I've always thought Factorio was a great litmus test for who has OCD and who doesn't... Did the belt go dry of coal at one point? I haven't tested it, but I don't think burner inserters have a safety on them. So when they're moving two different items (coal and something else), and the coal dries u...

Hello How are requests for the same resource prioritised, in particular in a constrained supply scenario? Is it by proportion of request satisfied (i.e. increasing size of request will prioritise that chest compared to others) or is it by distance from supply? Or some other criteria? Edit: ok, I ra...

Sarcastic responses about spaghetti and unnecessary splitters accepted...

Pretty sure there's no special sound, other than the ambient whirrs and beeps the construction bots emit at regular intervals. ;) aye... bots are some impressively stealthy lumberjacks! Even for a man who can build a steam-engine in his pocket in half a second, this is a remarkable feat of mechanic...

No doubt this is my fault somehow...?

... does it make a sound?

+1, playing with vanilla trains I've wanted this also.

Haven't seen this with kde frameworks 5, 64-bit factorio, no steam... although perhaps it occurs and I just didn't notice. I have noticed some usability issues that occur when I mouse around outside of the game and then want to return focus to the game, but that's not really on-topic I suppose.

(((a OR b) OR c) AND d) Which is fine, but certainly not obvious from the interface or anything I've seen anybody say about them. In this thread: https://forums.factorio.com/29237 we spent quite a lot of time working the above out. I would agree with you that it's not obvious at all from the user i...

Just an idea: maybe a third kind of "scout" bot is needed for this type of thing? Once you have this capability, all kinds of questions immediately crop up: can I collect different items within this box? Can I have certain criteria applied dynamically? Can I avoid having my personal robopo...

The deconstruction planner becomes an increasingly dangerous tool the more you zoom out. I'm not sure what the solution is: I don't think the blueprint book is quite as easy to use as it should be, yet, but putting the deconstruction planner anywhere it's likely to accidentally wind up in your hand ...

Although I really dislike some of the naming decisions that XDG has implemented this is probably a good idea. For example, I notice baloo or whatever the kde file indexer is named this week is being confused by my save files: Jul 17 18:20:19 moneypit baloo_file[3100]: org.kde.baloo: "/home/greg...

Auto connection of copper cables is seemingly broken, anyhow, for just one network. For example, creating a network of big power poles via robots, you will inevitably end up with disconnected power islands that you must fix by manually removing and re-placing the big power poles affected.

Smart trains mod, so it seems to me, is presently somewhat "complex," in practice, because it is forced to wedge some square pegs into some round holes: First, if I'm not mistaken, there is no "train line" object in the game; instead this exists solely in the imagination of the m...

So good it feels like cheating! There is no iron plate...

I don't think it's even documented, much less formalized. I'm sure many people have paused a moment to ponder this question before they were distracted by something or another such as a giant green tentacled cockroach-monster screaming bloody murder while eating their car. In other words, I'm not su...

Hahaha I just happened to discover the cause. The first row of boilers on the right was not supplied with cold water! So the water would simply trickle in as backflow from the other boilers, and probably only then /during/ power insufficiencies (or maybe also gluts) and piping hot already. From ther...

Then I'm sorry, I have no idea : I only use burner inserters when I play with Marathon mod, so my experience of these is close to nonexistant :) Have you been able to reproduce it at will ? It would help a lot if it was the case. Not the issue where they stopped eating fuel, no, that just happened ...

Yellow belt. Anyhow it shouldn't matter as this was a dead-end belt jammed full of coal. Here's the scene of the crime: SceneOfCrime.png But I have suspected burner inserters slow down in low-power situations in many contexts, basically for as long as I've been a sufficiently well-educated factorio ...

Maybe this changed recently but historically they would even attack each other.