Train loading and unloading stations are a very common and often discussed build. It's one of the things everybody will have to build. I recommend you improve your web search skills. For example, by pasting the subject of your thread into Google and adding the keyword "factorio" to the sea...

Just a minor point of clarification so I can visualize it better: How would that 250x250 area be aligned (I'm assuming it's rectangular and not circular)? The words from the FFF: "Pipelines are constrained to a 250x250 tile area, and exceeding this limit will cause all flow through the pipelin...

Having read FFF #416 Fluids 2.0 again and this FFF, I'm wondering what items exactly will be included in the fluid segment abstraction? According to FFF #416, just 'Pipes, underground pipes, and storage tanks are merged into fluid "segments".' However, there are items such as boilers, heat...

I know the topic of this thread is a bit late to be relevant for the 2.0 update, however it didn't came up for me until now. So it's either now or never. It's all totally subjective, totally my own perspective, and some things can be changed with mods. May be other players have additional things the...

A good change. It addresses the worst oddities of the originally announced mechanic and turns it back into a more natural and real feeling system again. Especially the infinitely log pipe was something I welcomed first as interesting new possibility to bring in crude oil instead of fluid wagons, but...

In preparation for 2.0, I started a fresh new 1.1 vanilla map, and I'd like to mention what I still find annoying and not fun while leveling through the first 3 technologies: manually clearing wood [I remember it was a chore, but not that it was SO tedious. How about a chainsaw with a 3-4 tile radiu...

This overlapping is random. Usually, it only happens sometimes in the start area but not with the "real" resource patches out in the field. If you want to start without overlapping, enter the preview during map creation, so you see if you got overlapped resource patches, then click the &qu...

As far as I understand the wiki information as well as observation of the game, trains are choosing their destination, not stations are choosing their trains. It is documented, that whenever a train is choosing a destination, all destinations with the same station name are eligible, and the nearest ...

2. There's a very significant difference between automation and laziness. Factorio is not simply about automation. The depth in Factorio comes from deciding what and when to automate. There is a lot more to the game than "figure out how to make the factory go brr", you need to manage reso...

If you're unable to fill your smelters, you need more ore. To get more ore, you need more trains and probably more mining outposts. If you're unable to get more trains, because more trains will result in train congestion, you need longer trains to get more throughput with the same amount of trains. ...

AFAIK, the game is already done, and they are just testing everything, and probably tuning somethings... or at least that what they said in a FFF whose number I can't remember Small adjustments in values can make a huge difference in gameplay, so the finetuning in the last days before release can h...

Yes and no, I plan to have a timer not just limited to preventing an extra fuel cell from being inserted. I plan to have an infinite scalable 2xN nuclear reactor layout. It's an interesting new challenge with the more direct sensors of temperature and fuel content. Reading fuel is directly replacin...

I'm sorry to get somewhat salty, but I don't want to have real fights in Factorio.[...] I don't think you will necessarily have to boss fight, imo, that is similar to the game terraria, where you can do the boss fight "the intended way", or you can set up automated kill zone with traps an...

I'm sorry to get somewhat salty, but I don't want to have real fights in Factorio. I didn't buy Factorio because of the fights. And now even a planet full of bosses. I hate boss fights, everywhere, in all games. I abandon games that contain them. An enemy with big texture and 10x more health that ta...

Tesla guns ! It seems I forgot about the portable tesla variant. When I revisit the fff, I remember that "It may not do as much damage as some of the other weapons...", in combination with it requiring manual firing, made me not consider it as top priority for further investigation. It do...

The nerf is a good thing, it will allow you to stop using the lazy PLD and try the new weapons imo. What new weapons? I speak about portable weapons, not the new turrets, because the nerf isn't relevant for stationary weapons. I'm all in favor for damage over defense, because it's damage that kills...

[Edit: ugh, sorry, I overlooked you're looking for modding, not for constructing. Sorry. But may be you get an idea to indirectly find the information you seek. As far as I remember, the devs said it's not possible to build the detection you seek into the game itself, because the belt system simply ...

I'm doing exactly this to expand the territory: build a self made artillery outpost blueprint, wait until the artillery shot down everything in range, then move the outpost. It's some balance between automation, convenience and custom (not automated) task. Something it's even thrilling, if the train...

The CPU overhead of the ingame steam overlay, while it isn't showing? I would say zero. Nothing. Additionally, modern CPUs have more CPU cores Factorio is able to use, so if the overlay wakes up to check if it has nothing to do, this would take place on some core that hasn't anything to do anyway. T...