Um.. ew. As a module, no way. As a wholly new factory, that's a different matter. Such a factory should probably have a small number of internal storage slots for intermediary products, with only one or two slots for removal by inserter. Could be interesting for making a low-speed but highly compact...

Personally, I'd rather skip the storage chests than the provider ones. With Storage, you can't control what goes into them unless you never use provider chests. With Providers, only what you want put into them goes in. But either way, it's smart to wire them up to smart inserters to limit stockpiled...

zer0t3ch wrote:

DRBLN wrote:End of August is coming

And.......?

Way to read the OP.

The higher the raw costs in items produced, the bigger the overall gain from productivity bonuses. However, using them on end-item assemblers can be counter productive if that item isn't in constant production. Optimal placement is a matter of the highest res cost item that's being constantly produc...

Think red chests that can be physically extended to be accessed by more than 4 inserters at a time, and the cloud is limited to the adjacent chest tiles, but all items are present in all chests.

Warning lights, smorning lights.
Didn't your folks ever teach you to look both ways before crossing the tracks?

If difficulty is trivial, perhaps you should switch to geometric growth of waves?
Can't imagine you lasting long against attackcount * 2.
True sadists would opt for the attackcount * attackcount however. Creeper Hell would be a nice place compared to what results from that.

Modify/Replace the control.lua in the base mod within the data folder, then start a new game. Or, you'll need to manually reload the scripts within the save when you load it. (either "game.reloadscript()" or "game.player.force.reset()" should do the trick.) And deleting scripts.d...

I think reset's intention was that on mouse-over, the time remaining until that item in the queue is complete would be shown. (A sum of all time between that item, and all preceding items'.) This would be far less cluttered than individual timing, and be far more useful than the time for individual ...

Just a post to share my best time yet on Champion: Just under 1:15.

Personally, I think this would kill the enjoyment of early game development, considering the amount of time it can take to go from the default 8 iron plates into power production, and that's with the current powerless belts. (and it feels grind-like most of the time after the 3rd or fourth time you'...

A partial supply load is probably best represented as 1/2-1/4 (one of two-one of four), if anything at all. Using unusual symbols would be counter-intuitive, and there aren't any that are really applicable. The plus-minus and the tilde are for measuring an inaccurate number, the .. and ... generally...

Telarin wrote:The ore hopper would be a storage building for handling large amounts of ore more efficiently than chests:

+1

It's that: Now every chest has its own look. Even as beginner player you see them and know how much is inside. So with stacks. Replace ^5 with an icon and ^6 with another. Then use it everywhere instead of numbers and you will be used to it very fast. Placing two of the icons is obviously the sum. ...

It helps limit the damage a spambot can do. It also help police normal users from spamming threads with pictures, and from using up too much server space too quickly. Splitting your posts to make more pictures shouldn't be a problem if they're legit, though I do agree that 3 seems a bit low. 5-7 wou...

No big reason not to scale up power production well before the need for it arises, as it only generates as much as will be used.
However, he's probably got all that power infrastructure because of the problems he's got in making power from the layouts he's using.

Personally, I'm surprised he's not having power issues with the boiler/engine setups he's got.

.6.3 and .6.4 were pushed out together, as mentioned by kovarex in his post.
Would be the expected behavior if they merged the fixes but not the update server's initial reply.

Not a problem from my view, as I'd rather one download to fully update, than several to inform me of specific steps.

item tiles = "aisles/isles"? :p An unusual take on the math, though there were several errors you made. Those I particularly noticed: You make a jump from comparing work units to aisles when you got to talking about bots. (The resulting work is 2*50 + 0*50 = 100 item tiles .) And as you po...

I've got to vote against the burner self-inserter, too OP and somewhat exploitable. As for the turrets, I'm against dropping it down to 10, but 100 does seem a bit too high. Maybe something like 40. It needs to be a significant number, so that your early un-automated lab protection can survive witho...