And I noticed something else about the unlocked by in the screenshots. The Foundry is unlocked by itself. Have I misunderstood something or is this a mistake? Looks normal to me, foundry (tech) unlocks foundry (recipe) which creates foundry (item) which places foundry (entity). In 1.1, techs that o...

You don't need signals as long as there's only one train. Once you add signals, track that is supposed to be used in both directions always needs them in pairs; having an unpaired signal makes that section of track one way, and if you happen to have unpaired signals on both sides of the track no aut...

short answer: factorio tries to use multithreading whenever possible. For details, see the FFF blog posts; optimizations, including parallelization, are a recurring topic there. The ideas and suggestions section in this forum also has its share of great multithreading ideas(tm) and why they won't wo...

Already possible, default keybind is Shift + Mouse Wheel. In the controls settings it's called Next/Previous Clipboard under the Tools section.

Assignment is "=", not "==". See the Lua 5.2 manual.

Thanks, guys. I think I get it now. Maybe, maybe not… I should have a LOT more space in between my wait area and my drop off area, and then build something like sparr's 4-to-6 mux junction (but perhaps scale it up to 20-to-10 or something). Not necessarily. Depending on how many trains go to each s...

Ranakastrasz wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:35 pm

I would be absolutely shocked if the limit of 300% is not itself moddable.

It is moddable

FFF 375 wrote:This is also why we created an overall machine limit on productivity to be +300% (modifiable by mods if needed)

Locane wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:56 pm

Why not just make underground belts made with "track drag" try to use maximum distance by default? It would circumvent most of the use cases this feature is trying to solve I think.

Underground belts and pipes already work like that.

isn't it a major security issue to be able to run arbitrary code from a remote device ? What you can do via rcon is the same as what any mod and any player with access to /c can do; you're still constrained by the limits of the modding API. And since the server owner has to explicitly enable rcon v...

thegroundbelowme wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:48 pm

I know what "each < N" means, but I'm fairly baffled by "each < N => 1 each"

A decider combinator with:
Condition: each < N
=>
Output: each 1

TLDR: Please add "Cargo Wagon Capacity" to the selector and maybe even "Steel Chest Capacity" [...] Add option for chests to output a signal for empty space or missing items from chest. I'd put free/used/total slots into the circuit settings for containers (and train stops). Hav...

Some time ago I was thinking about how to enumerate all non-zero signals in a circuit. I thought that I didn’t have enough knowledge about combinators, but it turned out that this is now almost impossible. But at least it will be like this until version 2.0 I'm curious what you mean by "enumer...

[...] The second thing I'd like most is the ability to select certain properties from red or green only.. stuff like everything * everything would be a lot more useful if you could say "red everything * green everything". YES. Vector operations, would perform out := green <OP> red for eac...

You misunderstand. It's not a 1-tile chokepoint, it's a landfill being placed every other tile like [L W L W L W L]. This is walkable by the player, but impassable for biters. You don't need a single gun to defend it. It's been many months since I've played, perhaps they've corrected this? It's eve...

The same I've run across a need to find easily (read: not turn into a cluster of combinators) to cap values at the bottom and top. [S]=6; If [S] > 5 Then [S]=5 Else [S]=[S] [S]=1; If [S] < 2 Then [S]=2 Else [S]=[S] You can cap values on one side with one deciders, one arithmetic and two ticks; two ...

Unless told otherwise systemd passes /dev/null as stdin, any attempt to read from it will result in an immediate EOF. Since as far as I know factorio doesn't actually read from its stdin, this "error" can be ignored.

I'm shocked that Factorio wasn't built in C for performance reasons. It's written in C++. Only the modding API uses Lua. I really can't fault Wube for choosing Lua, [...]. Same. Out of the languages I'm aware of only Lua has the ability to easily restrict and replace parts of it's standard library,...

If a user would like to host local server to play with friends without accessing Factorio network, then login should not be required. This is possible, but you have to disable user verification on the server. Similiar thing goes for accessing any plugins. I don't see any meaning in need to login in...

Adjust the train limit according to what's available. In particular, if a station can't fill/empty a complete train, set the limit to zero to keep trains from coming and waiting for a long time.

So I wanted to multiply red wire signals by same type blue wire signals? Too bad, go build a giant signal type converter and then a giant math array. There's a well known 5 combinator solution, as long as the square of each input doesn't overflow into the sign bit. For a general solution see this t...