Personally I don't see the point in trying to support mid-game mod adding/removal.

Read any of the last two blog posts.

Regarding your last point, yeaganer, take note that *any* change in the map generation process results in highly noticeable terrain and resource discontinuities. I would not be surprised in the least if any modification to RSO after map start resulted in that. The discontinuity isn't as big a proble...

My initial guess would be a non-alphanumeric character throwing a wrench in a parse somewhere. Just happened to be in this long name.

Is there anyway to get the harvesters to ignore certain ores? I'm getting a crash when I run harvesters over ore deposits with Underground Mining enabled. add an entry to this section of harvester.lua -- No fluids. if game.entityprototypes[ore.name].resourcecategory == "basic-fluid" -- No...

Welp. You wanted ores to be rarer. Enjoy!

They talked about lightening the processing load with something like that, but I don't know how it'll actually work, or if they've even solidly committed to that approach.
Something I'll be keeping an eye out for in the next release. Can't say much about it until then.

When done properly this is guaranteed to result in the same number of items coming out of each output belt * , due to the deterministic way Factorio runs. *as long as there are no item collisions on belts. As pointed out earlier, it's theorized that corners won't matter with the next patch, but I h...

I'm also waiting. :P I guess I don't have recent experience (several months actually) to draw on to provide examples, but I definitely remember doing this at one point. :| Could be that I specifically turned onto a spur and made the spur of a specific length, so that it would always sync up compared...

False alert, it was equalizer chests that we used in conjunction with the splitters. Since removing EC, we've played over 20 hours with splitters and it works fine. However, when placing splitters onto existing items, one can get "control.lua:105: LuaEntity API call when LuaEntity was invalid....

Personally, I make all my T-junctions without inner signals, and outgoing signals at least a train's distance from the nearest junction.
Tends to be slower on average than this system could be, but it's deadlock-proof and slightly faster than a full roundabout.

Now that is one messed up monitor and/or graphics card.
Best of luck in getting it fixed/replaced.

I'd say you shouldn't ever deconstruct it, and should just leave the FARL parked on a spur wherever you decide to stop expanding.
Means some possibly tedious reversing, but if it's never removed, it should always keep the same reference point, thus always laying the pattern at the same interval.

Smart inserters always activate when wired up without conditions. Vanilla feature.

On the topic of belts, here's something I came up with that I suppose there's a chance someone else might be interested in. While it is somewhat large and unwieldy due to the extra bits of track needed to cause side-loading, it is smaller than the first two versions I tried. The purpose is to accep...

From what I gather based on posts, that 1.3 is used as an exponential on the distance from start variable? Unless that distance is being measured in chunks or larger (regions I believe?) then you should stick to something at 1.01 or less. If it's a linear multiplier instead, then 1.1 should be fine,...

There's a big jump in received damage between medium and big.

I guess I'm a bit screwed then cause I'm usually keeping my pollution low. (to the point that I'm 23.5h into my current game -shadowmegamod pack - and I was attacked only 3 times) Yea, looking for full balance and functionality in a community modpack is rather pointless. A single author's pack is a...

Any word on the "battery farming"?

Also, congrats on finally getting a dedicated section.
Not like this mod was the first to integrate experience points or anything

It's an item that's used as a fuel (not a fuel item) to create buttloads of energy at low pollution rates. Can't make it a fuel item obviously, or you could use it in anything that takes fuel. If it spreads very slowly and maintains a very low maximum density (thinking single digits/tile), it might ...