Look in your Factorio folder in data/base/prototypes/map-settings.lua. Almost any value in here can be changed via the console in-game. The command will follow the hierarchy of the file. There's a "pollution" section, which a bunch of values in it, but I'm not sure what exactly you'd need ...

It makes more sense to me to re-label the specific science packs to something like - Logistics - Engineering - Chemistry - Military - Space which would probably make it a lot easier to figure out which are appropriate for a given tech, because they're closer to actual scientific disciplines. Mining ...

4x 3-to-4 balancers, then merge pairs down to 8?

There are tons of image libraries out there for the basic balancers like 3-4, etc.

For production zones/sub-factories, I almost always "pull." Since 0.13, I don't even use buffers most of the time, but just have the train wait until something runs out, then circulate to the the output stations of other zones to refill. If necessary, I'll have more than one train, so by t...

I haven't got to play with the new 0.15 pumps yet... do they still connect to the rail tanker even if shut down by the circuit network? If not, I think your problem is that you have all of the pipes at the rail stop connected. Instead, put 3 pumps along each side of the rail tankers, like this: HLP ...

I've been looking around... is there somewhere we can contribute to the "Bob's Debugging Fluid Fund?"

Bob: I hope you find a way to make nuclear more convoluted... Because from what I've seen, the entire process looks trivialized. OK, you've successfully nerd-sniped me. :P One thing to make nuclear more convoluted: require fuel rods to have proper Zircalloy casing. Zircalloy is an alloy of Zr, with...

Yep, build a wall!

This one is a double-thick wall with full bot & turret coverage, and a train to resupply them. I was even OCD enough to put concrete "footings" under the entire wall, and pave under the entire rail...

Like Odin, my setups usually depend on the circumstances. 0.13 came with one huge change as far as some unloading stations go, though. That being that we can now tell a train to "wait till empty", so there's no point in having buffers. My ore gets unloaded from the train directly to belts,...

It would be nice if trains got a massive pathing penalty when trying to pass a train stop that's not their immediate destination or departure point. I would actually prefer if the algorithm completely forbid the practice (or at least an option to have it do so). With the new train conditions in .13,...

With the new options for train stops, you could turn your logic around, and have one train for each station that needs the coal. You can set it to wait there until Coal = 0, then go get more coal and come back. Basically, instead of unloading the train into buffer chests, you just use the train itse...

My oil management logic goes like this: - One tank for each fraction for measuring purposes only. I usually don't put these in-line, so they don't slow down the flow. - Decider: If heavy > light -> enable pump to heavy->light cracking - Decider: If light > PG -> enable pump(s) to light->PG cracking ...

The fast far inserters do exactly the same as the long fast ones. should maybe have one reach more? also one is an crafting dead end. fast underground belts are far to cheap, they cost 57,5 Iron while a single fast belt cost 11.5. may be change receipt to x fast belts + gears? you pack petroleum in...

Hi Bob, would you consider adding a token fuel value for the saplings? That would allow any excess to be easily disposed of by fire.

Maybe just enough that a burner inserter that picks one up when first placed will have just enough power to grab a new piece of fuel.

Is this mod going to be updated for version .13? If its dead is there somthing else out there that i could use? I really loved all the information this mod provides to the user, i really appreciate the work that went into it. Thank you! Well, .7.17 only came out a few weeks ago, so hopefully it's n...

After thinking about this some more, an even simpler way to do it, if you don't care about pinpoint accuracy, is to have, say, a 30 second timer, and when it triggers look at the value of (desired - current), then just run an inserter for a period of time to put about that many items on the belt, th...

MAKE FACTORIO USE ALL OF MY CPU's DAMMIT I SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE CPUS FROM OTHER COMPUTERS TO FACTOR IN THE REQUIRED POWER TO POWER MY FACTORIO. HELL i WAS GOING TO RIG UP A DIESEL ENGINE TO THE PC SEE IF THAT ROCKS IN SOME POWA! I'll just leave this here... http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/arc...

You might be able to use an additional chest as a metering device: Ammo production -> buffer chest -> inserter A -> meter chest -> inserter B -> belt to turrets (loop?) Attach inserters A and B to the output of a latch such that A's "enable condition" is equal to NOT (B's enable condition)...

Built this for one of my games, and thought someone else might find it useful. All of the different types of Bob's modules assembled in a relatively small area without any robots. The idea of this isn't to bash them all out at full speed, but to make sure they're always available at a reasonable rat...

For your circuit production area, you can actually eliminate the smart inserters to allow building with very basic tech. Move the underground belt entrance one tile east, and place a splitter north of it. The underground belt will block the copper and let the iron through. Obviously, this requires t...