Maybe have a "flatbed truck"-type vehicle for this kind of platform? And maybe a train wagon along the same lines. Though I'd imagine there would be a need for a "crane" building or vehicle that would unload these two.

From my point of view, that should be somewhat shifted: No need for seperate cars for each tier. One car is enough. (Assuming car = wagon) Steam locomotive as suggested is fine. One addition that may be required here is a tender with an inserter that has a larger inventory than a train and thus is a...

AM2,3 don't have pipe outputs. As posted by slpwnd, This would be used for recipes like: barrel loading / unloading, electric engine units, etc. Thus AMs WILL require pipe outputs, if they are to unload barrels. Chem plants process chemicals. Assembling machines assemble things, some of which requi...

Why limit yourself with "only straight"? All in all, this concept looks remarkably close to a pipeline picture I posted a while ago. For simplicitiy's sake I'd repost it here: http://d3bg49arpeqe3t.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-Report-Will-Potentially-Greenlight-Oil-Pipelin...

Interesting concept, but you focus on outputting the entire mining operation's ore on a single belt lane supposedly going into the furnaces. Don't you think that you may have issues with that? For example, suppose the belt capacity is not reached and your ore is happily chugging along. However, if y...

OP: That desing is extremely NOT scalable. Even an express belt has a limited throughput, and your factory will sooner or later reach it. Doing it parallel instead of consecutive might be better, but then you run into splitting ussues. In lategame I use a bot-powered setup: four furnaces fed by a si...

but as i tested even if i crack light oil into gas petroleum i still have an overproduction of oil. the problem is to upkeep plastic and sulfur i need petroleum gas , as much as possible. but producing petroleum gas i get more light oil. Either I am getting something wrong, or you are doing the wro...

Alternatively, let assembling machines connect to pipes. That is the plan for new assembling machine 2 and 3. Not sure when it is coming, but it is. This would be used for recipes like: barrel loading / unloading, electric engine units, etc. And then what will the difference be between chemplant an...

I mostly use electric furnaces and almost always skip steels. I tend to aggregate my smelting in small clusters, so that I have a large output without having to use fast belts, and the added hassle of coal routing completely dissuades me from using anything other that electrics.

https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=2433
Has already been brought up. See link above for several more solutions.

Well, they didn't take them from the one they were in either.

Came across a small detail in Construction bots' behaviour that strikes me as strange. If I have a roboport stuffed with reppacks AND a supply chest with reppacks, construction robots will go to replenish their reppacks to the chest, not to the port. IMO it makes sense that if I went to pains of sto...

That would be designations, not signs. Or just fixed areas that you can give names to (or that have premade names).

I for once do not see Factorio as a PVP multiplayer game. Compared to Minecraft (inevitable), a Factorio player is next to nothing without his factory. In Minecraft you require about 1 minute to get yourself a sword, a bit more for armour. But it does not require any infrastructure save a furnace (d...

Ah, THAT is a problem.

Don't see the need for signs as depicted in OP in singleplayer, can be a bit in multi-coop. Regarding zones with production boost/penalty - isn't it what the beacons should do? Last, zones for MP - may be useful, but I'd prefer a separate overlay for them, the ALT overlay is already cluttered, IMO.

Wait a sec, AFAIR simple mouseovering a blueprint shows the exact number of items it requires.

Try drawing a Factorio tech tree yourself. You'll see that there are MUCH more interconnections between lines than in Civ => making it pretty will take more effort. More so because (as I suppose) the current interconnections are temporary - there are just too many inconsistencies, like SP3 requiring...

Been deconstructing some stuff lately with a red blueprint and suddenly saw a deconstruction marker on a tree. Waited to see what would happen and saw a bot come and destroy the tree, taking wood to storage. Don't know if it is intended behaviour or bug, but if the latter, PLEASE let it be, it is so...

Maybe we'd be better off consulting the existing methods of pipe construction? ;) For example, a quick Google search brought up this baby: http://d3bg49arpeqe3t.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/New-Report-Will-Potentially-Greenlight-Oil-Pipeline.jpg Translated into Factorio dimensions, it w...