I like the idea of keeping the simple options open at a lower priority; may be I will steal the idea from you. I am direct sorting everything, so have been building direct to ingot blocks with the ingot to product stage different, so all I really need to do is add more ingot blocks when needed.

The ...

Hi Angel,

Will you support Bobs thorium in resource refining in the future?

Thank you for your hard work.


I'll second that request. I know Angel has been doing a great job squashing bugs and reacting to changes incoming from 0.17 and bob lately, so thanks for that!

Hopefully a simple matter ...

something terribly got wrong with the pictures. And without, it's missing the information in the pictures ;)


Oh dear, they show up fine for me, so must be something odd with Google Photo's links or something. Here's a direct link for the album while I try to figure out what's wrong and fix it ...

I won the race! I've been trying to work fast to get my Thermal Water drilling up before I ran through my slag supply for catalysts. I am pleased to say that I made it... though with less margin than I'm really happy with. Only had about 1/2 of my catalyst warehouses left when I hooked it up, but ...

I actually use the waste water processing to feed back the purified water into the chunk processing. Reduces the required purified water input quite a bit. Not sure if it even is the most efficient way but it reduces the number of trains running around and energy isn't really a problem.

In ...

As far as I know, there is currently no other use for nitric waste apart from treatment to purified and mineralized water. You'll have to synthesize nitric acid by conventional means (chemistry).

If you feel comfortable with modding, you could add a receipe by yourself. Angel even left some spare ...

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or FNEI is just failing me in finding the correct recipe chain... Rubyte Chunks give me Nitric Waste Water, and Rubyte Crystals require Nitric Acid. However, I can't find the path from the waste water to the acid. The only things I can do (According to FNEI) with the ...

Any thoughts/help on how to increase my copper throughput? I just hooked up my big cupric Ingot production and combo-sorted pure copper... and the throughput on copper is hugely slow compared to the space the smelting arrays take. I can fit 3 Iron (or tin) Angels Smelting configurations into the ...

Game update performance problems yes. FPS problems no. I can just tell you right now the problem is you're using a macbook pro and the graphics card is not powerful enough. According to the technical specifications I found online the macbook pro you have either has a Radeon Pro 555X or a Radeon ...

Well, my plans for updating ore processing to Mk2 are both on track, and totally different. Ran completely out of iron and copper when I started constructing 1 robot/sec; funny that. As a result, I now have a logistics-train connected ore processing network, instead of a logistics bot based one. I ...

I don't think I ever used the metal mixing furnaces, other than maybe one to make solder. But I am running with the metallurgy only patch maybe that is why? Have I missed anything? Maybe the recipe for the high tier mixing furnaces should be removed when working with the patch?

Can't recall using ...

Are you still looking for saves? I am having huge fps issues when I'm areas with dense forest. It is a bobs and angels game but I don't think that is part of the problem. Will upload my safe for you tonight.


2018 15" MacBook pro, so a decent but not super powerful graphics card.

If I use the upgrade planner tool to replace all fast inserters with ultimate stack inserters, it marks the fast inserters, but doesn't replace them.

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Although I've researched robots, I haven't made any yet. I'm using nanobots.
As far as I can tell, everything ...

Not sure if this is a bug with Bob's or Angel's, but when I install the full suite of both, I have 2 sets of Chemical Plants. I have posted this over on Angel's bug thread, but posting here too in case it's a bob issue.

Also, icon scaling does not work for buffer warehouses and silos. (The Buffer warehouse has the small icon, you just can't see it behind the logistic warning.)

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/afi0klAST35G_JAijNLFzQL3B-1N3uunZM1V9lvekfmBNY0sJhxapNfhBYUJqup6 ...

With all Bobs & all Angels installed, I am getting both Bob's Chemical Plants, and Angels as well. This seems horribly wrong...

Requiring purified seems like a better setup than covering purified water back to normal water. Or you could get "infinite" saline by hooking the output of a hydro plant up to the input...

Thanks for the thoughts guys. I totally agree on getting my smelting up to par, and it is on my list but not at the top. Hence the silos as temp until I am ready to respond. My to-do list is currently:

Blue science
Logi bots
Mining
Ore sorting
Smelting


I want the pelletizer and more of the tier ...

Angels construction train is great but I am having trouble getting it to work automated, which is what factorio is about. When I send it somewhere the bots do not start constructing unless I put it in manual mode. Any way to make them work when stopped? Am using 0.17, and mostly send it places by ...

Thanks! I just finished getting my Electronic Circuits (aka white circuits) up. I built big; 1 red belt (30/sec). Alas, it seems my Tin smelting can not keep up with the demand. I had a warehouse full of ingots, so I added some more plate casters as a quick fix. Now have 28K of both types of white ...