I was mathing out the requirements for the 8 hour speed run, and I needed to know how much oil I could expect from oil fields. Since I couldn't find detailed technical information on how infinite resources work, I decided to experiment myself and then run the numbers. Here's the results for those wh...

Since trying to track down where the files might be located to look at examples quickly becomes a pain Wait a minute, you've made a data loader without finding out 'prototypes' folders in "data/base" \ "data/core" ? The problem is when you have a datatype failure, like expecting...

I'm not entirely sure if this is the best forum for this, but it does seem to be relevant to people here, so I'll post here instead of the Tools forum. I was working on a Python library to help me build Factorio tools (a Factorio tool meta-tool if you will :D ). Loading the information from the Lua ...

If you introduce a possibility to change recipe of assemblers by easy automatic means you will ruin the game. Think, why. I thought why [that would ruin the game]. How, exactly, would this ruin the game? You can build an assembler and two chest besides it: one for input to assembler and one for out...

Weird how many votes timer combinator got, considering you can just add a single decider to a constant combinator to get the same function. I voted for timer not because I wanted a timer (which is so simple and common that it really should be on a list of common combinator gadgets) but because I wa...

The problem with your suggestion (which is not a bad suggestion after all) is that you would have to copy these schedules from train to train, which is tedious and extremely error prone. Shift-click works to copy-paste schedules, last I checked. Doesn't help when you need to rewrite many trains, th...

Wow, you can only select up to 5 options in the poll :cry: I selected the things most important to me (read train contents, control trains, set assembler recipes, arbitrary-delay combinator, and modulo combinator), but there's definitely more stuff I want: * Bitwise combinators (although modulo lets...

I think a tanker car of some kind is overdue. I know there's some mods that add it, but I've had problems with them in the past. One big problem is that you need some way to only unload the tank if some conditions hold; having a NO₂ train unload its cargo into my empty Cl₂ tank because the waiting q...

Main buses are common layouts, but I've found them boring (although they are great at getting large factories up-to-speed quickly). I've seen MangledPork's Factorio Towns series and loved the concept, so I tried to apply rail-based delivery system of my factory. First of course is smelting the ores....

The button to Enable/Disable the mode of operation and just have it report the statistics appears to be broken for inserters--if I try to change it, it doesn't work. I tested it with the fast inserter and the long-handed inserter.