The foundry output buffer is 1000 and the recipe adds 500 each time. Then even with a totally empty output pipe, the molten iron empties at 100 per tick reduced by the fullness factor of the output buffer . This is slow enough that eventually the buffer is over 500 when a craft completes, stalling ...

Crash under MacOS 14.1.2 with Factorio 2.0.13. No mods used. I've just returned from vacation and have just upgraded to SpaceAge and started to play. No save as I didn't play long enough to generate an autosave :cry: I'm upgrading to Sequoia so hopefully that will fix the issue, but I include the ...

With regard to the lighting array working on a space platform, I'd like to suggest a (not cheap) tiling option for all surfaces that would power things placed on it that draw no more than a lamp. It would have to either have a power source also placed on it contiguous with the tiles the entities ...

MaxRateCalculator is quite old. I would suggest RateCalculator, which is more modern and better supported. https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RateCalculator

Many people use shift or ctrl with the mouse wheel to quickly change tile building area.

jackthesmack wrote: Sun May 12, 2024 1:34 pm Just like achievements, mods could disable it. Or mods could have their own seperate category

Most people play with mods, which is why the steam achievements stats are so borked.

Not only that, those expensive mice are configurable so you can set the buttons to whatever you like (R, shift-R), on a per-app basis.

You can mine bots out of the air (right click them). Then they are taken into inventory and recharged instantly.

Oh, god, yes, please, please, please ascend Recursive Blueprints to vanilla.

Loewchen wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:12 pm
Only bonus #2 and #7 apply to non stack inserters, maxing them out at 3.

Oops, well my face is red. That explains some things, I've been thinking all along that non-stack inserters max out at 4.

Erm, currently, the max "non-stack...er, non-bulk" inserter hand size is 4. The 3 is the bonus granted by the various levels of research, that is added to the base level of 1 hand size to get to four.

So, count this suggestion already implemented.

The major issue is with modpacks, where the icons are often so similar to each other that trying to distinguish based on just the icon is hopeless.

It should be settable per player in multiplayer games, and the name should localize for each player. Internally, the name should just be the icon, this ...

Unfortunately the "add the text" form of the icon only appears to work in chat. Can't get it to work anywhere else.

Can I +1000 this? The text should be localized according to the player viewing it (for multiplayer).

I tried out the solution that mrvn posted, and at least for map tags, it doesn't work. I'll be trying it on train stops when I get a chance, and will report back.

NO, that's not what I want. The filters will be set by wire. The requested feature is just to have the filter inserter set it's stack size to the signal count of the item it's picking up.


If you have the filters set by wire, and send the same set of signals to all the inserters, all of the ...

Signals divide rail into blocks. If you hold a signal in your characters hand, it will show with the continuous colored lines where the blocks are. A train in automatic mode will never enter a block occupied by another train. The signal you have placed has divided the track that I can see into two ...

That doesn't limit the number of items you load or remove excess, doesn't handle balancing items between cargo wagons, doesn't handle the requested number of items not being divisible by the number of wagons, doesn't handle loading items with many inserters when you need many items but just one ...

I agree that this should be a thing, but I disagree that the circuit logic is either complex or large (unless you consider 3 combinators large), nor does it require getting any timing right. You can use "anything, anything" on a decider combinator to pull out one signal from the "this is what the ...

Interesting. The 'Wall D' stop on that screenshot is disabled by a circuit. Does that make a difference to pathing?


No, as far as I know, any stop imposes a path penalty of 1000. I've never observed a train taking a sidecut through a disabled stop, even though I have tons that would be ...

I have observed trains using stop free paths as a loop to avoid having to stop or slow down for a train crossing in front of them, but never a path that has a stop on it.