In my experience the challenge associated with sulfuric acid lies not in the logistics of transporting it to where it needs to be but, rather, in (1) creating compact builds for items which use sulfuric acid, namely, processing units which benefit greatly from productivity modules + speed beacons an...

Thanks! I have 177 hours of game-time on that save using the "/time" command. The majority of the first 100 hours was spent at 60 UPS and the majority of the remainder was at 45+ UPS - it really only dropped to ~20 UPS once I had all science production going at the rate shown in my origina...

I cannot even think of any megabase designs that would involve exploiting the "OP" nature of compressed blue belts of barrels... I think this is along the same lines as creating "super dense" belts by placing cars on belts. It has limited practical applications. I would love to s...

I think barrels are not in need of a nerf. There are factors to consider other than space-efficiency. Let us do a like-for-like cost comparison of the two systems. I set up a test world with two setups to compare barrels vs. fluid wagons. In the first setup, a 2-4-2 train with fluid wagons delivers ...

It does. In fact, even if you quit out of a game and then immediately go to start a new game, the settings are saved. It may not appear that way because "Default" will always get highlighted in the first tab in this situation, but if you go to the next tabs with ore size/frequency settings...

If vanilla had a way to artificially create canals like we can do landfill it'd be a nonissue, you could just plan pumps somewhere as in your screenshot. That'd be my preferred solution but it's just... not possible at present. Also, heat propagation from the reactors becomes an issue. At 32 distan...

Many people play with mods, which end up disabling Steam achievements. Not sure how representative these figures are as a whole.

How are matter duplicators used? I tried a couple different arrangements of belts/inserters but couldn't find any configurations that did anything. I'm probably missing something obvious. Drop an item on the belt and watch it duplicates. :) It was designed to duplicate items inside chests, before t...

Interesting, how much energy is retained by your heat pipe setup?

Not possible AFAIK for construction network. I would also love this feature. Logistic network does report negative values but I don't think it shows a persistent negative value if something is out of stock.

Yeah, I have never "run out" of any resource. More important to me is time/pain of setup and I prefer placing a blueprint of mining drills on a coal patch than I do laying down the piping for new pumpjacks. The patches in vanilla can also get quite rich - a 40m patch of coal will last a wh...

I am still coming to terms with the new longer underground belts. But here's a new way to use blues for unloading Are those three blue belts compressed/saturated? I didn't think twelve stack inserters could keep up. Also, your bottom chests are going to all empty faster than your tops, I think. The...

I am still coming to terms with the new longer underground belts. But here's a new way to use blues for unloading:

How are matter duplicators used? I tried a couple different arrangements of belts/inserters but couldn't find any configurations that did anything. I'm probably missing something obvious.

I thought it was just forbidden for anything that you place on the map, because of the whole "You can't build half an inserter" thing. Not that its hardcoded or anything, but that was the impression I got. I mean, otherwise why can we use it in the rocket? Not sure what you mean. We can't...

also, these three signals can be rail signals, in case folks are still using this version of the intersection. just need to leave sufficient space until the following rail signal. Your signals are in the wrong order. Your chains should be regular and your regular should be chains except for those c...

Many items are 0.5s to benefit hand crafting. If you make it 3+ seconds each then that makes better sense for automation, but would be really annoying for hand crafting. While this game is about automation on the whole, you will still often need/want to craft items by hand on occasion and certain o...

I like this configuration of heat pipes/heat exchangers very much; also, the conservative pipe budgeting for water/steam is usually a good idea in practice. I suspect that folks will likely use their own preferred setups for the central controller, depending on whether they want it to be belt-based ...

Here's a setup for a belt system that (1) ensures zero waste, (2) inserts only one fuel cell at a time and (3) checks that all reactors have fuel available before inserting. It basically just checks the belt-tiles that the input inserters are picking up from and makes sure that they are full (for si...

Here is how I have the combinators setup atm - you might be able to simplify further. Regarding the power connections. Shift-clicking on a power pole once disconnects all copper wires (which can be readded in specific spots using the copper wire from the crafting menu). Also, the only part of the n...