For my own information, so I can get a rough idea how my design stacks up without bugging you: where do you get the plates/hr figure from? Running the benchmark doesn't give it to me, do you check the production history manually or ? And as an idle-curiosity while-I've-got-you, where'd that 100/216 ...

Just to be clear, you said we could move the void chests but didn't say we could add more, we're limited to the 360 void chests?

After removing the marked belt segment, the top lane on the output belt will have gaps it didn't before, because the items in the other lane are now out of position to sideload into them. So that means there will be lower throughput on the no-longer-compressed top lane, so with just enough load on t...

If you (don't) want your roboports operating, pop them (out or) in. It's two clicks and a keystroke each way.

Reading this FFF just reaffirmed my belief that Factorio's in good hands. The concern about losing some of the toolbelt features seems on-target. shift-click twice to load then dump everything in a salad-bar chest currently reloads all my toolbelt items, that's very handy, and being able to build a ...

I think it's pretty clear that oil should continue to deplete, with total supply limited only by the (eventually very) slowly declining output rate.

Except for pumpjacks, anything speed can do, efficiency and replication can do better.

I do the E2E*black too, as part of numerator*capacity/denominator calc, and just ignore the no-longer-needed capacity signal. Why bother clearing it? Nothing downstream cares.

Regenerate the map a few times until you find one you like? At least it keeps any custom settings, so this is quick to do. Just restart, no need to regen. I think OP' s on to something, a couple restarts is normal-ish for me now, but tab-map-map with an esc-restart-enter until there's nothing missi...

Factorio's a design-puzzle game at least as much as anything else. There's a pretty awesomely good solution to this one, that has none of the flaws in yours. It's simple, easy to remember, efficient in every sense. I didn't find it, I and lots of people got kinda in the territory, somebody figured o...

lol if you're going for budget you could even make the front inserters yellow, the payload unloader will never have anything but u235 to choose from. Set it to read/hold, u238=2, extend the wire to the feeback loader set to u235=0.

OP, If a single thread was running 100% of the time but the OS skittered it around among all the different cores every few milliseconds, what would that look like on your GUI monitor?

Your condition is for the network signal, but you're showing a single chest. Connect the network to a combinator input or to a pole, what's the value on the network? Every output connected to the wire gets summed, devices with only outputs only show their outputs.

I have to say, I think you could still solve a lot of complaints about the rocket's uselessness with two words:

"Tutorial complete."

I'm hoping they'll add spatial (I guess directional would be more accurate here) audio for the production release, it'd be awesome to "follow the sound" to find/get to/identify sources.

You've got a situation you're in -- you want threshold alarms for your warehouses so you don't have run around and check the levels manually -- and you've got a method that would get you what you want if you had a different tool than what's there now. I think you can get threshold alarms easily with...

Beautiful. I particularly like how clean the U-238 merge is.

Sandbox mode is neat for testing things, however I've found a problem (and I apologize if this has been mentioned already): You can't effectively use vehicles. Yes, you can get into them, however since you don't have any form of weapon UI, you can't switch weapons or even fire. While I get that San...