Gun turrets don't beat medium biters. Unless you have a huge numbers advantage.

Generally you want to fight small biters with gun turrets, medium biters with laser turrets, and large biters with destroyer bots.

Yes, I know you hate the early game and have the beeline for trains memorized.

But giving more REAL choices in the early game makes it more re-playable for people who are interested in that stuff.

This is a bit tough. As with burner miners and burner inserters, there's nothing to do with them once you get to the higher tech as they're not used in any of advanced recipes. Burner assembling machines will extend the life of burner miners and burner inserters, since you can build assembly lines ...

The dominant opening strategy is to rush for Automation and build assembling machines. This makes a lot of sense, since automating things is what the game is about. But Automation requires research labs, and research labs require electricity. So electricity rush is also the dominant strategy. I sugg...

Delivering flasks to the labs works well, because research times increase from 30 to 60 in the endgame. So you can always build exactly as many labs as you need. (Unless you want to spend 750 science on lab efficiency 3+4...) Using two blue science assemblers would take up a lot more space, but if t...

The game requires your login details to update itself, if you don't want to be surprised you can simply not enter them.

Check the posting dates of each update here: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=3

Nice ideas there Madlax!

Here is T1-4+Lab in a 16x16.

Because smaller is better. :D 16x17.jpg Tricks used: Assembler chain: Whenever possible, assemblers insert their output directly into another assembler. The fast/smart inserter, gear wheel/transport belt, and electronic/advanced circuit ignore this pattern to use the space in the corners. The four b...

Say I am unloading a cargo wagon. I have a high-capacity train stop with 2 rows of 6 smart chests on each side (24 smart chests and 24 smart inserters total). I want 80 total items (green network condition < 80). The first row of inserters (with +4 size bonus) unloads 60 items into the first row of ...

I want to limit the number of items in my green network. No matter which chest or inserter they are in.

Counting chests gives a rough estimate, but I am using a LOT of inserters and it makes a difference for me.

It could be as simple as +1 armor to enemies in darkness, to represent the increased difficulty to hit them.

Items being held by a smart inserter currently do not count as part of the circuit network. I am using a smart inserter to transfer items between two smart chests on the same circuit, and it makes my item count fluctuate.

Please add items being held by a smart inserter to the network total.

He is just one member of the advance team sent to secure a landing site for a wave of colonists. (The whole team is trained in engineering and combat.)

Unfortunately the rest of his team gets wiped out by the Biter air defenses, so he has to complete the mission alone.

The first bug is, there is no place for bug reports about the forum. ;) Now the real problem. I use Google to search forums, it is so much better than the built in search. Unfortunately this forum has blocked Google Bot from seeing anything. Here is a screenshot from Google Cache: google.png Please ...

Even more compact design with 10x11 footprint.

The iron and copper inserters are wired to a smart chest. Iron flows while gears < 10, and copper flows while copper < 10. This is needed to stop the cargo wagon from filling with raw materials.

An empty tile soaks up 0.0005 pollution. [1] A brown tree soaks up an additional 0.0001 pollution. A healthy tree soaks up an additional 0.0005 pollution. [2] But even dense forests have 3-4 tiles per tree, so you're looking at a max of about -30% pollution. More like -10% if only one edge of your b...

In the "Electric network info" panel, there are two green bars for consumption and production. They look very similar to a bar graph, and are the most eye-catching thing on the page. So the first time a newbie opens the panel, they say, "Oh no! My consumption bar is bigger than my pro...

Here is a tech tree in the style of Civ5, another game I have spent many hours playing.

Factorio Tech Tree