n my experiments with oil-fired steam, I used 10 refineries with adv refining. I then had if I recall correctly, 2 heavy cracking 18 light -> fuel blocks and 14 gas -> fuel blocks. Gotta load up that save again at some point and re-count the ratio. But it made neat little blueprint and go fuel fact...

No, you can't. You are need at least 7 + 13 + 1 chemical plants, then you are need 5 oil refineries. Less then 1 chemical plant for cracking heavy oil is not effective. Notice that the format is Pumpjacks : Oil Refineries : Chemical Plants. You have to use 20 pumpjacks, 1 oil refinery and 4 chemica...

Coal is finite, but not oil Here I want to talk about another infinite source of energy: Oil -> Solid Fuel -> Boilers -> Steam Engine cycle Axioms: 1. You never run out of oil. 2. 0.1 oil/s per pumpjack is the production limit of "depleted" oil spawn. 3. Boilers have 50% efficiency. Solid...

Already implemented.

Use smart inserters or put a stationary wagon on a rail and limit what kind of items you need to store in it by pressing middle-click on empty slots. Resetting filters is done the same way.
You can also do it in your inventory.

The question is in the title. Allow me to elaborate. You see, currently Factorio seems to be developing in depth: developers are creating new kinds of things and new concepts, but usually you get only one-two things that represent a concept. It's not uncommon to see topics like "Add new belts&q...

I don't get this one thing: how exactly do entities in this game work? Do you use some kind of gigantic list with all machinery and simply iterate through it each tick? If so, then holy crap is this inefficient. Some kind of event-driven state-based system would be so much better than this. Say, sup...

When you start your game, you don't have many crucial things such as underground belts, assembler machines, turrets and you absolutely have to research at least one of those by hand-crafting 10 red packs and putting them inside a lab. I don't think it's fine to stagger early game by making players t...

I know this game is about building the biggest factory ever No. It's a game about automatization. Factory building aspect is merely a way to make this happen. but what would be if hunger and thirst would be a problem for you? It would make it harder. And some people like it hard. Hunger and thirst ...

Basically all things in game right now have two states: fine/doesn't exist. Health means absolutely nothing and really is just a delay before this piece of machinery is destroyed by aliens. This should not be the case. The idea is simple: add random side effects for different kind of things when the...

ssilk's post, TL;DR version: most blueprints aren't created to be always modular (being able to create an entire factory out of these blueprints without changing the original blueprint) and composable (being able to easily form a chain of transformers out of these blueprints and connect them without...

It would still be deterministic. You might want to look up on how pseudorandom generation works. And what exactly is that "random" you are talking about. Yeah, yeah, I know that. I didn't use word "pseudorandom" for convenience. Here's link to the most basic generator, that can ...

Long story short, there are no measurable sources of chaos in game. The only real (relatively) random thing I can think of is map generation. Everything else seems to be deterministic. I am not exactly sure whether biters attack are deterministic or not, but nevertheless it's ridiculously difficult ...

This should be an option, but not enforced.

Combinators are basic. Not only that, but they are also pretty bulky and take lots of space. And they are extremely homogeneous in more advanced builds. And it only gets worse. It should be no surprise to you that over time you accumulate so many blueprints of combinator elements that you forget som...

[quote]It seems you have a problem with the form: You see the suggestion as "This is it, take it or leave it". Think to suggestions like so: They are just ideas. You put some work into that idea, of course, but until this idea is really coded, graphics made, implemented into Factorio and ...

This is against one of the basic concepts of Factorio, that it shows always a "realistic" view. I called it somewhere WYSIWYP (what you see is what you play). If there is a wire it shows a wire, cause that explains it's functionality. That's why I said we "pretend" that they are...

I updated OP post, ssilk. Check "How it should work" and "Issues".

There is a problem with this: things that run on actual fuel are fundamentally different from things that run on electricity only. Also, there is no real reason to NOT have electricity-driven devices rather than fuel-driven. Electricity is much easier to provide to things unlike physical fuel. Elect...

So starting from 0.13 many things can be connected to circuit network and that got me thinking: if you can connect data wires to things and they will transmit signals just fine, why not trying connecting actual power wires in similar way? In real life you don't shove poles everywhere to power a huge...

Oh great, I'll check this mod out. Noted and updated OP post.