wobbycarly wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:03 am

Instead of "item" use "fluid". I think that's all you need, but if you turn on the debug mode and then hover over the item in the crafting menu it will show you the internal name.

Thank you!

To show items ingame in text, like in chat or as station names, you can type i.e. [item=iron-ore] and the image is shown instead of the text. For me, this does not work for fluids. [item=crude-oil] does not show the icon, instead the text is marked in yellow. What am I doing wrong? Are the internal ...

What?

When using the upgrade planner to upgrade/downgrade furnaces, auto-set the new part (stone->steel or steel->stone), like done with rail signals, because electric furnaces are no option to replace.

Why?

I am lazy. Unification.

Respective belt changes:

Why are belts and rails placed differently? I imagine placing belts the way I place rails very attractive.
There once was a mod that did this

https://mods.factorio.com/mods/prg/beltplanner 0.16
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/beltplanner-patched 0.17

ssilk wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:19 am

Ya and it would make sense to see also “forward” into drive direction (negative numbers). Also already suggested somewhere... didn’t find it any more.

It is linked in the first post ...

SoShootMe wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 8:55 pm

I'd prefer numbers in the boxes, though it might be tricky at merges.

Not quite as obvious as highlighting the last wagon, but works if you have trains of varying lengths, without needing to faff around changing the length setting.

You're so right!

+1

A game needing to fiddle with the file explorer to manage savegame files is, in my opinion, a very bad design indicator. I get the point, and I partially agree, but I like being able to interfere by using my OS, too. Like when doing backups of a game (even if it were only for settings and saves), I...

I once was wishing for that too and found a simple but yet very practical approach. I hope this works on windows, too, and easens up things for you. Open your file browser and navigate to your saves folder. Create a sub-folders. They are shown ingame and are sorted alphabetically above the saves in ...

Questions : You assume that there is a decent tracking of all objects surrounding the planet. Sadly, there isn't. Currently, the tracking is done by every country on its own. Even Europe just starts to collaborate within itself. Further, the problems of small particles (2 cm and less) is underestim...

I am quoting Fluid System, Flow from the official wiki and then write a short interpretation. This is how the game mechanics work at the current game version: All connected tanks and pipes are treated as a single vessel in that the level of fluid must be equal in all parts. The flow rate between pip...

You definitely wan't to take a look at the UPS Wars.

Awesome. Thank you so much!

optimisation. never. ends.

Brilliant. Love it. My workaround is annoying my all the time ..

I get the problems (most of them), but still, the ability to bulk-edit trains is lovely.

Bauer wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 29, 2020 7:24 am

I got way more for my money than I could ever expect.

When asked about factorio, I always embed this kind of phrase. If every other developer/s would do slightly as well as wube, the game industry would rule the world.

Two belt version: Seems to input balance all lanes. can someone break test this please? When using express belts and input and output are not fully compressed, the balancing is off. Sometimes it leads to one belt only containing 1 item type. 0eNrdXM2O4zYMfhdf6yysH1tyzj23PRTooVgETqKdEZDYga0MZrHIA/RB...

By looking at your pricing screen I immediately remembered a change in the EU commercial law in the beginning of 2020. Take a look at 2019/2161 . If you don't want to read all of it, search for "30" and read related stuff. TL;DR: in the EU, when offering a discount, you have to display the...

There have been at least two threat in the ideas and suggestions subforum.
There are mods that offer help.

My current vanilla workaround: wire the rail signal at the entrance of each waiting bay lane to the train station and set the station to activate when red = [lanes -1].

Disabling the station with Enable Red < [number of waiting bay lanes -1 ] works better, as it seems to force even stopped trains to repath. This time I did some more testing and ran in the expected problem, but did not find any other problems: when the number of trains exceeds the number of waiting ...