Friday Facts #378 - Trains on another level

[Mango]

As we can’t walk on the bridges what happens if for example a train runs out of fuel on elevated tracks over water?

Not sure if you could solve it by spidertron, jetpack or something similar, but you could drive a locomotive by hand (to ignore signals) to replenish fuel...

Next FFF will be about swimming, diving and ocean depths

[Henry Loenwind]

Now, if the Space Age mod doesn't depend on the Quality mod...you could have said that 3 weeks ago and ended all the complaining instantly.

Also, when:

[Peevester]

Can we walk on the bridges?

You can't. biters also can't walk it.

If you're going to allow building long stretches of elevated track over water, we're going to end up with trains running out of fuel where they can't be rescued unless there's a parallel track very close by, or having to run a personal train manually against the signals to get in front of the dead one. On the other hand, doing that would be so terrifying and prone to crashes, it's kind of fun to think about.

[Peevester]

Now, if the Space Age mod doesn't depend on the Quality mod...you could have said that 3 weeks ago and ended all the complaining instantly.

Also, when:

A trestle instead of a center support is a cool idea, since a lot of the time you're running parallel tracks anyway, and it would let you run a continuous belt (or pavement) under the train, instead of having to weave around supports every once in a while.

[SoShootMe]

Well, this neatly sidesteps the issue of needing to redo rail blueprints due to the rail curve changes. Unless for some reason you don't buy the expansion.

OH!
F***!
YES!

A generally applicable sentiment, I think... but have the FFF peaked too early?

[ema]

Looking at the "island crossing" example more closely. There is a radar powered by accumulators, but there don't seem to be anything refilling the accumulators.

[alexk]

Elevated belts when?

[gGeorg]

Since you re-started Friday fact, I feel like my life gets better.

[maniak1349]

The last FFF i was like - well, it's all nice, but that's it? It was kinda ok as it is?
But now I see. Now I truly see. Just - wow.

[flapje]

Thank you. Now just tell how much expansion will cost

They said it would be the same as the base game in a earlier fff.

[kovarex]

How can you exit when train is over water?
Could we deadlock the game by being on a train that runs out of fuel over water, or is it "just" a death sentence?

We also thought about this (remote) possibility, and there will be a way to solve it.

[Tooster]

Holy fuck, I bet no one expected this. You magnificent bastards.

[Unknow0059]

Disgusting. That's what I like to see.

Jokes aside, the rail ramp sprite looks a bit too busy. There's way too many bolts. It looks better from afar.

[MassiveDynamic]

I can't wait for this!

Finally the rail planner will work right!?

[melind]

I need to ask the real question. Can players walk up onto the elevated rails?

[JohnyDarecek]

Simply: Awesome!
TTD Awesome

[Loewchen]

I notice we can't support the half-diagonals

There are supports for all 8 directions.

[Ghoulish]

Absolutely brilliant!

[Rikkit]

Hello, I don't understand something.

Is there a big use for second layer trains? I saw many maps for factorio and it seems to me that people were fine with 1 layer. City-blocks or not.

[Tooster]

I just hope for 3* things with this update:
- a filter for blueprints and deconstruction planner for selecting top/bottom layer of rails only
- some toggle that will allow us to see through the top layer and interact with the entities underneath
- this: https://mods.factorio.com/mod/rail-decon-planner

Q: in what way do big connection poles collide? Only the entities or do the wires collide as well?