Here, I describe a circular belt factory which would greatly benefit from knowing the count of items on the belts: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =8&t=19609

I have been experimenting with easy setups for producing many different items. One obvious solution is the logistic network with requester/provider chests. In my opinion this is too easy and gets boring too fast. Also, you first have to research the logistic network and invest considerable amounts o...

I know the developers might be busy right now, but other than that I don't see how it is related to my question. They use 0.12 for the steam release because 0.13 is not stable yet. They ported the new icons back to 0.12 in order to get a better looking steam release (and maybe to avoid any copyrigh...

These new combinator graphics look great! Could they maybe be backported to 0.12 ? When was the date for the steam package? The 29th? That's in 2 days. Wait, what? :O Steam release is on February 25, but in the FFF they wrote they need to provide the Factorio package one month before. Although I th...

The current end is a compromise, also not satisfying the devs, because they planned it differently. And they had surely a lot of internal discussion about that. But they don't want to promise something, cause they cannot know, how the game will sell in the future. I think the devs need to make that...

striepan wrote:These new combinator graphics look great!
Could they maybe be backported to 0.12 ?

When was the date for the steam package? The 29th? That's in 2 days.

I think the idea of an assembler which builds depending on circuit signals is great, but I think your ideas of the implementation are way to complex, more easy: if you tell the assembler to build nothing, it "releases" all materials it has (and the ones which are in the inserting inserter...

On where the splitters were mentioned in the topic: I think they should have multiple modes we can choose from, per-item, per-belt, per-side and stuff like that because it adds more functionality without more items to add or take up memory. Different setups need different things, and maybe we could...

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Is there a mod with smart/multipurpose Assemblers/Furnaces?

question does this version implement the new style of rail laying? It's unusual for the devs to add anything new unless it's a completely new .0 iteration. I'm surprised they even added the new icons for the research/inventory UI, mid-way. My expectation had been that we wouldn't get those until al...

Does that patch caching mean that all enemies coming from one area going to another area take the same path for the most part?

Or is the cached path(part) used as starting point for a path optimization?

Mind you, no responsible person would do such a thing. You only read what someone has written, mind that, too. We can only speculate and you can't really give us much information. There are a ton of reasons as why to change jobs as an employee; or as an employer to change employees or even having t...

ssilk wrote:I think the direction Factorio will go is about this: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... 91&t=14007 Logic Belts (and more)

Thanks for the link. The counter sounds quite interesting. Not exactly my idea but close enough that it might work.

Can you ride a train inside the train?

Belts as smart chests Looping belts and item counting I've been experimenting with a "many items on one looping belt" design. There factories use one belt for input and output for the various items needed for red and green science packs. The problem is to count how many items are on the b...

Happy 2016 to the developers and players of factorio!

So you are telling, that 0.13 will be finished in a month? You better start publishing the latest versions for us to test it soon!

Considering the path finding optimization. How about making a gradient map that would guide the biters. When they attack, they always go to the same target, the player base, and that does not move. You could grow a gradient from players structures outwards, for a precise solution. Or simply from th...

Joining in multiplayer with a big map indeed is a major pain right now. But I think it could be doable to make joining happen without any interruptions for the running game by using a second server instance for joining players. Normal mode: * The players are connected to the main server and a second...

There are no new rail tiles. I am disappoint :( Look at this and be happy: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=18078&p=119211&hilit=rail#p119211 I'm happy with it, I only had higher expectations of a little bit better rail building with some more curved tiles. Having ...