I guess its time to beef up my defense before the update comes.
Flame thrower turrets will be even more important.

playing a modded game and having automatic updates on is just pure madness.
this should be illegal.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Technologies#Pricing_formulas
the cost for follower robot count is not exponential

but you can use the research queue

I also have trouble moving storage tanks around, what is the best solution there? Barrel the fluid? Just put down a new storage tank, setup a pump and pipe to transfer from the old to the new storage? Depends on the distance. Pumping the fluid to the new tank is the easiest and fastest option. To m...

And as long as you can't just put it in chests then shoot the chests, this seems like it could be interesting. Just this. Items should be indestructable. destroyed chest -> items all over the place destroyed building -> rubble destroyed car/power pole etc -> steel wreck Should be possible that dest...

By the way: The Factorio fusion reactor really looks more like a radioisotope thermoelectric generator to me (and yes, they can't explode either but more boom is better). the portable fusion reactor we know is a reference to the movie back to the future just like nuclear fuel with the fuel value of...

Its far easier to clear biters with a rocket launcher. Setup a temporary oil pump with solar und bring some crude oil to your base One rocket only needs one explosive. Since you're close to the biters you should bring some flame thrower turrets and gun turrets and guard the oil field. You need 12500...

I highly doubt, that there will be any major changes.

Even though it is still in alpha its mostly about polishing the game.

My approach means far slower progress in creating the infrastructure, but the advantage manifests in the later stages of the game where far less time is spent setting up new mines and decommissioning them. Once a sufficient number of mines are up and running there's no longer an issue with how slow...

starting to think about it, what bugs me even more is, that landfill needs stone, but you cant see even one stone. I guess these inaccuracies are something we have to live with. another example: how are the belts powered and how do the items stay on the belt even though there is nothing that prevent...

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Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:46 am

Tried that in the past but still killed off trees and aggro'ed the locals.

idling miners don't pollute since they have no drain.

Do you use efficienty modules?
This makes mining much easier.

I always use 3 Eff1 Modules on each miner and it reduces pollution by 80%.

you should also connect the light oil tank on the top right with the rest of the light oil

most people use trains to get around
they are more convenient and also faster

https://wiki.factorio.com/Laser_turret https://wiki.factorio.com/Laser_turret_shooting_speed_(research) "Each shot costs 800kJ of energy; as the shooting speed increases through upgrades, so too does the power required to keep firing." a maxed out laser turret shoots 4.8 times a second. p...

Since the rail system is based on transport tycoon/open ttd. Would love to see a feature to place signal ghosts in a certain distance. Even though I'm not sure how to implement it since there is no god mode. Maybe in map mode, where you can only place ghosts anyway. https://wiki.openttd.org/Building...

Then to get robots you "only" need lube, which "only" needs advanced oil... :D which means robots are further back in the game than they were before the oil change. most people rush for advanced oil anyway. Even though I noticed that the need is way lower now, because you dont n...

I think it will end like the seperated fluid waggons
>minor update
>"fluid mixing prevention removed"

whoopsie

It's not about fixing design mistakes. It is. Its not that hard to rework at least the part of the track which this larger train would usually take. Anyway its extra bad design, when a train has to wait on the first block after a junction. The suggestion is about having the train network just becom...

Chain signals should let a train pass when it can clear the next full signal instead of when it can cross the next full signal. simple rule: the largest train has to fit in every block everything else is just bad track design there should always be enough space for a train to leave a junction. if t...

Oh, please no. Do not do that. Sometimes that is realy hard to understand what the building was here after biters destroy something before you have researched "ghosts"... And that go harder if there biter corpses lie over... And only one hour of ghost not so funny. Regular templates can l...