Are you open to allowing other programmers to help out with production? I'd be willing to take on whatever tasks you felt like shunting and am familiar with good practices, following code style, github/PRs, etc. Totally understand if not, I just want to see this mod grow to its fullest potential &a...

I feel like I'm dumb. Can't you do this with a single combinator? Wire output back to input. That's how I've always done it.

I'm 99% sure this exists.

Definitely support, I've been thinking about making a simple valve mod.

Are you open to allowing other programmers to help out with production? I'd be willing to take on whatever tasks you felt like shunting and am familiar with good practices, following code style, github/PRs, etc. Totally understand if not, I just want to see this mod grow to its fullest potential &am...

The modding community is stronger than every. Do a vanilla rocket, then try Industrial Revolution or one of the other big mods. They're getting to practically be games of their own.

So https://calculatorio.com/train_acceleration/ is accurate then? I've been thinking of forking that and adding some graphs around throughput, speed curve, time to travel X distance etc I had been putting it off but https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/dktywi/maximizing_trains_with_spreadsheet...

Loved the first part. Only complaint is that my first map didn't have iron anywhere remotely close to my base - after walking for a while I eventually had to turn on cheats, clear a 1500 radius on the map and only then found some at the very edge, behind biter bases. Maybe resource generation should...

You can use the circuit network to turn the roboport off/on and detect enemies in range by oil consumption from the flamethrower.

While we're tweaking flamethrowers can we increase their min range and make flames not kill landmines? Make landmines actually feasible.

A tileable/blueprintable reactor means finding the surroundings too, related to the 300 wide tile comment. I've seen some reactors normally built on lakes so the water pumps go to the heat exchangers with no pipes, but I don't know if you can auto-landfill under everything else. Non-lake reactors a...

My biggest game has two separate nuclear plants because I don't copy blueprints and didn't want to mess things up while I added more reactors and stuff. After 2x3 the average return per additional reactors is poor and gets poorer, so I only imagine by culture or by "must be infinitely tileable...

While we're tweaking flamethrowers can we increase their min range and make flames not kill landmines? Make landmines actually feasible. I don't think flamethrowers will ever consume a significant amount of oil but at least they should consume enough that you have to actually fuel them. Right now yo...

Maybe if efficiency could still go in beacons? To what end, though? There's no point now because of the beacon energy use, and the space the beacons waste is not really desirable even if that was re-tuned, since power's pretty cheap all told. Yeah. I still hate that despite the power increases, a p...

Don't want to pull off-topic from OP. A big complication with what's wanted here is not only do you need to watch a signal, you need to know which arm is active. That's an individual latch+power switch for each arm if switching power (two dimensions of information). Belt readers might be useful. If...

Beacons do much the same thing. I adore the space and resource efficiency they give over the long term, but the endless beacon ribbons are just irritating. Sure, there's the challenges of engineering the belts to drive them -- I'm pretty proud of my red circuit build -- but they're much more constr...

I'd love to see a "wheels!" module - 2x2 or exoskele sized - that:

1. Gives belt immunity
2. Increases the player's top speed, but gives them momentum (like a car)
3. Allows the player to run on train tracks for even higher top speed (I'm a train, yo)

alternatively, dont play belts. +1 for bots! :lol: Glugh, bots. They're so good they feel like cheating and they give pretty much every assembly layout a serious case of same-face. :( This is exactly why I hate bots. For all the intricacies of the early game, you unlock bots and then factorio feels...

I put eff1 modules in almost everything until it's ready for prod3 + beacons. Miners to reduce pollution in addition to electrical burden. Anything over 90kw gets 2, and over 120kw or so gets 3, since they're cheaper than a solar panel. I sphaget until it's time for prod3 + beacons. I space my miner...

Not that guy, but I never thought about a brownout alarm and then switch to back-up steam. Normally one compares steam engines and tanks vs accumulators for early storage, but steam turbines and tanks would be exceedingly efficient for late storage (2.425 GJ and 5.82 MW deliverable). Never ran out ...

I explained 2-gap earlier. In the context of nuclear reactors it's a pretty straightforward concept - 2 tiles from reactor to the start of the first heat exchanger. You need this in order to have decently compact reactors without using a ton of pumps because steam starts to overrun pipe throughput....