Without seeing the entire design its hard to say what the issue really is. The only reason for the refinery would stop working is if it runs out of oil, or there is not enough power in your network, or your output is full. Take a look at the refinery itself and see if it has input and if it is the c...

Hopefully this is just them testing the train to see how it works and maybe in the next few patches we'll be able to research bigger cargo wagons.

coding wise, they could make it such that when you shift click the pipe, you can change the type of pipe your using similar to how it'll de-connect power lines. the only problem with this idea is that it will have so many different combinations that it might take a while to get through to the one yo...

there is no way to limit what goes on the belt, but with your design, its too cluttered word of advice, never have more than 2 items on a belt at any given time. unless you absolutely know what your doing and know exactly what your input and output ratio is. the reason I say this is because as soon ...

lets put it this way I walk into your store, steal some food from your store, eat it all, then if I liked what I just ate, i'll come back and pay twice as much for it. no matter what, you just stole the product, also your saying your only going to buy it if you like it. which is not how the world wo...

one feature you might have over looked is the production window, by default the key binding for it is "p" it'll show you what the consumption and production of each item within your world. though it wont say how much consumption it wants to do, it'll state how much it is doing. so if your ...

hummm seems like everyone is missing the point of this topic, he said hes out of raw iron. meaning hes limited on the items he can make at this point I would say your boned and you should restart. there should be no point in the game where you are trapped without any raw iron. the reason being is th...

the only question I have is, do you really require that much output of oil products? Im in the 4th tier of science production (alien science packs) and I only run 3 refineries and 1 of each. I dont even bother cracking heavy oil into light oil anymore either. so what does each make, well all oil pro...

no its always been in general discussion and my point was that it doesnt do what it indicates, which is to turn off steam engines at night. the title is misleading. but I also wanted to highlight how this contraption does do something different that only thinking outside of the box can do. I wanted ...

once you've bought it, you've bought it, how would they charge you more for something you already own? o.O

sorry for necroing this thread, but I would like to ask about something along this topic. currently I've been running this exact set up except after the burners, i'll have 2 rows of steam engines for compactness, but I find that when they're all running my water pressure is lower and thus they're no...

for those of you who dont know what im talking about, this is the page im referring to. https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Power_Production the basic idea is to create a system to turn off the steam engines at night to allow the accumulators work and drain during the night. though this...

yea, i've been using the same design as garm, but I only have 3 refineries but then again I find that I never need more than that. and i've been trying to make it as efficient as possible. with out efficient produced made with oil is, you dont really need much at all. same goes for cracking, the onl...

This actually does help with knowing exactly how many factories you will need. I‘ve just gotten to the end game and realizing how everything needs circuit boards and how my 4 assemblies weren't cutting it. And then when I made more I realized my copper wire wasnt keeping up, then my copper plates an...

hi all, so I just started playing a few days ago, and thought i'd put in my 2 cents in. after playing for a while, I noticed upgrading the belts was near pointless in most cases. mostly because my stuff was constantly getting backed up. the only time I ever felt the need to upgrade my belts was when...