...and that is why I use Productivity Modules throughout my oil-based processes. Yes, it slows them down a little (offset in some cases by the use of Speed Module-equipped beacons), but the saving in crude usage racks up: 20% more products from the crude, +20% more gas from the cracking, +20% more s...

Try this layout, and if you really want tanks as buffers/visual indicators of fluid levels, don't put them in the direct flow. Place them to one side, so that any consumers (eg the plastics plants) can draw directly from the supply rather than having to go through the tanks. http://imgur.com/1C68CJA...

Exactly which "Follower" capsules are you building? Because some move (eg Destroyers) and some don't (um... Not sure, but I think that's everything else)

Ooh, a challenge! I like a challenge and I will thus set to work on this when I'm back home ( currently away at a friend's birthday party weekend)

I can't answer most of your questions apart from the initial one: The Updates Per Second (UPS) is a measure of how many times the program checks and updates all of the entities. Given that every chunk of ore and every circuit (in fact, every visible item) is classed as a separate entity, the usual r...

No problem, my friend We all miss things sometimes that seem obvious in hindsight...

That does still require a pick axe. If yours has broken/run out, even removing things will be very slow. Did you check to make sure this is not the case?

The easiest solution that I have come up with, as a combinator-challenged player, is as follows: Wire your buffer chests together and connect them to a Decider combinator (For example purposes, I will assume that you would like 10k ore in your buffer) Set the Decider to <Resource> < 10k Red 1 Then w...

Strange adventure, fact'ry building On a planet fierce and wild (Fierce and, fierce and, fierce and wild) All pollution is forgotten As I sit here, quite beguiled (Quite be-, quite be-, quite beguiled) That pollution spreads a red cloud Makes the natives form a big crowd Squeal and chitter, spawn mo...

This should probably go in the "Suggestions" board. A valid point, however

Excellent job, Katherine!! (Although I had to simultaneously laugh and wince at "whammo", lol)

Kudos for picking a very hard meter to re-write, as well as one of the lesser-known G&S patter songs - it's from The Sorceror, isn't it?

You are a gentleman, sir! Thank you for the clarifications (no wonder I wasn't getting anywhere with the number of things I either got confused or completely wrong). Then again, I started a new map tonight which looks very promising in terms of geography for being able to wall off a decent-sized bas...

Hi Siggboy! I would just like to say congratulations and thanks for such superb work! That said, I also want to clarify a couple of things, as I was getting intensely frustrated with my inability to get this to work last night... My plan for tonight is to completely rip out all of my existing train ...

*grin* I just gave 2 of the PM1 assemblers and 1 of the PM2 assemblers a SM3 each. Yes, it mildly offends my OCD as well, but I can be pragmatic. Some of the time :-) Not a solution really until you are into late-game mechanics, due to cost implications, but when you have over 500 SM3s just sitting ...

I think there was a long series of threads about this, with people arguing math back and forth, and I think you may be correct... but not if you are using Productivity Modules. However, for the OP's purposes, it would probably be worth checking

A wand'ring Biter I, a thing of teeth and patches and claws to give you scratches and icky, slimy nests My catalogue is vast, with every kind of Spitter To blow up every splitter And vanish all your chests (and vanish all your chests) Are you in fire-breathing mood? I'll die for you! Oh sorrow, sorr...

Get your cluster grenade production going. Seriously. If you think grenades are good, you will flip out when you start throwing CGs. Oh, and they are also peerless for clearing forest and/or creating firebreaks to prevent the spread of forest fires when your flamethrower gets out of control

Oh, good job! This could turn into a regular "Factorio G&S" thread, lol

Following a side-post on the Steam forums, it turns out that KatherineOfSky is a fan of Gilbert & Sullivan. Here, therefore, is my original verse, expanded out to a full stanza - especially for you ;-) I am the very model of an automated factory I've information of all kinds (including light ref...

Good effort, sir :-) However, it may save you some brain-strain to browse the forums and Reddit before jumping in (or when you think that you have a workable design), as there are a LOT of ideas out there! I can't find the thread that gave me my current refinery setup (it may actually have come from...