The two "leaning" behaviours you describe are both in your head. Basic bitter rule is something like "in range of target, start shooting" and since the spitters shoot just a bit farther then your turrents (get lasers, they outrange spitters), they win that fight. The ones that co...

As a halfway measure (ie will greatly extend the life of your network, but does not guarantee safety) Put Electric poles twice as often/ so that if one is killed, its two neighbors will be in reach of eachother (i'm almost certain they will auto connect, though truthfully havent tested). That way fo...

train 1 cant go forward cause train 2 is in the next block. this makes sense to you right? but train 2 cant go forward because train 1 is actualy in the block that makes the intersection. there are no signals at all between the intersection and the top station where train 1 is parked. what you need ...

building in space was and remains a good idea, but in itself it'll only push off the need for an endgame. its not an endgame in itself. Even if EVERYTHING you use in space has to be sent up in rocktes (including ores, cause there are very few asteroids close by the majority of planets, so forget min...

I think the next step has to be automated bitter extermanation. It can be really simple to start with, even something like making so that cars/tanks can have a vector set (preferably via circut network) and they do their best to follow that direction and shoot all enemies (and trees optionaly )they ...

I liked fighting the bitters. What's more important, my wife liked watching me fight the bitters. Because it was a process she could easily understand even without ever playing the game, the rest of the game looks like a complete mystery to someone who doesnt play it. when i switched to the flamethr...

Pipe readout does not show flow rate, it shows amount of liquid in pipe (presumably after the last tick update), since 1 barreling factory outpaces your oil production (probably by more then 10 to1, dont remember numbers off hand), the factory is sucking up all the oil in the last pipe every tick an...

Alien artifacts being removed? Yet they just got a new icon! I think that there might've been a communication error there. I think they got their new icon BECAUSE they're being removed. Otherwise the icon would have been wasted entirely. Looks more like scales than artifacts, though. Why do people ...

I'm not sure i'm reading that right, but will it generate spawners in every possible spot (ie packed tight like no tomorow) or something sparce like 1/chunk or something&

a command that'll max populate the map would be interesting for testing "impenetrable wall" claims.

The options include: simple, normal, and complex. At the moment the base game only has definitions for 'normal' but we may expand it. To everyone who's complaining about dificulty settings messing with competitiveness, read that line again. As fat as i understand, all they're adding right now is th...

Launch rocket on 64x64 map (or possibly smaller, but I know it is possible on 64x64). Even though it is probably easier than doing it on width 9 map. How much time did it take? I havent spent a day trying to find a map where this might be atleast theoreticaly possible, but i have just generated clo...

Launch rocket on 64x64 map (or possibly smaller, but I know it is possible on 64x64). Even though it is probably easier than doing it on width 9 map. How much time did it take? wow (at both the OP's 9 wide, and that 64*64 is possible. i would have thougth at that small a map, getting enough resours...

I always check FFF on every Friday hoping to hear some good news about the next release. I've been waiting for a while now because I want to play a game with the new blueprint system. I'm kind of tired of having to reinvent the wheel and it makes the game very tedious. That said, my game is on hold...

explore more map,
that will create new chunks
keep eploring till you find some bitter nests.
go back to you base,
leave game running for a few hours (or increase speed if your base isnt huge and comp can handle it)
the bitters will spread out and repopulate the earth

wow. Interesting thread... but confusing, cause there are like 3 seperate topics being discussed (while everyone thinks there's only their 1 topic here). topic 1 (OP i think). add some smart train stuff before .15 cause there's not enough now. i think this topic can be dropped at this poing in time ...

assemblers effectively have 2 modes of operation. 1. when they are completely hand fed (no inserter feeding them materials). in which case they will keep making their recepie untill they run out of a material or the output slot has a full stack in it and cant fit more. 2. when there is atleast one i...

I'm still using L-CC trains because the last time i looked into this topic, the answer was: 1 locomotive by itself = highest accell and top speed. 1 loc per 2 cars (or reverced loc) second best. I dont remember exactly where or what i read back then, but my impression was that a LL-CCCC train would ...

I agree. I think blue assemblers and chem plants should both be craft speed 1, as they are the ones players use when first trying to get "perfect ratios" in their production lines.

What does efficient mean to you? You could mean prety or space efficient, in which case my reply has no meaning, I assume that you mean no bottle necks that could be fixed by another assembly machine. And it seems to me that your 1 gear assembly needs to be doubled (almost) to keep up with the rest ...

+1. I'd say 1*2 would be best. anything larger would need to be in addition to the 1*2 size (cause otherwist you're restricting it to wide space for no reason), and wouldnt server a purpose thta a 1*2 plus a few regurar chests couldnt solve. good building blocks are better than ready sollutions. ano...