Factorio I hope they don't evolve to swim! |
- I hope they don't evolve to swim!
- Gem of innocence
- This looks like the scene from Starship Troopers when they were defending the fort.
- Angelbob has taught me that I love mining
- A different flavour of spaghetti
- my first ever built reactor
- My friend and I were going through old worlds of ours and found this. This is my very first factorio world, dating back at least a year.
- The Factorio team should hire Frank Klepacki to do the final release soundtrack
- Composinator, a factorio music tracker
- First time doing grid base, at first I was worried that my cells are too big.
- good start?
- Why are the inserters not putting the coal into the train?
- Had some problems with power not anymore.
- This is going to be my 1k SPM Megabase in a circular design. I am not even half through yet and I am sweating already
- Mod to annotate / draw on the map for planning?
- Is the map generator Italian?
- My original base that I finished the game on, little bit of spaghetti
- Kind of left the game a year ago. Anything new to the game i dont know ?
- Guide for UPS-Optimized Mega-Base
- Do trees prevent biters from spawning?
| I hope they don't evolve to swim! Posted: 27 Oct 2019 04:42 AM PDT
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| This looks like the scene from Starship Troopers when they were defending the fort. Posted: 26 Oct 2019 08:32 PM PDT
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| Angelbob has taught me that I love mining Posted: 26 Oct 2019 09:38 PM PDT Everyone has their own favorite thing in Factorio, and I thought mine was bot automation? I started my first angelbob run today, and pour me a pumpkin spice latte and call me Becky but I've done nothing but mine out patches and fill silos for like 10 hours and I must be a basic bitch because I am happy. [link] [comments] | ||
| A different flavour of spaghetti Posted: 27 Oct 2019 02:09 AM PDT
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| The Factorio team should hire Frank Klepacki to do the final release soundtrack Posted: 26 Oct 2019 09:27 PM PDT The factorio team could pull off their own 'one more thing' annoucement towards the game's release by announcing Frank Klepacki as their game's composer. Frank's skill at creating atmospheric soundtracks cannot be understated. I was going through youtube looking up Factorio esque music playlists and his music is featured in a lot of them, likely because the bleak, atmospheric, deep ambience is a perfect fit. As an example, here's some tracks from Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun which Klepacki was a composer on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nnEtDhC9C0&list=PLamnoxId_aK2qxsln0OiDh9s3Pa1vgfvb&index=5 This would definitely be a creative delight for Frank to take on. [link] [comments] | ||
| Composinator, a factorio music tracker Posted: 26 Oct 2019 01:59 PM PDT Hello everyone! Today I come to you with a massive wall of text and pictures to show off something I've been working on for the last few months. As everybody knows, a picture says more than a thousand words, so let me just start with a video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtGWsfE1CUM TL;DR - It's a music tracker in factorio made with combinators. Blueprints at the bottom. Required mods:
Optional but highly recommended mods:
ComposinatorThis is what I have come to call the composinator (composer + combinator). It's a completely combinator-based music tracker in factorio. It has its own complete GUI and can therefor be used by people who have no idea how combinators work. Music trackerIf you have no idea how a music tracker works, there's plenty of resources online that go into much more detail, but let me just give a quick run-down. In a music tracker we have 2 separate sets of the same amount of channels (in the video there's 4 channels total). 1 Set for the sequencer and 1 set for the patterns. Each of these has its own screen. In the pattern screen you can enter specific notes which will be played in order. Here's where you basically make the melodies you want to use. In the sequencer screen you enter the index of which pattern you want to use. So the sequencer decides when the different melodies are played. This way it's very easy to construct a simple drum loop, for example. You can make a single pattern containing a drum loop, and then tell the sequencer to simply play that pattern a few times in a row. ControlsThe controls look like this: https://i.imgur.com/A8ZEI79.png There's 2 sets of arrows. The left-right arrows for both of them change the current channel you're working on. The up-down arrows change the current row your cursor is on in the pattern and sequencer screens respectively. You can increase and decrease the value of the different inputs using the up-down arrows. When you want to save a value of one of the inputs to memory, you press the button to the right of it (marked with circles). The values you enter into the sequencer are simple indexes of patterns for that channel. So a value of 1 means the first pattern is played, a value of 2 means the second pattern is played, etc. For the patterns, there's 3 different values for the input: Instrument, volume and pitch. For each row you put in a pitch value, a note will be played at that specific pitch. The instrument and volume values are slightly different, because they act as flags. So if at one note you set the volume to 3, then all notes following that note will also have volume of 3 until you set the volume to something else again. The same is true for the instruments. The possible value ranges are as follows:
