I managed to win second time around by turning off all science (and circuit) production until I had got 4 assemblers producing bullets and belting them to the fronts. I also went big on automating walls. When I then turned science back on, I had no problem with attacks until the end, when my I start...

I was not able to update from 16.51 standalone on Windows 10 and still cannot (no updates available). Have checked experimental updates, login and firewall. Log just shows no updates available at startup, and when checking manually from About menu.

Would anyone be interested in a challenge mod that gives you almost no inventory? As well as no handcrafting, almost all building would have to be done by robots. Planned changes to make this not-quite-so-hideous would be: Inventory would not actually be reduced, but other than a single stack of wha...

Here's an example of how you can use bot management. Belt and inserters for green science made in chests. It requires a fair amount of circuit filtering to manage the level of items in chests. This version has plenty of problems as the chests still tend to overflow with bots if the outputs back up. ...

Thanks for the feedback :) I really appreciate your taking the time to play this. Once the mod portal wakes up I'll have a look at your save, and get to the bottom of that bug. The chest recipes are balanced around having at least 20 stacks of bots. It uses 1/10th of an assembler each time the chest...

How far along in terms of science are you? Look at the new bot related techs. There is Assemblybot production mode which consumes a bot and gives you a production boost. Make sure you have access to the next level of science as you will need it to switch back. Or you could go for the other modes whi...

I've been wrestling with the new prototypes while updating my Assemblybots mod. I thought I'd share some things I've found and seek clarification on some other things. First up, some (but not all) recipes now have their ingredients and results under recipe.normal and recipe.expensive. Some recipes n...

As for a workaround, have a look at the Blueprint Printer portion of Recursive Blueprints . I did it the hard way and just ran all of crafting for that machine in script, but you can also let it run normally and just check it's progress every tick. Thanks. I wasn't aware of entity.crafting_progress...

Would it be possible to have the event fire only for particular entities? Maybe a flag that defaults false? I understand that we don't want some part of the api to lag the vanilla game, but mods always have to trade potential performance for complexity. I would have thought doing this in a specific ...

Can we please have an event which is raised when an entity of type assembling-machine completes a craft? If anyone can point me to a mod that has a good workaround for this, that would be great. What I want to do is replace the entity, or change its recipe when crafting finishes. An example would be...

Shameless plug for my new mod Assemblybots https://mods.factorio.com/mods/antichaos/assemblybots This adds an extra input and 2 extra outputs to every non-smelting recipe. It feels like a very different challenge and requires a whole new set of layouts. Plus, the self replicating bots have to be man...

Here's a screenshot of my test Red and Green science setup - main bus style. It's spaghetti-mania and far from optimal. Filter inserters everywhere, and no buffer chests because, well - you should try it for yourself.

This mod is for those looking for a new layout challenge, without having to learn loads of new recipes. It also does some things with technology that I hope are rather innovative. Plus, surprises! - Every (non-smelting) recipe require an assembly bot. This depletes the bot, which then has to be rech...

What's worse than being stranded on a planet infested with ravenous beasts, with only a few bits of iron and the ability to craft universal assembly machines with your bare hands? Being forced to build those machines in accordance with strict and awkward layout rules! Actually it's a lot more fun th...

Is there a way I can activate this on an existing game I'm already an hour into?

Actually what I was going for was having machines create scrap as a byproduct, but the only way to get rid of scrap is by feeding it into some kind of reprocessing machine which produces an huge amount of pollution. This forces you to build differently, but gives you the chance to choose where the m...

I'm pondering a mod with some extra limitations to provide some different building challenges. One of the main things I would want to do is have some items which cannot be put in any kind of chest,though can be put into machines. Filter inserters are obviously capable of not loading a chest based on...

Here's an idea to play with, assuming it's possible. Alien assemblers spawn only within alien bases and cannot be built by the player (themselves or in any machine). These are the only places where you can assemble items that currently require alien artifacts. There are several potentially interesti...

Yeah, I read the first few posts in that thread when I was checking to see if my idea existed, but didn't see your idea on the second page. I think what I'm suggesting here is a bit simpler and more generic and flexible. The assembly platform doesn't need to be told what it is going to build like as...

This is an idea for a new way of producing late game items in a way that is challenging in a more interesting way, ie needing to create a precise and efficient assembly line, rather than just requiring vast amounts of materials. You have a new object called the assembly platform. When placed on a be...