TL;DR When reporting how many slots are used out of the number available in the item tooltip, take blocked slots into account, instead of reporting based solely on chest size. What ? Item tooltips show chest availability, very handy especially when you are checking items from a distance: Reported c...

As Serenity said, start by cutting off the supply of ore - rotating one belt one half turn stops the ore coming from the miners from feeding the furnaces. Rather than wait for the furnaces to use up the ore already on the belt, I remove the inserters to stop ore feeding into the furnaces. Then I ext...

On upgrade, I got the notification that research for radar had been removed. Not a problem, just curious what that was about, as I didn't see it in the list of changes.

Saiph wrote: ↑

Sat May 09, 2020 10:22 am

So what are "Wang tiles"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile

+1
Yeah with a small to medium base, you can just turn on train stop names and find the one you are looking for. When base gets bigger and bigger, being able to search becomes more and more useful. Searching for a map label would also be a handy little addition...

MakeItGraphic wrote: ↑

Fri May 08, 2020 2:55 am

[Great idea, terrible execution.

Ah but if you knew my husband, you would realize this is what he does - really, really bad jokes and puns. I'm just happy that there any left and he didn't eat them all after all that creative exertion

Your husband seems pretty awesome. Yeah, that was the thought that came to my mind as well. Thank you! I passed on your compliments to my husband. For me, the best part is that he made this knowing I love Factorio, even though he himself can't stand to play it (he's the active shooter and/or solve ...

My husband made a Fact-Oreo for me today <3

It would be pretty cool if the ejected shell was an actual item, like a used nuclear fuel cell, with a recipe to re-use it to make a new shell out of fewer materials.

Koub wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 25, 2020 12:15 pm

Should I not move this to "Show your creations" ?

I searched and wasn't sure of the best place; if you have a better home for it, please move it where it belongs... and thank you for all you do here.

Illiou wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:33 pm

Neat, how many hours on this save?

856:16:59

6,062 satellites launched.

Houston launch is a go repeat launch is a go!

Illiou wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 23, 2020 10:14 pm

So you basically finished the game simply by building an oversized bus? That makes the game seem almost ridiculously simple now.

Wait you mean there are other ways to win the game?

I did 'cheat' a little: once I had the first satellite, I told the splitters to prioritize materials for the rocket parts over materials for the satellites... likewise satellites and rocket part materials for the rocket silo over filling the bus. My plan is that once I have launched the first satell...

Got back to the rainbow the last few days, added materials for rocket parts and the rocket silo...

I do not think barrels should be removed. As the wiki says, https://wiki.factorio.com/Barrel , it is more efficient to transport fluids by tanker (25K), than by barrel (50 per barrel x 10 per stack x 40 stacks = 20K). In addition to the benefits noted by SupplyDepoo, if you are storing fluids, barre...

The stations are named: !Mall or !Nukular. This way they are always on top of the list. No need for search. Using trains with only waggon is a little wastefull. Trains with 5 waggons and nuclear fuel are fast enough. Nice idea to use the exclamation mark to push key stations to the top of the list....

Ah very good: one train stop delivers the fuel, then the fuel is shared across bot networks so each build (what I call a sector) has fuel trains that stop there. That makes perfect sense to me. No fuel for outposts, same here, the train gets fuel when it delivers from the outpost. 42K satellites lau...

Somting fishy. Quite likely! Some of the extra power is because I have just doubled the size of my base from 1KSPM to 2KSPM (I actually did a test and I was hitting 2.8KSPM very happy about that) which makes 2800/60 = 46 times bigger, 500MW x 46 is about 24GW. However, beacons and modules make a bi...

After much trial and error, I have settled on single purpose trains. This is such a nice sentence in that regard :D Thank you ! By the way - I suggest having a better naming concept for you train stations. Because: "Copper Ore in" does mean what? Does it mean, it will be loaded INto the t...