking about the presentation of the scenarios in Factorio, and comparing it to the campaigns. Currently, when selecting a campaign you see some artistic interpretation in form of a picture and a describing text. This is pretty neat. Scenarios on the other hand have only the scenario name to...

Currently there are only two different versions for Factorio: The current stable (0.17.74) and the current experimental (0.17.78). There is technically speaking still the last version of 0.16, which is 0.16.51. You want to be able to see servers running both versions of 0.17 from your 0.17 version, ...

Squeak Through is a mod:
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Squeak%20Through

It changes the collision boxes, so that you can walk between solar panels, through pipes, etc.
Many people use it. Since your problem is about collision boxes this is what I was thinking about is happening in your case as well.

Now that I think of it: There were some weird problems occuring with both alien biomes and squeak through. Maybe this is actually a known issue with that combination.

Are Industrial Revolution and Deadlock's Stacking Beltboxes & Compact Loaders the only two mods that are active when this error occurs?
If no, please post a list of all mods that are active.

… to me sounds more like it is caused by squeak through …

Which version of steam do you use, which linux distro?
There was a recent update of steam for Linux. Did you install it? Maybe it broke something?

I meant other platforms like Android and IOS and their development in these. The input without mouse and keyboard will be a challenge. it's not if it's translated but the quality of the translation. for example i have factorio and ir shows the translation in % The game ist still in early access and...

25 september? Will be a nice birthday present for me :) Another one! :D That is expected – kind of. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem Although now that I think of it … the date was given by the developers, so it should be less likely than in the original birthday problem.

You can always read the available steam coming from the reactor, assuming you have a storage tank connected to the steam output. If you have enough steam: don't put nuclear fuel in the reactor.

Regarding explaining the game itself a bit better: In April this year, the developers wrote the following https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-291 I think the Factorio platform reaches more languages and operating systems […] But what do you mean by this? That it should reach more languages and op...

Yea... a loader has a "belt" side and a "chest" side . To elaborate a bit more: In the above picture you see the default setup of a loader. It takes up two tiles (2x1) with one short end looking like an outgoing belt. Connecting this side to a belt will connect to belts. Great! However, the other s...

this is brilliant, i go try EDIT: crazy ! it works ! I don't claim that this is my original idea. As I said: I saw several people doing similar stuff. One of them recently did a "base tour" as the final episode of his most recent Factorio series. There he explains fairly briefly how his train-based...

So what you are doing now is Set [Signal 1] = 1 at the mining site Check [Signal 1] ≥ 0 at the hotel You can do that, so you can keep the status signals from different mining sites for iron separated. Then [Signal 2] could represent a second mining site for iron. However, you will need to remember t...