If you're asking if a 1-year-old CPU will perform better than a 13-year-old CPU, I don't think anyone will hesitate to say yes. It's more than three times faster just in clocks. The change from DDR3 to DDR4 will also have a big impact. But still, it is possible to make a big enough factory to lag a ...

LOL :D Okay, I knew that the base isn't small. But what are ways to bring it up to 30 PFS at least? Start a new game? :) That's an impressive map... First loading, I got 7 UPS. After I killed all the biters with the command line (there were 45000 enemy units mostly trying to pathfind to your base a...

There is no problem, you just need regular splitters. If you provide enough to begin with, the machines will consume what they need and the rest will back up on the belt, forcing the unneeded items to take a different path towards another machine that needs them. Oh. I just realize I could set a in...

There is no problem, you just need regular splitters. If you provide enough to begin with, the machines will consume what they need and the rest will back up on the belt, forcing the unneeded items to take a different path towards another machine that needs them.

Remember that while the vanilla Factorio engine is heavily optimized to minimize cache misses, the Lua interpreter that runs mod code is not. Large, heavily modded maps might not see any improvement from Vcache at all, so physical RAM latency is still important.

I've noticed that a pipe as well as a tank displays only liquid level but not flow speed. If there's no flow speed how can a player know how it's working if the fluid level is irrelevant? The only entities which show flow speed are steam engines/turbines & (offshore) pumps I know of. Perhaps I'...

It's logical that you need an input of 60/s to be able to consume 60/s. We're talking about Steam Level. If that's up to the max, there isn't a problem to provide constant flow needed (or we'll see if it drains that there's something wrong). The fluid level in a flowing pipe is a stable equilibrium...

If I have a stock pile of green circuits, gears, iron plate, copper plate, etc. I can handcraft most products for early game. Belts is something I like to automate, too, because it is used en masse. I agree, even in late game I set my logistics requests to a stack of all the main intermediate produ...

This is a bug in the Global Variable Viewer mod because it naively walks the prototype tree which includes a doubly-linked 2-level tree of LuaGroup objects. The LuaGroup for the subgroup has a reference to the parent group, and the parent has a reference back to the subgroup. This should be handled ...

My first mod copied a few subroutines from another mod. I messaged them, asked for some advice and if they minded me using that code. Most folks are reasonable if you ask politely. You may have already figured it out, but there's lots of "mods of mods" that change the characteristics of an...

I was going to pile on the train of "don't use LTN for that", but then I tried it for myself. The "Merged Delivery" feature does in fact allow multiple items to be loaded into one train, if they are all requested by one station and provided by another. A minimal amount of circuit...

It's not the only way. You could have a second combinator that you turn on to make the price and request thresholds 1 billion each. Or pass the wire to the stop through a logic combinator that acts as a switch, and have another constant combinator that controls whether it passes signals or not. (Ari...

There is no way to assign a global name to a custom event ID. When cross-mod compatibility is needed, you will need to add a remote interface so that mod can ask your mod what event ID to register.

If you have any other signals wired to the LTN stops, like the buffer chests, that is all it takes to turn it into a provider (positive items) or requester (negative items). It uses defaults for everything else.

There is a simple mod that lets you try this idea. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/tank-flamethrower-rework

Upuaut wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 05, 2023 9:59 am

After changing the settings the trains still have the default times in their delivery plan.

Did you wait for each train to return to the Depot and get a new delivery like Optera said? It should have taken effect eventually.

The artillery behavior code is in the base game and cannot be modified to act like a normal turret. The turret wagons mod (https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Armored-train) achieves your goal by teleporting an invisible turret entity along with the train wagon. It's very inefficient right now because it'...

If a train is occupying the short rail at the moment a second train is computing a path through the intersection, it's possible the second train thinks the longer path is a safer option. It won't necessarily check if the shorter path becomes available before it gets to the intersection as long as th...

boskid wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 23, 2023 12:38 pm

Ok. This is now fixed for 1.1.77 and it consists of 2 changes

Thank you for addressing this! Hopefully this will resolve my interface request as well.

Join my thread over in Modding Interface Requests... https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=100681 The thing that makes this a bug, and which Rseding did not address when closing the 2020 bug report, is that `LuaFluidBox::get_prototype(n)` validates the range of `n` based on the number...