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by Mendel
Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #410 - Rocket turret & Target priorities
Replies: 112
Views: 28183

Re: Friday Facts #410 - Rocket turret & Target priorities



AUTOMATED FISHING?!?!!?

Automated fishing already works in 1.0. Set up a long-handled inserter on the water's edge with a box behind it, and every time a fish comes into range, it'll be grabbed and salted down in the box. Plus, you don't have to supply the salt :)


Wait, WHAT?!?! All these ...
by Mendel
Sun May 12, 2024 11:24 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #410 - Rocket turret & Target priorities
Replies: 112
Views: 28183

Re: Friday Facts #410 - Rocket turret & Target priorities

With regards to laser turret idle power, isn't there already known solutions even without mods? For example, gun turrets already detect if enemy is close and will spend ammo when they activate. I feed ammo to a gun turret from a crate and I read crate contents. If crate is not full, a power switch ...
by Mendel
Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #406 - Space Age Music
Replies: 157
Views: 40736

Re: Friday Facts #406 - Space Age Music

I don't usually get the chills when listening to a piece of music for the very first time. Usually it takes a few listens even for very good tracks.
The space one did it for me right away!
by Mendel
Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:34 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #405 - Whole belt reader, New logistics GUI
Replies: 141
Views: 32095

Re: Friday Facts #405 - Whole belt reader, New logistics GUI


Do we have timers in the logic system?
In case you need to dispense some material in portions.
I also remember a long time ago I tried to implement a portioned release of energy from batteries via an on/off toggle switch. Without a timer it didn't work out that way.


Can't you just use an item ...
by Mendel
Sat Apr 06, 2024 1:15 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #405 - Whole belt reader, New logistics GUI
Replies: 141
Views: 32095

Re: Friday Facts #405 - Whole belt reader, New logistics GUI

Brightness inside rocket silo seems to change between rocket lauches in weird way inside the silo, especially of the doodad below one of the red lights. I guess it is the hatch door, probably. It gets somewhat less bright just as the animation loops. I just can't unsee it now 🫣
by Mendel
Fri Sep 29, 2023 4:00 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #378 - Trains on another level
Replies: 342
Views: 119605

Re: Friday Facts #378 - Trains on another level

So yeah, happy 10 year anniversary of Friday Facts!
by Mendel
Tue Sep 26, 2023 4:05 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Anyone else got hyped enough about space age that they had to dive into space exploration?
Replies: 17
Views: 8783

Anyone else got hyped enough about space age that they had to dive into space exploration?

I had almost forgotten about Factorio... Not having played it for like 3 years at least by now, but then I heard about space age expansion. Well. I had 1050 hours on Factorio.
I read the friday facts again and started to get hyped.. and I thought... the **** with it. I haven't tried space ...
by Mendel
Fri Sep 22, 2023 3:40 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #377 - New new rails
Replies: 227
Views: 75935

Re: Friday Facts #377 - New new rails

I was trying to find when the first friday facts was posted but I only initially found #2
that seems like it was october 4th 2013.
Has it been 10 years since the first one?
Surely when you post the next one, right?

edit: ah silly me, found it now, should have been obvious how to get the url
https ...
by Mendel
Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:59 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology
Replies: 368
Views: 93582

Re: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology



What I meant is some kind of research that would make the fields to only deplete to less yield but never dry up completely after researched, and even more research would keep the yields slightly less low still. Something like the miners would just dig deeper or something.


Maybe something ...
by Mendel
Tue Sep 19, 2023 8:41 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology
Replies: 368
Views: 93582

Re: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology



Maybe there could be an infinite resources tech for the end game, which would make ore fields deplete less somehow


The mining productivity research already does this. That additional ore bar that appears after first researching the productivity tech and pops out an ore each time it fills ...
by Mendel
Tue Sep 19, 2023 5:33 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology
Replies: 368
Views: 93582

Re: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology


The most annoying/grindy part of Factorio for me has always been the act of plopping miners to a new resource field as old ones dry out.
Besides the excelent answer from Tertius, check this possibilities:
1- At game start, adjust map settings for maximum Richness (600%) for each ore type.
2- If ...
by Mendel
Mon Sep 18, 2023 10:32 am
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology
Replies: 368
Views: 93582

Re: Friday Facts #376 - Research and Technology

<quote>
The core of what makes Factorio good is that the horrible huge grind you would need to get all the resources can be mitigated by automation.
</quote>

The most annoying/grindy part of Factorio for me has always been the act of plopping miners to a new resource field as old ones dry out. Can ...
by Mendel
Mon Dec 30, 2019 4:02 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Small supply chain simulation code (I'm learning Java basics)
Replies: 3
Views: 3711

Re: Small supply chain simulation code (I'm learning Java basics)

That seems like a good idea! Thanks!
I have to crunch to finish the course before the end of the year but I will return to this side project asap :)
by Mendel
Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:29 pm
Forum: Off topic
Topic: Small supply chain simulation code (I'm learning Java basics)
Replies: 3
Views: 3711

Small supply chain simulation code (I'm learning Java basics)

So I took a course on Java... once the course started talking about Suppliers, I immediately started thinking about supply chains and Factorio of course. So I started this little side project to see how those could be used to simulate a small part of a supply chain. I go from iron and copper ores to ...
by Mendel
Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:13 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Friday Facts #327 - 2020 Vision
Replies: 128
Views: 61979

Re: Friday Facts #327 - 2020 Vision

That picture gives me some hope that Space Exploration mod or something like that might become part of base game... which would be awesome!
by Mendel
Sat Nov 30, 2019 3:03 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?
Replies: 14
Views: 4826

Re: Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?



true, it's a kind of workaround. But as mentioned before, relevant throughput issues are easably spottable. And you can drag and run an technically upgrade the whole factory at once.


Another funny thing is... I don't like to use bots. I prefer belt spaghetti. Which kind of makes my problem ...
by Mendel
Sat Nov 30, 2019 1:31 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?
Replies: 14
Views: 4826

Re: Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?

Okay so I found the "make new upgrade planner" feature and found out how to use that.

But if I got it right, I still have to stop and drag a box around belts to see what is what.

I would really prefer just easily spotting individual wrong colored belts while just running through the area. It ...
by Mendel
Sat Nov 30, 2019 1:04 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?
Replies: 14
Views: 4826

Re: Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?

This is going to sound dumb but I haven't actually used the upgrade planner, nor do I know how to. Nor do I know exactly what it is but...
Before I ask, I'm going to try to see if I can find out what it is and how to use it :)
by Mendel
Fri Nov 29, 2019 8:01 pm
Forum: Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?
Replies: 14
Views: 4826

Bottom leds to belts to distinquish belt types?

Ever had that problem where you fail to see the one point on a long belt where you still have the old slower type of belt and that one piece is slowing the whole belt down and you are having trouble finding it on a full belt that might be currently halted due to another issue?

I think the belt ...
by Mendel
Mon May 13, 2019 11:26 am
Forum: Off topic
Topic: How to get a job in the games industry?
Replies: 13
Views: 11877

How to get a job in the games industry?

Having worked 11 years in tech support, I finally burned myself out due to the job requirements changing to include (forced) sales talk during tech support calls, which is something I didn't like at all.

So now, having been on sick leave due to depression for 6 months I have finally found something ...

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