It's all the transport belts you're using. I don't know the belts bugged out of if you just have too many of them but removing all of them instantly fixes the FPS. 8< I'd definitely put this in bug reports and mention the above. See if you've just gone beyond the limits of the game's engine or if t...

The FPS in my factorio save has dropped a lot since the start. Of course, my factory is bigger than it ever was, which can explain it. Still, I think something might not be quite right. Whether it's something wrong from my part or from the game, I don't know, but I'm inclined to think it's an operat...

Having played a lot of OTTD, when I found Factorio and with its trains and signals, I tried doing a lot of "standard builds" from OTTD. I quickly found that the train path-finding in Factorio is very limited compared to OTTD. The path-finding from Factorio seems to me just a "find me ...

This is really cool. It's nice to see the progression of a factory for a change. Thanks! I've been having some fun. I bring you all a little update. I've been/still am busy building my latest addition to factory. But that's not for today. As usual, you can click on the pictures to see a bigger vers...

Linux is not Ubuntu. Tar is a wonderful oldschool format that works in all flavors of linux and then some. My RPM based system wouldn't know what to do with those PPA and deb. With the tar.gz, all one has to do is extract it. A simple right-click operation on most modern DM, or an even quicker comma...

I use a little variant of the wiki mechanism. It only uses two inserters and the logic in the smart inserters is reversed. There are 5 wood pieces going around in the little circuit. The smart inserters by the boilers only work when there are more than 3 wood in the smart chest. The blue tinted area...

If you're trying to do what's in the first picture, to have the inserters available to the next machine in the assembly line and to you via logistics, you'll end up in two situations: A - You limited the production by setting a filter in the chest and let the smart inserter move freely. This leads t...

It seems like people rarely post here. Or is it just me? its like the forum is dead with it the game as well, I love this game and I feel like the forum should be more alive, I know that not much people bought or heard of the game but it doesnt mean this should die :D the game is awesome as well as...

The player doesn't start on land, but he starts by paragliding. The player can look around for some seconds and steer the paraglider into a useful direction. First he drives quite fast, cause of the thin air, then slower and slower. The map zooms in as he lowers his height. That sounds like an inge...

I guess you have explored a good chunk of your map for the level.dat to increase that much. Maybe Factorio should take the lead of Alpha Minecraft, and start saving chunks by region in different files inside the zip? This won't reduce the save size, but you'll only have to write the changed regions ...

Coloured logistics networks - define colours in roboports AND logistic chests; robots assigned to a coloured roboport can only satisfy that logistic colour(s) network(s); filters in logistics storage chests, with increased priority for the robots when filters are set, both in storing and getting it...

I had this problem too. I started playing factorio with the 0.10.3 version and after a couple tens of gameplay hours, the game started freezing noticeably during auto-save. I checked the saves directory and noticed the save file occupying 250MB. Opening the zip file, the replay file was taking most ...

You have to switch the input pipes with each other, so that they match the inputs on the chemical plant.

It's just rather confusing the way it's setup right now. I had the same issue trying to figure it out, and then trying to understand how high my limit was WITHOUT deploying a combat robot. I think you can't see that value without deploying robots. The number of follower robots by research level: Re...

Hi there.

Death is permanent. You have to load a saved game if you want to continue playing.

Hello everyone. Not many news in my factory this time. I thought I could show some details from it instead. Click on the pictures for a bigger version. First of all, production and power graphs of the factory. Maybe I shouldn't deploy so many lasers. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34534935/fact...

DaveMcW wrote:Forget P, just use 42 kW, the average daily production of one solar panel.

42 kW * 100s / 5 MJ = 0.84 accumulators per solar panel.

Using the radar example, with 8 solar panels needed, this gives 7 accumulators. One more than what is really needed.

Nice math. I tried it and the accumulators hit 443kJ minimum before starting to charge again. But... the symmetry!

well i like that "belts factory", have a like at my "robot factry" https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4710 for a new way of doing things Nice factory you got there. Personally, I prefer the look of belts everywhere. Though I use a lot of robots, mainly at ...

The work around for what you are requesting is to place a smart inserter, smart chest and then a standard inserter in line with your belt (use underground belt under the inserters and chest). The smart inserter should be set to operate when the item count in the chest is less than "x" (sa...