Hmm, now I see that pole connections are preserved in the blueprints (redoing the blueprint with correct connections preserves them on subsequent pastes). I have no idea however why the blueprint was like that, because I never disconnected any poles (and when designing it I made sure specifically fo...

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https://wiki.factorio.com/Prototype/Sel ... le_filters when set to an empty table (={}), along with filter_mode set to "whitelist", results in everything being whitelisted, which is consistent with the filter being nil. An empty whitelist should mean nothing is allowed.

Thank you, this is more than I expected. Definitely covers everything that I can forseeably need.

1. Make `get_connected_rail` also return the connection direction of the returned rail. So for example with the following setup F - front, B - back, [a-z] - identifiers, -> - connection rail(F a B) -> rail(B b F) a.get_connected_rail(defines.rail_direction.back, ...) -> (b, defines.rail_direction.ba...

This appears to be the best possible solution to this bug right now.

I got curious and tried to profile factorio on some 10k spm megabase https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=90233 (thanks for leaving debug symbols in btw, it's the second time they are helpful). I focused on the main thread, and I'm happy to see that belts and trains account for about 10% run...

I got curious and tried to profile factorio on some 10k spm megabase https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=90233 (thanks for leaving debug symbols in btw, it's the second time they are helpful). I focused on the main thread, and I'm happy to see that belts and trains account for about 10% runt...

Thank you for your effort! This thread was really needed. One note, Compressed Multicross can, I think, be tested with unsafe output. Even though the signals on the output lanes are placed closer than train length apart there are no chain signals there. Additional safe output would only be needed if...

Playing PyBlock inevitably leads to placing down a huge amount of simple blueprints that locally produce the most basic products. Many entities are devoted to producing tar, electricity, tailings, saline water, and other basic things. This leads to a significant amount of entities that no one really...

Producer priority is of an issue because the train could repath while being already on route, so for this to work properly train would have to copy this value and keep it when traveling. I guess travelling trains could have the highest priority. Otherwise they could end up stopping anywhere on a re...

MassiveDynamic wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:12 pm

Pretty sure this will be fixed in the next update according to last weeks FFF.

how so?

conn11 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:22 pm

Furthermore, refuelling should be the least problem, given 3 slots for nuclear fuel per locomotive.

3 nuclear fuel is a finite amount

TL;DR Each station in train schedule has "arrival" conditions complenting the currently existing "departure" conditions. What ? Each station in train schedule right now has "departure" conditions. The proposition is to natually extend this to have optional "arriva...

TL;DR Ability to define "producer" and "consumer" station priorities. This outlines the general direction. I expect to have some discussion here on improvements and potential problems that could arise. Note that this feature may not have been considered before because it doesn't...

I think it's possible to do better with soil -> stone -> tar -> copper/iron ore + tailings -> coal-water slurry -> aromatics + benzene -> combustion mixture (with biomass provided by logs made from water and co2). I think it's less buildings and uses less power.

I play factorio with almost silent sounds so I've never noticed this until this thread. Holy hell the new sounds for entities are so harsh. Playing that inserter sound is pure torture.

If compression gets at least *some* help from the base game then an entity that automatically compresses stuff on the transport line is gonna be at least a magnitude faster than a loader -> compressor -> loader

Seems to not measurably affect vanilla, so probably not high priority now before 1.0. I set up furnaces to process iron equivalent to 12k SPM with a primed inserters to make the belts compressed and furnaces to not be saturated (it requires 6.8 per to compress a blue belt lane, I used 7). I benchmar...

That's why this mod exists. Even the in-game option to remove the raw ingredients display doesn't prevent this slowdown in many cases.

Generally I don't like this idea for vanilla game, and most of the points were presented by others in this threads. I would like it however if compression became better in mods, so incidentally I would like it for the base game to give more tools for that to happen. Nevertheless, I have some thought...