Speaking of assemblers, anyone has done math about beacons ? Like is it better to have 6 AM3 with max beacons and SM3 (+ 500% speed if I remember well @max), or to have 36 assemblers ? If you put 16 SM3s (in 8 beacons) touching an AM3 (with 4 PM3s in it) you get good results for the power you spend...

No. The only things that mark buildings for deconstruction without mods are the deconstruction planner, the "cut" tool (which works the same way as the deconstruction planner), or hitting "undo" if the building was the last thing you placed.

I tried that, but when there isn't enough steam, the reactor is emptied of all spent cells and filled up with new ones. I want to be able to put 1 at a time. Sounds like you didn't quite do what Serenity suggested, then, because that method does work (lots of people use this method, it's used in ma...

No, there isn't. Trains will only skip a station if every station of that name is currently disabled, there's no other way.

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Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:50 pm

Thanks all, very helpful
(I do kill all when changing state)

Oh, so you do - sorry, i missed that part of your original post. Never mind then

If I remember rightly then the problem is that each biter has an aggro/peaceful flag. When you're playing in the normal mode they are all aggro, all the time, but when you're playing in peaceful, the biters start off as peaceful, but turn to aggro when you.. aggro them by attacking them/their base/e...

Right, but my point is that's oversimplifying it and the real options (for assembler 2s with 2x prod 1): 1. 108% output with the same input, if you increase the number of assemblers by ~43% 2. Same output with 93% of the input, if you increase the number of assemblers by ~32% 3. 76% output with the ...

I'm not sure I follow your logic here. The logic is that blue circuits only use a fraction of the red circuits. My factory was producing about 60 blue circuits a minute: so the blue circuits were using 120 red circuits per minute. Putting productivity modules in blue circuits would save 8% of the r...

Yeah, as Khagan says you don't really want to turn machines off at all, you want to either not use the circuit network at all and just let belts back up, or control inserters/belts with the circuit network instead. While you *can* turn machines off with power switches, that has several downsides: - ...

Note that the "best payoffs" might not necessarily be the most expensive items, but rather the ones you need more of and for which you can't easily scale up production. For example: I had plenty of blue circuits (they had their own two red belts of green circuits), but started running out...

(6) When you get productivity modules, start making four level 3 modules for the rocket silo. (I forgot to do this, so had to make do without!) (8) Level 3 assemblers are too expensive, as are modules in anything except the rocket silo. Most of my base was yellow belts with the odd stretch of red b...

Also I would like to have an option to manually select spawn location once you generated the map preview. I could be remembering things incorrectly (it's been months since I recall reading that) but I believe that the seed you use is actually the spawn location. From what I recall reading awhile ba...

Bummer on the "no changes for 0.17". By showing the signals with no values... you can't tell what the combinator is doing by looking at it. I used to have to add a lamp on entry/exit to be able to tell... I guess I still have to :( Well the popup info panel on the right tells you the valu...

I- Were there any changes made to how combinators behave in 0.17? I don't think so, it's always looked the same to me (I've always enabled the option to display the contents). - What exactly do the various types of combinators currently display in 0.17 (with the setting to "display contents&qu...

Hi, Landfill create a normal floor 100% speed, brick is 130% and concrete 140% so the behaviour is normal to go from 100% to 140% No-no-no. Why concrete is placed on top of landfill, but replaces bricks? I think it is simply because landfill is set as unmineable and so instead of replacing the tile...

Yeah, I don't think having actual enforced dependencies between steps like that is a good idea even for those cases, because it slows everything down and still isn't guaranteed to do things in the order that you actually want (since different cases might reasonably want different orders). What I thi...

The most important case, where power network needed as soon as possible is aggressive laser turret blueprint. It is obvious. Yeah, if you are turret creeping with lasers and robots it's somewhat helpful, but it only really makes a difference if the blueprint you're using is pretty big (multiple pol...

I think ghost can be disabled until condition met. I think condition can be checked even if it is more complex than obstruction. I think such conditions should not be on all blueprints. It may be "blueprint option". Yes, I understand it can demand more ticks. But it may be worth it. There...

That does not appear to be correct. I believe the lines about finding a chest with matching items and filtering are correct, but there's some other logic in there other than 'pick the first chest from the list with an empty slot', as that logic would result in the first storage chest you put down g...

For a new player or someone coming back, it would be very helpful if there is a speed indication for respective inserters in the Game. I know that the calculation seem very complex https://wiki.factorio.com/Inserters . However, a rounded / the worst value indication in my opinion would be enough. T...