Lol this gave me a good laugh. :D It's actually a lot more entertaining than I thought it would be to beat biters with your gun, fist or pickaxe every once in a while. I actually had a save where I had set the game to peaceful, made a small base to build ammo and do research (slowly/1 lab) and then...

It's always better to put the modules late into the chain first, before you move to earlier steps. We know this, it's easily deduced, we do not need to know the total cumulative effect. Not quite true! It's actually best to place modules into the highest yielding recipes/assemblers in the chain, in...

Finally, you really shouldn't underestimate the savings on a whole production chain. If you have 2xprod3 in your smelter you only save 1 - (1/1.2)= 17% ore. However, assuming you use green circuits in bulk and have 4xprod3 modules in both cable and green circuit assemblers, you suddenly save 1-1/(1...

So I think I figured out how to get the best kind of map for building a mega base, and it's not quite what you would expect. One of the major annoyances to maintaining truly massive bases is the constant need to manually reposition ore miners, as well as how terrain (mainly water) can get in the way...

Since the resources on the map are technically finite, but massive (except Oil, which has infinite yield, but finite rate). If you want to produce as much stuff as you can, you should always use Productivity Modules where ever you can, because it effectively increases the yield of the resource depos...

No modules are in that chart I made though. There obviously is a mismatch in data, if you are right then the Foreman program is wrong. It'll still be some time before I test for myself how the numbers work. But I can tell you this, in my screenshot I have about 20 iron mines and less than 50% furna...

I have a question. The diagram shows 23 copper furnaces to 52 drills, or 25 iron furnaces to 54 drills. What is the correct ratio here? I thought the drill produces about the rate of 30/m (see also here https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12543&p=138770 ), so the correct ratio ...

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EDIT: Also, how in earth is it possible to make an oil network look THAT neat? Mine always looks like my pipe factory exploded (It did once, dont test explosive shells in base ......)

My guess is: pre-planning. I say guess because I'm still no good at it...

That thing that you are not accounting for is that at the start of dusk and near the end of dawn, solar production is already above demand, and hence the excess is charging your accumulators during those timeframes (this is net after the intended power usage). So the total time in which the solar pa...

~snip~ Keep in mind that one does not actually need to supply a belt with errors in it - I have a video that shows a fully compressed belt which simply starts with a bit of a mistake (the first 5 items are a little funky), which results in a tiny bottleneck, which sends a shockwave down one lane, w...

Tested the double 4-belt balancer (2 in a row), and it does appear to be near perfect throughput (rare errors that are likely rounding/simulation related). Such as: 20160509105728_1.jpg with 2/4 inputs and outputs used. This is part of why I made this thread: I wanted more examples to challenge my c...

I'm not 100% completely sure I understand the problem. You want a 4-to-4 balancer where you can disable 1 input and 1 output so you get a 3-to-3 balancer that outputs 3 full compressed belts when input 3 full compressed belts? I've just tried it, my solution is a 4-to-4 balancer connected to anothe...

I just did the math for the 4-to-4 balancer. When one input lane is disabled, one of the first splitters can output 2 full belts, the other outputs 2 half belts. For the next 2 splitters, both get full and half belt so it outputs 3/4 belt. The other wants to output 2 times 3/4 belt but can only out...

Here's something I designed for another project that you might be interested in: http://i.imgur.com/8KyALVx.png?1 You should be able to ignore the belt tier differences. Also, in the previous thread, all you need to do is place 2 8-belt balancers sequentially. I haven't gotten around to designing a...

I think you need many more definitions to formally specify what you are asking for in mathematically rigorous terms, if that's your objective. In fact, I think it's painfully difficult. For starters, I think the harder you look at it, throughput is not so easily defined in a way that matches our in...

So, based on the somewhat lengthy investigations I've done on belt balancers as part of this thread: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25008 It seems that is difficult (maybe impossible?) to design a 3-belt balancer that is universally throughput unlimited . By universally through...

So I put forth a design challenge to the community to see if anyone can come up with a 3-Belt Balancer that is actually universally throughput unlimited (maybe it's possible, idk; I was reading about splitters on the wiki today and noticed that looped splitter setups can produce divisions by arbitra...

So, based on the somewhat lengthy investigations I've done on belt balancers as part of this thread: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25008 It seems that is difficult (maybe impossible?) to design a 3-belt balancer that is universally throughput unlimited . By universally throughp...

Early game: In theory, you can turret hop, but it'll cost you. I know because I just tried it. I'm using RSO, RSO Radar, Long Reach, and More Light. My map had a bad initial layout. I started near some coal. The closest deposits of iron and copper were to the north. Far north. There was also a bite...

Frightning, I was able to replicate your issue and discovered why it was occurring: Due to how splitters work, a fully compressed belt will be split into two individual lanes upon splitting. If you don't reach an equilibrium, a shock in one lane backing up or a slight decompression can cause the sp...