Nice! I was fiddling with new (non-smart) reactors as well, but didn't dare go below 2x2 :-). But you're right that the neighbour bonus is more of a gimmick once you have kovarex up and running... PS, if you're being minimalist, why not go for 2 reactors? Also, not 100% sure about dropping the pipes...

Hmm, I play either peaceful or death world. If I just want to design a factory I just want to skip the whole nest clearing part...

I love 0.17! I started a death world with very infrequent / very rich deposits, and I'm having great fun. Got some nasty suprises when spitter AoE started killing my electricity poles which were next to my turrets. Only launched 11 sattelites so far, working on artillery range... Things I love? - Co...

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature I don't understand yet :) https://i.imgur.com/x9QDvjM.png When I middle-click a slot to reserve it, it becomes yellow even after the selection is made (see screenshot above). I can't figure out a purpose for the yellow slots, so I'm guessing the activate/highli...

.17 made a number of changes that affect power ratios, and I didn't see a post on the effects on power plants (miners/boiler etc) so I figured it would be good to summarize what I think are the correct ratios in .17. Of course, feel free to correct if there are mistakes :) Basic values: Steam engine...

Looking forward to .17! Haven't started a new map since November because I thought the release would be 'soon' :) Terrain generation updates [..]1. Create a map without trees[..] Mmmmmmyes. Would'nt that be unplayable in vanilla as there's no way to get research going without at least one wood power...

they could decay to dead trees (2 wood), emitting some pollution in the process. Maybe the same amount of pollution as burning 2 wood would give.

I never ever had a case in my entire Factorio life in which something like this was even remotely needed: (A & (B | C) & D) | (E & F) | G I have needed (A | B) & (C | D). I can use distributive law and get A&C | A&D | B&C | B&D, but it is annoying to feed with curren...

In the early game, Iron is used the most, but when you get to the higher tier technologies, copper becomes much more in demand. A big megabase will probably be using similar amounts of both materials. This. If your aim is to produce all science packs in equal quantities, you'll need only slightly m...

I'm not a fan of linear buses, but I would urge you to plan out a production target and design according to that. I love using helmod to do all calculations in-game, but of course a spreadsheet is fine as well. I did a belts-only no-modules 800spm base here: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php...

See also: Bob's + Angel's

It would be nice if your factories spawned some sort of dead zone, also killing e.g. grass and brushes and leaving soot on rocks as well as damaging (defoiling) trees like it does now. Then, if you pollution retreats (which some elf told me is actually possible) it would be nice to see the area regr...

There is something I didn't notice before - with huge push for steel instead of iron plates in new recipes, a great UPS gains come. Not sure if it was intended, but that direction seems right. Now, find a way to reduce copper wire 'movement' in prodction chain too, they have the largest movement vo...

just a generic 'recycler' entity would solve a lot of above problems. It's quite easy to allow furnaces to smelt most of the 'obsolete' entities like pickaxe, iron chests, pistols and the like, much the same as wooden boxes and poles can be used as fuel. I made a mod way back when that added recipe...

what about using barrels? it fits thematically for chemistry packs, is a steel sink, and can be used in quantity.

can either use empty barrels or light oil barrels. Can even use water barrels of you want to promote barreling and add a bit of puzzle without increasing oil demand.

Heartfelt thanks to everyone for contributing to these discussions. Even if it is off-topic, I have learned a lot about electricity and fluid dynamics! I especially want to thank those who take the time to snip out exactly the words they want when responding to another post. Do you have any tips fo...

update sounds very good, and thanks/congrats to TheYeast for the contribution! what does the green and the blue column in the demo gif exactly means? And will there be an option to show these columns to get an easy way to identify bottlenecks and something like that? It is the volume and speed - num...

What I've done in some games is to have one general "bootstrap" building train, and then multiple trains for different construction types (e.g. outpost, smelting, etc) The bootstrap train is the train I use for setting up new outposts or plants. It contains a *lot* of rails, and some chest...

1. Placing a signal on only one side of the track makes it a 1-way track, but nothing clearly told me this; trains unable to enter are simply stopped with a mystifying "NO PATH" popping out of them: nothing ANYWHERE tells me "Hey, I can't enter this section (here let me highlight in-...

bobingabout wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 24, 2018 12:36 pm

Construct is the act of Constructing a Structure.

Makes sense