i can confirm that this happens with several recipes, but i believe it has to do with the liquid input/output stopping the machine possibly. (running out of petrol, running out of room for sulfuric acid or oil)

for now if you make solid fuel you can almost essentially do this.

update .9 came out and I was playing on "DASDF", my save game from the very first update after the game got out of kickstarter. I was fortunate enough to get back to this world after a bug fix that was included in the latest update (btw, thanks devs if you are reading). I was thinking that...

Its all about the logistics bots, i can get oil from my fields, train it across great distances, and then from my deliveries yard i have my logistics network deliver it to my refinery.

Hmm. Now that you mention it, I think I did experiment with some mods back in the previous update. I usually restored a non-modded backup of the file but it would definitely possible that at one point I didn't. It was probably the blueprint mod, or one of the bigger crafting mods (like forestry). I'...

ok, cool. Some more info for debug purposes: This is running on Win8 x64. The saves are hosted through a symbolic link on my conventional hard drive, as Factorio had placed my save folder in appdata on my SSD (this could be a source of some strangeness possibly). The save has gone through every conv...

Today i started my Factorio install to play on my factory that i have kept since the game got out of the Kickstarter. I do have a backup, although it is quite old. I am wondering if any people know enough about the storage format or could point me in the right direction of what might have gone wrong...