Today I noticed for the first time, that imo the ingame recipe for uranium processing is not 100% clear. It states what are the chances for U-238 and U-235 to be the result, but it does not state how many of them. It says, that the input is 10 uranium ore, but on the output side, there are only the...

does anyone know is electric network ups usage affected by amount of poles/substations in any significant way or its depends mostly on entities using power? AFAIK it is only affected by number of entities. The power network itself only needs to be updated once and the number of poles does not matte...

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Sun Jun 13, 2021 3:20 pm

why tf is this not pumping? (see atachments)

Because there is nothing in the pipeline.

I played a map once with tree spreading. It turned into a jungle base. I used https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Noxys_Trees and recommend it for that trees don't grow on paved tiles with that mod (otherwise they would drive you nuts). And https://mods.factorio.com/mod/CharcoalBurner along with it (you w...

Hey, that is exactly how my refineries look like, just with wires for the perfect chaos!

Ok, seriously, that is a very nice, creative and artistic birthday present. You did something right.

I think I found it. "show-active-state" shows little red circles over entities, which are not in a working state. Studying it, it seems that being cut off vs insufficiently powered makes no difference regarding the state. Also entities which were inactive under power, also stay inactive i...

I was wondering what is more UPS friendly, cut power or insufficient power. Cut power: Area is disconnected from the power grid / there are no power suppliers in the area / yellow "plug" icons are flashing over entities Insufficient power: Area has power suppliers, which are not producing ...

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If it is going to be changed, I would make it green. From the players view: Green = protective red = dangerous But, ... Wube probably feels that all weapons are dangerous, which I fully support. Therefore, not dropping the educational responsibility and keeping turrets red on the map is ok to me as ...

Yes, but that would mean I also could use dedicated trains. Because, what if I just need 250k steam there? That would be 5 trains, not 16. Part of the context is, that all steam supply on the whole map is handled by a lot of 1-2 trains with one name for pickup stations and 1 name for dropoff. Well,...

Aha, context is king:) So each station has to have a guaranteed throughput of 3K/s -> 1 train every 16.6 seconds. Correct? No. Each twin station has to have a continuous tp of 6k/s (2 pipes limited at 3k/s). The trains unload from the two twins of a twin station alternatingly (circuit controlled). ...

That is off topic, but since I failed to hide the context good enough to not make readers curious :D : All 4 stations feed into the same supply line, which needs 24k steam/s unloaded from 1-2 trains (for 2 GW of power). Each "station" unloads at 6k/s and in reality is a twin unloading sta...

Ah, yes of course. Logic instead of arithmetic. This simplifies the combinator setup considerably: evenSplitRemainderOf4.2.jpg 0eNrdl9uOmzAQht9lpN5UZBtzhove7GNUK8TByY4EBhkTNYp499rQJiQBFmeRGu1NJIPnn5n/i7F9giRvaMWRCQhPgGnJagh/naDGPYtz9UwcKwohoKAFGMDiQo1ijuK9oALTTVoWCbJYlBxaA5Bl9DeEpDU+1Mhoihnl4wJm+2YA...

I have 4 train unloading stations (S1, ... S4). Equally named to unload the same things. And depending on demand I calculate how many supply trains (T) should go there. As I want to optimize throughput, I am distributing the supply trains to the 4 stations as equal as possible, using the train limit...

Are those prioritized among equally named stations, which have a higher train limit set?

Eg. 2 stations with same name, one with a train limit of 2 and the other one with a train limit of 1.
Would the first available train then be sent to the station with the higher train limit?

Thank you!

How many trains are sent to identically named stations when same limit is set in each station? Eg 2 stations with same name, the train limit in each of the stations is set to 2 and there are 10 possible trains with that station name as next stop. Will 2 trains go to each of the stations or 1 to each...

How far is "far" away? Can you reproduce this and show us a sandbox example? This might be useful for troubleshooting the problem.

Here is a simple setup that - activates the supply station if the number of bots falls below a set lower limit (MN) - unloads bots until the number of bots is above a set limit (MX) The min and max limits are set as negatives, because then they automatically can be subtracted from the numbers read f...

Some time ago I ran into some undocumented behavior of surface.map_gen_settings . It seems that a value of lower than 1/6th (0.166667) for the frequency of ore patches ( used in surface.map_gen_settings.autoplace_controls ) has no effect in game. The docs though do not state any limits as there is ...