Setup is pretty big, but I don't think it is a problem.
In terms of ingredients, this recipe is perfect.

P.S. And I can't tell the same about Purple science recipe, I don't like it's components. My thread about it : viewtopic.php?t=65846

+1. Interesting links

More than meets the eye...

Entire map is generated from a single seed number. Per-component randomization will over-complicate seeding system.

Hello. I'm experimenting with tiles, and currently trying to make basic landfill to work only on normal water, but now on deep water. I found a solution I don't really like : extend Deepwater's collision mask with some unused "layer-##" to differentiate collisions with normal and deep wate...

Ah, yeah, IIRC devs said that tying all of the researches to their respective science packs would make the tree "too messy"... Maybe it's better for it to be messy, rather than confusing people like this ? Yes. Definitely. Absolutely. Every day it annoys me more and more. I initially did ...

I like the concept to have robots in this slot. Actually, I even suggested same thing)
I don't know about Robot Stacker, it feels redundant. I would prefer just to have all 600 bots in one cell. But it is a technical question, developers will decide how to make at.

I suggest the upgrade rather replacement. Currently, refined concrete is redundant. It doesn't require new ingredients or new tech. It is just better then regular concrete. More expensive, but who cares? Does anyone use regular concrete as pathing? Logically, regular concrete must be used as pathin...

As I'm doing my first steps in Factorio modding, I want to add some basic materials, for example Fluorine and Aluminum. They interact in various interesting ways with each other and with already implemented materials. I've read how are these elements (and many others) produced in real life, and almo...

It's doing the tree thing using surface tension and creating a vacuum at the top by evaporating water at the top. At a slow and steady 1200l/s. Ok, maybe not. How do belts work? They have no power source and yet they move. Not everything is explained. Belts are the core game-forming mechanic, neces...

TL;DR Replace or upgrade refined concrete with sulfur concrete. What ? Just found this material on Wiki : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_concrete Actually, it doesn't use some components of common concrete, but in terms of game it could be concrete+sulfur. Why ? More dependencies between exis...

I forgot to mention one very important thing : multiplicative stacking will be absolutely broken with beacons. Beacons should be removed.

Numbers from Wiki : Water heating : 4.1806 kJ/(kg*K) Steam heating : 2.0784 kJ/(kg*K) Water vaporization : 2260 kJ/kg Iron heating : 0.449 kJ/(kg*K) Iron smelting : 277 kJ/kg Iron smelting temperature : 1539 C Copper heating : 0.385 kJ/(kg*K) Copper smelting : 213 kJ/kg Copper smelting temperature :...

"How productivity module can optimize that?" How can they create anything from nothing? They just do. We either accept it as a processing refinement or magic :P I always thought of it as making higher quality materials. Honeycombing, Miniaturization, and so on. Circuits are smaller and so...

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 06, 2019 2:12 pm

Whoa!
Both starting from room temperature though, or just for the heat of vaporization/melting ?

Both starting from room temperature and ignoring energy losses. Converting 100C water into 100C steam requires suddenly huge amount of energy. I can give exact numbers when I get home.

BlueTemplar wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:14 pm

Nor there is in Factorio any "real" phase change.

Recently, when I've decided to check fuel consumption rates, it came as a big surprise for me that to vaporize 1kg of water takes ~3 times more energy then to melt 1kg of iron. (if my calculations were correct)

What about Heat Pipes ? I guess that you plan to keep their temperature in the game ? (Since they don't interact with other fluids, and are, AFAIK, computationally simpler...) I wonder if most of the interesting temperature-related modding ideas couldn't be done using them? (Probably not , just bra...

September 2015... Bump
Vote for multiplicative stacking.

Oh, sorry about confusion with Fuel, I messed up a little. Actually I'm not sure about Nuclear Fuel. I don't think it's an assembling, more like materials mixing... May be chemical plant? By cyclic process I meant U238 -> Power Cell -> U238. Power Cell is just a mix of U235 and U238 in the right pro...

1 is a minor but reasonable change. For me it is oddly to load iron into centrifuge. 2 will break any cyclic processing, so I don't support it. In another topic (https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=64606) I suggested to distinguish a new category of items - materials, and forbid usage of pro...