Have you ever wished that your trains could behave like logistic robots? If so, then that's what this idea is.

I would like to answer this as well. No, I never wished trains could behave like logistic robots.

Logistic robots are inefficient if you just place a roboport for area coverage and let ...

The 3 letter words seem to be already ignored by the forum software, not even being sent to the mysql search engine. Otherwise it wouldn't be indicated as "ignored". There must be some setting to increase the length within the forum software as well. Or it read from the mysql config, cached the ...

The combinator performing the division (iron plates / T) never gets any iron plate signal. At its input, there is nothing connected that can ever provide this signal.
I don't understand the contraption as a whole and don't understand if it's important, but this part is definitely not correct.

Yeah, that's the dream. I think you can probably do it with a centralized system, but I am lazy and don't want to build (another) huge combinator brain. Good luck though!

As for the trip planning, I do everything I can to let the game mechanics do that for me. One of my tricks is to attach a ...

My main problem is the following:

Your build contains a mistake, based on wrong assumption about the wildcard expansion. Use it for unloading, but not for loading.

The idea is to start with an empty train. Completely empty. For an empty train, no green cargo or fluid wildcard can match. So you ...

From https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-389:

We have been asked to do something like 'logistic trains' many times. Schedule interrupts provide a more generic system, where logistic trains is just one of the things you can build from it. For example, you can have a system where you let the ...

I do appreciate your response, but I'm not interested in "stop asking the wrong question" types of replies. If I'm at the stage of the game where I can even ask this question and enumerate the alternatives and their flaws, I am already aware of how to build the basic "bag of trains".

I didn't ...

Here is something that's currently on my mind. We all want to build a logistic train system in vanilla. It sounded so easy in the FFF. Here's the problem: The natural way to do it with interrupts doesn't work with multiple provider stations. I think by now, all the train afficianados know the type ...

I don't use extra functions like ALT-B or clicking on the shortcut bar for creating blueprints. Since it's probably very common to use ctrl-c to copy things, notice you create a blueprint if you hold SHIFT while selecting items for copy. So alternate blueprint creation is: activate copy tool with ...

I use Rate Calculator. It's so easy to use and needs no planning or concept as preparation, because you can add and remove machines individually with single clicks and you immediately see the calculated rate, so you can just add/remove until you get the ratios correct. I actually lost the ability to ...

A quality increase chance of 12.8% or p=0.128 means:

p(normal+) = p^0
p(uncommon+) = p^1
p(rare+) = p^2
p(epic+) = p^3
p(legendary)=p^4

or

p(legendary) = 0.128^4 = 0.000268435

To get 1 legendary item average, you need 1/p = 3725.29 crafts

You say 1 craft takes 30 seconds, so you need 3725.29 ...

I occasionally create stuff meant as long term contribution. Nothing important, just stuff that comes up. I post this in the appropriate place, be it somewhere here in the forum, or in the wiki, or in factoriobin.com, and save a browser bookmark to my Factorio browser bookmark folder to find it ...

With a reliable internet connection and a reliable PC, Steam doesn't mess up its cloud sync. I'm glad I have this as backup and as option to continue playing on a different machine, and this is one of the reasons I'm playing the Steam version and not the standalone version.

Good to know is the link ...

It's probably not entirely impossible to port Factorio to Android, because the hardware abstraction library used is SDL, and SDL is available for Android. However, I guess a touch interface isn't what Factorio was designed for. Given all the interactions with the map, it's like trying to manufacture ...

Doing it backwards and computing destinations isn't feasible, because it's too complex for no benefit. Too many edge cases. The game engine doesn't properly support this.

Having one universal unloading station with a sorting facility behind is a bottleneck, because it doesn't scale. It can unload ...

The issue is , I can't get to think of how to send mixed type trains requester signals

This is where everyone fails, because the Factorio engine doesn't really support this. Especially it doesn't support keeping a depot of empty trains, and if demand arises sending an empty train to a loading ...

It's difficult to give advice for interrupts if we don't know your intended train design. An interrupt driven design usually starts with one static schedule entry for a station the train will always visit as default. At start any train is empty, so the static entry is usually one that will load ...

I just loaded my modded big save without any mods in 2.0.66 Windows and a bunch of achievements unlocked retroactively on Steam after loading finished.
I guess that's not right - a modded save should be marked as modded forever and never unlock Steam achievements again.

What I did:
Yesterday ...

As far as I remember, the chunks need to be uncovered if you force place a blueprint and want automatic deconstruction to happen. For any hidden chunk, ghosts that would collide with obstacles aren't placed and no obstacles aren't marked for deconstruction. This will happen for parts of the ...

If I upgrade my tileable 2x6 setup to legendary reactors, heat exchangers, pumps and steam turbines with an upgrade plan, no other changes except setting the control so the reactors heat up to 1000°C, I'm not able to get 100% output. But not much less.

A single tile (4.4 GW) toggles between 4.3 and ...