I think the problem is inconsistent behavior with manually-placed signals vs. blueprinted signals. When a signal is manually placed, its orientation is automatically adjusted to connect to an adjacent track. Signals in a blueprint will be whatever orientation the blueprint is saved in, even if they'...

Already asked and aswered. Check the next thread: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=5145&p=39782&hilit=low+fps#p39782 Ok, but it limits the fps to 30, but what if he just wants to have 60? (I personally hate to play on 30). What graphics card you use? The vsync seem...

I know what it's doing. When crafting in-hand, the game satisfies component requirements top-down and depth-first. It noticed that you don't have any tier 3 productivity modules, so it earmarked the requisite items in your inventory for that recipe, on the assumption you'd be cratfing them in-hand t...

I would argue this is notabug. The Windows NT lineage (including XP, Vista, 7, 8, et al) is an inherently multi-user system, and part of its design philosophy is that something that affects other users should require elevated privileges. The current design assumption is that Factorio is installed so...

How do you guys have such huge saves? I have 13 saves and not one is over 16MB.

I leave the rails and train stop there, so I can hop in a train and make it auto path to it, but I usually tear down everything else. I'm experimenting with preemptive defense, using radars to detect biter settlements on the edges of my pollution cloud as they're happening so I can intervene. So far...

Second, your ratio between red an green doesnt fit :). Make equal assembly for both. Eh, close but not quite. The theoretical ratio, assuming you use tier 1 assemblers for red/green and tier 2 for blue, is 5:6:8 red-green-blue. One to one will work well enough, but there's always that plus one ;) I...

Confirmed still present in 0.10.11.

If I were to speculate it may have something to do with not closing the D3D context properly.

You could always make your "unit" an EntityWithHealth and spam Entity.teleport() Unfortunately that's the current state of Factorio modding. To make things that differ even slightly in behavior from something in the vanilla game, you have to go all the way back to a basic class that does n...

Biters won't make special trips to attack radars; if your radar outposts are getting attacked, those outposts are simply unlucky enough to be on their path to something that's pissing them off, like a mining outpost or coal-fired power plant. So it could be as simple as careful placement based on kn...

We can take some educated guesses at how biter assault AI works based on hints in the changelog. First of all, there's a "circle of rage". I don't know how it's established or calculated, but it tends to be centered on high concentrations of active, polluting buildings. EVERYTHING in this ...

Something easily missed is that Radars give a line of sight around them, this is good for keeping tabs on your distant bases if they get attacked and to see how big the attack is. You can see the LOS given in the image below, taken from map view. Yes, but there's one gotcha here. The map is updated...

IMO, the problem is balance. The only reason I use turrets to kill off a biter nest is big/medium worms. I believe they appear too early in the game, when the player can't handle them. Shit, even in the endgame I can't really handle them without turret creeping. I think that's the biggest problem; ...

I think the campaign gives us most of our answers. Our hero never was supposed to be here -- his ship suffered some catastrophic failure, spilled its guts all over the hemisphere, and somehow left him alive, but with next to no supplies, on a tentatively colonized planet where the colonies are quick...

I'm changing my train system to use big trains to bring ores from remote outposts to a central station near my base and then smaller trains to bring the stuff from there to processing in the base. This is the way I found to upgrade the capacity of my rail system, without changing the existing stati...

There's a lot of angles on this that I don't have a good idea of how to test. I played around in sandbox a bit adding empty cars to a train, and found that the speed penalty is surprisingly small. Assuming how full a car is doesn't influence the speed of the train, longer trains is unquestionably th...

IMO the sound should be changed entirely. None of this sci-fi bleeping. Go for something a bit more realistic -- a persistent buzzing or whirring noise, similar to a quadcopter or RC helicopter in flight, preferably with doppler pitch-shifting applied. A base dominated by logistics bots should liter...

Spawner has about 300HP, car 500? Ramming a single spawner with a car is a valid tactic. No joke, this is how I get most of my artifacts early game, if the evolution factor drifts too high and I get a significant amount of big biters before I'm geared for turret creep.If I'm really desperate I'll h...

jeroon wrote:The station is on the wrong side of the track for the locomotive in the back, it always has to be on the right-hand side of the track.

So the "drive" locomotive MUST be the locomotive to park at the station? I can't imagine that's desired.