While I'm not absolutely focused on efficiency, I'm always interested in hearing why one layout is more efficient than another. Also, I'm not clear on how the chain signals on a rotary works. Isn't that the same as making the rotary a single block, so only one train can use it? If having a train in ...

It's been a while (over a year, really) since I played, and with the release of 0.12, I was thinking about getting back into Factorio. In preparation for that I was reading the Creations board, to see what (if anything) people have done with the new features. I ran into some negative remarks about l...

I don't see how it's possible to win New Hope level 3. I can establish a base that let me convert my starting resources to whatever I want. I can mine stone so I have a ton of walls. But that's not enough. I can wipe out the isolated nests, but once I try moving toward the southeast, the pods there ...