I've heard that its very difficult to play Factorio without some outside knowledge It depends. It may not look nice and have the "correct" ratios, but it's very much possible to play the game and figure the basics things out on your own. Newbie bases like that have their own charm even. I...

Just use Shuttle Train Refresh. It does everything you want and more.

Mods aren't a big deal. You can add and usually remove them during an ongoing game.

And then how is that stuff getting to the bus itself without causing a mess of everything? I don't really understand the problem. At the start of the bus you either have your smelters and bring in the ore by train eventually. Or you bring in the plates by train from off-site smelters. You can also ...

This really confused me until I remembered operator precedence: At first glance this looks like you're taking the address of the this pointer

One tile of belt can hold a certain amount of items. Length doesn't matter. If you try to put on more there isn't enough space. So you can can only move a certain amount of items along a belt per second - depending on the speed (i.e. the tier) of the belt. https://wiki.factorio.com/Belt_transport_sy...

You don't have to do this based directly on the bots in the network. You can keep a chest with a few bots at an outpost. And insert into the network from that chest (limit the inserter depending on the network statistics). Then call a train when the bots in the chest fall below a certain number. Tha...

It can be done, but I don't think it's worth the effort. One wagon can fit more than enough requester chests to use one per item type

By the way, if you want to turn cracking on and off it's easier to switch pumps instead of using power switches

What is reasonable or not depends on your taste. You can definitely build a large base with biters activated. But some people consider clearing out new areas tedious. Which it can be. Even using artillery can get repetitive. A compromise is to turn expansion off. Then you only need to clear areas on...

There are several settings in the graphics options that lower graphics memory usage. Which in your case is probably shared with your RAM

It really depends on the scale you build at. 1000 or 2000 SPM is a megabase too. And doesn't necessarily need extreme amounts of optimization. You certainly don't need to worry about nonsense like visible trees if you have pollution or biters activated in the first place. You probably shouldn't do w...

SimpCommander wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:11 pm

but when i try to run it manually it works fine

Signals don't matter in manual mode. They are for automatic trains.

Well, you listed almost all the big and popular overhaul mods. Krastorio is the most approachable of those. The one you didn't mention is Industrial Revolution 2, which easily comes with the best graphics of all the large mods Another option is to pick several smaller mods to add things that interes...

You're only feeding half a lane into your smelters. The issue is in the area where you merge the iron with the coal. Do this instead: https://forums.factorio.com/download/file.php?id=62162 The splitter takes a full belt and divides into two half-belts. One goes up and one down. And then you supply c...

I don't literally don't see the problem. I understand what you get confused about, but for me it's clear

I hope they are not so nasty as in the tutorial, since I have then control over weapon and ammo production, and because I read you respawn after death. I thought it was game over as in the tutorial. On normal settings it's not that bad. The first few attacks aren't very strong and can be easily han...

Backstop5 wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:34 pm

you cannot use productivity modules in this set up.

I used that for quite some time. Worked great. Then when they re-enabled productivity modules for Kovarex I was very sad when it broke

Mixing train length is fine is you plan for it. The distance between junctions (for waiting) and the spacing between signals on long stretches should take int account the longer train size.

Hook up a wire to the train stop and set it to "read train contents". To truly only play a sound only once instead of constantly it gets more complicated however. You need a edge detector/pulse generator for that to turn the constant signal into a pulse: 0eNrNWEuO2zgQvUrA5UBqiLT802KAvkN2QS...

I kill a hundred or so pursuing me, does it achieves anything? It will raise slightly evolution, but are losses a real loss to the base? Killing biters does not increase evolution. Time, absorbed pollution and killing spawners does Biter expansion can be fine tuned during map generation: https://wi...