I'm running a very small plant, no more than one machine of each type. It's always active. But I'm using belts, not bots, and it is very easy to starve one of the cycles. Right now, it looks like carbon fiber production has caused me to consume all my spoilage and nutrients. (Or maybe it's rocket ...

I build distributed computer systems for a living, and I deal with "backpressure," etc., regularly. Gleba is tough , far harder than any of the other planets or the base game. And I'm not sure it's tough in a good way.


You have a bunch of loops you need to stabilize: nutrients, bioflux, power ...

Yeah, I did a rail world start, because I like trains.

The nearest cliffs are way out past my most remote mines. There's a huge flat area to build on, mine from, etc.

The only way the cliffs on my map would have been a problem is if I'd tried to build huge city blocks and stackers for dozens of ...

I was seeing an identical error on a heavily modded save file, and removing Factorissimo2 fixed the crash. I was not running railway-painter.

I'm also seeing this PNG error on Ubuntu 17.10. Downgrading to Factorio 0.16.16 manually has fixed things.

I would be really sad to lose my bots. Please don't nerf them.

My major uses of bots:


Construction bots and blueprints. Personally, I find that Factorio without construction bots and blueprints is a lot less fun, at least after the first playthrough. Factorio is all about scalable power and ...

Wow, the Factorio modding API is fun!

I've been having fun working on game-balancing a late-game nuclear tank (see "Nuclear Vehicles" on the mod portal) with a rocket launcher and an equipment grid. And I'd like to do something similar with locomitives: a nuclear-powered, armored locomotive for ...