With a value of 0 for each of them indicating that there's no value set. Then there's a few extra buttons: Mute will mute all sounds composinator makes. Refresh will refresh the pattern screen, which can sometimes be needed, for example after loading a new song, (or in some other cases where there might be bugs). Refresh delay is a number you can set which will automatically refresh the pattern screen each time you move the cursor in the sequencer screen. This is needed because each time you move the cursor in the sequencer, you're looking at a different pattern, so the pattern screen must be updated. The refresh delay is the time it waits to refresh after you've moved the sequencer for the last time. If you move it before the delay is over, it is reset. So if you do multiple quick entries into the sequencer this will not cause a refresh until after you've stopped moving. Set this to something that feels right to you. Default setting is what I like to use. You can also turn the refresh off completely by setting the delay to 0 (not recommended). Note: it is important that while the pattern screen is refreshing, you do not enter any new inputs. The different inputs and data transfers all go over the same few wires, and can interfere with eachother. And then, of course, there's the play and stop buttons. They are pretty self-explanatory. Below them is one final setting called start@, which allows you to start the song at a specific index in the sequencer. This is very useful when making longer songs, so you can actually listen to your latest edits without having to listen to the whole song again. Main settingsApart from the controls, there's a few main settings that need to be set before you can start using composinator. The settings board looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/H4OYboP.png I'll go through them here. Hardware settingsThese settings are specific to your current composinator setup and once set, should never be changed unless you change the hardware again. For each of the categories, you can change the values in the constant combinators and then save those values to memory, by pressing the save button at the top.
Memory settingsThese settings are not dependent on hardware, and can be changed later on, but note that changing these values will corrupt the readout of any data that is currently in memory. You basically want to set these settings once before you start making a song. When you later decide to make a different song, you can then enter new settings before making that one.
Song settingsThese settings are used for the playback of the song, and can be freely edited while making a song.
Example: with speed=2, groove 1=2 and groove 2=3, then the first note will be played after 2 * 2 = 4 ticks, the second note after 2 * 3 = 6 ticks, the third after 4 again, fourth after 6 etc. This can very easily be used to add a bit of a groove to your song (hence the name)
For example, you start out making a song in 8/8 time measure, but after some time you realize that you've listened to too much prog rock and you want to convert it to 7/8 instead. With this setting, you can simply change it without having to worry about the memory. Because of this, you can even make your initial pat mem length quite a bit longer than what you'd think you need, just so you can increase your pattern length later on.
AssemblyI've created a pre-built 4 channel version of composinator you can use without the trouble of having to assemble your own version. However, if you want to customize composinator for your own use with more channels and differently sized screens, the following guide will help you through the process. Memory moduleWe start off by constructing our memory module. This is of course where the songs will be stored, but it also contains some very important constants that are used throughout the rest of composinator. https://i.imgur.com/8Zji5pz.png At the top of the module sits the actual storage, where the song data will be stored. The block of constant combinators around the center contains the constants that will be used throughout composinator. The block at the bottom containing what looks like an electric furnace is the load module where you can load in songs you've made before. Importantly, on the right, we have the memory indexer for the first channel of composinator. Now would be a good time to decide how many channels you want to have. In this guide I'll be building 8 channels total. ChannelsThis is what a single channel looks like (blueprint included in book): https://i.imgur.com/D5Qi4H6.png The channels can be tiled to the right as demonstrated here: https://i.imgur.com/Pd3Hrny.gifv You can tile the channels as many times as you want (Well, the maximum number of channels is currently 