Seems like it should be fixed in the next release! I've made some tweaks to our map generator, a bug or two related to map segmentation and completely replaced how starting areas are generated. Let's see if it will make you happy :-) Moving to fixed for next version. https://forums.factorio.com/view...

Been tweaking values for the last two hours to try and get something I like, but in the end it's hard to get around the inherent randomness; of the maps I generated I got one that had tons of copper but little else (solved by installing FAIR resources mod which flips resource field types if there's ...

Neotix wrote:Install RSO mod to change generation method.

RSO doesn't touch terrain generation, only resources

ssilk wrote:In this sense: there is no problem with the map generator in general, but with the transparency/reliability of the map generator...

If the starting area has problems, the map generator has problems.

Why does advanced oil processing need a separate science pack again? You're not getting any new products from it, you just shuffle a couple of pipes to do the same things you could do before, just more efficiently. I don't think they meant adv oil as in the research, but rather using more complex o...

Science pack 1 has the player get familiar with basic automation - mines leading to smelters leading to assembly machines leading to labs Science pack 2 requires more complex chains to be established, particularly the inserters, but it's not a huge jump. Science pack 3 has steel, which is odd since ...

Is enemy spawning really fixed in 2.0.3? I still get a screen full of biters if I just set starting area to None, but as soon as I set enemy base size to None I get the expected RSO enemy distribution.

About RSO - thanks for the nice screenshot. I did have a feeling that there are many more enemy bases suddenly. And I'm puzzled about it - I did not change anything in the mod code or config to change amount of enemies. I'm pretty sure it just doesn't remove the base game's enemies anymore, as it u...

This also seems to produce a lot less trees than there used to be for me, presumably because there's "dry" biomes which don't allow trees to spawn everywhere, so pollution is more of an issue.

v1.2.0 out, for compatibility with 0.13.

Drat, can't use this mod with 0.13 if I want achievements...

Yes solar power is OP atm (end game item). there is now drawback except darkness and once you have enoufgfhg batteries you can over come that. Like I once suggested Solar panels should get dirty and start dropping their energy output, to combat this you have robots that clean the panels. (for examp...

Really all you need is a "Net power" statistic that is either positive or negative.

In map_settings.lua there's a lot of stuff relating to pollution and biters, and I particularly wanted to increase the spread of pollution without increasing the base amount, as I'm using RSO and enemies need to be further spread out to allow scouting by car. I figure one way of doing this is to wip...

v1.1 out:
I changed the description, and also the recipe - it now requires a burner mining drill. Finally a good use for all those old things!

Aren't the regular water pumps infinite as well? Yep, plus they don't need fuel and work considerably faster. Excellent and simple mod. Would be more excellent if you just wrote the pump rate instead of saying 'mild'. I don't usually see mods (or vanilla buildings) provide such details, but it's go...

Aquifer Drill mod Name: Aquifer Drill Version: 1.2.4 Factorio-Version: 0.17 Description: Adds a burner-style drill that outputs water at 75 units/s. License: MIT license, see Github page Release: 2016-06-28 Download-Url: Download Website: https://github.com/Alignn/AquiferDrill or https://mods.facto...

Awesome, thanks! Took a bit of fiddling but I got it all to work.

Alright.

As for my specific attempt, should I look to using scripts in control.lua to get the desired effect? I suppose making it an assembling machine type and adding a recipe that just outputs water might work... though then it has to be manually selected each time.

I've been trying to make a drill that can be placed anywhere and outputs water, but it seems I have to use the logic of an existing building type and work around it rather than create one that combines several; I can't just take the fluid output logic of the off-shore pump and add it to a pumpjack o...