Don't know if it's obvious or there are better projects, just wanted to share how I'm using them. And I'm still newbie in Factorio. :) Those are projects considered for using with logistic bots (without any belts). They are simple. They waste fewer resources waiting for a feed into an assembler. Fir...

The non-problem, the one that doesn't exist (lack of space). Ah, that one. Got it. Not really agree with you. Space comes with the cost (quite low in fact, but still...). At least you have to defend your space with more walls and turrets and there are more resources laying on the (longer) belts. An...

1) Is there a way to place modules into buildings without opening the building's UI? Likewise, can I copy the modules from one building and put them in other buildings. It's annoying to place a mix of modules in a large number of buildings. AFAIK you can with construction bots and copy-paste. If yo...

siggboy wrote:What's sad about it is that the space saving does not actually solve a problem. It only looks cool and well engineered.

What problem do you have in mind there?

One per assembler is enough unless you use Assembly Machine 3 and/or speed modules. A Fast Inserter is more than fast enough to feed a blue Assembly Machine with copper plates, even if the cycle time is only 0.5 seconds. Seems so. Still I need additional inserter to take a copper cable out of the r...

searker wrote: That way, i have a complete (playable) backup of my current instance including mods and saves and dont have to worry about any possible errors/corruptions that might occur.

Good to know, thank you. Suppose I will do the same.

Really glad to hear that my understanding is incorrect this time!

As far as I understand, after updating to the version 13, my old savegames will not be playable.

How do you cope with this, people? Do you install new Factorio to another folder or what?

I like this a lot, but it needs fixing in a few places for current Factorio because the build still uses the trick to grab off the end of a belt without the belt actually running that far. Sure. But those fixes are just obvious. Here is my screenshot from 12.35 so far (rotated for my factory and wi...

I like this setup more:

(c) https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comme ... k_compact/

Because it's shorter, it has bigger performance (you can add another 10 labs too) and it's balanced.
And it blows my mind too

DerivePi wrote:For a group of 4 (as shown) - 75 panels to 63 accumulators - 25 to 21

As far as I can see it's 72 panels, not 75, to 61 accumulators.

It's easy enough to use different carriages for different resources. Let's say car #1 for delivery from M to R, and car #2 for delivery from R to M.

So, I don't like the idea of building huge buses and massive production lines. ... Admittedly, my production is slower, but it seems more "legit" to me, and keeps cost and pollution to a min. Conveyors don't add to pollution anyway. Except you'll need little more inserter cycles to load/u...

I wanted to try out a build to make all four sciences in one layout with just the raw materials as inputs (except for petroleum gas) and this is what I came up with: ... I'm using this one (quite old) build from this forum: http://i.imgur.com/pYSFjSN.png It's very compact, totally balanced and simp...

I still don't understand what it's for, why it's this complex, and doubt if it really works anyway.

ssilk wrote:Do you really think, the devs will ever enable to have nice green trees there?

No

But I can ask, can't I?

ssilk wrote:But: If the pollution is too high, the young trees should die.

I'd like to have trees able to grow under any pollution (without decreasing pollution) just for the sake of neatness. And maybe for defense purposes (slowing enemies a little... and let them break my trees).

This is the idea. If biters after dying left something like "lesser artifact", which could be treated in some kind of smelter into "usual artifacts" with a ratio like 100:1 ? There would be more sense in turning "peaceful mode" off. There will appear new designs automat...

I sync my saves to Dropbox from the very beginning Just moved saves to some Dropbox subfolder and made a symbolic link from Factorio saves into that Dropbox subfolder. No sweat. Doing the same thing with all saves from all games for long :) The only "complex" thing is you need a tool to cr...

I second this.
Will use color-blind mod for this too (if such a mod will appear somewhere)