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Has anyone else noticed the biter expansions seems to be way more aggressive in 0.13? They seem to be expanding right up to the edge of my defensive lines way faster than before.
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https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-175 uh oh. They're adding programmable speakers. I can't think of a single way my friends are going to troll multiplayer games with this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1fszKmpwZM
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Jan 27, 2017 20:11
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Heads up, they reduced the red circuit production time to 6, so the new copper wire factory: red circut factory ratio is 1:6 now. Spent forever trying to figure out why I couldn't get full saturation.
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Apr 26, 2017 21:49
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Firos posted:Can someone post a good smelter layout for me? I am bad at figuring one out on my own This is the one I use. Once you get steel furnaces in it, the underground belts allow you to fully saturate the output line.  code:BabelFish fucked around with this message at 22:15 on Apr 26, 2017 |
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Apr 26, 2017 22:03
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NeuralSpark posted:I use a version of that. Mine: I really like this one for electrics and stones, but how do you get enough iron/copper ore and coal down that single middle line to fuel 24 steel furnaces? I had to use a red belt.
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Apr 27, 2017 06:22
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I found this on the internet recently as an end-game setup: I've not had a chance to test it, but it's apparently able to output a compressed blue belt.
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Apr 28, 2017 23:45
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You can feed both lines of smelters with a single horizontal belt at the bottom.  This is a very similar design I stole off the internet. Sadly I don't have access to the blueprint string right now.
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May 30, 2017 19:20
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Vivick posted:Hey, thanks for the replies! Ahh, you're right, I tweaked it a little bit, so it's longer now, but converts an entire blue belt worth of iron ore to steel (image shows two lines, to illustrate how they can stack):  quote:0eNqlXF1v20gM/CuFXu7FBkTup/IfDjjgHg/FwYnVngHHNmy5aFDkv5+cKIlQKNJw9ilNnMxqlzvkkGL5q7 BabelFish fucked around with this message at 04:46 on May 31, 2017 |
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May 31, 2017 04:12
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FISHMANPET posted:
It looks pretty standard for a single sided unloading station. You won't quite fully utilize all four blue belts outputting from the top set of splitters (you would need 8 stack inserters for that)  this is one I stole from one of the first 0.15 goon servers, allows for 8 stack inserters off a single car instead of 6, but takes up more room around the station. (this was before the underground belt length changes, you don't need that middle up-down belt section if you're using blue belts now)
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Jun 13, 2017 23:28
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awesmoe posted:After your first couple of starts you learn to leave yourself more space than you think you'll need And then after a little while longer you realize you've put too much space between things and now it takes you five minutes to walk across the base, so you dial it back to a happy medium.
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Jun 14, 2017 03:16
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I pack ten+ personal laser turrets into my armor and just drive a tank through the middle of enemy bases while the turrets mulch everything. No ammo required! Use a couple of mk2 batteries though.
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Jun 20, 2017 23:30
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Anyone got a good blueprint book for rails running a 1-4-1 train design? I'm having one heck of a time building up the ones I need. Edit: Yup, the fueling system for my nuclear power plan used the inserter system too, dangit. BabelFish fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Jun 21, 2017 19:31
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Picer posted:It also fuced up my nuclear, since i use circuit to control the inserters that feeds the reactors. You can use decider combinators to replicate the old functionality: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=47556&p=290769#p290769
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Jun 21, 2017 20:59
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boo_radley posted:OH MY GOD There's a couple mods that give charging stations: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Peppe/Robo-Charge-1x1 https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Kayron/Robo-Charge Bob's logistics has charging stations too (along with a TON of other stuff) https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Bobingabout/boblogistics
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Jul 20, 2017 01:08
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neogeo0823 posted:So I guess my question got lost in tank and nuke chat. Anyone got a good blueprint for blue circuits/processing units? Also, is this planner looking thingy accurate and such? If I'm designing the thing myself, it'll be nice if I don't have to also do all the math. Are you looking for green->red->blue in a single location, or just the blue?
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Aug 25, 2017 23:54
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neogeo0823 posted:At the time I asked, I was looking for just blue. Currently though, I'm in the middle of a tear down and rebuild that's got me looking for a good setup for all 3. Doesn't matter if they're separate builds or one big one that produces all 3, either way. I've seen this used ultra late game for just blue, it requires belt weaving, which I'm not sure I like: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/6emwov/yet_another_015_processing_units_build/ For earlier stuff I tend to use some variation of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/35zmvm/very_compact_blue_circuitprocessing_unit_factory/
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Aug 28, 2017 20:08
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neogeo0823 posted:ooooooh, I like that first one. I can double up on my green circuit setup and feed that easily. Now if I just had a good red circuit setup, I'd be set. Red circuit layouts that keep up with green and blue seem to be difficult to find.  https://pastebin.com/DR7q7f4K This is a modification of one I stole from a guy on the internet. You can make it a little longer if you want to completely saturate the red belt/fully use the input belts, but I liked the symmetry of 10 red factories.
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Aug 29, 2017 02:57
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M_Gargantua posted:He's not bussing it, he's making it at the top of the stack That many machines just barely fails to fill one side of a red belt, just stack two of this layout together and you just about fill a red belt on both sides. You could make it a little wider if you wanted, and twice as long to do the same thing, but that's a larger footprint.
