Thanks for the report however I don't consider this worth looking into. This happens all over the place due to trying to simulate 3D in a 2D sprite based game. "Fixing" one thing breaks other things and It's just not worth the time to me to look into this kind of stuff. But this game stil...

Obscure system stops after memory-heavy applications might be caused by faulty RAM. I had some strange reboots and memory corruption which occurred in only one application and the cause were some sticky bits in single RAM bank pretty high in address space. Otherwise you might want to use kernel debu...

I use "arrow buffer" (right on the picture) a lot in my designs, but sometimes use slower inserters when grabbing items from main belt.

Well, probably one of CDN tricks to conserve bandwidth - WEBP have better compression than JPEG. The same image in your screenshot served in WEBP format (134 KiB) for Firefox 66a and in JPEG format (214 KiB) for Microsoft Edge, for example. CDNs usually don't serve content they don't sure client doe...

Well, of course, here is one of my earlier saves, vanilla without mods. World already cleared of biters and has limited dimensions.


...suspiciously exact number of saves, do you have this much on your machine? Now i know why we don't get much updates, ha-ha

As someone related to software, I can say that the GUI design is pretty hard, mundane task which is definitely impossible to do right at all, so, you, guys, are doing great! I also understand the temptation to tell that you make GUI final before showing it to the public, but, maybe, it's best to lea...

I don't know what do you find ridiculous in train acceleration, considering the fact that trains are very very heavy . To move with specific, non-zero speed, any object must have some non-zero amount of kinetic energy (E=m*V^2/2). For a real world train with two 4 MWt locomotives, dragging 40 loaded...

If you make all trains consist of multiples of identical locomotive-wagon groups, you can solve your problem without any circuitry, just like interleaving MPEG frame types in the stream.

There are a lot of useful Java client programs that come in form that can be decompiled almost to the source code. No harm in providing debug symbols for developers' convenience if they don't consider them trade secret. Don't forget that code is copyrighted, so, technically, you can't legally use it...

Moderate amount of motion blur can salvage situation in case of 4-5x belts, but how fast inserters then should be?

Personally, i found even blue belts redundant and almost useless if you're not trying to build a beaconed setup.

Nice, though output is pulsed and it doesn't show any difference between full belt and and single side full belt. Perfect to detect gaps or if the belt backs up.

... "Breaks" in the sense of detecing >4 when on full throughput for as long as the two splitted belts have not been emptied, so for about 2 seconds, after that the normal full belt throughput will again be split into 2* 1/2 full belt and detected as 2* 4 items on the belt No, it won't re...

I've tracked three games (Minecraft, KSP, Factorio) through early access dev cycles and it's always this pattern: early versions cycle through quickly with relatively small changes (that seem huge because the game is small) and then slow down as the game grows up, and each x.X.x change cycle gets b...

Modules into inserters does not fix the early game and over buffs the late game. The filtered ones are definitely needed for modded where some recipes have more than ones output and mixed belts with splitter just feel like a downgrade. Removing blue inserter is also a very bad idea as it removes th...

If anything needs to be done with inserters, I think it's moving filtering capability to regular inserters and ditching special variants. But that would mean losing graphical fidelity in inability to see special inserter logic from the first glance on setup.

Most of the time simulated physics follow simplified models that doesn't make too much sense in some parts. For example, in some other game with gases inside pipes, they follow ideal gas model which propagates and diffuses inside pipes with infinite speed. In that game pumps are barriers between pip...

Nonblocking saving? Yeah, forking won't work most probably, due to the mechanics of how forking works. The process that modifies dataset will get all the usual goodness - page faults, copying of memory, thousands of page allocations, randomized page table and a lot of extra cache misses - all the us...

No picks? Not that it mattered much to me, since mining anything by hand is more or less reserved to first 5 minutes into the game. Then you get your miners set and is too busy to mine anything with pickaxe. I usually throw out the first one I crafted not even able to break it. It would be nice if g...

[[Every bit related to win32]] When i use CheatEngine to hack out the guts of games i like, i usually go for the code to make it harder, easier, of more fun by changing some in-game mechanics. From time to time it requires some heavy-duty disassembly and a few hours into the code but result usually ...