I, too, use almost exactly the same system. I use a 1-1-1 train to distribute fuel, though, because then I don't have to worry about turning around (and it's really easy to wedge small terminus stations into whatever space is left after building an outpost/town). I usually pull a spur off the main l...

I use the circuit-based balancer sometimes myself, but there are a few gotchas. The inserters actually need to be enabled on "< max-stack-size" to prevent issues. You can also run into problems if your trains arrive not-completely-empty, or any other external influence causes the chests to...

Bigger trains require more space - bigger stations, more track between intersections, etc. Trying to build that infrastructure in/around existing bases can be more difficult. Regarding stackers/parking: I will always have enough parking before a station to accommodate every single train that uses th...

I needed a 1 (or 2) to 6 balancer for loading trains, which means it couldn't be more than 7 tiles wide. I looked around and wasn't able to find anything like that, so I made one. Uses an unfortunate amount of "vertical" space, but I can't see any obvious way to make it any smaller. http:/...

The "when to switch to trains" question is (for me) pretty easy to answer. If I know I'm going to play on a map long enough to deplete the starting resources, it's "As soon as possible!" Once you properly set up your smelting area to accept ore from trains, you can start slapping...

I like almost all of these UI changes! The one suggestion I'd have is that on the inventory window, tab the character and logistics areas, but always have the crafting part to the right where it is now (except when replaced by an entity inventory). Since crafting is often used in conjunction with th...

Can you set it up to use two inserters? One stack filter, and one normal filter with stack override = 1. Once you do your math to figure out how many of each item to load, send the signals through a combinator with "each >= 12 -> each" to the stack filter, and "each < 12 -> each"...

My instinct on how to solve this would be to design the largest plant practical without having a lot of water supply problems, then "tile" it by smacking those down next to the nearest convenient body of water when I need more power. Use a train to deliver fuel/remove spent fuel. Depends o...

Since you only have two trains running, you could maybe improve things a little bit, anyway... If your schedule is OutpostA, OutpostB, Base: Set it up so that when a train at OutpostA becomes full, disable OutpostB for 2 seconds only if there is also a train unloading at Base (since you know it's no...

I kind of liked the explosive mechanics of reactors in IC2. Losing is fun. Yeah, building the complicated redstone contraptions for keeping them cool, and the massive containment chambers were part of the fun. I still had a map or two with 100-block-wide holes in the ground, though :D In Factorio, ...

Having only one train driving at a time, even if it is per item type, is a no go. The question wasn't about how to make each train pick a different station at the start but how to make them keep trying till they get it right. And for that: No need to switch signals. A chain signal does this natural...

If you don't plan on ever using synthetic wood to make boards, try this: Back up mods\bobelectronics_<version>\prototypes\electronics.lua Edit that file, and remove this: { type = "recipe", name = "wooden-board-synthetic", category = "electronics", enabled = false, ingr...

While it is fine for the vanilla game, Bob's mods add so many resources and intermediates that it becomes generally near to nonsense to transport stuff via belts so I would vote for enabling logistic network at blue science in Bob's mods. Ok maybe with added new logistic science pack but no way wit...

Avezo wrote:But don't all processes in refineries take place at high temperatures? All other oil-related recipes in Factorio should require steam instead of water as well then.

Quiet! They might hear you...

That said, I'd be fine with oil cracking requiring steam

If the stop a train is heading toward is disabled it immediately changes path to another stop with the same name. If no such stop is available it continues to the next one in the schedule. If there is no path to the stop it's trying to reach it'll just stop. If you want to limit how many trains you...

It should be simple with disabling stops. Your load station signalling seems fine so you just need to wire the train stop to a nearby power pole and then set it to read train contents, and enable/disable with enabled condition "everything = 0". By doing that the station disables itself as...

I think you can put LUA scripts, including loops, into the game console, which would mean you could automate running the delete_chunk command... I don't have an example available right now, though. EDIT: Try this: /c for x=<start>,<end> do for y=<start>,<end> do game.player.surface.delete_chunk{x, y...

I've taken to simply never building huge one-logistics-network-to-rule-them-all systems, because it's hugely inefficient to have the bots constantly wandering across the entire map. I break up the network around certain areas or functions, and use other, more intelligent means to move stuff between ...

With stack inserters, you can load a train in about 5 seconds - far faster than the number of miners on a typical ore patch can supply. I find I need to uniquely name each of my mine stations to tune the number of trains coming in to the amount of ore available. I don't want a train sitting at a min...

For example, that steam for coal liquification seems weird, just put a boiler next to a line full of coal that's already there and plug in, doesn't seem to add much to the game. Theoretically setting up combined power plant and refinery might be cool, but I'm personally not going to try that before...