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Aug 29, 2017 07:00
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Platystemon posted:
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Aug 29, 2017 22:20
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Chev posted:Water is a resource in this game, not just an obstacle. They want you to have to take this constraint into account and not just be able to build a water supply out of nowhere. There's also mods for things like "water pumps" you can use if you want things like that too. Platystemon posted:No. When inserters insert along the belt’s axis, they favour the right side (relative to the belt’s direction of travel). The up/down of the inserters doesn’t help. Yeah, I keep forgetting they favor relative to the belt and not the inserter.
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Aug 29, 2017 22:50
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:By using high resource maps. I looked for a run like this and saw the following map: They disable the achievements if you turn down biter base frequency/size, but you can still turn off expansion and evolution, while turning the starting area up as far as it will go.
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Jan 26, 2018 03:24
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Has anyone played with Logistics Train Network? I've been looking for something to automate train schedules for a while now, but have no idea what kind of impact on performance something like this will have.
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Mar 2, 2018 23:36
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BrainMeats posted:I hope they all get fed in to a recycler mod that melts them back down to iron. In a surprise twist, it turns out the guns are a higher compression ratio. Suddenly all megabases stop belting iron and start belting pistols.
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Mar 23, 2018 18:37
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Once I discovered the idea of chunk aligned rail, I've never gone back. (press F4, go to 'basic' tab, turn off everything, turn on only 'show-tile-grid', press F4, use F5 to toggle grid on/off.) It allows me to start a rail line anywhere in the world, and as long as I align it to a chunk, it will align to the rest of my rail network. None of the blueprint books I found really did what I wanted, so I started my own. Left hand drive with two rails for now, there's four pieces of stone brick aligned to the corners of the chunk to help with placement.
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Apr 9, 2018 20:09
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neogeo0823 posted:What do you goons use for your fastest throughput loading and unloading of trains? I've been googling around, but all the stuff I find is from like 0.13, give or take. Edit: This is assuming you want to use belts. If you want fastest possible, it's massive clouds of bots and loading/unloading from logistics chests. I stole this out of one of the goon games that started up when 0.15 was in experimental. I've found it useful as a starting point for unloading stations:  With the new belt mechanics, once you've got blue belts, you don't need that middle section of undergrounds. For loading I just balance to 4/8 belts, then split those in 1->6 balancers on each side of a car. (I tend to run 1-4-1 single direction trains)
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Apr 11, 2018 06:22
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neogeo0823 posted:Can you clarify this bit? You use belt balancers to balance out to either 4 or 8 belts, then... split them with up to 6 splitters? split them up with a 1 to 6 splitter for each side of the car? What?  Splitting the output to the chests/inserters very slightly improves load times in some cases, since a full blue belt can be consumed by three upgraded stack inserters, it ends up with only the first few chests filling until they fill completely. I built a blueprint for my loaders and unloaders that do not include rail or the station itself, then put down the blueprints after I determine where on my track I want a station.
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Apr 12, 2018 01:21
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DarkHorse posted:You can also include the track (or whatever) in the blueprint for alignment purposes. They’ll turn blue if it matches existing construction. It was helpful for my refinery series where I could build up by lining up the previous line of buildings. The problem I have with that is that belts/inserters/etc function off a single grid square, but rail tracks take up a 2x2 grid, so you end up with off-by-one alignments depending on how you set up the stations. Found it simpler to just place the station, then put down the loader/unloader based off the train car locations.
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Matazat posted:What's the most efficient vanilla way to generate pollution continuously? I want to dedicate a small island to some sort of contraption whose only purpose is to spew as much pollution as possible. Bonus points if it doesn't create any physical byproducts to manage, and mega bonus points if it also has no inputs besides power. https://wiki.factorio.com/Pollution You could rig up a bunch of pumps in a circular pattern, add water to the circle with an offshore pump, remove the offshore pump, then replace a couple pumps/sections of pipe to create some air in the system. Should just pump the same fluid around forever. Edit: barreling/unbarreling is way more polution/tile. quote:0eNqlksFOwzAMht/F50Rau7GNvgESYhzghCaUtmazSNIoSYGq6rvjrFIRbANNnJo49efvT9tDqVt0nmyEogeqGhugeOoh0M4qnWqxcwgFUEQDA Add about 50 barrels of water and it will run continuously. BabelFish fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Cocoa Crispies posted:I had a lot of problems adapting to splitter usage in the same way! It's a weird quirk that's fantastically popular for separating lanes of a belt, and the devs have said that the future graphics for underground entrances & exits will have a little plate there to visually indicate that it works.  It's a weird interaction, but can make a lot of interesting designs possible. Dr. Stab posted:It doesn't matter. Inserters preferentially draw from one side of the belt, but they are capable of drawing from either side. BabelFish fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Dec 6, 2018 |
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Dec 6, 2018 23:10
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necrotic posted:make it into rocket fuel Then make that into nuclear fuel.
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LLSix posted:Trains. I've had to use stack inserters for inserting iron gear wheels into red/blue underground belts. The blue ones in particular require a ton of wheels and build quickly.
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Some friends of mine did a Rampant game in a world that was about 60% water without bumping up the resource spawns (this was back in 0.15). It was pretty epic.Gravy Jones posted:Are turrets viable against late game/evolved biters for defence or do you neeed to switch to lasers? BabelFish fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Mar 5, 2019 |
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New changes are fine. The jump from green to blue science is still by far the largest in the game. Slightly simplifying oil processing early on is a good idea.
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