There's a setting in vanilla which enables automatically placing ghosts when you don't have that building type in your inventory.

To chime in some: If two items combine into just one, then at least one full item's worth of durability has been used up across both items combined, as otherwise they couldn't combine into just one item (they must be at 50% or lower on average, meaning at least 50% durability has been used on each i...

That's very peculiar. I have a lot of builds which rely on this behavior working properly, and they do work. It's pretty standard behavior that belts can't sideload onto a full belt. The tail of the belt will always have priority. (It's literally the reason why many "1 splitter lance balancers&...

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Definitely.

To add to the motivation: Some mods use chat messages for additional important messages for info that's hard to find elsewhere (even true for very highly regarded mods), and not being able to see any past info sucks.

This may be kind of obvious, but working to reduce the amount of intersections would help. Every cityblock based railway I've seen has like 100x more intersections than needed, I'm not even joking. As you mentioned, it is true that every extra intersection you add into your massive rail system adds ...

Very interesting stories. As a long-time modder for various games, engine limitations have always been a particularly tricky thing to deal with, but sometimes people come up with the most amazing solutions.

Colors are kind of hard to do compactly, but you could just naively have 4 deciders, each checking if the signal from the belt is that type of fuel and output 1 on your color of choice then lead that to the lamps. If you don't have a mixed belt, then that would produce the right color. If you do hav...

It's impossible to tell what's going on at the 3rd station without pics of it, though I don't see much at the station on the map view either. Also the train is in manual mode so it wouldn't even be driving automatically, if the screenshots show what actually is. If it was in automatic mode, there wo...

A splitter does the job yes. Later on you might see that you don't necessarily need to use a splitter and can just branch off the belt if that belt's worth constantly gets used up completely. It makes it easier to see how many resources are being input to the bus, how many belt's worth are being use...

Yes, there is disable logistics while moving which prevents their roboports from activating while they walk, this is what they added. Different yes, but works most of the time.

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I tried clicking on the "toggle" label hoping it might sort them and all it did was enable all mods, which is almost never what you want if you have a lot of them.

It's still useful to show version number but primary sorting by it is strange indeed.

It is nice for figuring out that you aren't producing enough, because it's easier to notice one station struggling to keep up with production than ALL stations struggling to. As others have pointed out, you almost always want to have an excess of supply trains. Hard to say exactly which way is bette...

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Fri Nov 12, 2021 10:43 pm

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Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:42 pm

I learned that I have to click the game window first in order to be able to alt+tab out of it. Works during any of Factorio's screens.

Windows? Linux? MaxOS?

On Windows for me.

I learned that I have to click the game window first in order to be able to alt+tab out of it. Works during any of Factorio's screens.

I would probably continue with the one where you think your base you is better, likely your desert world one. It should be possible! Focus on automating as much as possible if it's difficult, I found that to be the biggest help in my early days. Beyond that, the main threat is probably running out o...

This can happen because drone building allows you to place signals (or stations) in places you're not supposed. Signal rotation is one major trip-up as happened here, another one is that you can place a signal ghost on a tile of track that can't hold a signal (since not all parts of a track are vali...

I would guess it's the glow from the item. It's not masked by other objects I believe, so you can see random objects light up, in this case the underground belt would light up once the uranium cell goes under the entrance. It's much like the red rear light of a train for example, which you can notic...

It does say in red for the scaffolding item that tile changes may remove the entity on top of it.

Yes, I agree it should not happen. I'm sure it's because of a Factorio limitation. I do hope it is fixable somehow but I'm not necessarily holding my breath.

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Not because it's necessary, but because it's so cool AND so useful!

It took me a lot of thinking to even understand how generating the signal works. That's impressive that you don't need more data points than that to generate the signal! Definitely a very worthwhile creation!