Heavy Oil to Solid Fuel: Heavy > 23k You are slightly better off converting heavy oil to light, and then solid fuel in terms of resource usage. You need 20 heavy oil to get one solid, and 10 light oil. 40 heavy oil can be cracked into 30 light oil, so 80 heavy oil gives 60 light and that is 6 solid...

I too sense a lack of experience. You have probably built and placed a radar, but I suspect you are yet to automate blue science. Do people usually automate science? Handcrafting requires no energy (so less coal wasted for assembler energy and 0 pollution) and automatically crafts the entire produc...

Also it doesn't make sense that you would put so many in a satellite. We all know that 1 radar is a 2x2 building. 5 of them is 20 tiles. How is that going to fit inside the rocket? Seems very unrealistic Radar is 3x3. Examples of 2x2 buildings would be the burner miner and furnace. Factorio, along ...

You can connect a circuit to a signal to force it to red. Possibly use the logistic network output from a roboport. Not normally needed though, not entirely sure what you are going for. Generally letting a train load/unload "naturally" works out OK for any fairly basic setup. You can also ...

How are you managing your train routes? If a train only has one destination, e.g. because you disabled all the stations for the others, it will sit at that station. Normally this will mean my trains will wait either at the pickup or dropoff end if there is nothing to do. Whichever end you decide to ...

from a gameplay perspective I don't think it matters. As I said, my main point is that "vanilla feels like a mod with huge chests". Nobody actually needs it. The only real use for huge chests is to manually move huge amounts of crafting materials. And that is a wrong behavior. Moving item...

Train wagons already have an unrealistically massive capacity. 8 times capacity would make most trains only 1 or maybe 2 wagons long. Look at a real train for say a coal mine or power plant, those things have dozens, even over a hundred of wagons. Not the 2-8, maybe 12 in Factorio with the current ...

I would increase cargo wagon capacity at least with factor of 8 to fit with chests (I would accept decreasing of maximum speed to 100 km/h). Then trains could work like trains, slow but large volume transport system. Now they are more like toy trains, superfast short trains with unrealistically low...

You don't need a mod for this. Get an "infinity-chest", then set it to remove items placed in it.

It is not craftable in game, so you need to use a /c command to get some.

To encourage alternate styles of factory, where it is easier to process exact numbers of items. Provides an alternative to large, messy belt networks for low-volume items before logistic robots have been fully researched. For example: the ingredients to science packs are an ideal candidate. You can...

Increasing the overall packet size for incoming packets should improve the situation here. Currently, the packet size is about 500 bytes (660KiB/1300 packets). A normal network MTU is about 1500 bytes (including headers). so there is at least some room for improvement. Going too large may introduce...

If I'm laying a blueprint but don't have all the exact parts to fulfill it, it would be nice to make some substitutions. For example, iron chests instead of steel chests. You can use an upgrade planner to change most of these items within the blueprint before placing. Also you can place over existi...

Probably too small payload for each transmitted packet. 660K/1800 ~ 320 bytes of payload per packet, i'm not sure they even using TCP for bulk data transfer, and I think they should. If I recall they said previously that they don't use TCP because it is another thing for firewalls and NAT to break ...

4% prod, -15% speed 6% prod, - 15% speed 10% prod, -15% speed If a player puts 3 prod 1's into a refinery, they'll have 12% productivity at a cost of -45% speed (and + 120% energy consumption) -- they would have to basically double their number of refineries to achieve the same net amount of produc...

Take oil patch. Convert all output into solid fuel. Burn it in boilers. Infinite power plant done. Is it a no-brainer too? Infinite-ish but requires a lot more planning. More likely is having tankers transport oil. Certainly more interesting than having construction bots build thousands of solar pa...

You can connect a circuit to a roboport to get the number of construction and logistics bots. Just separate them first then let inserters dump extra into say an active provider (then that goes to a storage that then gets sent out of the network). Normally to build a new area I would never link it to...

So I spent some hours into my new base. I followed Nilaus from YouTube and used some of his blueprints. base.jpg I think I will not survive it though: evolution.jpg I didnt even set up red circuits and blue science.. Biters are not a problem atm, but I think when they get to big biters and behemoth...

The thing the game lacks that you have in real life is maintenance costs and inconsistency, and in most parts of the world, land value, and environmental concerns. As I know, upkeep of solar panels is negligible. And in-game character doesn't bother about land value and environmental concerns. As I...

I think solar power is ok. It has high initial cost and has ridiculously low power density. Just like in real life. It isn't bad for game. Also in real life wind power is 24/7 but has even lower (~2 times) power density, that's why I'm not sure if game needs it. The thing the game lacks that you ha...

What you mean get them back?

Bots can just stay in their own network, to build a new network remotely you can "seed" it using a requester+conveyor+roboport with some circuits, all within range of a previous network.