I even have a few underground belt designs of my own, I just dislike relying on something that feels like a bug (even if it isn't) to split belts. Plus it's clumsy. Corner belts: https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Belt_transport_system Tip: slow down the speed and zoom very high in, tu...

How do corner belts work? This is two inside corners, but facing outwards. If the current engine can handle splitters and corners already I see no reason why it couldn't handle this (of course there may be reasons I can't see). Edit: The blue box is the outline of the unzipper. The yellow machinery ...

I've spent a couple of hours messing around with belts and splitters, trying to make something that acts like this (Photoshop): http://i.imgur.com/QLyJ47v.png I don't know if it's clear from that picture, but I want to make a 1x1 square entity that splits an incoming belt, with the left side being e...

It makes most of the tech-tree involving meticulous coal mining and production completely redundant, thus taking away half the challenge of the game. I wouldn't say that (granted I've had the game less than a week). I still have to mine the coal to run the furnaces, it's just that it's burned in bo...

No joy, unfortunately, but thanks for the idea.

As an exercise in learning how to mod, I made a variant of the stone furnace that runs on electricity. However, as it doesn't use a burner it doesn't emit any light. I tried using the light code from the research lab but it had no effect on a furnace: light = {intensity = 0.75, size = 8}, For refere...

Fisherman wrote:Too easy.

How fortunate then, that we live in a society in which you are free not to download and play this mod

Problem solved:
https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=3358

I wanted an early-game electric furnace , so I made one: http://i.imgur.com/anfONsz.jpg Recipe: 1 x Stone Furnace 1 x Iron Plate 1 x Electronic Circuit Now with advanced electric furnace and associated research! http://i.imgur.com/zGeXDUe.jpg Uses 1.5x the power of the electric furnace, and smelts ...

Like burner inserters?

So why not also have a simple electric furnace with no module slots?

As the thread title says. I started a new game (my first) and I see I start with coal- and electric-powered versions of inserters and drills and electrical generators already available for construction, and yet and electrical furnace is buried in the tech tree and requires several hundred green scie...