You didn't mention the possibility to move containers around, right? I mean that cranes are often used for freight trains or ships to load containers; in our case, we could prepare a container in the train station, there's time to load it slowly, with any desired content. When the train arrives, poo...

[...] But that brings up a question, do you spam out robo ports to connect your logistic networks at the storage and mining sides, or do you run logic wire along power lines? It seems that it would be a pain to have a very remote mining station connected in some way to know what is in the storage b...

Yep, my first free play I rushed to the flight tech. And then I looked for the airplane.
Huh, no airplane??

I guess that's for the scenario only, unfortunately

No, the setup I'm trying to describe does not filter with the chests on the train line. These chests can accept anything, but in order that any wagon can be unloaded, they cannot be allowed to fill up. So they cannot be used to feed the consumers (the furnaces) directly. Between the 'first row chest...

This question is more about how to share a station for different trains and goods than about unloading with robots I guess. You can limit the loading of the wagon in the mining outposts with circuit network. You have to connect outposts with, say, green wires, you load the wagons only if ore is less...

The wooden plank is coming from the shotgun, which uses an odd number of planks.
Quite an annoyance in my opinion.

Gammro wrote:I was already thinking you guys went to get beers to celebrate the new release

Cheers

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So the previous release was updater only, this one is download only.. Interesting experiment..

So far my preferred tactic is to design as small as possible for a given purpose, and then redesign larger in the next location for the next purpose, and once the new chain is ready, destroy the initial chain (I like that part a lot, removing all the old bad designed stuff. Didn't do it yet with log...

The steel coming onto the iron/copper belt is because you used the coal belt to carry iron plates up. A steel furnace consumes iron ore slightly faster than the drill can supply, so when it's empty, the coal inserter might catch an iron plate and the furnace start producing steel. Great series! The ...

While we're discussing statistics screens, a simple thing that is really missing are axis with units on graphs (mainly vertical, but horizontal is not superfluous too)

If I understand correctly the scanners do not 're-scan' their area.
They scan first and discover nests in their big range, but then they don't touch it anymore. They remain active in their small range though, which is highlighted on the map. There you see the biters bases and movements in real time.

I agree with this, I actually made the same suggestion a few days ago: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... f=6&t=3987

Minor annoyance yes, but minor change and that would make the chest limiter much cleaner.

Also, when you change the fuel type, it will not change by itself, so you have to kickstart again with the new fuel type (say, when switching from coal to solid fuel.)
That could probably be improved

I'd say it's only showing the logistic bots, not the construction bots.

My questions to you, dear reader, are: [/b] -Do you think that any of these decisions/problems are interesting? Definitely! -Or do you think that the game is already complicated enough without these nonsense? Absolutely! Seriously, Factorio is an awfully complex game. After a few tentative free pla...

Ah yes, it works better when taking the hardness of 0.9 into account! In this case, we get - miner output = .5 / .9 ore/s = .55 ore/s - smelter output = 2 / 3.5 plate/s = .57 plate/s With my 7 miners and 7 steel furnaces, I get consumption = 7 * .55 = 3.9 ore/s = 233 ore/min, which is in between the...

I'm trying to understand the production numbers, but it doesn't add up. I'm starting from the beginning, so the iron production. The thread Calculating production is asking a similar question, but there's no clear answer. In my scenario, I have 7 electric miners and a cumulated smelting speed of 14 ...

You should try to burn them, it feels quite satisfying

It's a big electric pole, with a large coverage.

Hopefully it hasn't been suggested already. It's a very simple suggestion, it would be convenient if inserters consume chests from the end rather than the beginning. The use case is that I try to balance the goods between several aligned chests, typically to load a wagon or to feed the ore belt from...