Use the existing base to make parts for a new base elsewhere, built “better”. THEN tear down the initial base. Don’t tear down a factory without having its replacement already built. Or, if changing modsets, restart. I don’t usually restart unless I’m changing the scenario up a bit, with adding diff...

I could be wrong but I believe that the original kickstarter supporters got the right to submit one name each, and that list is used to make locomotives and train stops. At least we can rename train stops to something more practical but less artistic if desired.

Electric Miners also output directly onto the tile indicated by the Alt-Mode “arrow”. The only inserters needed for burner miners is to input fuel. And that’s assuming you aren’t daisy chaining burner miners on a coal patch (where one mines a coal and puts it into the next burner miner’s fuel invent...

Use of any mods precludes Steam from registering vanilla achievements. Note that some mods may add additional achievements. But these, being modded in, are kept track of elsewhere, not on Steam. There are a few achievements that get disabled if you make biters easier than normal (default). Since tur...

Map generation settings are for when you are creating a game. Inside the game, you basically have two options : guile, and force. Ideally, you would use both. Both revolve around what makes biters attack : nests in the Pollution Cloud, absorbing pollution. Guile would be developing and using Efficie...

Is the balancer you want to use Universal Throughput Unlimited? By that, does it take any number of belts of input and distribute them evenly among any number of belts of output? If yes, then just use the one balancer. If no, AND you need that particular functionality, then simply put two of the bal...

48 heat exchangers needing 103.something water/second each takes a cumulative less than 5000 water/second. With two water supply pipes, you can feed 6000 water/second, but only if you have no more than two entities between each Pump. Typically these two entities are the paired Pipe-to-Ground pieces ...

I’m not following what you are doing here. Train comes in, ID gets read, and what are you trying to do, exactly? Not “what are you doing with circuitry” but “what are you trying to use circuitry to accomplish “?

Yes; but how easy/complicated it is depends on the use of the box. You can connect an alarm to a box with a wire and set the alarm that way. A wooden box holds 1600 Yellow Belts, so you can set the alarm to sound when Yellow Belts >= or just = 1600. But what you cannot do (in vanilla) is set it so t...

When you place awoke pumpjacks, before you connect power to the oil field, connect them all together by logistics wire. Then connect that to a power pole, so you can read the signal. Then divide the signal value by 5. That represents the “floor” to which the field’s output will drop as you draw oil ...

Most commonly, I set up a dedicated boiler or three, fed wood from the logistics network, and the steam engines are on their own separate power grid, and the only thing they power are a bunch of otherwise pointless radars. Radar are fairly high demand entities, that do not require a lot of material...

Generally speaking I prefer to use Passive Provider chests, with the output inserter controlling how much gets put into there based on logistics network contents. Exceptions are for things that are both ingredient, and infrastructure. Yellow belts, regular and fast inserters, etc. These get Buffer C...

Thats one way to do it, but that requires manual action to repeat, rather than setting something up for automation, which is one of the main themes of this game. I like to use the Concreep mod, which if the bot network is provided the stone bricks, concrete, or refined concrete, puts those tiles dow...

Yes and no. To get rid of excess wood, I do one of two things. Most commonly, I set up a dedicated boiler or three, fed wood from the logistics network, and the steam engines are on their own separate power grid, and the only thing they power are a bunch of otherwise pointless radars. Radar are fair...

You can plan for it, but you need to know the terrain to know whether the plan is valid. Do you really want to put a city block down in the middle of a large ocean? You must have “active” radar coverage of a chunk to be able to do anything in that chunk. If you are not averse to mods, then the mod V...

Unless I fat fingered something entering the numbers into my calculator, that setup should produce 10,600 MW (10.6 GW). Since each Heat Exchanger takes in 10 MW of heat, that means you need 1060 HE’s. With it looking like you are pumping water in from elsewhere (as opposed to landfilling in a small ...

Could the train be trying to turn around? I don't know how two-directional trains are allowed to turn, can they drive into a station and reverse out as a way of "turning"? The pathfinder will occasionally do crazy things like route trains through other stations, very rarely (either due to...

In the pic showing the deadlock, it appears the terminal stations are paired up. Between pairs you have Rail Signals on the main line. Changing those to Chain Signals would at least prevent a train from trying to pull in to block the train trying to leave. Beyond that, I have no suggestions to offer...

Train behavior changes when you use Train Stop Limits, compared to Enable/Disable. NEVER combine the two for the same trains. It’s ok to use both in the same game, however, just not with the same trains. Enable/Disable is best with one train and one loading (or unloading) station that is always on (...

Perhaps not strictly necessary, but that entry Chain Signal keeps trains from entering if their desired route is somehow blocked (usually by another train passing through). The Chain Signals in that intersection after that first split serve the same function - not letting the train block anything bu...