The wiki has a page for each item in the game. The item page has links for where each item is used and what you need to make that item. It might not be as convenient as a list, but it has all the data.

https://wiki.factorio.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

A chain signal also evaluates the block it is in front of. The red arrow heads in front of the red train say that block is occupied. It is occupied by the blue train. I know the blue train is not on the same track, but the entire junction is one block and only one train can occupy it at a time. Prob...

In my last game I took barrels of oil to the refinery and then barrels of sulfuric acid to the blue chip outpost. The refinery was bot based and wound up sending all the barrels to blue chips. I did have empty return set up, but I made so much more acid than I used that it backed up. Things stabiliz...

If you use the console command to kill all enemies the system will create new ones when it generates new chunks.

If you are killing the bases manually you will explore new chunks when you get close enough to the bases and they will have spawners.

The 2-4 setup will be faster than a 2-4-2 because the 2-4-2 has two locomotives facing the wrong way and not helping pull the train. They just add weight and slow acceleration.

From the Wiki:

Disable biter expansion

This prevents biters from creating new spawners.

/c game.map_settings.enemy_expansion.enabled = false

I have had biters attack a train when the railroad passed through where biters wander. Hit a biter with a train, even on passive, and you agro the entire spawn.

If ALL you want is to feed ammo to turrets you can use storage chests with active provider chests. Just put a storage chest next to each turret and output ammo production to an active provider chest. You will eventually get plenty of ammo for each turret. Except active provider chests aren't availa...

ledow wrote:It reminds me a little of Global Effect, an old DOS game.

Nobody has ever played that though. It was Sim City, basically, but where you had to be eco-friendly.

I played it, but never got far. Too tough for me.

Still have the box and game.

If ALL you want is to feed ammo to turrets you can use storage chests with active provider chests. Just put a storage chest next to each turret and output ammo production to an active provider chest. You will eventually get plenty of ammo for each turret. Make sure you cap the storage chests or all ...

You could use active provider + storage chests, however that is very limiting and error-prone as you mustn't use the trash slots while in the specific logistics network and if you move more than one item type the danger of a chest filling up with only one type exists. To keep chests from filling up...

The blue print string from the .14 mod is incompatible with the new blue print features in 0.15.

If you need the blueprint from the old game in the new I think you can get it by opening the old save in 0.15 and using the blueprint windows to save the blueprint.

Do we in 15 still need many pumps per pipe? I saw it pumps more but the fluid values are all off so i wonder if we still need up to 5 Pumps for a single pipe? I haven't been playing as long as you have, but I have never used any pumps in my pipes. But all my pipes have been short. I used barrels fo...

Can someone explain where to find or read all of the rates at which things are consumed/produced? For example, someone was trying to calculate how many steam engines and boilers needed to power 50 assembly machines, someone typically chimes in with "that's easy... a steam engine generates X an...

If you are still on 0.14 the alt key will show pollution on the map (hot key M).

In 0.14 I pasted a map exchange string into the settings window and updated drop down boxes. The exchange string disappeared (the seed remained) and I spawned in the same place. The only thing that changed was what I wanted change: ore and coal patch richness in the first try and oil patch frequency...

There is a developer reply to a similar question in general discussion. The blueprint string mod is incompatible with the new blueprint string function in 0.15 vanilla.

The blueprint icon only appears when you have researched blue prints.

Maybe someone that knows more than me can post the command that unlocks the blueprint research.

In 0.14 you need a mod. Blueprint String is the one I'm familiar with, but I think there are others.

I think I remember a FFF with improvements for sharing blueprints for 0.15.

Even without blue prints if you hold something in your hand and shift + click it will place a ghost.

I used it to help lay out my first bus. I was real surprised that I got messages about missing parts when a new roboport construction zone included the extension of my bus.