Beautiful idea that I just had. Like it says, ctrl+click to add an item to the beginning of the craft queue instead of to the end. Perhaps, the item that is currently mid-craft, be it an intermediate or a component of another assigned craft or one of a stack of queued items, it will finish only that...

Programmer fonts are very good for avoiding issues like this, because it makes some key characters distinct. Such as, consolas (Microsoft ) or inconsolata. They're both very good for viewing code, and would avoid problems like this. I also use notepad++ by the way, I really like it for viewing code.

As for the PvP map generation, to spawn players radially as shown in the image on Friday Facts #159, you could just make the entire map radially symmetrical. 3 players get 3-way radial symmetry, 8 players get 8-way, etc.

Robotics and Flight ought to be integrated, because Construction and Logistics bots both require both of them. There's really no reason for them to be separate, they're prerequisites for the same things, and neither does anything useful by itself. Maybe, "Robotics and Flight" or "Flyi...

They accept donations. https://www.factorio.com/donations Cool. I didn't know about that. Though the donations wouldn't be enough to subsist on for a team, anyway. It's quite conceivable that it could be, this game is insanely popular, do you realize it has over half a million Steam purchases, at $...

This is my fault, I focus very much on optimizing early and mid game designs, in order to progress faster. I'm really not even making optimized designs with beacons yet, hah. That's just how I am, my design progress is just like the game progress, early game first. I'll get to that stuff once I feel...

Research doesn't have to be spaghetti mess, see how I do it in the signature. It kind of is finished now, I haven't played in a while and it works fine.

On the other hand, I intended to use splitters for merging different items into a single lane. In that case, per-item-type really gets in the way, because if you want to have a certain ratio of items on the output belt, it will mess it up. I do have more items (see https://forums.factorio.com/viewt...

In case anyone is curious about how this works, I sort of reverse engineered DaveMcW's single-digit hexadecimal one from two posts earlier. These were my notes. Signed int range: [-0x80000000, 0x7fffffff] = [-2^31, 2^31 - 1] const = 16^7 = (2^4)^7 = 2^28 = 0x10000000 const is a 1 in the leftmost hex...

I love this community. So much hype for 0.13. Now I'm kind of excited too. But, I wouldn't want it to be released prematurely.

Is there a way to use small pumps to make the 15 steam engine setup work with water tanks? I need to know if there's a way to shut off small pumps once tanks are full, and while combinations can provide for this inverted logic, I can't think of any that can react based on how full a storage tank is...

... I agree. I was thinking that not only should lab efficiency actually increase science pack efficiency, it should be an expensive and slow research option early on, which gradually becomes cheaper and faster as you clear out the rest of the tech tree. This way, if you find yourself late in the g...

None of the solutions are perfect, but in the end I kept "zero signal == no signal". So I fixed the situation mentioned by this report and the one posted by DaveMcW. Thanks for the reports guys, as usual let me know if you find more. You will see them in version 0.12.29. But, this isn't t...

... I think nuclear power would be a great mechanic because it can be "interesting" in that there's input and output, but the output would be the only resource in the game that requires disposal. (Whereas everything else is either constructed, consumed in a machine, or an intemediate inpu...

Oh, yes, you can do whatever you want with storage tanks and combinators, especially for fine control of cracking, like I just described in the other post https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8854&start=130#p164184 I use the "storage tank" signal to set the tank count, a...

Is there a way to use small pumps to make the 15 steam engine setup work with water tanks? I need to know if there's a way to shut off small pumps once tanks are full, and while combinations can provide for this inverted logic, I can't think of any that can react based on how full a storage tank is...

Before I started browsing designs on the forums, when I was making my engine layout, I was using the offshore pumps as they are here, adjacent to each other without the gaps. Stretches of straight shoreline are valuable, and it helps take advantage of them. There was a cross pipe connecting some of ...

I figured out a 3/42/30 which is fully tileable, low tech, and uses strings of 21 boilers. http://i.imgur.com/6ekhPwW.jpg ... You can compact the engines a bit and use half the poles on them, if you look at my layout on page 14. 4 engines per small pole instead of 2. Oh... but then, you still have ...

Cleverpanda wrote:@DerivePi, what program are you using to make those schematics?

I direct you toward this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=24320&p=154493&hili ... pi#p153906

I also only use my own blueprints. For now, that's... oil processing, research, solar/accumulator array, and smelter lines. (Oh, and a turret blueprint, I think it's 89 items, for 9 personal roboports. It's for combat use, not defense.) Next up, is probably some kind of inclusive blueprint for produ...