If you bought on steam and are playing the standalone, switch to steam and vice versa. If you are playing on the same version that you bought, try reinstalling. Yeah im playing on the steam version, always have done. I gave reinstalling a bash earlier and no joy. Tried it again and deleting the Fac...

So I bought the game on steam maybe 4 months ago. And recently I made a factorio.com account because I thought I had to to host a multiplayer server. But it seems that's not the case, I can use a steam token. So after having my steam and factorio accounts linked I wanted to get my original steam use...

... Nice story and cool base! Though my first thought is “only 500 spm?” It looks like it should be bigger. As for most fun per euro, I think I’m at something like 1 or 2 ¢/hour Thanks :) Yeah I built a lot of this stuff before I built a rocket silo or any serious amount of labs to go with it. I on...

Thanks for making the game guys! It's the most fun/additive game for me since Starcraft 1 and Diablo II maybe 20 years ago. Those games stole my childhood, no regrets tbh. No game has gripped me like Factorio has since then, its really really fun :D It still shocks me that i've sunk maybe 300-400 ho...

I love barrels!

Im lazy and have a bot base and can't be bothered running pipe everywhere.

so there are already several results - 106 - the best for Windows. and this is a processor with 6 cores \ 12 threads. For comparison, a 4 core old processor shows 112, at a lower memory frequency. And further. I don't consider the results in Linux with huge pages, I consider them cheating. It is ha...

Will be interesting to see someone do some benchmarks with a Ryzen 5xxx CPU:
https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/1464 ... n-9-5900x/

They talk about "cleaner caching" and "reduction in memory latency" which might help factorio a bit.

This would be a helpful feature!

But the counter keeps on going, it would be good if I could figure out a better timer or something that stops at 60k etc. Any solutions? Let it count forever. The max possible value for a signal is 2147483647. At 60 per second it will take 1.14 years of running continuously for it to finally overfl...

Awesome, thanks for the blueprints guys!

So im trying to get the one time clock mentioned here working: https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Combinator_tutorial#Memory I cannot figure it out though... What im trying to accomplish is a simple 10 minute countdown (or count up idc) linked to inserters which insert artillery shells into guns of ...

darkfrei wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:13 pm

maxp779 wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:27 pm

This all used to be biter land, its very desolate looking, can I turn it back into grass?

You can disable decoratives:

This just removes the little shrubs and stuff, biter base ooze remains there. It looked even more desolate with decorations off

orzelek wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:47 pm

You could try to place conrete and then remove it.
Concrete removes decorations with certain percentage and biter bases drop decorations I think.
So placing and removing concrete might clear up the terrain.

Gave it a shot, dosent remove the biter ooze though

Not in vanilla. The land is generated once at startup. You can’t plant trees or grass. You can use landfill to fill in water but you can’t remove landfill once it’s placed. The biter bases generate ooze which stains the ground and can’t be removed. You can place and remove stone and concrete tiles ...

OT: are there any threads discussing linear defense alternatives? I could not find any (geometric art doesn't count). I just saw yet another laser wall, but I think it is less effective unless you use 2+ rows of lasers. Idk but i've seen people use walls like dragons teeth and put belts into the de...

This all used to be biter land, its very desolate looking, can I turn it back into grass?

Do you guys put lasers up front? Or flame throwers? Gun turrets? I see this guy has put together an entire blueprint book of tileable defences: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/9qbm8f/tileable_modular_wall_defense/ He's got the flamers behind everything else. I currently have (front to bac...

Leave a tile or two between the wall and the turrets. That way you don't get splash damage on the turrets when spitters attack the wall And as said flame turrets are really good: https://youtu.be/eXV8dghfF40?t=397 Allows you get by with a thinner wall. Better to kill them than replace walls So last...

TheRangerLOL wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 09, 2020 4:45 pm

You just need to feed all the biters some fish and make 'em your pets!

Do fish regrow? I felt bad taking the 1 needed for the spidertron.

Can the spidertron shoot nukes? Yes, but you really don't want it shooting nukes all over the place what with being automatic and having an insane shooting speed Excellent point lol! I learned the hard way about automatic firing when my repair bots went AWOL so I got out to manually fix the spidert...