1: yes
2: I guess they decided they needed barrels, but that being able to barrel everything would be a bit too much with having 6 extra items and such.

You can use electric pumps to move liquids around and drain containers/systems, if that helps.

I take down the power lines feeding them. I have them positioned so that I just need to plonk one pole down to power 1 or 2, and then another for each extra 2.

Nice work! And yes, oil processing will stop if one of the fractions can't be drained out of the refinery. You can turn all oil types into solid fuel if you want (works like coal and wood) and once you've researched advanced oil processing you can produce more petroleum gas and also crack the heavie...

You can try using pumps and stuff so that a tank can't empty, because the cracking wills top if the plant can't drain.
There might be other ways but I just manually tweak the numbers of active cracking plants.
If there's no system now, there will be one day! Oil is still a relatively new feature.

*cough*rocketdefense*cough*

There are 6 projectile weapons: Pistol, submachine gun, shotgun, combat shotgun, flamethrower, rocket launcher.

Have you tried running the game without this screen connected?

There was a big bug in 10.4, but it was fixed in days, and 10.6 has been out for a week and not caused me any problems.
You could always download a separate copy of Factorio in the latest version.

Roads would be a cool thing. At the moment you can use turbo belts to speed up cars a bit (and have the edge ones pointing inwards to keep you on the road) but it's ridiculously expensive and you might as well use trains or a bunch of exoskeletons. Also tanks are in the pipeline, though so far it ap...

When, in order to cut down a tree, you must first cut down the tree immediately south of it.

I took a screenshot of a typical view of the power menu when using all three types of generation, but I can't get it to upload because I'm allergic to image systems in forums.

Ah, you were in 5 second view? I suspect you may be misinterpreting the graph then. I think that the colours of the lines are determined by what produces more, rather than what specifically they are. It may be that when you increase solar capacity beyond steam, the colours are switching. Because you...

I'm itching to see a screenshot of the power menu, I use solar and steam all the time. I've been meaning to make a video about interpreting the power graphs for ages.

So as soon as you do it, all of the engines shut off and everything starts running slowly? What happens if you do it at night, does the entire factory die altogether?

The forums are quiet because the game is quiet. As time goes on and sales increase, so will forum activity. Go tell your friends about the game! Anyway, there's still plenty of activity, and a bunch of new topics every day. I'm doing my part by posting wherever it's helpful, particularly in gameplay...

Nice work! I never thought to test that, and I just assumed that fast was worse for power usage. I guess that means that basic inserters are completely obsolete once you get fast inserters then. Unless... What if you take into account the extra materials and power used in their production? How long ...

What resolution is this 27 inch display? And is it set to be a copy or an extension of the laptop screen?
If you had Factorio set to fullscreen mode it might lead it to being confused by multiple screens. Alternately it could be that the resolution is too low or something on this new display.

+1 from me, that would be super useful.

Yes, if you haven't enabled experimental updates you'll still be in 0.9.8 which is from before it was implemented. Experimental updates are now in 0.10.6 which is pretty stable at this point (though not yet officially). I made this video on updating and experimental updates: https://www.youtube.com/...

Oh wow, thanks for linking my video Turtle! And yes, the trains use solid-based fuels like furnaces and boilers. The name is a little misleading seeing as diesel doesn't exist. My hope is that a future patch will introduce a proper steam train model for using solid fuels and will switch the diesel l...

Many (possibly all, but I'd have to check) power-using machines have a bar labelled "electric demand satisfaction" at the side if you mouse over them. If this is ever not full it shows that there isn't enough power and you need to add more power generation. The power menu is initially conf...