You might be able to build a debugger circuit actually... You can halt the execution of your circuit by disconnecting the power. And you can connect a power switch to a circuit network to halt on a specific condition (Like a "breakpoint" in a software debugger). Of course, when you disconn...

Could do it with just a constant combinator too. Assuming you've got the total count of coal already coming into your request chest, just add a second wire going to a constant combinator set to negative 3000 coal. You don't need a decider because the request chest won't request a negative value, and...

TL;DR In addition to 'read contents', I think it would be useful if provider chests could be enabled/disabled through the circuit network. What ? Many entities already have the ability to be enabled/disabled based on circuit network conditions; I think it would be useful to have this extended to lo...

I'd say something like a line of steel chests at a rail station isn't a buffer, it's a cache. A buffer is when you have fifty chests of coal at your power station to give you enough time to react when the station cache empties out. :) But here we're taking above and beyond that to actual storage. Pe...

A follow coder and friend at work talked about the glory of factorio.. I'm now working in an office were every Software Engineer here (6 of us) plays factorio...We love it.. We joke about how any new hires should be required to make a factory and then we evaluate it to get a sense of their engineer...

just having one chest/inserter per item type is pretty much the only way that works reliably for both personal and regular supply. Eh, you can make it work. I had a wall repair train in my last game that would carry walls, turrets, multiple power poles, concrete, both kinds of bots, roboports, rail...

I'd use beta, personally. I'm pretty sure there's about zero chance of them reverting that change, so playing with 0.14 just means your base WILL break later. Maybe you'll be bored with it by then, but maybe not :) Don't be too afraid of that "experimental" label. It might have bugs, but p...

Are you loading the same saved game? The boilers were changed significantly in 0.15, they are much larger and have steam output separate from water pass-through. So you'll need to redesign your steam engine setup in 0.15. See the example near the bottom of this FFF... water moves North/south while s...

Pretty sure that's not possible at the moment. Also pretty sure you don't really need it. If you're at 50% or at 70% does it really matter? Either way you need more power... In my last game I had several different power networks. Solar was always providing power. If power started to fall it would tr...

Well, I guess I'm *that guy*...I don't like the toolbar stuff at all...sounds like maybe nobody uses the toolbar the way I do? First, it sounds like you're going to make the toolbar rely on the filter item mechanism...which isn't intuitive or discoverable and frankly doesn't make any sense at all. I...

Unfortunately, it is not a very good license apparently. More specifically, the "Non-Commercial" part is overprotecting my works. A user of my mod has just raised the issue: The current non-commercial restriction prevents anyone from posting a monetized video or ad-supported blog post tha...

There are some glow-related properties for heat pipe in entity.lua. I tried modifying them, but they don't do anything. However, if you think realistically, if the pipes are glowing, it means they fail to keep the heat energy inside them. Heat energy is lost from their surface. Anything touching th...

Is the counter really necessary? I've got a nuclear setup running with two reactors that seems much simpler. I can't find the numbers right now but I think I remember reading that one fuel rod will provide about one storage tank full of steam. Less if that steam is being consumed by your factory at ...

Yup, I was gonna ask for something similar as well. There used to be a single button to clear a blueprint, which I used all the time. Being able to permanently maintain blueprint libraries across games is great, but I don't actually want to permanently store every single blueprint. 95% of the bluepr...

Although the changes look great my first reaction to rocket changes was how SpaceX mod will change. Gl to the developer of that one :p Can we reuse the rocket? Just felt like the above comments belong together :P I was so excited for 0.15... but this... With all the FFF, all the great constant comm...

Well, the first issue is that you really shouldn't be emptying every single train using bots. Any efficiency you gained by using a train you just lost by using the bots. Slow, expensive, and power-hungry. Secondly, learn to use the circuit network. Almost all of the problems you described could be s...

I suggest changing this to something that is not the default. When clear cursor and switch weapon share a hotkey, this happens to me a lot: 1. You accidentally press clear cursor and extra time and switch your weapon to the shotgun. 2. You accidentally press the space bar either because your thumb ...

Hmm...I put the hazard concrete around the rails, but usually not directly under them (can't really see it there anyway!)... So you'd slow down for a sec just before hitting the rails, giving a bit of extra time to see if a train is coming. I kinda like it!

Try just putting a green wire between two belt segments near the end of the belt feeding from the side. It probably won't be *perfect*, but I think you should be able to set it up so it disables one segment as long as there's more than one or two items on the segment in front of it. Haven't tried it...

If there's oil in the input pipe and room in all three output pipes it will produce, there shouldn't be anything else required. Check for breaks or blockages in your pipe network.