Wagons can have slots locked to specific items. Chests cannot. What I do, when designing a train to carry multiple different items in a wagon, is use one (or more) requestor chests per item type. If, for example, I want the train to carry 4 stacks of Heat Pipe, 1 stack of N’uclear Reactors, 6 stacks...

Whoever had the idea of spelling the word "queue" like that should be banned from english. No word should be allowed to have that many vowels in a row! Another problem is that ‘que’ is a word - in Spanish. It means ‘what’. That’s what I was basing that attempt on humor upon. ‘Que’ is Span...

I’m not sure what a “research what activation” means ...

Just kidding!

I could see this being somewhat useful if your buffer chests are holding multiple item types, simply lock in the slots that a “fully stocked” buffer chest would be using, to ensure that you get exactly only as much as you want and no more. I’ve had, and I’m sure that everyone else has had, chests re...

I typically set my oil processing up such that Heavy Oil gets shunted into one Tank, Light Oil into another, and Petroleum Gas into a third. From that HO tank, an always-on Pump sends HO to the Lube maker(s). Another Pump sends HO to the HO->LO crackers. That second Pump is connected by a wire to th...

Arzorth wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2019 5:38 pm

Isn’t this a bug?

I don’t understand, what do you think is a bug there?

Just a pair of QoL mods, but I like to use Bottleneck and Squeakthrough.

The first one shows a red/yellow/green light depending on whether the machine is resource-starved, backed up, or working fine. The second allows for easier movement around your factory.

BOP takes 100 Crude Oil and returns 45 Petroleum Gas. AOP takes that same 100 Crude Oil and returns 25 Heavy Oil, 45 Light Oil, and 55 Petroleum Gas. It is almost a given that you will run out of need for HO (Lube) and LO (Solid Fuel) before you run out of need for PG (Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid, Plastic...

“One” Pipe to Ground consists of the pipe segment that goes into the ground, and another that comes up. Consider them matched pairs. To enhance fluid flow over long distances, use pumps every few pairs of Pipe to Grounds. Pump->Pipe to Ground down-space gap-Pipe to Ground up->Pipe to Ground down - g...

Honestly? I try to do the math. AOP : 5 HO/sec, 9 LO/sec, 11 PG/sec. Cracking HO->LO is 20 HO/sec for 15 LO/sec. Cracking LO->PG is 15 LO/sec for 10 PG/sec. Since cracking to LO is 20 HO/sec, and AOP only provides 5 HO/sec, you need one machine cracking HO->LO for every four AOP refineries. Since cr...

Not really a defensive tech per se, but ... I’d love to see ‘nuclear generator’ as an item to equip into one’s powered armor. This thing comes fully charged, and has a huge amount of power available - far more than the PFG’s power output. But it functions like a battery, and does not generate additi...

Do you have a lot of Coal on your map? You may find it easier to use Advanced Oil Processing, and cracking, to turn all of your Crude into Petroleum for your Plastic production, and turning Coal into Heavy Oil for lube, Light Oil for Solid Fuel, and Petroleum for your sulfur needs. Alternatively, us...

While I understand the need for simplification on the Basic Oil Processing, I’m not sure that outputting only Petroleum is the way to go. Sorry if this has been suggested in the 10 (?) pages of the thread before this post, but ... what about outputting only Heavy Oil? And having Cracking (a less eff...

1 : Radar. Radar has two areas. One is the 5(?) chunk square, centered on it, that is always visible. The other is the 11(?) chunk square, also centered on it, that it slowly reveals one chunk at a time. This area, as it gets revealed, is visible for a short time. After that short time, it fades to ...

TC, if what you have works, then what you are faced with is not a redesign of the parking system, it is a relocation of the parking system. You said that all your trains are forced through that section of track you circled in Red. Shorten that considerably. You, ideally, want a minimum distance betw...

I have not tried this with the nuclear rocket fuel. I am doing this with regular rocket fuel. All of my train station depots are either “pick up” or “drop off” - from the mines, to the smelters, to the science packs, everything has one or both of those types of train depots. I picked the drop off ty...

Yes and no. Once you can automate laser construction, wall construction, and have Medium Power Poles or Substations aplenty, you can run around making a wall backed by a row or two of lasers to claim territory for your own. Of course, you also have to power those lasers ... But, if you annoy the bit...

It really depends on how fast I need my supply to build/rebuild. If I need more, in a hurry, Speed Module those things. If I don’t, then I don’t. Nuclear Reactors, for example, once I get a bunch up and running I tend to not need more for a while. So those don’t need beacons. Modules? Once I get to ...

Not in front of the Factorio world creation screen right now, but ... Trees are always (unless maybe modded?) 2 or 4 wood. 2 wood for dead trees, 4 wood for living trees, determined at world/chunk generation (so trees killed by pollution do not drop from 4 to 2 wood). So, the bigger, thicker the for...

Not in front of the Factorio world creation screen right now, but ... Trees are always (unless maybe modded?) 2 or 4 wood. 2 wood for dead trees, 4 wood for living trees, determined at world/chunk generation (so trees killed by pollution do not drop from 4 to 2 wood). So, the bigger, thicker the for...