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Seconding the uranium mining and use, even if it's not your main power draw. Definitely run as many centrifuges as you can fit to keep up with refinement, and turn all the uranium you can into bullets and nukes. Then nuke the world (after setting the trees on fire first).
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Sep 21, 2020 18:39
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Platystemon posted:Use tanks as storage chests. Unironically, use cargo wagons as storage chests. I've used them in blueprints (and unlike tanks, they are blueprintable) as a way to centralize storage for intermediary products before passing those products out to the final row of assemblers. Just reserve slots for each item so you don't accidentally fill it up with one. Also, if the mods every stop being a pain in my rear end, I'll finish my "weird logistics" run where I use zero belts or logistics bots (except for inventory purposes). Most of my designs have intermediary products being tossed into cargo wagons by thrower inserters, and then tossed into their final assemblers by more throwers.
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Sep 21, 2020 18:58
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Do trees destroyed by explosions emit the same amount of pollution that they would if they were burned? ...would it be complex or difficult to mod nukes to have a perimeter effect which ignites the trees that aren't outright destroyed?
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LonsomeSon posted:Do trees destroyed by explosions emit the same amount of pollution that they would if they were burned? it should be pretty easy
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Sep 21, 2020 19:40
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ConfusedUs posted:Unironically, use cargo wagons as storage chests. I've used them in blueprints (and unlike tanks, they are blueprintable) as a way to centralize storage for intermediary products before passing those products out to the final row of assemblers. Just reserve slots for each item so you don't accidentally fill it up with one. I liked the mod that had you build roads with depots so you had to really spread things out
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Sep 21, 2020 19:50
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Balsa posted:I liked the mod that had you build roads with depots so you had to really spread things out Transport Drones! And I'm using that too!
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Sep 21, 2020 20:07
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Mod request: Is it possible to add personal logistics to a spidertron so logistics bots will fill their trunk? I want to use spidertrons as rocket turrets, but I don't want to have to manually load them.
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Sep 21, 2020 20:22
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It looks like the nearest functional match, trains with logistic requester chests built in, required a good thousand lines of code. I don't think I've got the energy for that, even if I were to borrow the open source code they wrote.
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Sep 21, 2020 20:30
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KillHour posted:Mod request: Is it possible to add personal logistics to a spidertron so logistics bots will fill their trunk? I want to use spidertrons as rocket turrets, but I don't want to have to manually load them. this was called out and devs said they want this in but it didn't make 1.0
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Sep 21, 2020 20:33
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Have to drive your car absolutely every chance you get. Make 20 so you’ll always have one on hand.
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Sep 21, 2020 22:42
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Install a mod with flare stacks and use them as your main light source.
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Sep 21, 2020 22:47
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KillHour posted:I'm pretty sure if you put a disclaimer on Honk saying nobody could use it on streams and videos, the Factorio LP community would dissolve overnight.
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Sep 22, 2020 00:58
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No, people just like the mod. It doesn't disturb the gameplay loop of base or mods in any way, and it's funny. It's funnier when the the train honks and you still get run over.
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Sep 22, 2020 01:04
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Factorio: Captain Planet doesn't stand a chance.
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Sep 22, 2020 01:30
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Galvanik posted:Is getting crushed by trains really that big of a deal? I could count on two hands the number of times I've been run over by them in the years I've been playing. I went super heavy on trains in my K2 run, probably a couple hundred 1-1 trains constantly active. I got smooshed a few times.
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Sep 22, 2020 01:35
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Galvanik posted:Is getting crushed by trains really that big of a deal? I could count on two hands the number of times I've been run over by them in the years I've been playing. The answer is more trains
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Sep 22, 2020 01:43
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Just started a multiplayer game withy girlfriend who has never played before: Her: 2 minutes in: " you can change your color??? I want to be teal!" 10 minutes in: " I'm having fun learning the controls and mining ore by hand!! Ooh I caught a fish " 60 minutes in, yelling: "We need more of everything!! Why are we out of iron plates again!??" I'm excited to see how she reacts to her first biter attack.
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Sep 22, 2020 03:04
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Clark Nova posted:Kerbal Space Program briefly had problems with some weirdo from the minecraft community putting stupid restrictions on his mods and they fixed it by making modders release under a permissive license
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I've been watching some of the vids from Nilaus and I noticed that in his blueprints he has the red and green wires running along all of the large power poles. I know that he does this in order to eventually be able to build the resource display, but does anyone else? Since it is part of my blueprint, the wires are free but is there any other reason to do this? I'm doing another megabase run of K2 and I'm annoyed at how I built my cell design. First design was ok, but the intersections didn't seem very efficient even though it was two lanes in either direction. Scrapped that and went back to one lane per direction, but still am having issues. But that could be because of the poor placement of my depot. Before I get too deep, haven't started building blue research yet, is there a "best" intersection out there? I think I'm using a roundabout type one right now, but can rip them out easily if there is a better way.
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Sep 22, 2020 18:30
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I just got this game and went through the tutorial levels, but I think I'm not getting the metagame/strategy on my first single player run. Is there a good YouTube series explaining how/why things work as they do, updated for the current version of the game?
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Sep 22, 2020 18:34
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There's no real metagame I'd say. Look what you need to research the next tier of stuff, build that. If you're short on resources, build more production. 
