Hi all. I'm deciding between Factory planner and Helmod. Which one is better? Are there any significant differences?

Changes Removed the utility slots (to create blueprint, book etc) from blueprint library as it is now available directly through quick tools menu. But wait, the shortcut bar actions to work with blueprints (create book, for example) is available only if Construction robotics technology is opened. W...

I don't know if this has been said but randomized ores have 1 major disadvantage: If belts aren't completely packed but for, say 90%, then this is almost impossible to spot because you cannot see the distance between ores anymore. You could at least read the post before yours. You sound like a trol...

I don't know if this has been said but randomized ores have 1 major disadvantage:

If belts aren't completely packed but for, say 90%, then this is almost impossible to spot because you cannot see the distance between ores anymore.

This reminds me of the 6 stages of debugging: 1 That can’t happen. 2 That doesn’t happen on my machine. 3 That shouldn’t happen. 4 Why does that happen? 5 Oh, I see. 6 How did that ever work? 7 Now it's working. Why the hell is it working? 8 Whatever. Push. 9 Opps. That broke something else. 10 GOT...

Crashing on dereferencing null? Add a null check This is my life. I should let every collegue of mine read this. This is literally what happened to me a few weeks ago except that some other programmer before me didn't have his 'smart part of their brain' light up and simply added a null-check, kill...

I added a new blueprint to an old blueprint book (which I made in 0.16.xx somewhere). Then I noticed that the tooltip that appears when hovering over the blueprint book in the quickbar isn't updated. It isn't showing the new blueprint. The blueprint book was already in the quickbar before adding the...

Rakshasa wrote: ↑Sun Feb 10, 2019 2:20 pm Your factory is built big like it handles high volumes, yet you are using miniature cuck-trains?

Oh this is quite normal. I'm not sure what the idea behind it is but I know it's not uncommon, even for mega bases.

Hahaha I love it!
Ultimate chaos at the 'core' there. There is barely any structure discernable.

I always build so orderly... its almost boring

Any numbers on rockets/min or spm?

D*cks? I only see boobs, a belly and a mons pubis.

Collision gets very expensive very fast: - Pick a bot - Move it - Did I hit bot 1? No. - Did I hit bot 2? No. ... - Did I hit bot 230301? yes! - Well golly gee I guess I'll back up a bit - wait a minute I hit another bot! - Welp Those CPU cycles add up fast. Seems like you haven't read about Quadtr...

Zavian wrote:That is still much slower than no collision check.

As long as it is not problematic... it has the potential to solve the entire bots vs belts issue so there is a lot to gain here.

dood wrote:Has been suggested many times, not going to happen for performance reasons.

I added some suggestions for this as well in my post.

EDIT: ah, hahaha. I see what the major performance hit is. The actual collision check. Well then you might use things like quad-trees to speed this up.

After reading the FFF about belts vs bots I had an idea. I always thought it was strange that you can have a thousand bots on the exact same spot. This, in essence, makes them so good. My idea is twofold: 1. Give bots (only logistics bots) a small hitbox specific for airborne things (they cannot col...

If you have a power armor, put energy shields mk1 or better mk2 in it and get yourself a flame thrower. and then KILL THEM WITH FIRE :D Agreed! In addition: use exoskeletons (3-5) to kite the biters. This is how I do it. Or just, you know, use turret creep (put turrets closer and closer to the nest...

Is this a serious question? In that case: what are you hoping to hear from us? This is game is about, besides having fun, setting your own goals. So what do you want to achieve? Maybe we can think about the best way to reach a certain goal. Edit: Btw, welcome! I saw that you joined yesterday. This g...

Interesting! Intuitively it feels like too many beacons, what is the ratio of refineries per beacon? Wouldn't it be more efficient to put in more refineries and fewer beacons, or is that more difficult to tile? I'm not sure what you mean by too many. Do you mean that with more refineries you would ...

Very well done sir! I like your base very much. Trains might even have a much higher throughput than belts do.

Refinery builds always seem so chuncky to me so I decided to design a setup that is compact and has a lot of beacons to be more space efficient in terms of refining capacity per tile. It is also tileable in both directions. It has one input pipe for water and oil per column and it has 1 output pipe ...

You're using a mod that reduces the collision box size of the tree and the solar panel. Remove those mods if you don't want that to happen. Thanks for the quick reply. To be clear. This did not happen before (as you can see from the older parts of my solar field). Something did change in the intera...