On a related note, if there are any power-using entities that have been marked for deconstruction along your path, additional power poles will be placed in an attempt to power these entities (even though they are marked for removal!).

Walking while holding down the mouse button with a power pole selected will normally place a series of poles at the maximum connectable distance. However, if there are any existing power poles near your cursor that have been marked for deconstruction, you will not place any new power poles. This was...

The Supply Challenge level 16 and later require components for the old recipe for the Science Pack 3: Advanced Circuits, Batteries, Filter Inserters, and Steel Plates. Since the Electric Drill is now required for blue science, it could be made a requirement as early as level 11 to replace the contin...

@netmc: Don't worry about getting the ratio exact for the Lead Oxide and Advanced Lead machines. As you unlock more techs for higher level chemical plants and multipurpose furnaces, the ratio will swing around a lot. A 1:2 ratio of Oxide to Advanced Lead is good enough for most of the game. The sulf...

I am drowning in Nickel ore! I was wondering if you should make an alternative cement recipe to use Nickel ore vs. Iron Ore, since it's just stones in the cement mix. Give me something to do with all this Nickel I have! :lol: Process the ore into nickel plates and sulfuric acid. Use the acid to pro...

I've found another way the inserter can lock up while inserting items. The allowed overload for assembly machines depends on the machine's speed. The speed bonus provided by beacons is reduced when the beacon is not at 100% electricity. When the speed bonus drops because your power needs are not met...

Compression Chests worked fine in 0.12.12. Upon upgrading to 0.12.13 and loading a 0.12.12 save, I get this error:

But right now I can't have shielding without gold, and I can't get gold without shielding The recipe for module armor is just the vanilla recipe with the red and blue circuits replaced with Bob's circuits. You might have to tweak the recipes yourself. In general, gold is a significant barrier to al...

I just have to note that the config option for "production module restriction" is rather useless, since it restricts you to only vanilla intermediates. I've been imposing the restriction myself by not putting them in any machines making "usable products". That... shouldn't be th...

Also the machines could use a bit of ballancing. Thinking about them in relation to the other machines, I notice you didn't mention electronics machine 3, I'm guessing that it was either underwhealming when compared to an assembly maching 5/6, or that you just didn't make it up that far through the...

I just have to note that the config option for "production module restriction" is rather useless, since it restricts you to only vanilla intermediates. I've been imposing the restriction myself by not putting them in any machines making "usable products".

Some feedback on the 2x2 electronics machines: Pros: - Level 1 is slightly cheaper and faster than Level 2 Assembly Machine - Level 2 is slightly cheaper than and equal in speed to Level 4 Assembly Machine, and comes online at the same time as Level 3 Assembly Machine - Smaller footprint means 50% m...

Excellent. For the record, my modified scenario did break the auto-updater as you said. Upon starting Factorio, the update notification showed me updates for both the base game and the scenario pack. I clicked "Install Updates", it downloaded both update files, and then displayed an error ...

In fact, we should be able to use copper wires to connect any machine to any other machine, so we won't need power poles at all!

While we're on the topic, here's another bug, one where too many points are awarded. This line computes the points to add when a level is completed: control.lua:415 local pointsaddition = math.floor(secondsleft * pointspersecondstart - global.level * pointspersecondlevelsubtract) It should do this t...

kovarex wrote:Did you update the scenario pack?

Yep. It was the first thing I tried.

codewarrior wrote:The error persists after removing the "scenario-pack" folder from Factorio\data and allowing the game to re-download the scenario pack.

Tried it again just now, same problem.

kovarex wrote:But patching it manually breaks the updater, so it shouldn't be done.

If the updater is going to give me a broken scenario again, I'm fine with that.

This patch to control.lua fixes all of the problems I've found with the scenario. Starting a new game, completing levels, loading, and saving all work now. --- scenario-pack/scenarios/supply/control_orig.lua Sun Oct 4 19:21:30 2015 +++ scenario-pack/scenarios/supply/control.lua Sun Oct 4 23:05:04 20...

Attempting to start the Supply Challenge with both the game and scenario pack updated to 0.12.10 produces this error: story bug.png The error persists after removing the "scenario-pack" folder from Factorio\data and allowing the game to re-download the scenario pack. I tried modifying the ...

That looks great! How far did you get with it? It's mostly complete. The graph gives the right amounts of input and output on every node when productivity modules are installed. Regrettably, I had to remove most of your "machine permutations" code to make it work. The "One assembler ...