126 due to the limit on the amount of different signals that are in the game). Here you can see what it looks like if you have 8 channels: https://i.imgur.com/UkT5JZ5.jpg Note that you still have to manually place substations to provide power, but there's gaps specifically made to place them in. This is the case for most of composinator Memory cellsNow that we have the main connections for our channels set up, we want to increase the size of our memory, because there's currently only 2 actual memory cells in use. For this we can use the following blueprint (blueprint included in book): https://i.imgur.com/wu54HRk.png Note: each row is one memory cell, capable of storing 252 values (notes) Which can be applied like so, and can be further tiled upwards: https://i.imgur.com/v77dBQ3.png, https://i.imgur.com/npwiqaV.png Once you've increased the memory size vertically, we need to fix the connections to the different channels. This is easily done by simply copying 2 columns of the memory bank (all the way from top to bottom) and tiling/overlapping them to the right until you've connected all the channels: https://i.imgur.com/zkjECDS.png, https://i.imgur.com/LwmKXM1.gifv Main memory settingsNow we've finished the actual construction of our memory hardware. But before we can actually use it, there's a few settings that need to be initialized. For this we need to build our main settings board, whichs looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/H4OYboP.png As you might've noticed (or not) both our memory module and the settings board have 3 columns of large powerpoles running along their side(s). These are the main communications channels that composinator uses, and these should be connected between all the different modules. I've made 2 simple connector blueprints (blueprints included in book), but you're free to connect these up manually if you want to. Make sure you connect both green and red wires along the 3 columns of poles: https://i.imgur.com/cxwMetj.png, https://i.imgur.com/wsNNg0F.png Here's an example of how you can connect the settings board to the memory module: https://i.imgur.com/Z3nJi6T.png, https://i.imgur.com/NdsFmXB.png GUISequencer screenNow it's time to make the screen for our sequencer. we start out with the main module which looks like this (blueprint included in book): https://i.imgur.com/ryb7Gtn.png Note: Just like with the rest of the modules, the sequencer needs to be connected to the memory module with the use of the large powerpole connections RowsNow it's time to decide how large we want our sequencer screen to be. We can use the "Row" blueprint to stamp down as many rowssee note as we want. This looks as follows: https://i.imgur.com/CkT5ofH.gifv Note: I haven't really made it easy to make the screen larger than what can fit between 2 substations. If you really want a bigger screen than that, you might need to do some manual rewiring Now we need to use the "Row - bottom" blueprint for the last row of our screen. You can also paste this blueprint over the top of the bottom row if you've already placed a regular row there. It's basically an upgrade of the regular row. Now we need to connect the top and bottom rows by connecting the medium powerpoles with green wire as follows: https://i.imgur.com/ESUiuBe.gifv We now the next blueprint "Row - cursor" which can be pasted on top of any of the rows you've placed before. This row will then become the cursor of our sequencer screen. So when you're editing a value in the sequencer, it will be on that row. Usually you'd want this to be somewhere in the middle of the screen. After placing the cursor row, you must connect the powerpole with green wire to the powerpole at the top as follows: https://i.imgur.com/sCCeLfK.gifv ColumnsOf course we want to be able to see more than just the first channel, so we need to add a column for each of the channels (8 in my case). We can do this using the "Column" blueprint, as follows: https://i.imgur.com/HeSUSF6.gifv Now comes a bit of manual setting of signals, which was unavoidable unfortunately. Fortunately, it's quite easy:
https://i.imgur.com/J6WDuUU.gifv
https://i.imgur.com/oAl6iHk.gifv Our screen is now finished, and should look something like this: https://i.imgur.com/6FF2TSD.png Pattern screenNow the pattern screen is constructed in pretty much the same way as the sequencer screen, but with a few extra steps at the end. So first, the main module, then the regular Rows, then the "Row - bottom" at the bottom, then the "Row - cursor" somewhere in the middle. Connect the top and bottom rows with a green wire by connecting the powerpoles on the left, and connect the pole at the cursor to the pole at the top of the screen. Now in the case of the pattern screen, the bottom row has an extra powerpole on the right side, which needs to be connected with a red wire to the pole at the cursor, as follows: https://i.imgur.com/IAB60x7.png Now we can repeat the same thing we did with the sequencer screen to add the columns for our channels (again, 8 in my case). But now, instead of using the signals 0, 2, 4.. aka the even numbers, we now use the odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, B, D, F Demonstration: