I rather Beacon them.

They take a while to produce (using an AM3, the 15 sec for a level 1 is really only 12 sec, but the 30 and 60 sec for levels 2 and 3 become 24 and 48 sec respectively). When I start to want them, I start to want them in a hurry.

I just pick a side : pickup or drop off. I add a Fuel Train Station to that side. And it carries fuel for the trains that use that side. Put such a station at all your train fed minifactories, and turn it off when you have sufficient fuel. Then just set up a refueling supply station for the fuel tra...

Copy the existing train onto the new one, and then tweak the new one’s schedule as needed?

Am I the only one who really likes the colored vehicles? Depending on the tileset I last got out of my tank or car, sometimes it can be easily overlooked when it is that unoccupied grey color. While I’m not sure that Brown would be any harder to overlook when it is parked on dirt, at least the color...

Pipes do not behave like belts. They behave, basically, like magic. It has to do with the order they are placed, and possibly other oddball factors. If you are able to get your 2040/sec through a single pipe, good for you. You should not be able to, it should be capped at 1200/sec ... but good for y...

Although the coal does not support it, the Offshore Pump can supply enough water for 20 boilers. So I tend to do 1/20/40 arrays on both sides of a yellow belt (I replace the coal on it with solid fuel when I get there). Thing is - each 1/20/40 is fed by its own Offshore Pump (the ‘1’ in the 1/20/40)...

I don’t have one. But you might try a 12-12 balancer followed by three 4-6 balancers. Or three 6-4 balancers followed by a 12-12 balancer if you’re going that way.

That last part is always an issue for me, so I got into the habit of putting the construction bots in my quick bar so that I can quickly check to see how many I currently have stored away. I know that if I have exactly 2k then I am ready to leave. Any less, then I have to find my missing one before...

Nice malls...

Tekillaa, one of the AM3’s in your “Personal Stuff” portion has no recipe set. Its the one to the left of the Personal Shields 2.

That level of defense is not, strictly speaking, necessary. With Expansion turned OFF, it is enough to simply clear any and all nets within, and near, your pollution cloud. A few defenses here and there, to protect against any squads sent by nests you either did not realize were within the pollution...

Set the inserters stack size. 1 if feeding from belts. 10 if using stack inserters and feeding from a box. Might also try to set filters so that it doesn’t want to load more than the cargo wagon can hold of that item. Its when the inserters has more than will fit that it is left handing, and deposit...

Are we talking mining outposts, or are we talking local mines? For local mines (mines I belt in from) splitters filtered before balancing the belts work rather well. Ideally, all the belts straight from the miners will split off the contaminant to a single belt, that goes into that other balancer. I...

Problem 1 : Error Loading Mods Failed to load mods: Error while loading entity prototype “biter-spawner” (unit-spawner): Ket “pollution_absorption_absolute” not found in property tree at ROOT.unit-spawner.biter-spawner Modifications: Base mod > 5Dim’s mod - Battlefield Mods to be disabled : Base 5di...

I find that most of the default settings are fine (though I tend to reduce the chances for resources, a la rail world), except for one : starting area size. The default starting area size is basically equivalent to “Tiny” in 0.16. Crank that thing up to 200% (or more, if you want/need the breathing ...

I’m not aware of any means of controlling the targeting of your Turrets. They fire at everything, presumably “first in range until its dead” type of targeting. If you want to use Uranium Ammo, expect to spend a few bullets here and there on small and medium enemies as well as Behemoth.

Just make a point of repairing stuff before you pick it up?

I do that simply so they all stack together ...

Braking Power affects their braking distance. The higher the speed, the longer the distance required to brake. The higher the Braking Power, the shorter the distance required to brake. If they do not have sufficient braking power for their top speed and the traffic and their route ... their speed wi...

While it is subject to the RNG, they have said in at least one FFF that they want Oil to be something you need to explore to find. Same thing with Uranium. So starting with “too little oil [in the starting area]” is not, technically speaking, possible. Coal, Iron, Stone, Copper yes. Oil, Uranium, no...

My approach: - Use +/- to select size for manual or ghost placement of a square area. - Use ghosts or blueprints with tiles on to mark the area to build flooring on. - Mostly let bots do the job. Sometimes personal bots but most of the time the base bots. That way it won't matter if concrete is pro...

Despite your math, I don’t generally have problems feeding 40 boilers with 2 pumps and 1 yellow belt supplying the coal.

If I need to upgrade to red belts I’ll use a red splitter and split it to two yellow belts for the 40/80 boiler/generator arrays (20/40 on each side of the yellow belt).