If I have a box being loaded by one inserter, and pulled from by three inserters, most of the time it cycles through the three inserters, each one taking its turn at pulling an item from the box. You should never rely on this behavior. It was never intended to use a box and inserters as a makeshift...

It only works with power pole type entities. Because power pole entities have special click&drag behavior which tracks the coverage of entities that need/produce power and additionally reacts to the presence of powerpole ghosts. Other entities which have special click&drag behavior (undergro...

If that's the case then I'd love to see killer undead robots as a faction. Few games handle rampancy well, and I don't think Factorio can handle the subject with the care it needs. Kinda not inline with the theme of Factorio. Having bots suddenly turn against you would be kinda infuriating when you...

TheRangerLOL wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:12 pm

Semi-random thought. What would a robot do if it suddenly discovered that it was malfunctioning?

The factorio devs would hunt it down to fix the bug.

In addition to the above, check every sulfuric acid chemical plant ensure that neither of the two outputs is touching a non-sulfuric acid pipe. Same thing with battery chem plants, ensure that neither of the two inputs is touching a non-sulfuric acid pipe. Same thing with drills mining uranium, ensu...

Thanks for the replies! I understand from this, that it is not possible in vanilla and withouth using /editor. It would be extremely painful to do in vanilla without using editor. Y ou could landfill a large area, then paste a blueprint over it, then create a blueprint from that including the landf...

Is there a particular reason for the physics-busting braking? Other than "no rails ahead of train" for which there seems no practical alternative, why not eg brake normally to a stop following current path (perhaps including ploughing through an obstacle), then try to repath? Because trai...

Huh, I hadn't realised you could get trains to decelerate a lot faster except "instant stop" (eg mine a rail on a train's only path)... But I don't think this should ever happen in normal circumstances, because when a train's stopping point reaches a signal it will either reserve the bloc...

power cables? I dont understand what you mean. there are only green and red wire here The same copper wire you use to make electronic circuits can be used to connect power poles with copper wire. You use hold it in cursor, click the first power pole and then the second power pole. If the connection...

McDuff wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 09, 2020 2:40 pm

Clearly you can do an awful lot of things with the existing system.

Since the existing system is turing complete, it can literally do everything a computer could potentially do.

maxp779 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:10 pm

Do fish regrow? I felt bad taking the 1 needed for the spidertron.

Just launch rockets with space science in them to get more fish.

How long does it take the water to boil up to the right temp? Boilers work instantly once they have water (one tick they get water, the next tick they produce steam at full rate). The only delay would be due to fluid flow, so it takes maybe a few ticks. But anyway the condition is "A > 50"...

I also don't bother to use an SR latch for backup power, but I circuit control the offshore pumps, and for me those typically only supply about 10-12 boilers each, so the fluid in the pipes provides some lag and hysteresis. (ie the far boilers wont get their full allocation of water for a few ticks...

Ok, but, whatever. Just use storage tanks to your liking and explore what happens. hahaha why are you mad? im just asking because for some items, like rails for example where I need it in bulk, I feel like its less hassle to store it on chest rather than wait for the assembling machine That's one g...

but what if I need sulfur or plastic to craft something? These are the uses for plastic: Advanced circuit = 5 seconds to craft Cannon shells/Explosive cannon shells = 8 seconds to craft Low Density Structure = 20 seconds to craft Things which use sulfur: Chemical science pack = 24 seconds to craft ...

Also don't do something dumb like buffering tons of sulfur/plastic or placing storage tanks for acid. what do you mean by this? It means you don't put a lot of sulfur/plastic into chests, or place several storage tanks for sulfuric acid (I wouldn't put even a single storage tank, to be honest). one...

Bots have a limited throughput. The limit is every tile between the in- and output chest being plastered with roboports. Iirc there was a test on that in a fff, probably back when the issue last came up there. I don't remember details but it was surprisingly low. Edit: Found it, #225 "The resu...

also, should I combine my oil storage to each other?? should I use pump? I thought pump used to pump liquid faster if your pipe setup is long and far, but according to the wiki, pump works as a valve, and on steam people recommend me to use pump and pipe for storage to production so I guess for fas...

I've spent a 2 hour teams call picking up about 100K drones - this has doubled my fps to 15-16. I find it odd that dormant unused drones take up CPU, but maybe they do ; or maybe something else happened in the game I haven't noticed. Unused bots don't do anything that takes up CPU. But when assigni...