I've found the way below to be the less annoying layout for Pumpjacks.

At leat for me eye

Note: Just for the fun and look this time

Love Factorio not a big fun of enemies. Just to talk against myself, flamethrower IS overpowered in the normal game.

My suggestions are:
- nerf the range/damage of flamethrower (I like the upgrade to the current level idea)
- make enemy attack smarter and walk around the flames . Not just stupidly ...

Substation illustration: common to legendary and their respective patterns.
- these are not ideal ratio, just 100% area coverage. Ratio to be set by replacing 2x2 solar panels w/3x3 accs
- top and bottom solars are only powered by 1 tile, so only solar panels can be at the top and bottom of the ...

Well, the 850x850 Robort pattern is not really compatible with the 18x22 substation pattern - as 850 is 2*5*5*17(!)... Tile would be 11900x13600 and tons of work (least common multiple).

So made small compromises:
- 846 width: so losing 2+2 Robort tiles per 850 tiles
- 850 height: so losing 14 ...

Probably this striped 850x850 robort tile is the most efficient? Far from ideal on the edges but covers the area with 85 roborts only. I've put the stipes next to each other that they cover the construction area only.

Full logistic coverage (all orange) is 1 robort per 50x50 area: 0.04% roboports ...

Actually, connecting the Roboports only horizontally or vertically there might be a gain of 10 tiles after every two roborts (as construction area is 110 and not 100). It would need a complete redesign fo this pattern as the Robort repeat pattern is 100 tiles in the traditional but 160 in the other ...

adam_bise wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:33 pm You only need squares of 2's alternating joined by a half diagonal for 100% construction area.

I did not see this coming That's a lot of roboborts in this scale! I will update the BP, will boost the % a bit.

Thank you for the picture, w/o that not sure I'd get this!

So here is the Blueprint for the 3.3GW Solar tile with the updated pattern. Blueprint attached as text. Yes this is big... and w/o higher qualities.

Tile size: 900x1100
Area coverage: 100%
Roboport coverage: 100%
Useful coverage: 98.6141% (Solar+Acc area / 900x1100) - 1.4%: substations ...

98.61% useful coverage is possible using the new pattern.

The theorietical max useful coverage numbers are (external wires on the side needed, not counted):
- 98.9899% w/o roboports: as a 2x2 substations take out 4/(22x18) = 1.0101%
- 98.6699% with roboport coverage: as 4x4 roboports take out 16 ...

My current best optimized Solar tiles so far per priorities below. Hope it is useful for others, comments welcome as always.

TL;DR: as some panels are not fully covered with substations I was able to save some space and reach 98.56% area coverage w/full logistic. Also I've saved some space with the ...

I have my auto save set to 15mins. If I speed up time in the editor, it saves every 5 seconds. I understand that game ticks are contolling the auto save, it would make more sense to let is work based on the real time.

I thought I'm smarter than the devs, tried upgrade planner, failed. It would be really nice to have magic key combo and allow this. Even with a checkbox "I accept that underground belts are not designed to do this"

That is not a bug.

TY for the quick reponse. Not sure why you want this - it would be handy to repair from a car.

In case Wube's decision is to not be able to repair from a car then I'd suggest adding a message that cannot repair from car. Currenlty just nothing happens which is just bad UX ...

What did you do?
- Stopped my car next to repair sg (an inserter, see screenshot)
- Tried to repair it

What happened?
- Nothing

What did you expect to happen instead? It might be obvious to you, but do it anyway!
- It should work as normal and repair to work
- OR decide that it is a "feature", so ...

Yep, I was not able to find this, TY for your update! Any chance to get this fixed?

atomizer wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 11:10 am duplicate of [1.1.5] Rocket silo power inconsistency

Silo launching w/o power. A really minor issue.
Note: It still would be nice to have the option to connect the silo to the circuit network and at least read the science pack inventory #. Launching would be also nice. With this bug Silo can be controller only via the satellite inserter.

Conditions ...

TY so much for the answer! This feature is used mainly by the hard core optimizers and honestly impact is cosmetic. If this is fixed, we'll be happy though :)

Edit: and yes, it was connected to wire by mistake, which I've totally forgot

Edit2: deleting and rebuilding the transport belt segment ...

Tertius wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:47 pm It's my most polished setup.

Looks great, if you have a savegame or BP that would be nice also!

What did you do?
I was checking transport lines gaps on my timed onshore steel module. I'm in editor mode.

What happened?
A minor visual issue in case the debug visual show-transport-line-gap is tuned on: At one place the white gap is flickering - disappearing then re-appearing. No effect on ...

v12
- see the attched savegame
- cut another 4 tiles from the height by removing a bunch of pumps
- I cannot compress this further - and still keep robort coverage.
- there is some chaos still going on, power is fluctiating between 9.43 and 9.44 GW but temperatures are stable
v12-nixie.png

TY ...