Let's imagine an alternative universe where they picked refined concrete. And we wanted rails. :o The iron ore would not be popular. We also might claim it's too complex. I've never built refined concrete in any factory. This is something I need a push to make. Rails aren't. Is it good or bad to mak...

And please remember, I don't mind the rails (actually like the idea of a stone based item requirement), but I am very much concerned by the number of rails required in the recipe. There is no other recipe with such high item count to be delivered to the assemblers. Please reconsider it... We need t...

Am I wrong here? Are many people driving science production from intermediate products produced in your main factory? I do it with engines, and I think everyone does it with red circuits. I make them because blue science will need them, but I also intend to have extras. Some things (bullets, turret...

About "theme", where are the Braking Force techs? Because we would learn how to make trains stop ridiculously fast without destroying the track, exactly by melting very many tracks into purple goo to see what happens. I agree rail doesn't fit the theme for the same reasons, but I just thin...

I wonder how much of the current Gun Turret balance is intended, and if they'll be weaker at endgame without the double-dipping from 2 techs. They're completely OP with Uranium bullets and 1-2 Space upgrades, and I don't even put walls in front of them. https://imgur.com/1sp27fX.png But the lasers a...

I'm new to this, but have been drawn here by off-topic spam in the FFF #275 thread. :/ If you hadn't spammed elsewhere where I wanted to discuss other things, I would not be here. But I've come and read your thread. Many pages of it! The recent stuff is all fake. No one likes axes this much. And I d...

Something cool I noticed about direct insertion ratios on purple science. 30/21 rails is a mess, but it exactly cancels into clean ratios if you have speed penalties from 2x prod modules (in assembly machine 2), or 4x prod modules. I still haven't decided what shape I'd build it all in though. 1:2:8...

Excited for the new recipes. I tend to quit bases around the transition from blue to purple science, as the scale gets huge, but I don't have exoskeletons and everything feels so tedious. With purple vs. yellow more of a choice, I can finally get yellow first, and then do purple after I can actually...

I use splitters for more than just backbones. I split items up from belts to their respective train loader and it would really help when i have an automated station (that is, items change based on what recipe it's currently doing) to set up which train loader gets what items. I don't intend to expl...

I suspect a programmable filter is useless. Compared to the filter inserter, a splitter guarantees its item will back up, instead of passing through. Letting an item back up on a mixed belt is almost never what you want, as it easily deadlocks. If an item is so toxic to the system ahead of it that i...

I changed my mind. This feature would not solve the problem. I am going to create separate mod folders for every one of my worlds, and separate .bat files to launch directly to the world, using its own mods. This will be faster than any in-game feature for reloading mods. Only a customized launcher ...

I like them how they are. The belt speed wouldn't make my "top 3 annoyances" with them: Always pre-fuel burner inserters that are moving non-fuel items, before connecting the belts behind them, or they will immediately break themselves moving an item instead of grabbing fuel. Never let the...

It would allow you to to create fully independent bases that don't even care about being connected to your main power supply that are supplied by steam and don't care about location. Blueprints that rely on steam power and don't need to be manually hooked up to a water source, but instead utilize y...

TL;DR "Load this game, with these mods," as a single operation. What ? Factorio knows how to start directly into a game. It just isn't being asked to. The --load-game command line option exists, and works. "Sync Mods" already replaces Factorio with a new process. It could simply...

My blueprint still produces it for me in 0.16.46:

https://youtu.be/zi6KU6maWlw

Unfortunately I don't know how to do the tick timing with combinators, only to check if a belt has full throughput with splitters.

I confirmed this in a different way, using priority splitters to tell when the belt ahead was blocked. Only the mirrored south orientation ever overflowed onto the other side of the splitter.

edit: idk if this is even useful, but here's my test blueprint, and a picture of which belt overflows.

Sorry if I'm reporting this in the wrong place. Also I only know Lua, almost nothing about Factorio modding. http://i.imgur.com/oBFbsFX.png This probably meant to do "res_conf.type" instead of "type". The latter is a function reference, and will always compare unequal to those st...

It's probably an artillery round that does it. Two things that happen immediately before the crash are a train leaving, and the artillery round. But I tried stopping the train, and it still happens.

Wasn't this either; I removed the turret and it still crashed. I think I'm done trying to guess.

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(I realize the thread is 1+ years old, but it still shows up on Google. I'm still using this thread in Dec 2017.) I like to add a line to make the map always bright: /c game.forces.player.chart(game.player.surface, {lefttop = {x = -2048, y = -2048}, rightbottom = {x = 2048, y = 2048}}) /c game.spee...