Well, it's not about concurrent preprocessing like in hashlife. Factorio is designed from the ground-up to be deterministic with vast interdependency. This is the same reason why you cannot multithread Factorio that well. A drill on the otherside of the map would be affected by consuming something l...

Infinite research would be neat to just make your factory performance just better over time. Here's some random infinite researches that would be pretty nifty to have, of course some of them should have diminishing returns. Stone/Steel furnace productivity/speed/fuel consumption Boiler productivity ...

If you want a barelling facility, and don't want 6 barelling facilities, you may want this kind of contraption. how do you change the factory's production? Do you have some mod that is just 'barrel whatever liquid it gets' ? No, you would essentially do the same thing as above; but instead of tanks...

A few things: the devs have said they won't add a way to add water, largely because it would make biters pointless. They could add biters which can fly or swim, but they seem to have little interest in doing so. Other than that, if they added all the ideas the community thought they should (many of...

Well, after playing a bit of OpenTTD... the PBS system in OpenTTD is a little easier to use. Since the train that triggers a PBS signal reserves only the tile segment pieces that the train will run on (instead of a defined block of rail that includes any railway switches, including associated rail i...

Well, accumulators and solar panels are unified into one calculation. Something like (SolarPanelQuantity * SunlightPercentage * 60kW). So the entire set of wired up solars and accus in one power network only take one calculation for a practically unlimited number of them. The real UPS loss comes fro...

You don't need to tie your inserters to the logistic network... you just need to wire them to the intermediate chests. KatherineofSky has a great setup for this, which i use in every game. Where you have 9 input/output chests for each Yellow/Red/Blue Belt/Underneathy/Splitter. Even early-game you wo...

It's not necessarily a bug... it's a timing thing relating to the inserter dropping onto the outside lane directly onto a splitter. The solution is to not insert directly onto splitters, only insert onto belts or underneathies if you want consistent results.

That strikes me as proposing adding a whole additional fiddly and complex layer, solely for the sake of avoiding adding a single, simple, versatile new piece. Imagine needing to build anything large, and needing to open and fiddle with checkboxes for hundreds of those individually! Why, when you co...

My main problem with using Undergrounds for lane blocking (the ugliness isn't much of a factor) is that undergrounds don't let me use other undergrounds nearby on the same plane. This is especially noticeable now that red and blue underneathies have extended range. Using 1 Underground for a single l...

Yep. Electric furnaces are really intended for end-game where you can get extra productivity and speed out of them without needing to feed them chemical fuel directly.

Remember belts have a fractional number of items per segment... if you only detect one belt segment, the value of items will "flicker" and reduce the max throughput of your splitter. For a max throughput priority splitter. you need to use the method above, but wire (i think) 9 detector seg...

Stack inserters are ~766 items/min chest to belt, and ~1661 items/min chest to chest. You need 3 tiles for the current loader+feeder belt; where you would need 3 stack inserters (and quite a bit of compression and balancing overhead) for the same interface without loaders. These are my suggestions f...

Issue: Factorio 0.15.6 crashes during loading of select old maps (log says "139.960 Info Scenario.cpp:133: Map version 0.14.13-2") that have had mod(s) installed. Crashes possibly relate to migrating a save from 0.14.13 with the mod "Warehousing 0.10" installed... to 0.15.6 vanil...