Thanks for clarifying that point about the negative/positive numbers, @astroshak. Yes, that arrangement does require the extra arithmetic combinator, as you describe. I've just made these often enough that it's just habit, and I forget some of the little details.

Amarula wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 04, 2020 1:58 pm

Addition of purple science...

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Typical... out of red circuits - again!

Yeah, would be nice if the deconstruction got prioritised...

*snip* At the outpost, set up the reverse of the train station : leaving a gap in the track before the station (so your train does not show up unexpectedly) place the station, Stack Filter Inserters taking stuff out of the cargo wagons and into Passive Provider chests. Wire up ALL the chests togeth...

I can make roboports and storage chests and provider chests but not requester chests. How can I make the robots work without a requester chest?? You need to research logistics to get the logistics functionality. You can still use storage/provider chests for building. One hack is to have a filtered ...

Bottleneck mod kind of does this for you, too.

matrixkid29 wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:47 pm

oh...my... god. Biggest facepalm ever!

You're not the first, and won't be the last!

MEOWMI wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 09, 2020 3:17 am

Early on, rails are kinda expensive... and in late game, even expensive rails would be cheap.

(BTW rails cost the same in normal and expensive mode.)

Except that it's more expensive to produce the steel and iron.

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Once use for barrels is for bots to move liquids.

If you remove all entities from a blueprint containing a train, you get the message: "Blueprint has to have at least one item." You have to untick the entities box, which I don't remember ever having to do previously.

If you don't have requester chests researched yet, you can still abuse the logistics system, if you have construction bots in the network. Assuming you have a chest (any kind) with the item you want, then set up a filtered storage chest at the destination. (For multiple items, you'll need multiple c...

I would add poison capsules to the mix... as you're driving past the nest, toss a few in there. That'll take out the worms and make the nest easier to wipe out when you come back again. The biters and spitters will still follow you out, so you still need some redoubts or similar to bunker behind to ...

Why not just turn them off in the graphics options?

Sounds like "not a bug", as inserters can certainly stall if they have something in their hand that they can't release. If you're using inserters to pick up varied materials to put into a filtered source, then you probably need to use filter inserters so they only pick up the right materia...

@Blacky007 - thanks, I get it now.

I believe that Factorio does show a correct progress bar (assuming "initial cargo" in above formulas to be 0) when you choose "at least 2000". Then, having a starting amount of 1000, the progress bar will actually start at 50% and increase while more cargo is being added. And th...

I have a train at a station waiting until Cargo X = 4000, Cargo Y = 2000 and Cargo Z = 2000. If I check the contents of the wagon, and the station progression, I can see that X and Y are at 100%, but cargo Z in the wagon is about 40%, but shows 0% on the station progress. I would expect the progress...

As someone who's tried to replicate the logic of LTN without installing the mod (how the F does one prevent the "race condition"?! :( ) I would love to see something like "max trains" or even an equivalent of LTN in the core game. I feel like LTN oversimplifies the problem of man...