TL;DR Lamp optimization; change them to work entirely like solar panels to further reduce their performance impact, adjust visuals slightly to accomodate. Note : This suggestion applies to normal, non-circuited lamps only. Circuited lamps can't be optimized as I am about to suggest and should remai...

Tl;Dr: does LTN offer a way to automatically filter wagon slots for each delivery? This would be useful, but I can't find any documentation about it. Long version: I recently learned that LTN can do mixed item-type trains, as well as partially filling trains. This is handy in some cases, but also tr...

Going to break this up a bit so I can respond more easily without a wall of text. To add a special behavior for when the chest contains all of the same simple item and stored compactly, you would need to add (in my estimation): 1. A 2-byte field with the index of the first non-full slot, or 0 if the...

First of all, thank you for this great explanation. Most of it I did know, but you showed me some new aspects. How long did it take to make this post? The subject is interesting. Second: when shrinked to only one item type, this looks like a real improvement. But I can’t be sure, because in general...

This is a typical case, where adding an index would make things faster. In special cases. 8-) A) don’t you think the last slot of a chest isn’t already cached? Why? :roll: B) general usage of index would lead to a very big index compared to the slots if there are many different things in a chest. S...

Have containers store two additional numbers: last index of item inserted and last index of item removed. Start iterating item insertion/removal from those, respectively. If a player or other thing that doesn't play by the 'rules' (iterates from start/end) touches the container, reset the counters....

Long story short, I strongly prefer to play with the Spidertron Engineer mod, which basically replaces your character with a spidertron. It does this by locking you inside a spidertron, and disabling all armor, gun, etc recipes so that the spidertron effectively is your character instead. As such, i...

Ah, alright, thank you for clearing that up. It's a very minor issue anyway, I was mainly reporting it on the behalf of a friend who was jokingly complaining about it. Edit: Though, wouldn't it make sense to have that linkage always vanish when a adjacent wall is removed? There's no way in normal ga...

Stone walls will visually link to adjacent water tiles, similarly to how they link to adjacent walls. However, when this adjacent water tile is removed using landfill, the visual linkage remains and will not disappear until the wall itself is removed and replaced. See video below for demonstration. ...

Possible issue, ultimate inserters of all types have 40 health on the latest version. Seems like since the trend is better building = faster + more health + more power consumption, they should probably have more health than fast/stack inserters (which have 150/160 respectively). Maybe it was a typo,...

I know this supports Bob's faster belts, but does it also support the faster belts from https://mods.factorio.com/mod/UltimateBelts?

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Yknow that always kind of bugged me... shouldn't gas vents produce a lot of pollution? ATM they barely produce any at all, while theoretically venting enormous quantities of sulfur dioxide, hydrogen, even just nitrogen would be bad for the enviroment. if it's anything like earth, the important part...

Yknow that always kind of bugged me... shouldn't gas vents produce a lot of pollution? ATM they barely produce any at all, while theoretically venting enormous quantities of sulfur dioxide, hydrogen, even just nitrogen would be bad for the enviroment.

If anyone really wants to return to the old resin ratio while Angel is deciding how to handle it, open angelspetrochem.zip/prototypes/petrochem-override.lua with a text editor, and delete this on lines 74-77: { name = "bob-resin-wood", energy_required = 5, ingredients = { { name = "ra...

Also, resin is produced from raw wood. Raw wood cannot be produced outside of greenhouses, algae can only make processed wood, and even then you need methane to do it. Edit: you COULD go methanol>formaldehyde>resin, but that requires green catalysts, so silver and aluminum ore. Not early game by any...

Increasing the temperature would only increase the power generation rate and the power density of storage tanks. Steam engines always consume steam efficiently, if it's under-temp they produce less or consume more, if its over-temp they consume less. Paragraph from the factorio wiki Seems you didn'...

From a balance standpoint I really don't see the need for it either. You aren't going to use a ton of electric boilers, and they also already produce pollution in that they require electricity which usually produces pollution. And a machine producing pollution isn't really a consistent balance mech...

I have to say, i agree that boilers creating pollution doesn't make sense. "Pollution" is a catchall term/mechanic used for any kind of industrial waste, from CO2 to machining waste to physical enviromental damage from digging up ores. Most pollution pretty much makes sense, assembly machi...

Also recipes that require copper cables do not work automatically now in latest update angelssmelting_0.3.8.zip and angelsrefining_0.7.23.zip that I updated today. I can confirm this: http://imgur.com/h9gGttd.jpg I added an extra variable for that, so the game wont use the recipe to calculate craft...