I had 2 4-reactor NPPs running happily while I started designing the blueprints for my beaconed 10 sci/sec factory expansion. Then I dropped the blueprints for the roughly 60 lanes of iron and copper smelting, and suddenly my "infinite" power resource started giving me low power alarms ;) ...

Don't feel too bad. It took me about that long to figure out how to cancel deconstruction orders

You need to explain your problem a bit more carefully. 1) If you don't want to use robots, there is no reason to use a requester chest. 2) If you are simply using an inserter to add items to a chest, and don't want the chest to fill up completely, you can just limit the chest size (red X at the bott...

4. Leave no trace. Exit the planet on a rocket, leaving behind no remnants of your time there.

Factoruser wrote:At least the fuel content should be added to the train's cargo information.

Yes, as long as there is a way to differentiate coal in the fuel storage from coal in the cargo.

You can use double-headed trains to go in reverse (one engine at each end).

Possibly a silly question... why are you covering your ore patches with concrete?

Hmm the concrete near me has tons of "plant doodads" poking through it. Must be a bug in life.

I just watched a clever biter force take out a power pole connecting power to an outpost, then proceed to attack the (now defenseless) outpost. It's rare for biters to attack power poles, but it definitely happens.

I wonder if you could help this a ton simply by not playing the death anims for nukes? Realistically, a nuke would obliterate biters in an instant.

I highly approve. Using multiple rockets like a Newton's cradle to demonstrate momentum transfer sounds like a great idea. I think NASA or ESA should test this

I recommend making sure your screenshot clearly shows where you expect trains to go and where they are getting stuck.

You need 13 beacons around a silo before it becomes faster to use productivity 3 instead of speed 3 in the silo itself. Prod https://kirkmcdonald.github.io/calc.html#items=rocket-part:r:10000&ignore=low-density-structure,rocket-fuel,rocket-control-unit&modules=rocket-part:p3:p3:p3:p3;s3:26 S...

Or a radar outpost with its own solar panels. Unfortunately, however you do this it's ambiguous. Max instantaneous power production doesn't imply you can sustain that power production (for example, think of a nuke plant with extra steam storage - in a burst, you can use up steam and generate max pow...

Like this: 8Bus.PNG OK, snarkiness aside, it depends on what you're trying to do. If you're expecting the 4 lanes to pull pretty consistently near 100% capacity, there's no need for the bus to continue to be 8 lanes wide. If you're expecting each of the 4 lanes to pull at, say, 80% of full belt spee...

Yeah I can do that, but now I'm so unmotivated, balancing is used all over my base, kind of sad to change everything. Quick question - what is the actual problem? Don't say "the problem is it's unbalanced". What problem does the imbalance actually cause? There may be a simpler way to achi...

Any reason you aren't just disabling the plastic drop off station when it's full?

Your bots bring you a roboport. Inside are 100 other bots. Each of those bots is carrying a roboport. Inside each of those roboports is another 100 bots, each carrying a roboport full of 100 bots carrying roboports... you are quickly crushed under an infinite pile of roboports. I request constructio...

Your bots bring you eleven farts, as ordered.

I request some lemons.

The new descriptions on the armor and modules look good, but I had one other thought- The armor says "grid size 7x7". Changing that to "Equipment grid size 7x7" might make it more obvious that this is related to the "accepted equipment" below. Similarly, on the shield, ...