So on one hand that looks cool. On the other hand, it's going to be tough to explain to the player why exactly there should be three separate pipes with hot water in them instead of, say, one. A new player might do cold water -> nuclear plant -> turbine ( -> steam engine to get rid of the water). Th...

Referenced your comment here . Good idea! Ah cool, thanks. (..) so just have to trust they know what they're doing =) Easy enough with the Factorio devs. Oh indeed. I was very impressed with the iterative design process when they introduced loaders, then the initial version of stack inserters, then...

Perhaps the science pack costs has been massive changed since that FF. On another topic. Let's make some ideas to make closed water cycle an option that fits nicely in but can still be completely ignored. Here's mine. Steam turbines are available way before nuclear. You can use them as a more powerf...

Heat pipes are a real thing. Admittedly that's for cooling a CPU, it's ludicrous to hook it up to a power plant. But it works for me to think of it like a magic upscaled Sci fi version. what do the steam engines do in this setup? Turn secondary "cold" water in to motion? The reactor does n...

Mega base builders sometimes complain about how boring it is to stamp down blueprints for a bazillion solar panels. Nuclear power could help a lot there. I'm hoping it as 1%-10% if the physical footprint.

I hope that heat pipes still lose efficiency with distance as was mentioned in FF #164. Alternative idea to meltdown. - Reactors have a ramp up time, they only reach 100% power after maybe three minutes. - If you don't use all the heat, a little bar fills on the reactor. - When it is full, the safet...

I really don't see any reason to care that much about balancing all the chests. Different use case I think. If you generally have the ore belt backed up all the way to the station, and use the station as a buffer so it is often over 1/3 full, then keeping the chest content balanced helps unloading ...

Looking good! I suggest renaming deaths into losses, since I spent two seconds wondering how he got killed fourteen times by construction robots. Two seconds!

Blueprint library will be awesome. My two cents. I'd like the right half to be player and game specific so I can keep things here without sharing with others or my other saves. This could actually just be a huge inventory window, where you can put blueprint *items* and books, but nothing else. On th...

You cannot check this directly, but you can do workarounds. For example. Instead of belt->inserter->chest you want to be full, you can do belt->inserter->other chest->inserter->chest you want to be full. And then you check if the other chest has more than say 15 items in it, because then the chest y...

Trains don't look at distance, they look at signals. That is a very helpful info that makes a lot of sense, that explains why most of time my trains would always chose the far left waiting bay: it's the one with the fewest number of signals. It seems that chain signals are counted differently from ...

I am tempted to say it seems to me that splitter logic must be seriously flawed for this to ever occur. However, I suspect there is something I am overlooking. If someone can express what it is, I would be very interested. Splitters reliably divide inputs into outputs. They do not reliably pull equ...

Engine units in pack 3 is an interesting change. Going to need a lot of assemblers for that! I think I like having science take up some more room. And having to build a whole bunch of assemblers is definitely easier than setting up battery production for the first time. edit: Maybe the logistics cha...

If you completely block off the left ones by removing a piece of rail from each entrance, do the trains go to the right? This is just to rule out that some minor error makes them inaccessible.

Except I find the savings from using a dedicated day-store design to be significant. When you consider a 1/14/10 the "1" is fiddly and the "14" is parts intensive, the 14 is actually 14 boilers, 14 inserters and (perhaps) 14 belts. The 10 is just 10 steam engines. So if you can ...

Then you connect each inserter to their respective chest and the arithmetic combinator output. The inserter check if Everything < 1. Great explanation, thanks. I forgot about the divide by -4 trick. Saw it a few months ago, probably the same post you linked, but not the method I used myself. Oh, an...

Yeah they said they don't consider it a bug which is fair enough, but I'd say it can still be a feature request. I also would prefer if the easy way didn't cost several times more resources. One solution is to make the fill size 2x2 instead of 1x1 and snap like railways do, so that you cannot place ...

(A minor detail is that I'm using only an arithmetic combinator for the even loading, the constant combinator is not necessary). Wait really? I'd expect the inserter condition to become '0 < 0' when the chests are empty. I'm probably misunderstanding something. I've used a similar even-loading setu...

Idea. Whenever you highlight a chain signal, a line is drawn along the track towards any non-chain signal that can affect it. So this line would go past any other chain signals, until it reaches a normal signal (Or, I guess, a dead end).

mennoo1996 wrote:Same for eff modules, but the other way around. Which power usages decrease?

It will not affect the power usage of the beacon. It will affect the usage of assemblers etc.

So far I haven't found a use for eff modules in beacons; except in a modded game with super-high-consumption buildings.