I would say that the simplest way to learn is to follow Nilaus 'Base in a Book" series. It is old but it teaches you to think in Factorio terms.

DO NOT grab his blueprints. The whole point is to learn, not to build his thing.

Short answer to the suggestion: NO. It will not add realism. I once worked with radioactive materials and I have even been in a reactor. There are procedures and protections. You don't "just get irradiated" for working with them or being near. If it did... we'd tell them to go jump off a b...

I try to beacon everything. Production modules + speed modules saves a lot of resources. The power consumption is almost irrelevant - a 2x2 reactor can power almost everything.... if it isn't enough, i just build a new one. I tend to agree that power is irrelevant. - In vanilla, a 2x2 reactor gener...

I have been successfully using Steam Sync for a long time, to allow me to switch my play between my desktop and laptop. I am familiar with the typical problems and therefore am very careful to let it complete the sync each time I exit Factorio. I rarely experience any problems, and when I do it is e...

Very frustrating and that is why I was hoping LTN or somebody else's "works with LTN" mod would do the trick. This question was a last ditch attempt to salvage my use of air filters to play in an ecologically friendly way... I am now considering saying "to h*** with it", wiping ...

For such a setup use a normal train and name all the stations needing air filters the same. Set the train to load air filters until full and then add the unloading stations N times with circuit condition "air filters > M" or "empty". Then program the unloading stations to enable...

I found a lot of information and even tools that calculate for you, but the information is a bit ambiguous and I could not find a single a clear example *in writing* of how to do the calculations. For example, I tried to calculate the following. Tier 3 PROD module = +10% items produced for a given p...

I like the concept of building an ecological base and achieving piece with the aliens by not irritating them with pollution, but doing it in a way that "feels realistic". It took me a long time to find the right combination of settings and mods to allow it (Railworld, Next Gen Evolution mo...

My railworld is fairly widely distributed. I have an item (air filters from Schorty's mod) that is consumed in small quantities at many locations. Sending a train with few items from depot to provider to requester to depot in this scenario is so inefficient (puts huge numbers of trains on the networ...

Use circuit logic to disable the stop when the chests don't have enough for a load.

It will take some studying and googling but the knowledge you will gain is worth the effort.

Bridges... awesome concept that needs to be in the core game.

And now that there is a mod for it there is finally a chance that it might happen.

One more mod to add to my wish list.

Setting output priority works fine until the belt backs up, then the other lane gets filled too, If you want to make sure the second lane stays empty, set a filter on the splitter, or use the classic method.:) Yeah instead of output priority I always use a "fish filter" for things like th...

Define "fully moduled". Probably like this: Standard speed refinery = 1 2 row 5 beacons -> speed + 500%, speed -> 6 3 prod modules -> speed - 45% , speed -> 5.55 20 * 10 * 5.55 -> 1110 oil/sec Exactly! And it explains why we never see a design with more than 10 refineries... as it matches...

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Sat Jun 15, 2019 10:49 pm

Something like this?

Exactly, I think.

Thanks!

Dumb question related to the above: - Most of the beaconed oil processing builds use 10 refineries. - The length of the oil supply pipe for that is aprox 60 pipes. At that length the table indicates it can carry about 1000 units/sec. - Unmoduled the 10 refineries consume 200 units/sec of oil (and un...

Simple idea: A constant combinator that can be turned on/off at any distance through the map . There are many possible uses, but the simplest example is for PAX stations: - Setup all pax stations with the same name. - Control PAX station enabled/disabled state with a constant combinator. - Normally ...

This is one thing that has bugged me for a long time, not just for personal trains but also for other purposes. My instincts tell me to use the same station name and to use a constant combinator to enable/disable it. ...Unfortunately, you can't enable/disable a constant combinator through the map vi...

Or better yet, full solar with an Advanced Solar mod so that you don't need to cover half the map with panels (most save space - not resources - so the difference ends up being just one more production line and placing one high end panel/accumulator instead of 1000).

Very cool and thank you for posting.

I always assumed that mining productivity just mined faster, it never crossed my mind that it actually gave me more ore.

Definitely useful to know.

The closest I ever came to peace with aliens while keeping some degree of realism was: - Air Filters mod by Schorty. To control my pollution cloud. Consumes a lot of coal but it works. - Next Gen Evolution mod, combined with setting the Tme and Pollution evolution factors in New Game settings to zer...