Disappointing, but perfectly acceptable.

It will help significantly if you create your map with a large starting area. This pushes the initial alien spawn points back a bit giving you more time before they become an issue.

After much monitoring and tweaking, I deem this to be the perfectly signalled 3-way intersection: Okay, your intersection was slightly different from what I use. And I can't wrap my brain around if the differences matter or not... I use driving on the left despite being in the US because I like hav...

In the attached save file, I'm standing right next to a train. If I instruct that train to go to the station "Empty Pickup" it reports "No Path". I'm not clear why. It should be able to select the right track at the first switch where it can make a choice, the left track at the ...

this will give you balanced 'side loading'. it will take from both halves of both belts. balanced.side.loading2.png mind the direction of the half used undergound belts. (R to rotate) Wow, took me a minute to understand what this was doing. Is that what the original poster was looking for? I have p...

I really like the resource patch information, that will be useful. I've considered downloading mods which do something similar, it will be nice to see it in the base game.

Zappes wrote:Your factory extracts oil from the pipe, only what's left is displayed.

I want to make sure I understand what you are saying...

You saying the throughput is being displayed, not the current contents of that section of pipe. Right?

We have some plans for DLC, or a free update Nothing is set in stone, but we have a lot ideas for factorio content that would that would fit nicely in something like an expansion pack or a 1.1 release Sounds freaking great. I'm chomping at the bit for .15 and glad to hear there is plenty more to co...

I won't claim my step is great, but I do like it. My main bus is just south of the screenshot running west to east.

I thought the default/standard for any large base short of a "mega-base" was four full blue belts of iron, four copper, 2 steel, 2 green circuits.

That's certainly been enough for me to get through most of the "Late Upgrades" research...

epiccraft_tv wrote:Is there an ETA for version 0.15 to be released?

The obvious answer is it can't be soon enough!

*shrug* I don't know if my base qualifies as a mega-base, but I have 800+ hours in mine and I only recently started thinking it was complete. Personally, I was mainly driven by wanting to increase capacity and efficiency. Re-did my smelting area twice, and had major rebuilds of most areas. I've been...

Better? Depends on what you want/need to accomplish. However for fast simple removal of fluids, picking up the tanks is hard to beat as a low tech solution.

I think you get it out of water? Never actually played Bob's but watched some Let's Plays...

The low tech solution for getting rid of fluids which are loaded up in tanks is to simply pickup up a full tank and put it back down -- this will remove the fluid.

The pump limits the flow? Without it the capacity is higher? Weird.

And thinking about it... a related question: What is the throughput capacity? Is an Assembly Machine 3 able to on it's own fill the throughput capacity of a pipe assuming complete usage on the other end?

Not sure if this belongs here or in the technical help.. I'm just trying to understand the game mechanics involved here. With this setup: oil from barrels.jpg The assembly machine on the bottom, gets nearly all the activity. The top one will occasionally empty a barrel, but not often. During a short...

Yep, build a wall! This one is a double-thick wall with full bot & turret coverage, and a train to resupply them. I was even OCD enough to put concrete "footings" under the entire wall, and pave under the entire rail... Check this out -- all laser turret protected and roboport with re...

Not in the vanilla game anyway, don't know if there is a mod that will allow that. I assume you are trying to load multiple specific items into a cargo wagon where all the slots are reserved for specific items. As far as I know the best way is to have a separate chest and inserter for each item. One...