I haven't found a better solution than putting 2 balancers in series to fix the throughput problems. There are clos networks which are theoretically the "right" way to do it, but the balancers I've found based on clos networks have more balancers in them than the doubled balancers I've fo...

My old inline balancer is 11x8 and works with yellow belts:

We can easily call it game mechanics right? You can, but I wouldn't do so. After all belts got changed to be exactly 40 items per second for consistency and north facing inserters are also finally fixed for the next version. Another example was carryover of crafting time which affected every machin...

I wouldn't consider a bug. The machine needs to start smelting new piece of fuel, lets say it takes one tick. Doesn't this have a greater impact on items that burn quicker (meaning you lose a tick more often - nearly once per second for wood)? It's negligible for long burning items like rocket fuel...

In a simple 1 boiler -> tank -> 2 steam engines setup the tank looses 1 steam every 3751±1 updates. My test setup: http://i.imgur.com/1kxVbcd.png Edit: Further investigation reveals that the boiler does not produce steam for a tick if the craft cycle finishes. Since I used rocket fuel I got ~3750 ti...

I disagree with both of you though. This compendium is a complete set of balancers that all have to follow the same conditions. There will not be some arbitary threshold of "small" balancers that are lane balancers when the rest is not. Also this is specifially a compendium of balancer whi...

sparr wrote:[...] so they aren't strictly inline. Are they lowest area?

I am pretty sure that the conditions in my OP were pretty unambiguous, but yes no inline and smallest area to satisfy the other conditions.

That is a fair point, but the first entry of the changelog was

Added rail block debug visualization.

That was it. To be fair it was not mentioned in the change log.

When zooming from map you used to only see radar covered areas like in the normal game view. In 0.15.10 everything has the normal view when zoomed in past the threshold zoom level.

https://youtu.be/p9Q5SpSK4Og

I released version 1.4 which features support for vanilla blueprint strings. By default it additionally reads from clipboard if you don't specify a file.

After one minute of running the save it stabilizes at ~22.3UPS. Factorio is very sensitive to ram bandwith and latancy, thighter timings do matter: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/4h647g/factorio_performance_test_cpuram_based_fpsups/ http://i.imgur.com/905LnQP.png http://i.imgur.com/2eSPM...

Hi I Used this save http://www.tuwr.net/~factorio/factory%201%20-%20568hr.zip (without mods) on Factorio 0.15.3 On I5-2500 3.30GHz I got 19.5 UPS On Ryzen 7 1800X OC 4.1GHZ + DDR4 3200GHz I get 22.5 UPS This is bad, a mid-range CPU from 7 years ago have almost the same preference as a new, overcloc...

... so when looking at the conclusion it still doesn't pay off? I made the math today indepenently and came to the conculusion that you can get over 50% more energy out of your coal when utilizing prod3 + speed3 beacons: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/689q1p/math_coal_liquefaction_for_s...

I created a vanilla 0.15 blueprint book string for the compendium: https://pastebin.com/24NZkPsa

I haven't play tested it yet but have a look. 133k/h green circuits. If you replace one of the fast inserter per copper cable assembler with a stack inserter it goes up to 143k/h green circuits. That is less than 1% off from the full 40/s limit of the output belt, very impressive. H4sIAAAAAAAA/8VZ7...

1) Yes, requires both stack boni for non stack inserters and is highly unstable. Even slight disturbances can drop production down to 2.3k/min. http://i.imgur.com/arrLXNE.png 2) Inserters can drop items on the ground and pick up items from the ground, they don't give it directly to the next inserter...

https://www.factorio.com/download list all latest major versions down to 0.6

I posted a green circuit design on reddit a while back and just now found this thread. With its 40x17 footprint it is quite a bit smaller than the ones here. http://i.imgur.com/EDVsSJZ.png H4sIAAAAAAAA/7Vb7W6jSgx9lSi/w1WGENJqlWdZUTK3RSKAgOh2FeXdL4Wqm07Ac+xxf0WKsGd8fGzPl0/1qqzzrFz9Pl5t1Rd9Ybvj9VplZ3t...

GeniusIsme wrote:Last time I checked, you can not put efficiency modules into electric furnaces.

You could do that already in 0.8.8 which is the first version of factorio that I played. It was released on Jan 09, 2014. When did you last check?