The line between handling the biters easily and fighting to keep them from munching through your base is very thin. You can either handle them or you dont. Suggestion: The evolution factor could go up to 2.0 What it would mean: From 0.0 to 1.0 Normal biter behaviour like on a default world. From 1.0...

PyroFire wrote: ↑

Fri May 22, 2020 3:21 pm

I'm suggesting add more uses.

JimBarracus wrote: ↑

Mon May 18, 2020 5:57 am

I think steam is a good option to use heat in recipes.

We already use steam for coal liquification. There is also ne need for heat pipe intersections in their original use. You dont need to split heatpipes. The range is limited and there is only one use. I think steam is a good option to use heat in recipes. Especially since steam is an object and "...

Without any Mining Productivity tech levels, it is 30 miners for a yellow belt (15/side), 60 for a red, and 90 for a blue. mining productivity will break any calculations anyway. Miners on the edge of an ore field deplete faster and the output will drop over time. Orientation for the beginning one ...

You could simply switch to static artillery.

I think trains are good to claim new territory.
Static artillery with some range upgrades is good for keeping an area clean.

try something like 5 solar panels, one accumulator and a radar in an isolated grid. The 5 panels can barely power the radar. As soon as dusk starts the accumulator needs to power the radar because the output of the panels drops. You also need to create logic, that recharges the accumulator the next ...

You don’t want the massive bot network, because that’s not how bots thrive. As for refueling, it does not take a separate rail network. It would be convenient to send trains that need fuel to a centralized location, yes. But as it is right now, it is not necessary, with the other thing you don’t wa...

I really appreciate that you keep working on creating a devkit for massive mods.
This will make factorio immortal and people will play it in 20 years.

I'm curious how long it will take to launch a rocket if you only add the basic materials.

Map generation has changed in every release, so I would not count on that. But if you generate the entire map before upgrading, there will be no new chunks to worry about. Bad thing about that is that it might break new resources. Dont remember which version it was (think it was when they changed t...

Not really.

Anyway, it only gave me a little advantage in the beginning.
Later on my chunk aligned defense worked quite well with very little resources.

I recently started a new game an wanted to try something new for defense. Not just a simple wall, a little more. While planning my layout I noticed, that it is very convenient to check the biter paths to learn from them. Knowing the paths made it easy to predict where they would attack. Biters are a...

Hi @JimBarracus, I can't answer the questions about the RAM - no idea. I have a suspicion that the limitations are my system, though, not the game, as I also turned off steam/smoke, turned down the graphics detail, deleted all visible biters and cleared the map so that only areas covered by radar w...

how fast is your ram?
do you use dual channel?

can you post your savegame?

I guess its time to update to something with ddr4.

Barrels were needed because the fluid wagon was added later. Back then you had to barrel oil in order to transport it. But I think it is not neccesary to remove a perfectly working feature. I often use barrels for uranium mining. No need to carry a full tank of acid, when its enough to block 8 slots...

I have a personal train with 6 stations for certain areas like the oil refinery or my nuclear power plant. It has a dedicated station and wont block the track. I only use two lokos, no storage. The stations are named: !Mall or !Nukular. This way they are always on top of the list. No need for search...

I heard RAM speed can sometimes be the bottleneck when it comes to Factorio? I don't really know what to make of all the discussions, but at least bear in mind that probably just anything might not do. I would always recommend to buy the fastest ram that your mainboard/cpu support. Usually ddr4-320...

A cpu with good single core performance https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html I have a i3 8350k at default clock speed and I never noticed any fps drop. they are around 150€ new and the socket has a lot of potential to simply grab a bigger cpu in the future. But untill now it is sufficient ...

I would highly recommend you to automate production of things like inserters and belts.
Makes the expansion much easier and less tedious.

production over the day: 42kW*471 =19782kW drain roboports: 50kW * 68 = 3400kW loss through drain: 3400kW / 19782kW = 17,1% I tend to build solar and batteries seperatly in a remote place with as little roboports as possible. If your base is planned in a good way there should be no large logistic gr...