How? If I have chain signals at intersections and the only block signals are the ones being dragged by the trains, then two trains can't meet on a single track because one of them will already be in the block for that track when the other tries to reserve it. Chain signals really can do (with block...

Doing so is faster with Lab Efficiency and more Sci Packs. Definitely NO. :) It will take same amount of time or probably even less to get ANY tech with 30 Labs and Lab efficiency 0 then with 5 Labs with Lab efficiency 5. AFAIK Lab efficiency 5 gives ~250% speed boost, it means you'll learn a tech ...

sparr wrote:It would work if the trains all dragged two signals, one pointed each way, right?

Nope.
They can run from opposite directions and stop on a track forever. When you can put few signals so that they will pass by where you intend them to.

Why refuelling from a splitter? You can take directly from the underground belt.

I am proposing that you are maybe 1/4 supplied for 20 Labs. You might as well have just built 5 -10 labs and saved the space. ...OR I can build 30 labs, which are cheaper than learning all those Lab Efficiency :) In the end all that counts is the quantity of science packs and production speed of th...

The other thing is for most things it makes sense to use smart inserters and set a limit using a logistics condition... Smart inserters are also one of those things which are really cheap by the time logistic network is available, there's no reason not to use them liberally. That's a good point, re...

Wouldn't it be better if the achievement was not so much constrained one? If we let to craft 200 times instead of 101 or 111? But it will simplify and speed up the beginning of the game a lot. P.S. You might want to disable or constrain "hand-mining" as well :) But is it really important f...

...if you like not having enough production once you research lab efficiency I suppose you just duplicate the whole project in this case. Using less than 20 labs. You'd have to count the precise number of labs by yourself then. Good point is that production of Science-3 (as well as Science-1,2) wil...

Thank you very much. It kind of straightens my logic understanding.
Hadn't a single combinator yet. Going to try some now... maybe.

It's odd to see more Red science than green science assemblers. In all the YouTube videos I've watched, they typically have five Red because it takes five seconds to make a red science and 6 green because it takes 6 seconds per green. Why do you have it with more red than green science? You can rea...

@LazyLoneLion It looks like your ratios will be off as you research lab efficiency. First, it's not "my ratios" - it's not my project :) Read the reddit description, it's really worth reading (and it's fun)! What it says about Lab efficiency is mostly that labs are cheap. As assemblers ar...

I just use a requester and provider chest per assembler - no sharing. Chests are just not expensive enough to bother economizing on and it works well with beacons. Chests aren't expensive. Items (like modules) could be expensive. Every chest makes you have extra items in a buffer, and not in the pr...

Still newb in Factorio. Couldn't grab logic principles. Can somebody clear some fog in here? I suppose my questions are very simple (if not to say "stupid" :) ). Like: 1) what signal will be in the logic net if I put there two constant combinators with different outputs for the same kind o...

interesting ideas
I wonder, will water be colder in winter too?

Take a look at this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10254&start=10#p164825

Looks nice :) Pretty common with anything built after logistics chests I assume. ;) But I wanted to maximize the number of the assemblers per request chest. Used four per chest instead of two. And I have made balanced construction line for modules. Every module mk2 needs two assemblers of mk1 and so...

It would be good to have an indicator of the train schedule state. Like what station is next on the schedule.
What do you think?

My qeustion is when do you guys recommend to start using robots? I use them when replacing steam energy to solar. It's more comfortable to build complex design from blueprints. Sometimes I use them for complex railway stations (if there are enough resources on the starting area to learn logistic bo...

After Factorio is started I usually load my previous game. If the Factorio window is not maximized (and it's not) it's what I see every time: Factorio-load-bug.JPG If the window is bigger (or maximized) everything is Ok: Factorio-load-maximized.JPG I suppose you should either redesign that window or...

Isn't it already possible to register on Factorio site without buying the game? So that pirates will have access to mod-portal? Not ingame, probably, but anyway...