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Sep 22, 2020 18:39
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Collateral Damage posted:There's no real metagame I'd say. Look what you need to research the next tier of stuff, build that. Yep, when we yell THE FACTORY MUST GROW, its really just looking at what is being slow, looking at researching and making more of it!
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Sep 22, 2020 18:46
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diremonk posted:I've been watching some of the vids from Nilaus and I noticed that in his blueprints he has the red and green wires running along all of the large power poles. I know that he does this in order to eventually be able to build the resource display, but does anyone else? Since it is part of my blueprint, the wires are free but is there any other reason to do this? I always include them on my rail blueprints, especially vanilla runs. I may only end up using them for a single purpose (eg fuel trains), but having them available beats having to go add them back if I didn't and then need them. They're free in a blueprint so there's zero reason not to include them.
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diremonk posted:I've been watching some of the vids from Nilaus and I noticed that in his blueprints he has the red and green wires running along all of the large power poles. I know that he does this in order to eventually be able to build the resource display, but does anyone else? Since it is part of my blueprint, the wires are free but is there any other reason to do this? The group I play with, we have a rail blueprint book and all the segments have power poles running down the middle with red and green wires attached. We have never actually used the wires. We discussed removing them from the blueprint, however since you get wires (including colored wires) for free when robots place a blueprint, we decided there's no real harm to keeping them
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Sep 22, 2020 18:48
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diremonk posted:I've been watching some of the vids from Nilaus and I noticed that in his blueprints he has the red and green wires running along all of the large power poles. I know that he does this in order to eventually be able to build the resource display, but does anyone else? Since it is part of my blueprint, the wires are free but is there any other reason to do this? It's pretty common for anyone who wants to do on-demand train stuff by enabling and disabling stations in vanilla, since having a global network lets you do logic on the status of very distant outposts. There are other things you might want to condition on global status in some way. You could use it to turn off the belts on your most distant mines if there's still a lot of ore available in the network, or trigger rocket launches based on total space science in your base even if your labs are a train ride away from your rocket silo. There's nothing super critical and personally I don't do it, mainly because I don't like how it makes you dependent on blueprint-only track construction and I find that always looks extremely boring. If you're taking a Nilaus-style square-the-world approach then having a global circuit network enables some neat things though.
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Collateral Damage posted:There's no real metagame I'd say. Look what you need to research the next tier of stuff, build that. Balsa posted:Yep, when we yell THE FACTORY MUST GROW, its really just looking at what is being slow, looking at researching and making more of it! Cool. OK, I will go where my heart takes me. 
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Neon Noodle posted:I just got this game and went through the tutorial levels, but I think I'm not getting the metagame/strategy on my first single player run. Is there a good YouTube series explaining how/why things work as they do, updated for the current version of the game? Factorio is a game of balance between expansion and optimization. At any given time, you (the player) must decide what is the most important task. Do you need more iron? Go get some! Are bugs breaking through your walls? Make more turrets, or maybe go on the offense in a tank! Does everything seem stable? Perfect time to build/improve upon/optimize/automate something! Running out of tech to research? Figure out what you need for the next tier of science, and build the infrastructure for that!
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Also worth noting that when the game says "Automate Everything," it's not kidding. Setting up automatic production of belts, inserters, assemblers, etc. is a really really good idea, even if you don't need them for science. You can restrict the chests to 1-2 stacks to save on resources, and they don't need to be produced quickly, but it's fantastic to decide that you want to build a new production line and be able to just go walk over to a chest and pick up everything you need to build that production line instead of hand-crafting all of that stuff. It's also good practice for when you switch over to robots - you'll just need to hook those chests up to the logistics network and you're already ready to have bots build everything for you.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:41
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Neon Noodle posted:Cool. OK, I will go where my heart takes me.
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quote:If you're taking a Nilaus-style square-the-world approach then having a global circuit network enables some neat things though. Yeah, that is where my last run ended up.  Was semi efficient though, only thing that was limiting my rocket launches was low density structures even with three cells devoted to making them.
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diremonk posted:Yeah, that is where my last run ended up. LDS are always a huge bottleneck for me. Even when I think I have massively overbuilt them.. they end up being a problem at some point.
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Sep 22, 2020 22:42
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Usually my problem is TOO MANY Mormons...
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Edit: bad joke.
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Sep 22, 2020 23:09
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You should solve your too many Mormons problem by launching them in rockets like Factorio (and The Expanse). Now someone just needs to mod rocket control units to be temple garments...
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Xerophyte posted:You should solve your too many Mormons problem by launching them in rockets like Factorio (and The Expanse). Now someone just needs to mod rocket control units to be temple garments... Factorio/Plague Inc mashup game where you play as the protomolecule W H E N
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The Locator posted:
So this conversation is a bit weird but this post was flagged specifically. I hope I am interpreting correctly in that your joke here is that if you have too many of something you use trains to move it, like you might in Factorio. However, at least one person read it as 'if you have too many Mormon put them on trains, like the Holocaust' which I agree is concerning. I don't really know what to say here other than unfortunate choice of words, be mindful.
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That's what trains are for.
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I definitely read it as running all the mormons over with trains. Which... isn't much better.
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It's a far cry from "holocaust them", and relevant to a recent chat.
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