The F5 key debug overlays show a lot of information, most of it not actually related to pollution cloud itself. If you want understand+use debug overlays I instead recommend pressing the F4 key and try each of them one by one reading it's name description each time to familiarize yourself with them....

So it would seem you are transporting all materials by car and putting them in chests? That's a lot of manual labor There are two options: Have just a handful of mining drills to avoid pollution from ever reaching biters Place as many mining drills as possible and gather resources as quickly as pos...

That is quite interesting, if I had to take a guess on how you did this I'd say you would turn off your factory every now and then and wait for the pollution to be absorbed by the trees. You should also consider using efficiency modules, cuz they reduce pollution generation up to 80% and I can see ...

I wouldn't say deathworld biters are trivial to deal with. But yeah with this they are a whole lot easier Deathworld you say? I'd like to present to you my Pacifist Deathworld run so far (pacifist = not allowed to kill biters): Screenshot_2020-11-25_11-18-18.png Screenshot_2020-11-25_11-18-31.png S...

It's all in the map seed. ;) For example this map gives you around 50 minutes before the even the first attack, and that's while filling the iron, copper and stone to the brim with electric miners. Note that those three large scary bases in the middle of the forest mostly don't spawn, only one spawn...

I don't see it that way. Wiping out all nearby nests will drastically decrease the size and frequency of biter attacks on your base so you can get away with weaker defenses. So I see it as an investment - I spend some time clearing nests so that I don't have to be constantly replacing turrets and a...

Small biters are just super easy to cheese, and I don't think that's unintentional either. Anyway, clearing bases is just half of the equation. You kinda have to defend that territory or biters will just expand right back into it. Specially since clearing many spawners drives up evolution meaning bi...

Here's what happens: Biters form a group A path is calculated from the group towards the pollution source If at any point in time any member of the group is blocked from reaching it's destination by a destroyable entity then a portion of the group will enter "attack everything" mode Once m...

I've made a bunch of synthetic tests UPS tests: Start with an empty map, place a large number of active entities until UPS starts to drop bellow 60 (on my PC, Ryzen 3900x, DDR4 RAM 3200MHz CL16): Assemblers+inserters = 24k assemblers + 58k inserters feeding them Belts = 100k active belt lanes. Sever...

Put a train stop on both tracks if you want to prevent that behavior. The extra train stop doesn't need to be configured or added to any train schedule, it just needs to be there.

Remove and replace the inserter, connect it with red wire and set the condition again.

VANILLA: The game is released. There won't be any more major changes like "oil overhaul". At worst maybe some designs that rely on very specific internal Factorio behavior could break. MODS: In general all mods can be removed and save file will remain "playable". How playable dep...

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Thu Nov 05, 2020 5:52 am

like the L key shows a dropdown of all of them

Which is kinda a mess because "Network #6 - 21 cells" doesn't quite tell which one it is or where it is located.

Why is there not hotkey for this menu? I'm so confused right now. Which electric network would the hotkey open? While there's usually just one network, there can be many different ones. Clicking on a power pole specifies which electric network to inspect, because each power pole can only belong to ...

This actually does not work for electric networks because they can intersect one another without connecting. Intersections are rare enough. It even more rare to have many networks overlaying each other. And if a player intentionally has too many electrical networks overlaying each other for the amo...

How do you decide which network get a different color, which ones get the same color ? (I assume we don't go with infinite color palette) Only five colors would work fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_color_theorem And while we are at it: Fluid networks should be shown on the map with a simil...

It only needs to be big enough for a fish to fit in.

But the counter keeps on going, it would be good if I could figure out a better timer or something that stops at 60k etc. Any solutions? Let it count forever. The max possible value for a signal is 2147483647. At 60 per second it will take 1.14 years of running continuously for it to finally overfl...

This works if the value changes rapidly. But Im trying to monitor accumulators. The values are pretty static, so I need to know whether its been increasing/decreasing over a period of several ticks. As mentioned by DaveMcW the easiest way to convert a varying signal into a signal which represents t...

Using a simple SR latch is the right way to go. What you need to do is to modify the SET and RESET conditions to react to the accumulator charging/discharging, regardless of the actual charge level. Converting a varying signal into a rate of change signal can be done with an arithmetic combinator an...