If you want different builds, what is needed is different recipes for each item. This idea sounds very interesting. Randomizing recipes requires different setups each time. I see another way to come to a very similar result: We permanently introduce multiple alternative recipes to obtain the same i...

When watching the PvP scenario: Production score. I realize that the only real interaction between the teams is combat (shooting at things). I don't think that is fitting Factorio I think some way of gaining land and taking over land from each other could be more interesting and add another level of...

Small note on shadows is that a stack of bots in the air leave a black shadow that looks strange. The overlapping shadows gets do dark and is to sharp. My ancient graphics card have problems with fps when zooming out but that is not strange...

I don't think bots is high throughput and Ease of use, they are more like high throughput or Ease of use. You don't get high throughput without designing the factory around it. But once you understand how to design a high throughput bot factory, it is almost always easier than designing the equival...

Hopefully nobody's posted this particular thing, but I haven't read the whole 40+ pages on this FFF or the previous FFF. This chart (recreated for easier comparison) was posted , where the three main transport methods shown in a balanced version of the game, with three niches: comparison-incomplete...

Make loaders craftable! Make belts better than bots! Don't make belts as boring as bots, thanks. Really? The only way to currently move items to/from belts are inserters, and mining drills that spit out their content. Just like splitters and their recent additions, loaders would not make all insert...

Gergely wrote:Make loaders craftable! Make belts better than bots!

Don't make belts as boring as bots, thanks.

FactorioBot wrote:
[*]Increased the stack size of roboport from 5 to 10.

Thanks

Hey Twinsen, Kovarex & Klonan :) Just think about games like Starcraft, DotA or Leage of Legends - Balancing a game is one of the worst nightmares of a dev. Trust yourself to make decisions instead of waging all odds and ends within the community. You and you alone as a team brought this game s...

Honestly... It's up to the devs to decide on how THEY want to view game progression. And if they decide to nerf bots, someone will just make a mod that undoes the changes, anyway. Lol. Personally, I've always had one problem with the bots. They make blue belts obsolete before you even really have t...

Seconding the idea of limiting bots to only have one of them access an individual chest at a time. That way you can't just make more bots to increase throughput, you'll have to actually design the logistic network properly. Particularly high throughput areas will not work with bots altogether and w...

Now I ca't reproduce it either. I probably messed up the trains on my own ore there is some extra factor.

When I copy paste a train schedule I get the wrong trains station in the schedule. How to reproduce 1. Create station 1 2. Create station 2 3. Create a train with a schedule contain the station 1 4. Rename station 1 to station 2 and station 2 to station 1. 5. Create a second train and copy paste the...

I do agree to some extent that the actual problem aren't the bots. It's the module towers. These aggressive setups of prod/speed don't work with belts. From my perspective the beacons makes the belts a more fun challenge without needing to build a ridiculous amount of assemblers. Without the beacon...

I still don't understand why they instigated the debate about bots immediately after nerfing belt compression. I agree that using underground belts to compress belts was not intuitive but to eliminate that and side loading and then go on a rant about how bots were OP and everyone was using them? Ri...

with even faster belts inserters will need buffing as well, yellow inserters cant grab from blue belts unless it is full, red inserters also have trouble with blue belts unless they are full, if you add even faster belts, red inserters may have further issues, a fast long handed inserter and/or lon...

Thanks for the mod portal. I am a little bit skeptical about inserters auto compress belts. I they do that compression wouldn't be a thing and we would just talk about full belt. I am also a little bit skeptical about the new splitters to. I never intentionally put several types of items on one lane...

I know why bots are better than belts. They get infinite research. Belts however, do not. It IS one reason, and I think is the most significant. I agree that bots should not be the most optimal solution. Actually, I think the fact that bot can technically get infinite output from a chest (you could...

If you play with Angel Bob the amount of different things in your inventory gets ridiculous huge and there is a big problem to find your stuff. The crafting menu is nicely divided into folders and you can also use the search field, that makes it easier to find stuff. The inventory on the other hand ...

Angels mod's do something similar and more complex and involved it's great and fun if you think vanilla is to simple.
https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Arch666A ... lsrefining
I wouldn't be against to ad something similar but simplified to the base game.