https://i.imgur.com/wfUOxQU.gifv One last thing we need to add is the "Column - bottom" blueprint, which is tiled at the bottom of each of the channels, horizontally, just like we did the top. Note: Don't forget to connect the pattern screen to the rest of composinator with the aforementioned large powerpoles Our 2 screens will now look something like this: https://i.imgur.com/XS30O8M.png ControlsAnother vital part of the GUI is the controls, so we can actually start making songs. The controls look like this: https://i.imgur.com/A8ZEI79.png As usual, it's connected through the large powerpoles. Note that you probably want both screens and the controls to be relatively close to eachother, so you can actually feasibly use the controls while still being able to look at the screen. Here's an example of how you could lay it out: https://i.imgur.com/4HZRYV4.png Instrument rackNow we've arrived at the last mandatory part of composinator: The instrument rack. This is where all our programmable speakers will be producing the sound. First of, we start with the connector: https://i.imgur.com/eZhoVII.png We then take the instrument rack and tile it to the right, equal to the amount of channels we have (8 in my case): https://i.imgur.com/PW6XupL.png After that we can start filling the different channels up with instruments. I've provided blueprints for all the different instruments in the vanilla game, and they can be simply tiled upwards as follows: https://i.imgur.com/oOpwrJl.png, https://i.imgur.com/fCEqwS2.png I've also added a blueprint that already contains all different instruments in the default order they appear in the selection menu in a portable speaker: https://i.imgur.com/EjyUG5X.png If size is not an issue (why would it be) I recommend just using this complete one. Mainly because switching around the order of the instruments will actually change what instrument plays what when you play a song. The final result of the instrument rack should look something like this: https://i.imgur.com/NWGwpES.png Piano rollNow there's one last optional module which requires some setup explanation, which is the piano roll. It's able to visualize the notes that are being played while editing and playing back the song. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/Pw5PTO4.png And can be connected by connecting the powerpole at the top of the piano roll to the powerpole at the bottom right of the pattern screen using red wire. Demonstration: https://i.imgur.com/hdiiwzh.png Now our complete composinator could look something like this: https://i.imgur.com/JELRXIn.png Additional componentsThere's a few more additional components that require minimal setup to add to your composinator, but are not needed for the basic functionality. Save moduleIf you want to be able to save your songs to a DISK for later use, you need the save module. It looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/OWmuyNe.png The way you install it is by adding it to the end of the memory bank where you would normally tile additional channels. The process is similar as with the installation of the channels: https://i.imgur.com/yVjsDAG.png, https://i.imgur.com/uoId1uv.png, https://i.imgur.com/qhDGWB6.png The module itself is fairly self explanatory. You put in a DISK, you press save, and you wait until the light turns off. The song is now stored on the DISK. Load moduleThere's already a load module integrated in the main memory module, but it can be built separately too, of course. This works pretty much the same as save. Put in DISK, press button, wait for light to turn off. https://i.imgur.com/znx2pGJ.png It is important to note that before loading a new song, you need to wipe your old memory first, or there might be some remnants of the old song coming through when you load the new one. Which brings us to the next module Memory wipe moduleThis simply wipes all data from memory storage. A complete wipe. Nothing more to explain. Use this before loading a new song. ConverterFinally, we have the converter, which is able to load a song from a DISK, and convert it into the correct memory format for your composinator. Explanation: All the settings and values for a song (hardware, memory, song + all sequencer notes and patterns) are completely saved within the main memory bank. That means that when a song is saved to a DISK, it also stores all the settings that come along with it from the composinator. That means, number of channels, memory length of the sequencer and patterns, screen height and cursor index, etc. If you're just using one composinator to make all your songs, this is not a problem, because most of those settings will stay the same and will work on your machine. However, if you decide to make a new composinator with more channels, for example, you still want to be able to load your old songs into it. That's what the converter is for:
