If you plan to build smart reactor with steam storage, you're totally safe.

If you plan to use simple reactor, I suggest to start from 2 cores, 120MW would be enough for a while and you will have some U-235 for enrichment later.

I would wager that almost every single factorio player has an un-nerfed PFR in their pack.


Sure! It would be strange to ignore them. But you still have many options how to use them. And nothing in the game forces you to focus on the power armor and forget about everything else.

For example, I ...

But a free-energy machine is NOT the solution I would expect.


Honestly, PFR is pretty weak for a "free-energy machine".

Can I run, build and fight non-stop?

No, PFR's are too large and too weak for that. They barely supply fifty or so bots, they barely allow to fit five exos. We already need ...

Good games force you to change your tactics as the situation arrises- bad games let you spam the same strategy till the end.


That's why I suggested to add your generator as alternative option, so player can change his tactics depending on the situation and choose between weak but maintenance ...

Was Long Reach mod installed on this save? AFAIK, it permanently modifies reach radius.

this is what happened just before the crash


Lag spike before disconnect? This agrees with unusually slow save before crash (20s vs 5s normally). Save time in your previous post is also unusually large (about 28 seconds). May be a heavy swapping before out of memory and summoning of the OOM ...

I can't think of any situation where Factorio would decide to kill itself by means of SIGKILL.


Well, I can imagine that Factorio can kill autosave instance after timeout or during shutdown of the main process... But you certainly will log that before attempting SIGKILL.

I guess it's just a ...

luketyleruk wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:56 am pterodactyl

Worth trying to ask them about this bug too. They should know what runs in their container aside from factorio, so they may help you if the issue is on their side.

i thinking it might be a bug in the stable versions


I don't think it a bug on factorio side...

SIGKILL usually means that someone deliberately killed your process for some reason. Some script on your server, parent process, kernel itself on out-of-memory condition etc. It's not a usual crash ...

where can i find the logs on 12058?


I dunno, I usually grep whole /var/log when I want to find something. Most probably dmesg or syslog in that directory.

It's interesting that almost 20 seconds passed before the kill:

19975.842 Info AsyncScenarioSaver.cpp:153: Saving process PID: 12058 ...

luketyleruk wrote: Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:18 am 19995.177 Error ChildProcessAgent.cpp:62: Child 12058 was terminated by signal 9

9 = SIGKILL

OOM killer? Well, shouldn't be on a machine with 12GB of ram. Try to grep other system logs about process 12058, maybe they give you more info...

DerGraue wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 3:55 pm Maybe biter evolution could be a part of infinite research.

Yeah, infinite research to increase biter evolution beyond 100% should be fun!

They just steal fluid from the fluid box of each other, I think...

I don't think it should be nerfed... PFR already has a lot of downsides: it's very large and gives just twice more power than 16 solar panels.

I think it would be better to add another alternative generator. It will be smaller and way more powerful, but will require fuel. So, you will have a choice ...

jodokus31 wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 8:24 pm However, it seems, that many players don't get it still.

Well, I tried to use load button. It asks about synchronization only if you miss some mods. But if you have some mods than weren't in the save, it doesn't.

Rseding91 wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:55 pm Clicking "load game" will ask if you want to sync if it isn't.

Oh, sorry... I always used "sync mods with save" out of old habit, so never noticed that 1.1 already asks for mod synchronization.

Thanks!

What?

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Why?

"Sync mods with save" button is very convenient and used frequently. But it's very small and well hidden from new players, so they don't know about it (i.e. 95355 ).

You can hide it when mods and their settings are already in sync, so it ...

Noorphish wrote: Sun Jan 31, 2021 12:23 pm I think the options mentioned are to difficult.

There is "sync mods with save" button in the top-right corner of the "load game" window. It's not as convenient as your suggestion, but still just one click to play the save with correct mod set.

Always been... Build order affect entity update order, so gradients between fluid boxes are different and that affect the flow. If I understand current system correctly, of course.

That's why they tried to rework fluid system one day...

I'm sure you really were just trying to say that you think it's very likely a hardware problem.


Yeah ;)

I tried to say, that even if you find some solution, i.e. revert to older version or ask devs to add some option like "save-slowly", it wouldn't fix a bug that lurks on underlying levels. It ...