As mentioned an army of construction bots are not an early to mid game posibility, plus there are other ways to deforest an area as mentioned. To each their own honestly, the entry is to list the posible ways to effectively clear out a bunch of trees, the shotgun being the most likely candidate to b...

Updated: Added a close-up of the pumps in Patric20878's low power alert system, which will cut fresh water to avoid cold water from reaching your steam engines and instead use your reserve water in the tanks at the end Made an addition to the clearing forest tip which included construction bots Do ...

Thanks for the shots of the polls :) As for the leaving in of the other layout, I've left that there so people can choose which layout they would like to use. I figured if you give a variety of builds that have the same general purpose it would give a bit more appeal to the thread. It's like a varie...

Ah, I see, that's clever to set up the pumps to only be connected with the energy alert system. Great to see that idea put into play really well

Any chance of getting a close up shot of those pumps connected to the alert system? Since you already got the build made and all

Sure thing Pat

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• Updated Patric20878's compact steam layout and low energy warning system of a few small errors on my part
• Minor Font changes

Updated: Added Patric20878's more efficient compact steam layout (Sorry it took a while Pat) Added the low power alert Added a link to the Wiki page (Should've added this sooner! :S If you do add something over there, drop a post in this thread to so I'll be more likely to add the tip into the TDT ...

heya Patric, sorry it's been a while, quick question though. In that build that will warn you about low power, is the accumulator necessary or no? Because if not then it would be more cost effective to leave it out and give a more earlier warning than to wait for the stored battery to run dry

Hey Patric, mind if I add this to the TDT thread as an updated version of the optimized steam engine layout?

One thing that I wanted to add to the design was to add pumps right after the boilers. That way if there is a coal shortage the tanks can provide heated water going backwards through the system. Only thing I need to really test is if this occurs, how to shut off the pumps automatically so they dont ...

I was curious to know why you thought the water cools though, so I played around and found that indeed, simply attaching a storage tank at the end of a row of 10 engines drastically cools down all steam engines temporarily, which in turn also ends up feeding the storage tank with a bunch of lukewar...

In response to seeing the "Compact Power Plant" steam engine setup, I designed one even more compact than that. Arranging them in triple rows allows me to use one electric pole to power like 6 steam engines, which really reduces on the amount of pipes and poles i need between them. Also w...

Compact Green and Red Science Production by wbykos [update] I've changed resource usage priority. So now, wheel factories cant take away all iron plates. 1.jpg How does the upper red science lab get his copper plates? oh wow, I didnt even see that till now. But following the pattern I figured the g...

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• Updated Wbykos' Red and Green science module
• Updated contribution parameters

I've run into this issue as well, I've found this happens when the belt gets backed up and once it's clear again the inserter doesn't register it can place the item it's holding, remaining stuck holding the item until the player manually fixes it via rotating the inserter or dismantle and replacing it

Thanks for the much cleaner and easier to see version Wbykos, updated to the newer image

you do log in with the account you set up on the factorio site in order to download the appropriate content, so I would guess the game will work for either steam or stand alone just as long as you have an account with one or the other

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• Added a second compact Red and Green science module
• very light revising

Thanks Wybkos for the help

Evolution factor has no influence on the size of nests or worms, it only controls which biters and spitters spawn, how frequently they attack and how frequently they create new bases. Cohaka wanted to influence the last one, but there's a better way to go about it than editing evolution value: -- h...

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• Added early game coal mining setups

Also gimme a little bit Wbykos, I'll add your second version of red and green sciences when I get an image that isnt so cluttered with the games graphics details.

There are 4 things you'll need to know in order to reduce the amount of bases you run into over all. The first is of course in the new game menu where you have all of the drop down menus to adjust the frequency, size, and richness of each proceduraly generated resource that doesnt have to do with th...