Instead of blueprint books, why not blueprint folders?

The difference, obviously, is that folders can be multiple levels deep. Balancers/BlueBalancers/4toN/4to8Balancer

Also, while we're on the subject, the blueprint editor allows you to delete entities, but not move or add them. How many times ...

There will be a way to do copy-paste quickly without having to create a blueprint

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In my opinion the only problem with dropping things on splitters is that it's not obvious whether they will be dropped before or after the split. A graphical fix would probably solve this, similar to the graphical fix which gets brought up every so often to make it obvious why underground belts work ...

UPS is "updates per second", the speed at which the actual simulation of your factory runs.

Not sure about ML, posting the context of where you saw it would help.

Building a 10-science-per-second megabase isn't required to "beat the game", but people still do it.

If someone is happy launching a rocket and being "done", I don't see any reason to force them to get uranium. There's plenty of complexity required to launch a single rocket, and if people feel the ...

Once you have roboports, construction robots, and repair packs, could you use gates on an unsignaled rail system, and short trains (max length that won't destroy gates or rail cars when crashing at full speed), to prevent deadlocks and have trains queue by smashing into the gate or train ahead of ...

The weird inconsistency is, what does the roboport "range" actually mean? In my mind, robots should never try to path outside of the roboport allowed area. That gives you the ability to actually affect how the network behaves.

On the subject of "networks", the entire point of a network is that a ...

Clearing biter bases late game is a chore, not a challenge or fun. Nukes offset the pointlessness of the time required to clear out biters. They required a massive infrastructure investment to mass produce, so they are only available very late game in useful quantities.

No nerf is needed IMO.

Options for nuclear meltdown:

1) Be random (low frequency)
People will still build them, and occasionally they will explode. People will be like "darn it, now I have to run back and rebuild it... again... sigh..."

2) Be random (high frequency)
No one will use them, because they require more ...

Ever tried the hard crafting mod? Early mining gives you a TON of leftover dirt and gravel. The ONLY way to deal with it early game is by putting it in a bunch of chests, then shotgunning them down. Otherwise, you just stockpile dirt and gravel until they take over the entire world...

I think my biggest issue with this is... it just doesn't make logical sense.

Yes, I agree that building creative setups out of a minimal number of pieces is part of the appeal of factorio. But, let's imagine you're an engineering designing a product line of belt pieces to sell.

Would you:
A ...

- add combinators with enhanced logic like a processor. possibly something like the mod factorissimo with combinators


Just have one combinator with a microcontroller in it (or, perhaps, a "processing unit"), write some code, and you've now replaced the most complex combinator circuit ever ...

Thanks for the report however that's working correctly.

The crafting queue is no different than any other system which puts items in your inventory/quickbar: the quickbar will never auto-add items past 1 stack unless the stack already existed in the quickbar or the slot was filtered to it.

This ...

I did a lot of this on a marathon playthrough since it takes forever to get electricity... that's when I discovered how ridiculously much coal burner inserters can chew up!

You have a belt balancer, not a lane balancer. A belt balancer like the one shown here has no path to get items from one lane to the other.

1) Is there actually a problem here? If the assemblers down the line were short on resources, they would start pulling from the other half of the belt. So is there anything happening that's limiting throughput?

2) If you want to balance the two sides of a belt, you can use a lane balancer: https ...

Wow, you UPS guys must all play on ridiculously high ore settings. I'd never consider a design that had to be re-positioned several times to eat up the whole ore patch. Maintaining enough mines is enough work already!

The whole idea behind the "copy and paste" starting area generation was fairness. The new map example doesn't look very fair - i.e. the Southern spawn point is sitting on massive oil reserves.

Wow... I'm speechless... this sounds like the most painful experience one could imagine.

Creating heat does not require removing heat from anywhere else. Heat can be created from potential energy.

Fire mages convert "magic potential energy" (that's a thing right?) into heat. They do not need to pull heat from their surroundings.

Err... wtf, isn't this the factorio forum?