The circuit will start converting the song to the new memory format and will load it directly into memory. The conversion process is busy as long as the lamp is on. While it's red it is loading in the sequencer data, and when it turns yellow it is loading the pattern data. If your song is pretty much sequentially built (what I mean is that patterns that play first have a lower index than the patterns that play later), then that means you can already start playing your song the moment the lamp turns yellow. The conversion process will simply continue running in the background while the song plays. Note that this conversion process can also be very useful even if you don't change your hardware. For example, it allows you to actually change the pattern and sequencer memory lengths without corrupting your song. Simply save a song to a DISK, put it into the converter, wipe main memory, set the new settings, and convert the song to the new settings. BlueprintsRecommended for first time users: Composinator - Pre-built - 4 Channels If you want to build it to you specifications: Composinator - Sequencer screen Composinator - Instrument rack Thoughts & QuestionsFeel free to give your thoughts about this project, and whether there are possible improvements to make. One improvement I'd like to implement is the possibility to input notes by clicking the note on the piano roll instead of having to increase/decrease the input value with arrows. And of course if there's any questions, I'll be glad to answer them. Also, if people are interested, I can do a write-up of the actual inner workings of the circuitry, but I think this post is currently already long enough, so that will have to wait for another post sometime. Though generally it's quite a well working system, it's possible that there's still a few bugs, so please let me know if you find any. [link] [comments] | ||
| First time doing grid base, at first I was worried that my cells are too big. Posted: 26 Oct 2019 02:30 PM PDT
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| Why are the inserters not putting the coal into the train? Posted: 26 Oct 2019 07:41 PM PDT
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| Had some problems with power not anymore. Posted: 26 Oct 2019 01:04 PM PDT
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| Mod to annotate / draw on the map for planning? Posted: 27 Oct 2019 04:19 AM PDT Is there a mod which allows you to draw stuff on the map (like tape measure) in different colors and maybe also give you the option to annotate them? It would be especially helpful for multiplayer. I remember seeing something like that before but couldn't find anything after 20 minutes of scrolling through the mod installer. [link] [comments] | ||
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| My original base that I finished the game on, little bit of spaghetti Posted: 26 Oct 2019 10:19 PM PDT
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| Kind of left the game a year ago. Anything new to the game i dont know ? Posted: 27 Oct 2019 12:14 AM PDT | ||
| Guide for UPS-Optimized Mega-Base Posted: 27 Oct 2019 07:01 AM PDT This post provides details on how to create a UPS-optimized mega-base. If you have not played a normal, bug-enabled factorio victory, I recommend you do so first. To give some background, I tried transforming my first, zero-bots, bug-enabled, victory base into a mega-base. On my mid-end computer, this reduced my base to 30-40fps, and I was extremely dissapointed. Transitioning from nuclear power to solar power did little for my UPS besides wasting a huge amount of my time. So, here is a guide to make a UPS-optimized base: (0) Disable bugs and pollution. Bugs and defense mechanisms consome a large amount of update-time, because your mega base and its perimeter will be large. (1) Use sandbox mode, with "cheats" enabled. Better yet, use a "creative" mod, since you will be stuck building things manually or with bots in sandbox mode (personally, I refuse to install mods, so I'm stuck in sandbox, which is still 100x better than regular). (2) Use console commands to add large numbers of items to your inventory as needed. /c game.player.insert{name="resource-name", count=number} (3) Use "infinity-chest" to get rid of unwanted items in your inventory (infinity chests destroy the items contained when you mine them). You won't be able to blast away unwanted items with weapons. (3.5) Use infinity chests to fuel your trains with uranium fuel, provided you don't find train fueling to be interesting (it doesn't have much effect on UPS since it's so low throughput). (4) Use "electric-energy-interface" to simulate a solar farm. You can build a solar farm yourself if you prefer, but you will probably regret it. (5) Set map generation to preferrable settings. Do not generate trees or cliffs. Lower the ore frequency while raising its size and richness. Uranium is hardly needed (not at all if you follow steps 3/3.5). Coal, stone and water are also needed in lesser amounts than copper and iron. (6) Do not use belts at all. Belts might be interesting, but they are way worse for UPS, especially since you will need more inserters and said inserters are more time-expensive when transferring to/from belts. (6) Minimize fluid elements (don't use nuclear/burner power). (7) Minimze circuit elements. You don't need any circuit elements to make a well-tuned mega-base. [link] [comments] | ||
| Do trees prevent biters from spawning? Posted: 27 Oct 2019 05:34 AM PDT
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