I don't know what's to the right of your copper line, but you could place another set of factories there as well, doubling your production. Or add a section to your factory that has dedicated raw material inputs for building circuits. If each copper belt can support 3 modules, then 10 copper belts c...

Thanks VampiricDust, I've been stupid busy in real life, no time to maintain this mod... Alrighty, went ahead and did the fixes for the crystallizer & mohole sharing the same category. Below is the entire contents for each fixed file. Changes: Added recipe category for crystallizer prototypes/ca...

Salmon? First time my eyes have ever bled while looking at a fish.

Most of the time, I find that just leaving the old base alone and building a new one beside it is easiest. Later if I want the space for something I might tear it down.

These HD will be awsome but HD mean precision and i think this Steam Engine if really weird and really broken x) If you look right on the bottom right, the part who look like an egg must be flying because the arm if passing through the central axis of this part. (in the picture, the red lines help ...

You also might want to look at the alien temple mod: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/vie ... =14&t=8863
It does something very similar

So do you want to make a perpetum mobile or just havent thought this through? You use coal to make electricity. There is tricks like using the electric boiler to heat water for overnight storage, instead of accumulators. A storage tank at 100c has great energy density compared to accumulators. I'm ...

I'd like to see this one stickied as well. ssilk? Do you mind doing that for us?

I remember, the HD official mod was mentioned here . I can't stop watching now... :D https://eu3.factorio.com/assets//img/blog/fff-64-steam-engine-high-resolution.gif Wait. I just noticed this sentence: "The comparison of the normal resolution render versus the double sized resolution speaks f...

Have a look at https://forums.factorio.com/wiki/inde ... le=Enemies - There is a section at the bottom about evolution that should answer most of your questions. Feel free to ask for clarification though!

Anyone ever figure out how to create an explosion in a mod? I'm thinking that the turret doesn't actually fire, it just could create an explosion entity at a location (as if you threw a grenade there as a player)

There's the un-maintained mohole mod that does something similar for mining magma. You get lava that can be crystallized into iron or copper, with large amounts of waste rock.

Not completely on topic, but techreport has an amazing SSD endurance test writeup http://techreport.com/review/27909/the- ... e-all-dead

If you are open to mods, I strongly suggest adding Dynamic Expansion: https://forums.factorio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7935 As your evolution level increases, the biters become significantly more aggressive. The biggest change as far as I'm concerned is to the way that they try to create n...

The sun is a reasonably portable fusion reactor. Shouldn't need more than about 1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 tiles in the grid. Provides a boost to solar panels. Keeps the user toasty. Incinerates nearby everything. On topic, I'd like to see higher tier batteries. Up to the point that it becomes pr...

Just some general observations about good 'gaming' processors: More cores is not always better - Most games (including factorio) have a limited level of multithreading, and are only able to take advantage of a few cores. Very few can utilize more than 2 effectively, so hedge your bets on the future ...

Another possibility would be to skew the fire rate/damage even farther, to the point that the low firing rate of lasers is a real disadvantage. Make the laser only fire once per second. Or once every 2 seconds. Buff up the damage per shot to get the same dps. So a laser can nearly one-hit most enemi...

I think the boilers could be made rotatable, and have one axis for water, one axis for steam. So water flows left and right through a row of boilers, and steam flows up and down. Or rotate the boilers for the opposite. So you feed water into the left most boiler. It applies heat. If the temperature ...

I threw together some awful code in Autohotkey if anyone uses it, for demonstration. Makes rail construction much nicer for now. Shift-T to switch to Train Mode, R to rotate right, Shift-R to rotate left. $+t:: IfWinActive, Factorio { SendInput +t If TrainMode = 1 { TrainMode := 0 } else { TrainMod...

Somewhere around 1 refinery to .3 heavy cracking to .75 light cracking I find. I often use a small pump and tank to store a full tank of heavy and light, just in case I want it for something.