Curious if there's been any tweaks in regards to Bob's Ores since 2.2.7 which is the version I used in my last playthrough.

The starter resources included some ore patches which Bob did not intend to be starter resources. Also, many of the ore types were far too abundant overall.

Ores: Updated without any changes. Considering that the vanilla ores now have different textures which don't appear tiled, do you have to take this into account and remake the textures for the custom ores? Or does that carry through from the base game? Also, as it your mod suite or another (I used ...

Did you ever encounter the leviathan? Also one of the things with my enemies is that they all have a weakness and a resistance, you need to find the right ammo to kill them most effectively with. Nope, I don't recall seeing one titled Leviathan. To be honest, I never had to use any of those custom ...

Ahh. Missed that thread cause I didn't realize that most of page one in this forum is pinned threads. lol The plan seems pretty solid. With inserters released, it may be tolerable to play through vanilla to try it out. It does make sense that the research side of things is going to take a LOT of thi...

So... Now that 0.15 is out, I suppose it's worth asking if there's an update strategy for the mod suite. I imagine it'll take quite a while to get everything working and translated properly to the new system. A major undertaking, to be sure. But it does seem likely that certain modules would be easi...

From what I understand via modding... Each "underground pipe" entity (each end piece, therefore 2 pipes for an underground pipe segment) has one normal pipe connection, and 1 special "underground" pipe connection. The underground pipe therefore basically functions as if you had ...

What about pipes? Do underground pipes have a better performance than a chain of above-ground pipes? I heard that the game considers a long underground pipe as a single entity and the liquid throughput is dependent on how many pipe entities there are.

real nice. making the combo module direct is way more efficient. you start a lot of rockets, don't you :D I just began upgrading production to gear up for the rocket phase. All science is now researched, and the rocket production line is pretty much all set up. It's just a matter of getting the raw...

But on the other hand, modules are extremely tedious to make. Even without including production of electronic components, they were easily my biggest and most complex factory. I think the biggest problem is that this isn't a drawback to using them since you pretty much need to set up a production o...

I've got about 130 hours into my game now, and after having researched ALL the tech (having upgraded just about everything as far as it can go) and begun my quest for "rocket per minute" or perhaps "1000 rockets", I have a few observations. The rocket itself hasn't changed recipe...

I just built some laser robots, but I have no idea how they work. I tried deploying them manually, and that doesn't work. They don't attack anything automatically, either. What do they do and how do I make them go?

Heh you know what might be really cool? If you could somehow give us a way to get at least a SINGLE personal roboport before building a module line. Modules are incredibly complex, but having the ability to construct things via blueprints would be SO helpful, even if it was painfully slow. Building ...

Weird. So in silver-ore.lua I find this line:
enabled = false,

Is that not what it looks like?

I found silver. Now this is the 2nd map I've found silver on, where our multiplayer map it is nowhere to be found. But I'm really surprised now because I thought silver was turned off by default and you had to get it via advanced lead processing. Why would silver show up on my map if the configurati...

Bob, I think you're on the right track with those proposed changes with cobalt! It sounds like it would be good to just make it easier to get early-on. One big problem I'm finding is that if you want proper copper production, you really have to go with straight-up smelting. I have an area making som...

So, I just tried out the Invar Cobalt Steel Armor for the first time, and... okay, am I missing something? The armor's performance is fairly "early game" in terms of protection. Unless you absolutely fast-track the tech, at the expense of other more practical techs, it seems like the acqui...

I must be missing something because I'm wondering: Armored Trains... Why? Biters don't attack trains anyway, do they? And a moving train can plow through a horde of biters, yes? The train's tier system is a little confusing to me because it splits between "Train Mk x" and "Armored&quo...

Oooh, a pump before the vent. Brilliant. Thanks.

With the gas venting pump, is it not able to be connected to the circuit network? I'd like to vent excess gas, but I'm not sure how this is usually done. Venting drains EVERYTHING on the line. But I'm wanting to build a large water electrolysis area and put both hydrogen and oxygen on the bus. Each ...

Yes thankfully, that's an option. It's just really weird that in my personal world, I found a rather dense (and tiny) silver patch. But in our shared world, we've scanned a pretty large area with several radars and I've yet to notice any silver. Looking at the configuration settings in the zip, silv...