This is the weight of different train components: Locomotive: 2000 Wagon: 1000 Fluid Wagon: 1000 Artillery: 4000 Once trains get a total mass of over about 10000 they start to become quite dangerous to other trains, depending on their speed. At 11000 they can one-shot Behemoth Biters. A train with a...

Alright, this depends on evolution, distances involved, and how much repairs you're willing to do. Almost any train can plow through big biters with utmost ease, but Behemoth Biters will easily halt any smaller train, which generally results in the destruction of the train, so once Behemoths have ev...

Do flame turrets still deal infinity damage against biters? The perspective on balance may change dramatically when biters don't get death sentenced by a drop of oil. I wouldn't expect too much to change with respect to flame turrets. They do three sources of damage: sticker: 100 dps (death sentenc...

On deathworld marathon my approach is to skip piercing ammo and bust my ass getting Flamethrowers literally ASAP (using a combination of hand crafting and ad-hoc setups to produce the required military science) Uh, you can't do that - Piercing Ammo is a pre-requisite for MilSci, which you need for ...

Rockets are good because you can snipe spawners from outside of worm range. So you can setup a defensive line of whatever turret or choice, run forward and snipe 1 or 2 spawners, run back and let the defenses kill the biters, and just repeat until the nest is gone. A little slow but safe and reliable.

I'm still trying to sort out my new deathworld marathon game. Desert start--terrible amounts of cliffs and overlapping resource spawns. At any rate, the changes to weapon tech have made defending simply not fun. On Deathworld marathon you 100% want to rush Flamethrower Turrets. They are available m...

2) If they are expected to be this hard and Piercing Rounds are now worthless for the purpose, what kind of rounds should I load into the tank? Explosive Cannon Shells tends to be best. Machine Gun is still pretty decent at mowing down spitters and destroying spawners. Against the biters it tends t...

Hello, I was wondering if someone knows the exact formula of the damage delt by train on impact ? I'm trying to estimate how much locomotive I would need in the late game and having such formula would help 😊 Empirically: The damage formula for the Tank appears to be roughly: weight * v^2 / 23000 (w...

Marathon Deathworld has been a fun challenge. It's basically a race to get Flamethrowers because nothing else can really handle the sheer volume of armored targets, one of the fun things about Marathon Deathworld is keeping your pollution low is not really an option, research costs are about 10x hig...

I ran into exactly the same bug, and have a save

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This is a bug report for 17.17 . If you try to play in a death world in particular, there is a lot of odd behavior with the map generation. What is noted in particular here is on death world you will get enemies immediately on top of resources or so near resources that any basic production will end...

I'm not sure what to do to make them useful. They are so expensive now and weak too. I mean, if you drop a Distractor on a spawner, that spawner will die, 100% guaranteed. But you could also drop a cluster grenade. Distractors are so expensive, a Distractor cost several times as much as a Cluster Gr...

Sure, but the issue is that they are not connectable to the circuit network : https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=47141 The way I handle that is to have a single steam tank, at the end of a heat exchanger line so it will be the first to start cooling. That steam tank is hooked up to...

Use a pair of decider combinators like this: A < 50: OUTPUT B = 1 T = 0: OUTPUT B = 1 Wire the outputs of those combinators into a 3rd Decider relying on "implicit summing" of signals: B = 2: OUTPUT T = 1 (Alternatively, you can use an Arithmetic Combinator, producing a "B=1" and...

Depends what you want to do. I tend to have a bit of a mishmash setup. It's always nice to have at least one shield if you're playing with enemies. In 0.17 it's more important to dodge spits than to be able to tank damage, so you don't really need more than 3 shields. At least 2 Exos, up to 6. For c...

You need a countdown timer. Wire a Constant Combinator outputting T = -1 to a Decider Combinator wired to itself and outputting T on the condition T > 0 When another Combinator sends a T value (say 600) to this setup, the T signal will count down by 1 each tick until reaching 0 then it will remain a...

Try "overbuilding" steam engines, with steam storage tanks - storage tanks are more expensive than boilers, but having the steam already in/near the steam engine should make for a better response time for spiky demand changes like laser turrets firing. With boilers being so cheap that's p...

Indeed. I even use the 5 solars + radar from time to time. 75% of the time they survive long enough to map out their maximum range. If you plop a single gun turret it'll wipe out any expansion party and that radar outpost will last basically forever. (this only works if the radar is outside the poll...

I'm also not a fan of perfect ratios. In fact I tend to use an excess of power generation relative to fuel anyway. Why: demand spike accommodation. Factory power demand tends to fluctuate, the fuel and water entering the poweplant has to meet the average demand, but the generation wattage has to mee...

The technical reason for this behaviour, if anyone's curious, is because the radar is classified as a military entity (as it shows up on that tab in the crafting menu). This isn't actually how it works. There are things on the military tab that don't draw the ire of biters: walls, gates and Rocket ...