Klonan wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 30, 2020 1:12 pm

So I made a mod

Awesome!

First of all, welcome! Every freeplay game is randomly different; some games you can build up your factory without needing to defend it until you reach the point that you can handle anything coming at you. Other times, you may be steamrolled before you get set. It sounds like Santa RNG has been kind...

In a year full of challenges, Factorio has been a continual source of joy. Thank you all!

Wishing everyone peace, joy, and love, with best wishes for a safe and happy Christmas, and a joyous new year!

Merry Christmas!

I enjoyed both articles very much - they both provide the 'here take a little peak behind the scenes' vibe from the best FFFs. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Alt-F4 this year; wishing you all the best with lots more Factorio in the new year!

It also strongly depends on your playstyle. I confess I hate burner miners. (Sorry all you BM out there I don't mean to hurt your feelings!) But there it is. I have watched a few speed run videos, and seeing them take all the first iron to make stacks of burner miners just .. I can't watch... :oops...

How am I ever supposed to use up my first uran-patch? I don't know, make thousands of atomic bombs maybe? :) :lol: First thought: make thousands of reactors! :D Second thought: then I will never run out of power again! 8-) Final though: except my Factorio super-power is finding yet another way to r...

lovewyrm wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 10:17 pm

This game is barrels of fun, not pipelines of fun.

This post is great in fact it is barrels of fun

each heat exchanger feeds two turbines directly That's nice for convenience and makes for nice builds, but the second turbine won't run fully. Also very true. Not perfect, but good enough: The turbines run up to around 85% capacity which closer than I want to come to running out of power. When I ge...

astroshak wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 02, 2020 2:18 am

Not quite. If you attempt that, then you will find that one Heat Exchanger won’t run fully.

Very true. In my builds I actually put a tank fed by three off-shore pumps (because if you have room for two, you have room for three, so why not) for each line of 24 heat exchangers.

Water/steam for my reactors was driving me crazy, here is the post: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=78470 . In particular, check out the response by disentius partway down the first page. His blueprint has almost zero pipes: water is pumped into a tank which pumps directly into ...

Kyralessa wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:02 pm

Plus, then you can fit more! Instead of 10-barrel stacks containing 50 fluid units, we could have 500-flask stacks containing 1 fluid unit each!

+1 Total genius!

The only compelling case I have seen for barrels is storage density (now why you would ever want to store liquids is a totally different question but if you did): One tank = 3x3 = 9 spaces; volume = 25K. 9 spaces = 9 steel chests x 48 stacks x 10 barrels per stack x 50 units per barrel = 216K. Obvio...

I reviewed the bug report on map tags not rendering. I do not remember noticing any of my tags vanishing like that, but I cannot say for sure that it didn't happen. And it sounds like a reasonable cause for some tags but not all being duplicated. I don't think it is worth downloading 1.1.0 again (sl...

1. What did I do: Updated game from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1. 2. What happened: I loaded my saved game from yesterday. After playing for a few minutes, I realized that some of my map tags were duplicated. I removed one thinking I had just made a mistake, then I realized there were more. Picture shows one tag ...

This is easy to remember. With the name like “loch rabbit iron load” I know it must be somewhere here near big iron field. And it’s just fun to have station like “biter toilet wood unload “. This is great! I have a similar concept using zones and sectors but "zone 3 green circuit sector" ...

This is amazing! Thank you!

Sigh. I missed this post yesterday, it had already slipped down past the first page of active topics. I tried searching for Alt-F4 this morning; 2855 results for the word "Alt" - the F4 was ignored :roll: I went to my search page (DuckDuckGo not Google), and it didn't make it to the top of...

Definitely plan to load Factorio when I get my new Linux phone...
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First the thrill of opening my email to see the notice that another FFF is here, then an entire list of improvements that I didn't realize that I absolutely have to have! Night lighting! Straight line belts! Access to icons when naming train stops! Improved technology icons with consistent bonus sym...