Almost same time and suggestion: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=23249

However the "entire intersection is one block" leads to unneeded delays when trains that take non-intersecting paths both try to use the intersection. Adding extra chain signals to the intersection to split it up will lead to less delays Agree. But as it is it's very simple and working. A...

herkalurk wrote:

Rockstar04 wrote:NEeds signals on both sides for 2 way travel

Signal Rail Signal

S || S

Didn't realize that, that fixed the train route immediately.....

It wasn't on the wiki until now. Now it is there, so hopefully it will help.

I've seen many discussion on railways signals - how to effectively use them to have non-blocking crossings etc. As I'm quite new to the game, I could make mistakes, but seems like I've created quite a simple principle for newbies to work with crossings or side-lanes. And that principle works with si...

It would be proper to have level crossings. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Bourke-Docker_Street_level_crossing.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_crossing There is quite a number of train deaths that could be prevented by this simple solution. It could be even "anti-cr...

As far as I know nothing useful happens if you send a rocket into space either with satellite or without it. It's just an abstract victory condition.

Thank you.

Now it's on the wiki.

Discovered today - correct me if I'm wrong, please. I have built two-directional single track for several trains and several routes. I had some problems with "no path" until have discovered simple (but unobvious!) railway signal rule (trick?): there must always be double-signal on the sing...

90 accumulators are using up their stored energy (hopefully at a rate well less than the max). No hope for that, since we are talking about a case when accumulators became fully discharged. The 10 accumulators are just transferring energy from the steam gens at their max rate (300 kW). That's right...

thanx

then after 90 accs have been discharged (out of 100 total) how could ten charged accs power whole factory including defenses? Wont your defenses work 10 times slower (and the whole factory too)?

What is the night (and day) duration in seconds? From the electric power graph it seems a night is much shorter than a day, but how long it is?

I'd like to count accumulator capacity for a device running all night, let's say a mining drill (well, few of them) or a radar.

It's still too complex for my 3-years-old brain %) I'll try to explain and you fix my mistakes, if any. There is "main factory" grid - like with production of the bots, batteries, blue science, etc. And there is the "critical grid" -- like with coal mining and defences, isolated ...

Thank you for clearing that out.

Does inserter consume power if it's connected but stays still?
Does assembling machine consume power if it's not working, like when it has no input materials, for example?

ssilk wrote:Then you don't even have to cross pipes. Much luck in finding working layouts.

I suppose, it is totally possible, isn't it?
Like we sure can cross underground and aboveground pipes, can't we?

You can use side-loading into an underground belt for this task and it will work. Because intake of an underground belt is half below ground, it takes only one lane of side-loaded conveyor. Another lane of that conveyor will be stuck.

https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?tit ... ound_belts

Well, at the moment you can only take from 12 belts on every assembly machine. So, we definitely need such a useful "multi-multi-belt-inserter" Not to mention the possibility to supply at least 24x48 different items using bots. Because of course bots are not the case.

In fact, there is enough place to put a two beacons per this design without even reserving additional space: Green2.JPG Every beacon will affect all 5 corresponding assembling machines, and one copper machine will be affected even by two beacons :) But I'm not using modules at the moment. It just do...

It would be convenient if we could press RMB for the starting point of a conveyor belt and release it for the ending point (like with rails in development). Much less of human errors, I suppose. Probably just use "direct path", not avoiding obstacles, maybe with underground belts where nec...