think i found some ore.... my mistake was stone-ore instad of just stone. one wrong assumption made me an ass. this code /c local tot = 0; local surface = game.player.surface for c in surface.get_chunks() do for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({area={{c.x * 32, c.y * 32}, {c.x * ...

didnt find a way ot get position, but did find a way to confirm that there are no stone patches. /c local surface = game.player.surface for c in surface.get_chunks() do for key, entity in pairs(surface.find_entities_filtered({area={{c.x * 32, c.y * 32}, {c.x * 32 + 32, c.y * 32 + 32}}, name = "...

In my current game i just found out that i have no stone after the patch that was in the starting area. the map gen options were NOT set to 0 stone (it was probably low frequency small patches, migh even be poor ones). Anyway in an attempt to salvage the 14 hours i've put into this map, i am cheatin...

There was a thread around here long ago about how many pumps you need how often to pump how much water through a pipe. IIRC 4 pipes was the lenghth that a bunch of small pumps could pump a LOT of water? then it dropped of very fast in the amount that would go through. your sudden drop might be that ...

you can allow passage of any items you want (not just one type as in this case). and without using a math combinator. one wire from constant to belts, belts output data the same way, but their enable condititon is everything < 0 The constant combinatior set Iron = -100 (and if you want coal to pass ...

this is cool. would be supper cool if there was a way to refuel the train without stopping it. Then it could be used as a "live" wall. Always wanted to do that, i hope the train physics still work like they do the last time i tried this, when the fact that the train was SUUUUUPPPER long an...

the fact that i cant even begin to understand why that thing works is a clear sign that i need to start playing a lot of factorio again. best i can come up with is that the circuited belts after the spliter are only allowing space for an item to be added on the back when the next item that the split...

Use efficiency modules everywhere by default. They reduce the power drain and pollution generated. Use speed modules maybe on Pumpjacks and maybe with Assembly Machines making something slow. Use productivity modules for Alien artifact => Purple Science, and maybe blue or red circuit production. On...

That's why i think its a good idea to leave the battery depletion thing OUT of the solar panels. You still have your infinite power production durring the day. Lasting to start of day is probably faster then setting up new coal mining operation as you suggest. If you didnt plan ahead far enough to l...

Koub, You see it as punishment, i see it as cost of automation. Roboports aside for now, cause frankly the convenience of robots will outweigh any cost you throw at them and i dont think "they polute so much that i wont use them" is something you will ever hear for real. The idea is that t...

How about that to deal with 3 overpowered strategies at once: Accumulators/Laser Turrets/Robots deteriorate their batteries and every now and then they have to be swapped with a new one. The deterioration of a battery could be similar to how repair packs/ammunition works with a progress bar and wit...

click on the pole. the infopanel to the right should show the signals that are going through it. if that doesnt have the signal with the wood count then you didnt connect the chest.

There isnt a 100% automatic way in vanilla, but i think if you just adjust your approach a little, it'll be much faster, and much less tedious. Atleast to get the eggs you need. To clear away all bitters within your polution range will still be very tedious. from what you described, the part that an...

This guy makes some of the best tutorial videos for complex games I've ever seen. Unfortunately he's very part time. [link removed, no videos of Factorio] Some of the Factorio LPs already out there are pretty good, but I think there is also room for a "Factorio Design Patterns" series. Wh...

Just realized something else to add, where you have the 3 chests with smarts moving stuff to the side, have then insert into a wagon (how you orient the wagons depends on if you want long or wide setup). from that wagon you can have many smart inserters draw each their own item type towards the disa...

kind of confused why the smart with filters and smart with ==0 you think will be a big setup. the way i see it. input belt with all sorts of items on it. have x fast inserters spaced every other space pulling everything off it into chests, number of inserters depends on belt speed and item load/thou...

I thought that would work, but it doesnt. You will never get full 510kw*20 from that setup, once you start drawing more then 18 engines of power from it, the last 2 will turn off, because at full blast the first 18 will eat all the water. Exact number MAY vary depending on number of pipe pieces in ...

In vanilla, you're better off just not going longer than 10 steam engines off of one offshore pump (unless you're doing something more complicated than straight-up steam power). This is probably redundant, but two pumps supplying 20 steam engines on one pipe also works perfectly. I tend to set up s...

In the game i started yesterday, going to try 90 water/piper by doing 3 offshores split into 2 lines of boilers (with 3 electric pumps pushing the water into each boiler line), which will give me 20 boilers and 15 engines on each pipe. as far as i know the 3 pumps should push 90 water far enough to ...

i'll add a couple other suggestions. the poles that are powering the inserters, move the right ones, one tile to the right, because as of now, your rightmost inserters are not powered (wont be even when you have electricity running). in case the whole bootstraping (put coal into burners manualy) thi...