If own any version of factorio you are eligible to update it. Make a copy of your current version. Upgrade. Make a copy of the textures. Downgrade your game again. Profit.

Most items with different tiers have an upgrade path which includes the lesser items in the higher tier items. For furnaces this sadly is not the case which leaves one with unusable items. I'm sure this has been suggested before but my search-foo failed to uncover a corresponding thread. So my sugge...

The new colours on the minimap are totally awesome and a big improvement on the usability of the map. It makes distinction of different things much easier, aids in finding stuf and some omissions or mistakes without reducing clarity from the overview picture. Kudos!

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 30, 2020 4:32 pm

Speaking of which, any way to have multiple Factorio instances share as much "stuff" as possible ?
(I'm especially thinking of atlases in VRAM, anything else ?)

What would be the application of such?

IANAL and I'm not Wube, they will know better :) From the terms of service, section "THE MOD PORTAL": Any adaptations or works derived from the Factorio assets are permitted to be included and distributed as part of your mod. However Wube Software Ltd. still retains all rights and license ...

The path finder considers different things when assigning a station to a train: distance to station number of occupied blocks and / number of trains in the way station being currently being occupied red circuit controlled signals These are weighted and the 'closest' station given these is chosen. A ...

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 31, 2020 9:54 am

Negative friction might have weird results like trains forever coasting or spontaneously accelerating without any energy input, etc. Better set vanilla rails to something > 0 ?

In some sense you just invented maglev technology

Neither a problem with the pathfinder is really an argument against allowing some locomotives on certain track types and others not, nor is that an argument against limiting their speed or changing their friction: Limits of locomotives for certain track types makes some tiles impassible, thus does e...

I would like to know what are your minimum requirement for somthing to become popular. And also if you are using train signal you should use the debug option to show them on the minimap it would make things easier. Popular things need at least 3 votes, from my id, ego, and super-ego. Your opinion s...

A game over after one round is boring. So another round and example. Consider the setup as follows: Train waiting at Yellow has orders Yellow -> Blue and cannot find a way. Where's the problem? There are signals after Yellow and after Red and between Blue and Yellow - mind their orientations. Upon p...

To me the train has a compound sound which actually resembles a modern diesel-electric engine quite well: the "tie" is the actual motor spinning up which you hear quite well when such engine leaves at a station, pitch going up. Overlayed is the characteristic "ta-dum" when the en...

I wondered about the same thing some time ago and - IIRC - even reported that as a bug, too. But getting a bit used to that - and with the reasoning given here - this system as-is works actually better and is more intuitive than allowing to place signals everywhere irrespective of the currently-chos...

Ha, nice And I wondered exactly the same when designing my chunk-aligned rail blueprints... 30 seems off by just these 2 odd tiles. I might give this a spin in my next game!

Pi-C wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:42 pm

EDIT: That's even better (because shorter):
trainfun-solution2.png

Pretty similar to that I had something like this in mind:

If you have a (your) savegame which shows this behaviour, it would be nice. Maybe there is an autosave from right before it launches w/o giving you science?

I like the analogy with the equation - very much hitting the point.

eradicator wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:40 pm

planetmaker

planetmaker wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:17 pm

and you tell where the problem is

Easy. You need to build a double-headed train

Oh, let's play a game. I create a track setup, and you tell where the problem is and what should be highlighted. Setup 1: Bildschirmfoto von 2020-01-27 18-16-10.png Train has orders A->B->C. It currently sits at A with 'no path'. EDIT to add for people who don't want to download the map: the track h...

It would also be nice, if I could just press the "play me" button and the game played itself and I just collect the achievements ;) In all honesty: there's all the info you need: no path between the two stations, and there can only be guessing as what you meant to build instead of what you...

I don't understand why we don't get electric trains in vanilla. Miners - electric Smelters - electric No we have to carry at least coal around the whole base. Nuclear fuel lasts quite long... and makes your train also drive faster and accelerate better. So it is sufficient to have your train load o...

I wonder: why would a wind turbine need steam at all? The usual way they are built is to attach a generator directly (or via gears) to the rotators. So they should work more like solar cells - except in a globaly somewhat random fashion instead of day-night cycle.