You will need a local circuit network to control the inserters. This is a big topic, so I would recommend reading about circuit networks or watching a video or two about how to set up and use them. Here is a fairly detailed but not too long video that covers what you will need and more: https://www....

From a simple "reality check" perspective, this makes no sense. Real armor piercing ammunition is not made by combining regular ammunition with extra materials, they are so different that the very concept makes no sense. From a pseudo-realistic perspective, you would have to disassemble th...

I can more than confirm this, as I built two science labs and 60 Science Pack I and then researched Automation, Logistics, Steel Processing and Optics and the labs have run out of Science Pack Is without completing the research. There is just a sliver, if that, of uncompleted research in the bar. It...

Some of these are co-quirky with others, some are unique to myself: 1) Getting just the right start, even if I have to generate 100 games to do it. 2) Being super efficient at the start, especially when it comes to manual resource collection. 3) Never harvest living trees for wood, only snags (dead/...

If money is the root of all evil, and loops are evil, does that mean some of the money goes into loops?

Why would a FIsh need to bathe

In my current game, I have this huge backlog of solid fuel in a gigantic buffer with scores of chests...and have never burned a single cube of it.

So unless you are really super sparse on coal, it's not really necessary.

What do you mean, when Factorio is a classic?

I still have my first game saved, I pop back in once in a while to tweak things. It's pushing 300 hours.

Three tile thick walls defended by 1 tile thick of lasers, the ultimate expression of the word "MINE!"

Yeah I seem to remember Zisteau saying it took a lot of tries to get a playable map for his 20-tile high Linear Factorio series.

The cargo capacity of lighter-than-air vessels is a lot higher these days than it was in the Zeppelin era, and they are quite a bit faster. Once can only imagine how much they would have advanced by the time the human race has expanded into space. http://phys.org/news/2013-01-high-tech-cargo-airship...

I'm not complaining, just chuckling over it. I went through 5 more maps after that one, without any exploring, until I found one with a little bit of everything. This is mainly because I jacked up the aliens to maximum settings and knew I wouldn't have to go far to find some. Eventually I found out ...

Most probably, but for me the more things I have automnated (that's what the game is about after all, right?) the better. Not that I am planning on having a bus line for every single item (even I don't need 500 Cars), but I want them on the map somewhere, with the items they are made from coming fro...

Perhaps I should put up a poll and let the whole userbase decide. If a majority want one method, would the devs pay attention or just casually discard the idea once again? I mean, if your customers want something, do you ignore it? That's why EverQuest lasted a long time (some people will take any a...

Gandalf wrote:I'm not nearly as impressed by how many biter bases you destroyed as by your dedication to picking up all the artifacts, considering you'll never need them and picking them up is *such* a pain.

OCD, my wizardly friend, OCD.

But I am trying to turn as many as I can into Efficiency Module 3s.

I will never drink/eat/consume one of those again.

Oh wait, I have never done that before. In fact, I've never seen them before

Boogieman14 wrote:I've been known to pull a complete deposit into chests so I could then build over the space where the deposit used to be

Hell yeah, waste not, obsess over the waste not.

I guess it's just my particular OCD, that I like to build on pristine land with no trees, ores I might want to mine later anyway, etc. Also, if I find I need to rebuild something I can't stand the toon going from deconstructing the object to mining the ore underneath, especially long lines of objects.

Getting the hang of this game I think, thanks for all the help.