That works fine with a single oil oupost, but if you have multiple the almost depleted outpost will unload more empty barrels than it can fill, and there won't be empty barrels left for the more productive oil outpost. So, you need to limit the # of empty barrels that are unloaded, either by limitin...

"leave when full" e.g. easy implemented would interest many. I want to empty a wagon full with empty oil barrels and load full barrels in one swing to the same waggon and let the train go when finished. How to? Barrel mamangement is extra complicated because you "full" and "...

@vannatteveldt after seeing your railing, i'm going to try it out. looks totally awesome. (ps. are you dutch?) Very much so, I'm afraid :) Feel free to ask for more details on e.g. the rail setup, schedules etc. BTW, I would recommend checking out the FARL mod for (semi-)automated track laying, and...

This would work fine with a railway. Belts might be easier to setup, but have less throughput and are less flexible - with a railway you can easily decide to move another part of you factory somewhere else again. Playing with trains is a new challenge, but it's also quite fun. Try not to stand on th...

Chruschtschow wrote:I would love to haul lots of oil and strike stuffs with blasts right out of the sky at the same time.

Factorio - Middle East edition

Take in Miningdrills, Mining Machines and Mining Consumables. Mining consumables are bad idea, requre too much resources to get resources. But other than that is pretty nice idea, make drills and machines degradeable and we can get something good. That depends on the recipes though, right? I can im...

Cool! Give me a shout when I can do/test anything. Happy debugging

Thanks for the reply. I ran the command with my cursor on an iron ore field. It hung for a while (30 seconds or so), but didn't seem to generate any underground resources (not visible and a deep miner has no expected resources and can't be placed). What it did do is mess up my resource count accordi...

I added the mod to a game I'm running, but I don't see any "underground ore" sprites like in your picture, and I can't place a undergroud miner on a depleted or active mine. Does it only work on new fields? Can I generate the ore layer somehow?

Welcome to factorio :) If you are looking at minimal size to create a single pack, this looks like a nice setup. However, you are probably more interested in minimizing size per science pack, and your setup is really inefficient because of the production ratios: 1 green science needs 1 belt+inserter...

I agree that something needs to be done about late-game mining. AFAISI, the "point" of this game is that you do a lot of manual work in the beginning (the "chopping trees" from the first trailer :-)), but then progressively automate everything as more tech is unlocked: first prod...

Can I use this on an existing map (i.e. already played without the mod)? Do I need to place this on an existing ore patch? Or can I place it on a completely exhausted ore patch? How does deep mine yield (per second and per fuel used) compare to regular electric mine yield on a not-yet-depleted patch...

I like the idea behind this, although it would be nicer if you could require it to be built on ore patches, and would only produce stone plus ores of that kind. Aren't the recipes overpriced though? From your picture, 12 concrete plus 3 explosives --> 5.5 stone, 1 iron ore, 1 copper ore, plus 1 coal...

Progress: cleared out the E and added an oil outpost; built FoxConn (modules) and started on Sivis Pacem (weapons), also increased green circuit capacity. Will post some screens later! @NightCabbage: I build the bridges either manually with landfill, but mostly with FARL's "bridge water" o...

I think it would make some sense to have e.g. a hydrogen fuel cell that you create from iron plus water plus electricity, and that can function like solid fuel with lower energy density and efficiency loss. This would allow you to run cars and trains on a mostly reusable resource without needing to ...

I'm now playing an island+landfill game, which I guess is a form of victory poling since clearing out an island means its cleared forever. Problem is, I reached 85% evolution while harvesting <20 artifacts. So, I am encountering large biters without purple science or a personal fusion reactor. I've ...

Well in a way it's part of the design philosophy of factorio, I think: rather than giving us complex items that can do a lot of things automatically (i.e. automatic sorters, balancers, lane switchers) we get simply things that we have to combine in clever ways to build a factory. Think of it as part...

Yes, for unloading you will need to use a smart inserter for each item type, limiting yourself to 12 item types per wagon. AFAIK, there are three ways of restricting storage to N items: - unload into a chest with limited space, e.g. a wooden chest with only 1 stack available will store 100 magazines...

This is my current setup for decentralized oil power: http://i.amcat.nl/oil.png The refining setup is pretty standard. I decided to put a buffer chest to make sure that no oil is wasted (at the cost of an extra inserter) Note that the 2 steam engines on the right hand side form a separate power netw...

Thanks :). I made some progress: US Robotics and IBM were "founded", and I cleared the part of the island S of the starting base (Silicon Valley). This was a bit annoying as I didn't have any artifacts yet, but evolution was already >80%, so I had to use turret creep to harvest some artifa...