It is the icon with a red box that you get from blueprints. You only need to craft one (unless you tend to lose them like I do). To use it, you select it and then drag a box around the things you want to deconstruct.

The recipes are in chemical plants. First you combine petroleum with water to make sulfur. Then you combine the sulfur with iron plates and more water to make the acid.

Put them in a roboport and use deconstruct planner to remove forests.

Roboports have a smaller area of influence for logistics (the orange zone). When the zones of two or more roboports touch or overlap they are linked together to form a single network. This will show as a dotted line between the linked roboports (if they have power). To prevent roboports from linking...

Oil industry isn't a mod.

DRBLN wrote:I'm just starving for the oil industry!
It should be awesome.

You can try it out now.

The small pump has a speed of 0.5 while the offshore pump has a speed of 1. The steam engine consumes 0.1 fluid per tick. From my testing, a tick coincides with the speed of pumps. A single offshore pump can maintain 10 steam engines, while a single small pump can only handle 5. You can combine mult...

1) The recipes (craft time, assembler speed, quantities) are all available to the player, unlike my experiences with anno where the chains are small, specific , and usually does not have any cross-dependency. You can create a theoretical production chain to maximize the output of your factory. The p...

You can set it to use the old (light) method in graphics.

I wouldn't consider this a bug, but would recommend something to make the icon stand out against the black background (especially for coal and other dark icons). The black circle could be a little more transparent too.

Is there a console command that refreshes recipes? I edited the lua, but one save isn't taking notice.

I have a train layout, but it might be too complex to help. It has 18 trains running and produces red, green, and blue science packs now. I only use logistic bots for blues and moving the packs to labs. I'm also using logistic bots for coal on my new 10 stop (+1 for me) refueling/idle station. I use...

I still don't see why I would want to use active chests. Why not just use only passive chests? Why would I want to have provider chests send to a storage chest instead of going directly to a requester chest or construction bot?

What would be the benefits of using an active provider chest?

Considering that all resources are essentially endless...
All productivity does is delay the inevitable. You are going to run out and need to seek another spot to expand to at some point if you want to play a continuous game.

This seems biome related to me. The desert areas seem like they have a lot less trees. It this is true, maybe it could be applied to other resources, rocky areas may have high concentrations of stone for example.

How big and frequent are these attacks? The only reason biters might make a fighting group is the expansion, and it happens once in a longer time. They started small and grew over time. I don't have a good sense of time, however I wasn't expecting any attacks at all. I've finished some expanding an...

Try removing and placing the inserter again. I've had inserters get stuck on 0.9.0, but thought that was fixed. Also, does it insert if you put the train in manual mode (pause)?

ssilk wrote:Use the debug mode (keys F4-F7) to turn on the pathfinding. You will see, that you built just in their way to some target.

I've used that and it doesn't seem to be the case.

I hope this is not considered a bug. It really useful at the start when you don't feel like holding the button down constantly.

ssilk wrote:What do you understand about logic gates?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate
Not really sure what there is to understand. Maybe the programmer in me just sees this as second nature.