I tend start with 20 belts in 5 sets of 4 with 2 tiles of padding. This also fits neatly with 2 tiles of padding within a chunk. 4x Iron Plate 2x Gear 2x Copper Plate 2x Electronic Circuit 1x Steel 1x Stone Brick 1x Plastic 1x Advanced Circuit 1x Processing Unit 1x Battery 4x Misc This setup tends t...

Once you get to a certain point in the game, "plonking down BPs" is just the scale that the game ends up being. Which is also why I enjoy using Whistle Stop Factories (lol.) I suggest 2 alternatives: Conbot research - Expensive (and end-game) research that lets you decon planner an ore pat...

My "100% required mods": Bottleneck Squeak Through YARM (Resource Monitor) Upgrade Planner Resource Spawner Overhaul Auto Deconstruct (Auto marks depleted drills for deconstruction) EvoGUI (Small information widget) Foreman (BP manipulator) Helmod (Planning Calculator) Auto Research Nanobo...

Hey all, I looked in the Suggestions forum and, surprisingly, didn't find anything about what I am wondering. Are there plans to implement a bridge or tunnel system with railroads so intersections are minimized? Rail is my favorite thing to build in this game but it would be so much cleaner with br...

Not sure if significant depth , but for a significant increase in scale I use Whistle Stop Factories . This can (of course) be modded with more recipes (sold separately), since it adds absurdly large batch assemblers/electric furnaces/refineries around the map. This switches the game from belts and ...

Well, the "best" solution is a mod called YARM. If you want to roll-it-yourself, you probably cannot get better than a combinator contraption. This could consist of one wired up drill which reads contents of the entire resource deposit One (or more) combinator timers, which would set a sa...

You can also use the /permissions console command to prevent yourself from crafting. Note that this does NOT disable achievements. Yep... I 100% reccommend this method. Open the permissions window, make a new type and keep everything enabled. In the default profile, UNcheck hand crafting... this wa...

My only two (current) usability issues with the updated forum look: Font Kerning with the Titillium font is inconsistent at times. (I tend to heavily prefer plain old Verdana) Contrast of white text on light grey backround is difficult to read. (I know I can install a userscript as a work around, bu...

Pumps should treat the shallow water as it were normal water, for simplicity, unless you were to allow pipes to be placed over shallow water, or create a new plastic pipe even for this specific task. Yea, this is similar to a question I'm having. I'm assuming that the shallow water tile (as a subse...

I believe that Long reach affects the characters build range bonus stat. To remove long reach (since your total bonus build range is probably saved to the gamesave itself), you probably just need to set the bonus to zero. This is untested, but may work: game.forces["player"].character_buil...

Adv oil only costs 150 plastic bars, which you can easily do even if you "sneakernet" the petrol with oil drums. Adv oil is probably the #1 blue science research, due to the quality of life it gives you. And if you're running out of lubricant, you can always prioritize pumping lubricant to...

Another thing the research queue could do is allow researching multiple things. For example you queue up artillery, which needs military science. After that you queue up fluid handling, which needs no military science. As long as thee are military science present in a lab it will research artillery...

After playing hundreds of hours of Factorio... needing to select research every time it completes becomes tedious. You're really not depriving anyone if they have already experienced a few playthroughs, and have learned which research order is really needed. I propose a few ways of immersively addin...

Let's say they implement star gates. You can teleport to other planets and build there too. Other than possible exclusive resources, give me at least ONE reason the player may want to build there. You mean something like clusterio? Where you have a vast interconnected system of pocket-universes? He...

Step 1) Consume
Step 2) Destroy
Step 3) Expand
Step 4) Go to Step 1

This is the endgame of factorio.

The point was that he could tailor the seed to what he wanted. One of them don't have biters. Maybe he wants biters. Biter setting won't affect the terrain settings. The map exchange string includes all the terrain settings (well, along with enemies and ore); changing resource settings won't change...

I find most maps to be great. To increase resources go to the settings. There's 3 different ways to change how ore patches form. Here's the maps I play on. They all have what you ask for: 1346835189 2222437606 Here's a rather beautiful one which I just happened to spawn when making a reply in anoth...

Modifying bots won't really solve much. You need to spam roboports to create enough charging capacity. Adding any more conditional checks (like collision or ranging) is just utterly out of the question due to UPS concerns. The best way to buff belts for endgame would probable be automatic stacking o...

my answer would be: "whatever" no offense against this highly valued game of yours. a picture is bad to describe a complex game like this at least to me. a player understand the "icons" and builds a person that doesn'T play the game will be able to understand the easy the stuff ...

So maybe there isn't any bottenleck regarding to graphics even in HD mode? A text like "You need 3GB of VRAM" causes panic and I'm sure some people buy a better graphics card only for playing Factorio but maybe it wouldn't be necessary at all. Well, in my case... If I use All VRAM mode, I...