Nice tool. And it actually supports Ubuntu. I swapped the two conditions near DataCache.cs:184 because it complained about "/home/…/.config/Factorio" which doesn't exist. if (Directory.Exists(FactorioDataPath)) I think it makes sense to swap them so the if condition matches what is passed ...

Hi! So this is not really an idea, it's just a suggestion / wishful thinking for the way factorio is distributed on Linux. It tries to solve a problem that does not actually exist yet, so simply ignore it for some time. :D As we all know, most libraries used on GNU/Linux systems have problems with A...

I love how you stay pretty calm even though

I don't agree with most of the posts above. Well, I do agree that piracy increases popularity and therefore profit in this case. Still, that doesn't make it okay to pirate something. If the devs wanted to give this game away for free and then ask to voluntarily spend some money on it if you like it,...

There is a "Fat Controller" mod that offers train remote control. Open the train GUI, click the "add train" button, and then you can always use the "C" button to center the view on that train and change its schedule etc. no matter where it might be at that time. I use t...

Even with a nice sprite for the switch, it would still need to be constructed out of at least 3 "separate" power-pole-like buildings (entities), as far as I can tell. Sure, they don't have to look like power poles, the sprite can be changed and I think the cable connection position can be ...

Wow, I can't reach that many oil wells in my current map when allowing an estimated 1 minute train ride. :D Nice starting area. (Okay, I'm using the ressource spawner overhaul mod because I love trains so much, that's why there's no abundance of ressources on my map.) Still, I use solid fuel for tra...

That prank turned out to be a lot of fun! We need a mod for that.

DaveMcW wrote:Here is the layout I use. It combines solar panels, accumulators, roboports, and access lanes in one complete package.

This is a nice one. Especially the roboport inclusion. I'm going to migrate my solar setup to something like this.

Just in case anyone is still suffering from this, you could test the workaround to use smaller textures that fixes some intel problems: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=36595#p36595 Maybe it can help in this case, too. It's worth a try. Nice to see the list of open bugs report shrin...

So I took a look at the lua API and lua itself and hacked something together using only chests and poles. There's only 1 "input" / "sensor" right now: - Chest contents (vector of item names with item counts) There are 3 "modules": - Filter module: It's a chest with one ...

I skipped no oil area, but thanks for that hint! I'd still prefer 20 wells with only 0.1/s over one well with 2/s, since the 20 wells will never drop to 0/s, but the one well will soon drop to 1/s and then 0.1/s eventually. So for the long term, many almost-depleted wells are much better than a few ...

Did this actually increase smelting throughput? I don't think so. I'd say it decreased smelting throughput and increased power usage. Correct me if I'm wrong. Not sure about solid fuel usage.

How about this: Instead of taking the science packs from the lab's inventory when a "lab processing period" starts, why not take them at the end of the period? As soon as a lab is placed and connected to energy, the bar in the lab GUI would start to fill up and stop right at 100%. At that ...

So infectum13 temporarily killed blue science, then fixed it by breaking something else, now that other issue was fixed by Xterminator, breaking blue science again. Nice! :D And there's no iron in parts of the factory even though no blue science production is going on, nice! I liked the episode. Ig...

I love this mod! I've been playing a game using this for some time and really enjoy the new challenge. I feel that oil is a little bit too rare, or maybe that's bad luck? I stumbled upon a 2.7 million copper field, and some few-hundred-thousand iron fields relatively close (a minute or two by train ...

Yes, please. I hate when that spilling on the floor happens. It's no fun having to clean that mess up.

Of course, I'd prefer to see my 50000 rocket defenses decorating the floor in my base over having them removed completely if my inventory is full when picking up a chest.

I love DerivePi's illustration of the circuit network ideas! Another "incredible" from me :) I'd love to be able to play around with something like that. I'm afraid our chances might not be too good though, let's see. Maybe if the mod API allows some cable management, some parts can be mod...

This seems to indicate that allegro desn't work too well in combination with the nvidia driver in some (rare?) cases, maybe it depends on the hardware used? https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/614008 Since Factorio uses allegro, fixing it should fix Factorio if the devs pick up the allegro patch. H...

I did this: * Start factorio (windowed mode, comes up at 1280x720) * While the loading screen is still active, maximize the factorio window (to some odd resolution close to 1920x1080, I have the unity bar on the left and the system unity bar on the top of the screen) * Observe that the loading scree...