Hello. I've hosted servers for Factorio as soon as I could as my friends and I were keen to play it together. Locally hosted, directly connected games work fine, as do dedicated games that you connect to with a direct IP. With 0.14 (or was it in 0.13?) the Server Browser was a nice addition. I never...

Tried to sum it up in the subject. I hate the limited stack sizes in my inventory but I find they're very balanced in chests and other inventories. Is there a way to increase the stack size in the player inventory by a multiple of, let's say, 10? But keep stack sizes vanilla for chests, trains, etc?...

DaveMcW wrote:This thread has a collection of many ways to do it: viewtopic.php?f=193&t=19825

Thank you. I think I can figure out how to adapt those to my uses. Perhaps I can learn how it works too!

Hi all! I'm curious as to how to count items with the circuit network, then display it in the world so that I can see at a glance how many items I have. The purpose is for my train stations so that I can see there's 20k iron ore in the buffer or none and know that I need more. I've a basic understan...

Minor bug: Some mod I've got adds research that only uses red and green, however, it depends on a research that requires blue. It appears in the list when I've only got red and green selected but when I choose it, it queues up the research that requires blue. Other than that, it's an amazingly usefu...

Extra fast smart inserters aren't fully smart. I can add a filter so they only take specific items, but I cannot connect a logistics wire or set circuit/logistic configurations. I'm running 3.0.0 automatisation but according to its changelog, that doesn't exist: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic...

Optimal Energy layouts? I've been using one or two 5dim modules for some time but I decided to add a couple of the others for my current save. One of those was the Energy module and I'm now curious as to the optimal layouts for the higher tier boilers, pumps and steam engines. With vanilla, it's 1 ...

If you'd be keen to run a few mods, I have a server running. It's currently got an ~ 100 hour save on it, but I'd happily start fresh if you want to.

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Hello! I've got a dedicated server that a couple of friends and myself use but would like to get some more players to help build (and design) the mega-base we're planning on building. I host Teamspeak 3 for anyone that wants to use that for communication on the server too. It's already at a decent s...

At least for a double rail, high speed track, I actually found roundabouts working quite well: circle.png During peaks, I actually have 3 or 4 trains passing through it simultaneously, and not a single lock ever. It also signals far enough ahead to ensure that trains will at most have to slow down ...

I've always loved having a few exoskeletons in my armour to allow me to go significantly faster, but I've recently added a mod that provides significantly upgraded versions of the exoskeleton. These allow you to run as fast as a train - which I do think is a bit much but it's so ridiculous that I'm ...

I really don't like the idea of the stack size bonus being removed for "old" inserters. I don't see mention of rapid inserters working from chest > chest (and machines, too) - would they be able to transfer any number of items up to their max from one inventory directly to another or is th...

Well, you can just make the junction wider rather than the entire line, although yeah, lots of space between to accommodate the curves and signals... I do really hope they get round to making proper path signals and more compact s-bends... We can dream, eh? 0.13 is supposed to be a big overhaul of ...

-snip- Following your example as a guide and walking through it step by step in my head, I think I've come into a bit of an issue. With the tracks laid as closely as they are on my lines, there is no space to place all of the signals because of how picky they are with placement. I can increase the ...

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That was my intended flow of traffic. Clearly I don't quite understand these signals as well as I hoped.

Thank you very much for your help. I shall now go and watch MORE tutorials on signals. Haha!

The problem I see there is that with Factorio's lack of path signalling (see OpenTTD), that in several places 2 parallel lines are in a single signal block, and in the middle 3 of 4 lines are, plus both junction lines (so 5/6 total). This means that if you have trains running next to each other (sa...

Hi all, I've always built my trains with roundabouts as that's the way that makes sense in my head, but I've seen very few Youtubers use any loops - in fact, they're all strongly against it... Especially so in mega-bases which is what I'm beginning a build of in my current save. For that reason, I'v...

http://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-133 (last paragraph) Ah, excellent. They don't mention fluids, but it's good to see that they've pre-empted my request. Is that feature already implemented in on of the experimental builds? I'm running 0.12.31 and I'm not seeing a way to check other items. I've...

Hello! I'd quite like two features of statistics that I don't see mentioned elsewhere (even in this thread: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=19987) to be added. 1. Liquid/Fluid production statistics. I'd like to know how much oil I'm consuming, just like I want to know how much i...

Hello, had the same issue. Now I have a 1 7 5 setup with copper pipes which works but is probably extremely inefficient. Greetings steinio I've done a little bit of testing and looked at the code. As far as I can tell, you require exactly the same amount of Mk2 or Mk3 boilers as you would need of t...