Bobs mods allows you to fast-replace underground pipes. If you click a pipe twice in the same place, it will be reversed.

Are you using any mods that allow you to fast-replace underground pipes?

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When you have ~ 14 lines of resources in blue chests, your "station bots" are still gonna be very distributed.

That hasn't been my experience.

Eh, I still like using bots to unload trains. I just make sure the purple unloading chests, the yellow storage chests, and the blue ore-needing chests are all reasonably close together. I run a lot of long belts from the blue chests to where the ores are needed to make sure the bots never have to tr...

What I don't know is how you ended up with a train full of four materials? It's not unusual for mods where ore patches yield two kinds of ore. He's using Bob's Ores, where patches of Galena give you both Lead and Nickel. I usually deal with this by unloading the ores into purple chests and letting ...

All I want is a car with a built-in roboport and generator. Like ssilk, I run around with a lot of blueprints and use them to build outposts. On top of that, I also fill up a car (or train) with outpost materials and drive it out to the outpost. I tried building everything with personal bots, but I ...

Why are you unloading onto belts, and then unloading the belts into chests? Just unload the train directly into the chests. This isn't 0.11 any more - you can put a solid row of chests right next to the train, and every single inserter will unload the train at full speed. It only takes 10 seconds to...

Yeah, it's related to how you have a drill putting items in the middle of a T-intersection. Either rework your belts/drills so that doesn't happen, or update to 0.12 where belts are completely rewritten.

I like the idea, but I'd phrase it as another kind of specialized inserter: The Big-Handed Inserter, meant for moving lots of items onto or off of conveyor belts. You can unlock this guy with the first rank of Inserter Stack Size Bonus. Unlike other inserters, he'll pick up an entire handful of item...

If the recipe has a item in it's ingredients the inserterts will stop inputting when the fluid output is 2x that of the recipe. If the recipe takes only fluids in it's ingredients there is no limit except for the fluid stack size - that's intended since the fluid flow system can't and doesn't do an...

Crafting recipes that only use fluid ingredients will continue producing until the output stack is full. By comparison, recipes that use item ingredients are limited by the inserter logic: Inserters will stop inserting items into an assembler if either the input slots have twice or more of the recip...

Many thanks!

I feel very silly reporting this, but it must be done. Steps to reproduce: - Place a Diesel Locomotive. - Press R. - Place a Cargo Wagon connected to the locomotive. - Fuel the locomotive. - Board the locomotive - Press W. The train moves forward. - Exit the locomotive. Board the cargo wagon. - Pres...

posila wrote: I made the change for 0.12.5 that will allow robots to search for closer roboport for charging even when it already picked roboport for stationing.

Excellent! I'll let you know if I see any more bots acting stupidly.

I don't know about any code-based solutions, though I'm sure it's possible. I usually edit blueprints by placing them well outside of my roboport network, then removing ghosts with right-click and adding more ghosts by shift-clicking items in. Then, I just take a blueprint of the ghosts. Good news: ...

I've experienced the same issue. I have so much pollution that it is solid red across the entire revealed area of the map. There are ludicrous numbers of top-tier biters and spitters rallying outside my base, and there are even larger numbers of biter and spitter corpses all around them. It's as if ...

You can reproduce this by placing an underground pipe while keeping MB1 pressed and then making the smallest movements with the mouse.

I can't seem to reproduce this in 0.12.4. No matter what I do, I can't fast-replace an underground pipe with an underground pipe.

I would not recommend using only speed modules. On their own, speed modules are inferior (both materials-wise and power-wise) to just building more labs, so if all you want is speed, build more labs! Productivity modules in labs give a constant, percentage increase to your research progress. The pro...

kovarex wrote:Ok, so the limit now is max(3 X recipe requirements, stack size) + (inserter stack size bonus).

So it should not happen in 0.12.5.

Perfect. Many thanks!

This is actually a specific case of a more general bug, which can be described as follows: The player has the "Increased Inserter Stack Size" technologies, so the inserter can move 5 of an item at once. The assembly machine has an ingredient slot that has a non-multiple-of-5 number of item...