brogild wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:11 pm

I'm finding myself sort of outside of the Factorio community at present

But not really outside because there is no wrong way to play.

brogild wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 27, 2021 1:11 pm

at present I'm stuck in 2016/2017

I think I may download 0.14 and travel back in time to join you...

Now I want to see a mod that adds... bodyguard bots... they carry defender/poison/slowdown/distractor/destroyer capsules... they follow regular bots around and start flinging capsules when their client is attacked

Your numbers for express belts and furnaces look right. You can verify your design using /editor mode, placing infinity chests to load the belts with ore and remove/store the output plates. The other element that you haven't described are the mining drills producing the ore. Electric drills produce ...

May be related to this? viewtopic.php?f=49&t=99801

These seem to be suggestions for the https://wiki.factorio.com/Glossary which does have entries for entities and outposts. I'm not sure if there is a need to define some of the fairly self-explanatory phases like the solar phase. It might be helpful for newcomers to see what is meant by bootstrap or...

Welcome!

A few weeks ago, I was dreaming about Factorio (don't we all?), and I dreamt I had a rail system running like a wave undulating under and over round city blocks. Of course you can't have an actual round city block big enough to do anything, the closest you can come is an octagon. So I sat down and s...

I think it is more useful to show all the pipes, so new players can see where there are inlets to avoid, in order to allow the possibility of switching recipes in the future, without having to remove and replace all the piping.

ssilk wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:15 am

So I found some articles,

Thank you so much for taking the time to do this research, really the support we get here on the forums is amazing!

+1 I click the wrong remote quite frequently, come back a minute later why isn't spidey here yet, oh rats, instead of grabbing the remote for the spider that was right there, I clicked one on the other side of the map who is now stuck trying to cross a lake... For multiplayer, I would prefer spiders...

KAA wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 12, 2021 11:38 am

2) Is there any options (I assume, savegame file editing) to adjust biters / nests parameters on an existing map?

Take a look at the console commands, you can remove pollution/biters/nests, go to peaceful mode, lots of options... https://wiki.factorio.com/Console#Enemy ... on_scripts

Having a schedule separate from the train running it would be great... but is a pretty big change. At least with the new train GUI you can see that these 49 trains have the updated schedule, and this last one still has the old... Hmm thinking about that, wouldn't it be great if you could fix one tra...

But I still have to apply that schedule to every single train, and make sure that i don't miss one. I don't quite understand... you are setting up a new mine, so every train for that mine needs a schedule that sends it there, and if you miss one it doesn't work... It is true that if you replace a m...

What if you turn the depleted mining stations into intermediate parking stackers? This allows you to add enough extra trains to keep the destination busy, but instead of making parking space at the destination, it is replacing space that you no longer need for the mines. It doesn't require you to kn...

Oh I feel your pain! https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=72029&hilit=personal My personal transport has a schedule with a few key stops, like kovarex fuel production for my reactors. The first stop in the list is called 'Come to Mama' and most of the time there is no such statio...

Yes lots of us would like to see this: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6882&hilit=window

I use station limits everywhere, and I expect many of my resource trains to be waiting for room to deliver. It is nice to see at a glance that the train is waiting for room at the destination; I have to agree that it is more a status than an unexpected condition, like no path or out of fuel, that I ...

kovarex wrote: The only way to go fast is to go well.

Thank you for another engaging FFF! It is such a pleasure reading about programming challenges. I always love getting a peek behind the scenes of how you make and keep Factorio the gold standard of game quality.

I set up a direct insert rocket silo line. I decided to have odd and even supply trains... which I probably won't do again but it was an interesting experiment. Odd and even silo supply trains.png Then I decided that I wanted more control over the trains. Specifically, I don't want the odd trains to...

The second last picture shows an output pump being connected to the part the input would connect to, blocking it. Sorry I am not clear on what is being blocked. And if there is a design problem, why does it work in the first case but not the second? Hang on I think I get it: in the first case, the ...