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Also, how are you going to split off resources when the belts are that tightly compressed? Doubling up is one thing, but that steel line is going to mess things up when you need to split off copper.

I think that's normal behaviour. It's just where a bit of "heat pressure" was missing in the "heat pipe" while flowing. You get that in fluid lines too... some segments show slightly lower pressure at times. Doesn't seem to affect endpoint performance or throughput. I got a sneak...

... I will be in favor of this only if your character glows green whenever the portable fission reactor is producing power. *sagely nod* [Edit] And yea, a fuel based power generator for your power armor would be nice. Garbage disposal of wood while clearing forests -and- recharge your Lumberjackbots...

Yea, narrow, but not easily expandable that. I usually start with a small, but expandable smelter array (6 or so for iron, 4 for copper) as soon as I got electricity. The Burners by that time are either retired or are chugging some extra metal plates. From those smelters, I run 2 main belts - one wi...

Wait, 2 engines per boiler? Boiler consumes 1.8MW, but is 50% efficient, so should produce 900KW in steam. Which is exactly one steam engine. If water consumption is also 50% efficient, a boiler eats 60/sec in water (steam engines eat 30/sec). Pump produces 1200, so you could do 50 boilers per pump ...

I think Combinators are only evaluated once their inputs change. Might be a good idea to reevaluate on changing their settings too.

hello! Every thing in games uses fuel or electricity to work and my question is WHY the offshore pump doesn't need nothing to work??? This one is a question! " in Factorio 0.15.2 the assembling machines connected to the grid but not producing nothing it is normal they consume energy? like stan...

You can use the "Set filter" option on the Filter inserter. Simply use a Decider Combinator to check the chest content, if the right amount is in the chest, stop outputting the filter for that item (otherwise output that item at the Combinator's exit with value 1). Once there's 10 of each ...

They have factory for bug fixes Indeed. It gets supplied by Bug Reports, so keep those coming if you want it to keep producing ;) Seriously though, reported bugs that are reproducable are usually easy enough to fix. It's the vague bugs that are the real problem. And they did want 0.16 to be the fir...

Then ... I don't see the point of barreling, Tank is 25k fluid, full loaded wagon with barrel is 10k fluid, and a fluid wagon is 75k :D Given the x10 fluid changes, shouldn't a barrel-wagon be up to 100k now? You are right, my bad, forgot about the 10 stack . So barreling is still better for storag...

this would be nice, but a way to fix this is put a filter inserter on the belt line to grab the bad resource off the belt At early game you don't have that (yet), and the starting area is usually where this problem occurs. Besides, then you have to run a second belt or empty the bad resource chest ...

Sometimes you've got two resource fields overlapping. If you slap a mining drill on the edge of a field, it will catch two or more resource types and start to randomly mine both. That can be problematic - you can end up with coal on your ore input, or Copper in your Steel smelter. Please allow a con...

To be honest, this seems more of an issue with the wrong type of producer being used... Heavy oil can be cracked to Light, Light to Petrol. If you only need Heavy Oil for Lube production, use the Coal Liquification method instead. You just need to drag over a barrel of Heavy Oil to get the process s...

I need to pay more attention... that bob's mod game I was running made me miss the releases of 15.0 and 15.1... updating now, gonna snooze and see about building a factory tomorrow. Started a few minutes ago but haven't gotten far (just plopped down my first assemblers to do tier 1 research). At a g...

Arright, tinkered with it and found a relatively simple solution: At loading station (1 wagon wide, we'll use the entire train car for loading which means 10k crude): Flank the station with at least 4 tanks, and flank 2 Assemblers on each side as well to load/unload barrels directly into the assembl...

Ah, you're right. I'm new to mods and got a bit confused with them. Tacked on a bunch of Bobs mods for a new game recently (damn, those mods are Factorio on steroids resource wise...) and the miner was within, so I assumed it was part of it. I guess it's not. Nevertheless, very handy vehicle to have...

This is what I do now to buffer goods. It just takes up a lot of space. 2 player access trains (playing multiplayer), 1 ore loading train, 1 or 2 supply trains (each about 5-7 cargo wagons long, with 2 or 3 engines on it for speed). Each train (except player access) surrounded by an extra 2 blocks ...

Yyea, that miner vehicle I mentioned is an early spike in pollution too. I got destroyed the first time I tried using the mining vehicle as an auxiliary mine without defenses... biters did not like the black clouds it was belching while chewing coal. Chewing wood doesn't seem to cause too much pollu...

Add a chest that literally combines the functionality of a requester and passive provider chest into one. It would behave exactly like both these chests do right now, just in a single chest. The only difference would be that a combo "requester/passive provider chest" would never supply an...

The radiation damage model that a damaged reactor could do is already in the game - it's an area effect centered on self, much like fire. After all, fire is really just infrared radiation that causes things to combust and spread more of it. That AOE could even affect the repair bots that come to rep...