If this is what I think it is, not all the information about accumulators is on the map-mouseover sidebar. Mouseover an accumulator in one of what could be called the setup screens, inventory or crafting or recipe, and you'll see the maximum output per accumulator is 300kW, so you'll need eight accu...

Yah, thinking a little more critically about it, frame time is roughly render+update, the more the update time's the problem the less sacrificing fps helps. So this idea has a huge impact where it's not needed, and almost none where it's needed. At 30fps/30ups, if update time's 25ms of that a 10% fp...

What, no love for the dune buggy?

Well, my preferences don't match Elok's either, but I think he's got his facts straight. A 10-wagon trainstop is 30 belts if I've got it right (I think the theoretical limit is 10 wagons × 12 inserters/wagon × 12items/swing ×60ticks/sec / (26ticks/swing + 12 items×9 slots/item / 3 slots/sec)/40 item...

I noticed that if I hike the game speed it won't sacrifice FPS to get UPS, except after an autosave. In my little benchmark case I set game.speed 128 to fastforward a design (to check for throbbing) and was getting ~700UPS/60FPS, but after an autosave it'd go up to ~1600UPS/53+FPS. It occurs to me t...

I'm a little worried that the belt optimizations in 0.16 will make this the most UPS-efficient delivery method too. I don't want to see sixty blue belts replacing one train line.

I think just routing digits and the - and backspace keys to the constant field instead of the quickbar/whatever whenever there's a combinator screen up would be awesome.

should be doable with some lump of combinators. :) I think just one'll do it: put a one-tick delay on the signal, I use each-minus-constant-0-to-each for isolators/delays. If the wagon was showing fumes-or-empty last tick, either the fumes are gone now or your output is completely stalled . p.s. wh...

When an inserter's waiting for a gap to drop an item it doesn't always manage to make it land absolutely perfectly behind the item in front. It's part of the game, if you want anything to behave at the absolute limits of performance you're going to need to compensate for unavoidable minor imperfecti...

The benchmarking's set up for command-line use. Run it from a terminal. If Ubuntu uses nautilus you should be able to type "Factorio" with any nautilus window active, open the one ending "/common/Factorio", and rclick-Open in Terminal to get there. But maybe they've got it dumbed...

Updated to v0.0.1, it's now alpha status with a license and readme and such.

as I heard was good practice Heh. The Factorio designers have an abiding love for subtle quirks. The game's built to reward an eye for detail. If you don't already have a bagful of designs using the equipment you see these "best practices" videos of, turn away. Play What Can You Do WIth a...

Do you know about chart tags? Click on the map aka chart, pick text and/or icon, confirm.

I don't think I was ignoring the evidence backing the complaint, I think I was offering a correct explanation of that evidence. ... The explanation seemed clear to me at the time. On rereading it, it still does. Can you point out where it led you astray in your attempts to understand it? I see the ...

I don't think there's any way for an inserter to tell the difference between a locomotive and a cargo wagon. Inserters are dumb beasts, they know whether there's items in front of them, and whether what's behind them wants anything. Locomotives want fuel, so inserters loading locomotives will load f...

Blueprints bots won't build is doable now if you don't mind some kludgery. Pop into some no-roboport armor then `/c game.player.force=game.forces.neutral` then place your blueprints, then back to game.forces.player and your regular armor.

By the way, you can do better than the inserters trick anyway. A max-boost refinery is crafting speed 8.55, output rate 11.115, and tiles to 12×12, even reserving one spot in a 4×4 tiling of that for a pair of roboports it's denser.

I've gotten to 0.0.11, this is now an accumulation of most of my personal-convenience console and benchmarking goodies in their current experimental state, it's kind of a mess but updated here in case anyone finds it useful. The Factorio.zip is my factorio-startup options-and-processing frontend, th...

When the wires cross the tracks to get to the station and there's a train on the tracks, it looks wrong that the wire's apparently going right through the carriages, Move the wire attachment points to the signal arm and the wire drawing above the train would look right. Screenshot from 2017-09-24 15...

`/c game.player.insert{name='electric-energy-interface'}` will help.