I was using the old untreaceablesmurf waterfill mod to restore lake sections I had landfilled. But lakes come with 2 colors of water so the result looks wrong. There are many waterfill mods, but most descriptions are clear as mud. Anyone know which of the waterfill mods is the *simplest* that provid...

I would swear that turning off the constant combinator used to stop requests/provider actions. But I noticed that recently it is no longer so (except perhaps when you first set it up and have not yet turned it on for the first time when it does seem to work). Is this a bug? Or standard behavior that...

After having solved and built most of the typical contraptions a few times I now like to make clean, simple and well ordered builds. Cleanliness and compactness also enables me to focus on more advanced engineering. Mods help. Below is the set of mods I am using for spaghetti reduction. All of them ...

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Fri May 03, 2019 11:18 am

Alt+R turns your personal Roboport function on and off.

Curiously, after many years I found my Alt-R not working. Went to settings and defined Right-Alt R... and it worked

So I guess there's nothing that I can do if a train starts crossing from the top to "e" and while it is doing it a train comes from "f to e" and makes the vertical train stop in the middle of the intersection thus blocking "c to d". The vertical train stop in the middl...

@mmmPI, Thank you very much!!! It was staring me in the face but I didn't see it until you said it. Others I had discussed it with even said it and I failed to understand what they were saying. It is obvious now... a horizontal train crossing ALSO activates the whole segment. In trying to solve a sm...

In the following screenshot I would normally use chain signals to split the vertical track so that each intersection is separate. But I worry that if I do that and a train enters horizontally through the bottom as the vertical train is already descending downwards... it would stop and block the midd...

Indeed Tertius, I experienced what you describe (happens even more with LTN because you never really get to the point of filling the receiving station). I once (years ago) found a solution but I am returning to the game after a long time and I am having to rediscover everything. In the end the balan...

Input balanced is per definition input lane balanced, since the lanes can be independently consumed downstream, and you want to consume the input lanes evenly. And I agree, TU is overkill in most situations. Are you saying that all designs that are marked as "Lane" balanced are assumed to...

If there is an "L"in the name, the balancers are input balanced. (Rayquyst's book) On Factorio discord this came up a few days ago, and this one is a 2 lane version input lane balancer. otherwise the rayquyst ones are pretty much the standard. https://discord.com/channels/1396775903937167...

I was googling for a 4to4 balancer that pulls equally from the 4 *input* lanes to keep my train station chests always equally full regardless of demand. I was shocked that after all these years it would be so hard to find a good design. I found rayquist's collection, but it doesn't make it clear whe...

Thanks, that makes sense. They are trying to make maximum use of the roboport range. If it is only that I will almost certainly reduce my grid size to 96x96 and make it chunk aligned too. I don't expect to use that many roboports. I do wonder though if there are additional reasons for the 100x100 si...

I noticed that most of the standard blueprints and youtube videos involving a Grid or City Block make them 100x100. This is puzzling to me since 96x96 would make it exactly 3 chunks by 3 chunks and still leave a 2-block border outside of the power-pole square. I am certain there is some well-thought...

Thanks for the info. I ended up doing the following: - Two inputs to the steam powerplant, wood and coal, prioritized for wood. The wood comes from a requester chest so that the bots bring it there. - An accumulator near the plant to measure accumulator levels. - When the accumulator level is below ...

I am working to make my mall smarter. Could someone review my thinking and answer a couple questions? Regular chests (wood or steel): Are not smart, so I plan to only use them as intermediates in a chain of builds. Provider chests : Are fine to get resources to me or my trains, but do not help with ...

Thanks, sounds like there is no way to *prioritize* or control where the power comes from first... only to consume in a dedicated fashion.

Bummer, I will look for a mod.

I was away from the game for years and upon returning I noticed that if I have solar power it will be used ahead of steam power. That is a great improvement... unless you are trying to burn excess wood. So... is there a way to prioritize steam power consumption (but not totally disable solar to achi...

Thank you SoShootMe for sharing your thought process, I did end up putting Lubricant, Petroleum Gas and Sulfuric on the bus for the early base/mall. Everything else I manufactured locally with a single chem plant as all other items were already on the bus. For later... I think I will end up making c...

I am trying to evolve my factorio strategy for more effective expansions. One of the things I'm considering is to use blueprints and utility trains to achieve things easier/faster. Ideas, advice and even blueprints for the types of utility trains that I could use would greatly welcome. In the past I...

I have been looking to improve my bus and rail designs. One of the issues that came up was to decide what products derived from Oil are worth putting on the bus or transport by train to where they get consumed. My conclusion was Lubricant, Petroleum Gas and Sulfuric acid for the bus/trains. Excess c...