Friday Facts #140 - Soon

[ratchetfreak]

- why is the red wide connected from the chest to the roboport?

I think that one is so that it reads the entire contents of the logistic area to the combinatory.
Remember, a wire doesn't have to connect directly from one device to another, it can go from entity to entity to entity, as long as the chain connects between the 2 objects you want to communicate with each other.

Or (more likely) it gets the robo count of the network, there is a rapid inserter inserting robots from the storage chest.

[brunzenstein]

...Not sure exactly what is going on with the train station...

It's that a single inserter can pickup different items from the train (be it walls, belts, etc) in amounts specified in constant combinators (those work as filters).

Three questions to the given picture:
- why is the red wide connected from the chest to the roboport?
- In the picture the green "stack filter inserter" ist set to filter the single item "wall" but not the violet filter inserter between the roboport and the box to filter all of the demanded items?
- the inserter from the wagon has a filter set to a single item and would only load walls - true?
Thank you for helping a layman

Stack inserter (green one) has it's circuit network operation mode set to "set filters", so it reads signal of red wire and interprets it as a list of items it should get. And it's no matter whether violet inserter has filters or not.

This is not so clear cut to me as the green stack inserter has two boxes on his right top specifying if the inserter should get its instructions what to handle either from the circuit or the whole network. neither seems to be visibly selected thought.
The "set filters" button is only part of that story - or?

[Zeblote]

It's now 1/6/16! Did you make it?

[Ilirea]

Can't wait to play the new Update and get the new achievements on Steam! I seriously hope you'll manage to enable the update today

[Toomicek]

Can't wait to play the new Update and get the new achievements on Steam! I seriously hope you'll manage to enable the update today

Everything in our country is meant to be done on the end of week, so wait for release FFF

[Linosaurus]

Then it's weird, why the chest is connected to combinator, if RP provides info about whole storage. (I wonder if signals from storage chest are doubled then...)
I guess, it's more just a brief example, without much care about uber-efficiency)

I think you are right about the doubling, and also about this being a brief example. The important parts of the example still works, and anyone copying it directly will have a good opportunity to learn to debug a circuit network

Or the wire actually goes directly between the roboport and the combinatior, the hanging wire just happens to pass the chest's connection point. But it doesn't look exactly right for this.

This is not so clear cut to me as the green stack inserter has two boxes on his right top specifying if the inserter should get its instructions what to handle either from the circuit or the whole network. neither seems to be visibly selected thought.
The "set filters" button is only part of that story - or?

A bit above "set filters" it says "Circuit connection". That probably changes to "Logistics network" if you click the other box. A visible selection would be a slight improvement, sure.

[Panasonic1]

Can't wait to play the new Update and get the new achievements on Steam! I seriously hope you'll manage to enable the update today

Everything in our country is meant to be done on the end of week, so wait for release FFF

It is bad idea to have release at the end of the week. It may cause no weekend but fixing bugs in office

[xxninjaxx25]

I really hope they release today and don't push it back for weeks. Really excited about this and cleared all my college stuff so I can play An all nighter!

[TheKingOfFailure]

This is all great news!

One suggestion though: an upgrade to the flamethrower could make it oxygenated. It would use less fuel and burn much hotter this way, and of course the flame would be BIGGER!

[RobertTerwilliger]

It is bad idea to have release at the end of the week. It may cause no weekend but fixing bugs in office

Factorio bugs are usually very specific and multiplayer or mod related. Considering very big chunk of update work was dedicated to multiplayer - I believe MP will have much less bugs. Also considering 0.13 will most likely break quite most old mods - thus modders should spend some time updating them, so game will be vanilla for everyone for a bit.
Stated above makes me believe there won't be too much to fix in first weekend : )

[patmo98]

Factorio bugs are usually very specific and multiplayer or mod related. Considering very big chunk of update work was dedicated to multiplayer - I believe MP will have much less bugs.

I hope you're right, but historically, Factorio's tende to have a lot of crash bugs fixed soon after release:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6661
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14009


And, this is probably how it should be. I'd rather have an experimental release sooner, rather than wait for more bugs to fixed. It gives time for some of the mods to be updated by the time we get a stable release.

[Sebb767]

I'd rather have an experimental release sooner, rather than wait for more bugs to fixed.

True. And a small development game will never find as many bugs as such a big community. Not to mention how many complex contraptions are possible. So as long as there are no really obvious bugs let us do the testing phase

Also, Factorio is currently sold as beta/early access. As long as it is playable and bugs are being fixed, I'm fine.

[RobertTerwilliger]

Factorio bugs are usually very specific and multiplayer or mod related. Considering very big chunk of update work was dedicated to multiplayer - I believe MP will have much less bugs.

I hope you're right, but historically, Factorio's tende to have a lot of crash bugs fixed soon after release:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6661
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14009


And, this is probably how it should be. I'd rather have an experimental release sooner, rather than wait for more bugs to fixed. It gives time for some of the mods to be updated by the time we get a stable release.

Okay, I've joined at 0.12.something (5, I think), so this will be my first big Factorio update : )
However, according to these changelogs, 0.12 was much more stable than 0.11, so I still have a hope to have quite stable game on release.

//viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25989 - this is by far the coolest update ever ; )

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Break all the mods.

[volundr]

So excite! Prepared for life to end!

[bobingabout]

Break all the mods.

I'm sure it will.

[cpy]

Break all the mods.

I'm sure it will.

Or no update and no mod breaking

[AlexTheNotsogreat]

Will achievements be available for non-steam users at some point?

[SWSe]

Will achievements be available for non-steam users at some point?

Yes, they will. It's likely they will already be there in the first release of 0.13.
See this FFF: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-125

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Suspence is killing me!