Bad Idea: What happens if you surround your base with hazard concrete? Biters would be slowed, and since concrete is neither attacked nor damaged by anything this would make a lot of things too easy! Also for the train crossing case, since this delays you at a crittical moment. Even though your cros...

Arn't your pockets deeep enough already? I mean how many trains etc. can you carry already. If the Landfill stacksize is your problem, just use a vehicle to transport it, or request them via bots ... What I would like though is the possibility to use robots to build landfill, which if memory serves ...

Yes please! These infinite (which is not the real problem) and fast produced (which is) biters are the real reason why you need turret creep before Tanks/Flamethrowers. It simply is not possible to kill the biters and then deal with the nest in an "orderly" fassion. There currently simply ...

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Am I the only one who is always confused by how pump jacks "rotate"? Contrary to all other entities I have encoutered the pipe output does not rotate, but flips along the edges. Is that done on purpose, a strange oversight, a bug or just my imagination/computer?
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@stm, the formula does primitively simulate both pressure and momentum. (Assuming that by 'pressure' you mean pressure at the bottom, i.e. volume, which is how it really works despite the internal use of the name 'pressure'. Perhaps they could update the pipe graphics to reflect the volume in addit...

I'd be ok with that :P There's nothing complex about pipes anyway. You just snake the pipe from source -> destination and you're done. There's no splitting, balancing, compression or any of that - just a->b. I disagree about that. Not because Pipes are complex in their own way, but because you have...

In my opinion, if the code is to be touched, one should change it to make it right(tm). That would mean one would have to incorporate preasure and momentum of the liquids which would make quite a lot of new problems computational wise. And by the way: going through a list twice can take the double a...

Most of the throughput comparisons rest on the fact, that the stacksize for (filled) barrels is 10 if i recall correctly and they contain 25 units of liquid. When we finally have alternative ways to transport liquids by train they should just reduce their capacity from 250 (25x10 since they are goin...

I think cooking it would be a nice gimik. It shouldn't be that hard to add the recipie for furnaces.
Though I guess the best use would not be as a health source but as something to feed to the natives Attack with it like with a grenade (range zero) and then it tames the biter
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I suppose yes I will. Not in the ammount one has to use them now to transport crude oil, but for transportation inside the factory barrels will tie into the logistic network in a way no pipe can. Over long distances a train with a tank wagon hopefully will win and over short ranges a pipe is the way...

Better (more in depth) tutorials are really a must have. (No I'm not looking for answers here, just stating a few questions one might want to address in those) e.g. Trains: Yes it is quite easy to set up an easy transport route, but even controlling the loading of a train is not intuitive. How can t...

In general use them in positions where you never want your chests to fill up. E.G. because you do not want that production to stop. I used it for certain ore fields inside my base for example. Or use them at your train station to not store anything inside the chests you want to unload your train to....

Sounds nice,
though it would be even better if you could read the amound of required research cycles & sience-beakers from the lab as well (also via the circuit network).
would enable real on demand production of research since logistic chests are too slow to use this way.
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Coal is finite, but not oil Let's first calculate the energy cost for a unit of crude oil. Fortunately this is easy. Regular pumpjack consumes 90 kW a second and produces 0.1 units of oil a second, so 900 kJ of energy is spent to produce one unit of crude oil. Adding 1 speed module 1 to the pumpjac...

I would have liked to have have that in vanilla too. But I assume it will be redundant when steam is created instead of warm/hot water in 0.15, isn't it? So will there even be a temperature anymore? Otherwise it would be nice because it would enable one to fill a tank with 100° Water with just one b...

I think it is an interesting suggestion (and I do not mean that in any negative way!). I see one problem though Either you add a lot of incremental items for your top tier items, or you would be able to prototype/research them directly at the start. And it would not make a lot of sense that e.g. pro...

This is where Boats would come in handy. I posted on a subject about boats earlier this month. That would solve the problem with being stuck on the island. However, this solution may create an additional problem, because the player would then be forced to build his base away from the center of the ...

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but anyway: Considering this proposed/implemented incarnation, what is supposed to be the advantage of nuclear power? Except that it does not use Carbon based fuel and maybe has reduced pollution I do not see any upside in comparison with "normal" steam ...