I think I am officially giving up. After two days of testing I cannot get a machine to only change recipe after two crafts. Any infinitesimally small progress for even a single tick causes a machine to be locked into its recipe preventing me from switching it. Its a bigger footprint and costs more q...

I have been trying to adapt StupidFatHobbit's https://factoriobin.com/post/2ll3ll Casino quality gambling blueprints to take advantage of the innate 50% bonus production present in most of the machines. To do this I have been trying to make sure things only craft in batches of two via reading having...

did you forget that electric poles don’t match the tiling grid? Big electric poles are being changed to match the grid / extended to have 32 tiles of range. They mentioned that way back with the rail changes in https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-377 Unless they backtracked this change somewhere alo...

This Is going to make huge defense walls with flamethrower turrets much more expensive to run and set up. Not only do we need power for the pumps to keep all the flamethrower turrets supplied at all, but now I'll have to use pumps where, as it stands now, I don't have to use any. A simple requester ...