If your trains are short enough so they fit on the straight sections (e.g., no longer than 3 wagons in total (1 locomotive + 2 carriages)) I think this setup is deadlock free. Your efficiency depends on the number of trains. If you have only one train for each of the two resources, you are fine. If ...

It probably "loads" with Bob mod, but does not generate bob's ores.
At least that would very much surprise me, because it only generates the ores it knows about - which is something I want to change for the next release.

I think the actual underlying question here is not "Why is solar so OP?", it is "Why does the majority of players gravitate towards solar?" The same thing happens with steel and electric furnaces, most people go for electric furnaces even though steel ones are either more effici...

It is interesting you say that, because I had that daunting feeling that in that very region you described nothing gets generated. But then once in a while it does. Now since biters should *always* be present, no matter if resources are or not, this further proves I should revisit the code and check...

Wow, that is quite a big patch... How far did you go out? This seems to be quite the distance. Also, did you play with normal resource settings? Truth to be told, I did not balance for this distance. As to the why: patch sizes grow with distance, but in a linear way. I'd even argue that going out th...

Can someone please verify that math.random() *really* works in MP? My own experience is different. I know that the devs aimed at making it MP-safe, but when I coded my mod, I had to ship it with a variant of a lua implementation of Mersenne-Twister, which I initialize with the map_generation seed. ...

Can someone please verify that math.random() *really* works in MP?

My own experience is different. I know that the devs aimed at making it MP-safe, but when I coded my mod, I had to ship it with a variant of a lua implementation of Mersenne-Twister, which I initialize with the map_generation seed.

Getting back to the save/load problem: I know I am not really suggesting a solution, but is there anything that prevents you from re-building the index in the on_load event hook? If you can extract the index from the game state, then there is no need to save it, I think. Does not reduce the messines...

Actually, I never encountered this problem myself, but I agree that this may cause some frustrations (do you have modified biters?) Anyway, I do see potential to make this mod modular, so people can choose to their preferences. I am currently in the middle of moving, so do not expect updates too soon.

Thanks from my side as well.
I will check and include the code in the next release

I like the idea. This is certainly possible.
I am a bit swamped with some other things at the moment, but may get to work on the mod by the end of next week (hopefully).

You deserve a medal for the idea alone.
I will try this mod as soon as I get to playing Factorio again.

I like this idea, but I'm not a fan of the way it works out. The current required amount of resources to build just one lamppost feel like a bit much to me. Also, could you post a picture of how much light a lamppost gives? If it's more than a regular Lamp, I'd like to compare the two. If it's just...

yes, to discuss in which mod-category a mod should go is the best way to motivate mod-authors. i suggest ban, because it fits not perfect in a catagory ! Thanks for this mod Klonan - and i have it downloaded before i can't found again in the forum-depth. Of course, cynicism is a good way to respond...

First of all: great job on the visuals! Do I guess right when I say that this is basically a roboport with a different skin? In this case I'd say the category should be non game changing. The colored lights and locomotives and such are also in that category and reskinning the roboport is pretty much...

I still think any variant we come up with either is just a little nerf for solar, in which case the easy fix (from the player's perspective) is to build more. Anything that cannot be solved by building some more (not excessively more) solar panels entirely breaks solar and renders it near useless. M...

To provide an answer to some of your questions: Yes, the maturity level for mods is still very low. Mods are hosted on different platforms (forum, dropbox, github, ...), so there is no central server you could obtain them from. When you try to connect to an MP game with a different set of mods, it w...

My only other question then is, how does a splitter move items? The c++ code does. There is not behavior description for a splitter. Because the entity is type="splitter", it behaves like a splitter. You might as well ask, what makes an inserter take items from a belt and insert them into...

Would you mind sharing your code that defines your new fish?

What if a player just wants to shut off their factory on bad days? That's certainly a possible solution. What if they want to switch to coal backup? That's another solution. What if they want to run seperate grids for low and high priority energy networks? When solar isn't a guarantee, you suddenly...