Isnt the best solution to get the aliens not to attack? How about building a wall so far away from your base that pollution has tapered of? Personally I have a simple straight line of laser turrets, one next to the others. Walls in front, power poles in the back. Belts outside the wall if I feel lik...

Finally something to do with all the gun turrets when switching to laser turrets.

Looks like that one. sorry for the noise, will update tonight.

What is the reason for this? I wanted to create island with roboports in a large lake because the drones keep running out of power crossing all that water.

Usually when a filter is set for the tool belt at the bottom of the screen and you gain an item of the right type it will be placed in the tool belt instead of the main inventory. Not so with bullets. They get placed into the main inventory (my weapon slots are full) preventing the use of hot keys t...

Say you have iron plates in the tool belt at the bottom of the screen. Pick it up so the field is empty. Click the middle mouse button to select a filter for the field and select coal. Clicking at the filed now complains that the filter does not allow iron plates to be placed there. But pressing &qu...

You could use splitters to 'force feed' a selected line. With three lines in parallel (and not adjacent), have a splitter in the top and bottom lines, with the second exit turning towards the middle lane and feeding into it. That at most feeds half the contents of the outer belt to the middle one. ...

Using landfill I made two parallel channels of water (to get 2 coastlines) and placed pumps alternating on each coastline to get one pump per tile. Then lengthening the lines with rounded pipes I interspaced the lines to get one line of boilers and steam engines per tile too. One pump, one line of b...

You have a pretty unsymetric layout. Water flow is somewhat tricky and symetric setups seem better working. Merging output one by one into a pipe seems to be the worst idea from my experience. Have you thought about feeding the boiler from 3 sides with 2 pumps each? P P +++ P+ | +-B--SSSSS P+ | +++ ...

.oO(I'm thinking many don't read the "circuit-free" part of this forum.) I have an idea how to solve this that needs some space. But haven't build it yet so no screenshot or blueprint. But here's the idea: Say you have a bus with 2 belts A and B. You use a number of inserters to move items...

If it's just 2 lanes, the process is very simple ... split from one lane, then put a splitter on both lanes to rebalance the remaining output. If you want a 4 lane split, that's a different matter... try this. http://i.imgur.com/9rlFdxn.png That leaves both belts balanced, not unbalanced as I asked.

One thing I can see about that layout is the furnaces at the end will be a lower priority when it comes to coal. The first line will get half while the third one down will get like 1/8th. Other than that it's a good layout, I'll be sure to add it to the TDT I actually think this is a good thing. If...

The other day I was playing with water only at start so water was a very rare resource. So how much power can you generate with a limited coast line? How about one 1:14:10 line per tile of coast? 340 Steam engines going full power from 34 tiles of coast. factorio-steam-all.png At first I tried placi...

That does not fullfill the requirement to have 2 belts throughput if needed.

I notice you have the first tank after the 10th engine and then every 3. Shouldn't the tank be after the 11th or even later? Here is my reasoning: Firstly during the day the hot watter just passes through since the engine are only partly used. So it doesn't matter. Most water just ends up in all the...

I have a main bus consisting of multiple lanes of e.g. iron plates. Every now and then I split of some from the bottom most lane for use. So that eventually gets empty while the other lanes have all the iron plates. So they need to be balanced. At some point I have used up half of the 4 lanes and af...

The last design passes all 4 lanes through a single splitter. That will limit the throughput.

Still a small problem since you don't detect it other than that you get no output. And only for miners. Should have said belt, not miner. What if the blueprint has a belt where there is water. Could it be something like this? Blueprint Printer: 5 blueprints available Input Signals: B:4 X:10 Y:15 R:9...

Even if you only request when there are > 200 belts in the system doesn't that still cause the belts to be picked up from the nearest source (the provider chest if unlucky)? As for connecting to the roboport. Why can't I have it output both the logistic network and the count of logistic/construction...

I like to put the output of an assembler into passive provider chests so I can request from them as needed. Say keep 100 fast transport belt in the chest to replenish what I use. But then I have the assembler for the blue transport belts that's way way over there with the oil production setup. It us...