Factorio Weekly Question Thread

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• Weekly Question Thread
• Stated a game in a swamp, Let the spaghetti comence
• Sometimes it's nice to have a peaceful world, no trains, no biters. Just hundreds of thousands of belts.
• Guy wtf it's 4 am I have work tomorrow, I need to go to bed
• Does anyone else find beacon builds kind of dull?
• I heard you guys like spaghetti
• Newcomer here, managed to get to automated Blue Science and i'm so proud of it ! :)
• Finally launched a rocket!
• Exploding Powerpoles
• I tried something new for my advanced (red) circuit production.. any advice to improve?
• Diagnosing the artillery train crash
• Launched my first Rocket, and got the Lazy Bastard achievement at the same time!
• Is it just me or wasn't there red/green colored backgrounds for signals on different wires?
• LTN: Balancing total number of trains
• A new miner?
• New player, After recent advice, I made new base for my copper to protect for bad guys, what do you thing, is there any room from improvement?
• Automatic item destruction [SOLUTION]
• I made an early game 1SPM red and green science factory
• New game mode suggestions
• Factorio crashes and the cause and the graphics card
• Just bought Factorio should I play vanilla or is there any mods recommended for first time players?
• There should be another intermediary product between solid fuel and rocket fuel

Weekly Question Thread Posted: 10 Feb 2020 10:05 AM PST Ask any questions you might have. Post your bug reports on the Official Forums Previous Threads Weekly Questions Friday Facts (weekly updates from the devs) Update Notes Monthly Map Subreddit rules Discord server (and IRC) Find more in the sidebar ----> submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

Stated a game in a swamp, Let the spaghetti comence Posted: 10 Feb 2020 07:00 PM PST submitted by /u/sakari119 [link] [comments]

Sometimes it's nice to have a peaceful world, no trains, no biters. Just hundreds of thousands of belts. Posted: 10 Feb 2020 03:35 PM PST submitted by /u/Jofflecopter [link] [comments]

Guy wtf it's 4 am I have work tomorrow, I need to go to bed Posted: 10 Feb 2020 07:53 PM PST I'm just gonna finish up my blue science quickly submitted by /u/MinMorts [link] [comments]

Does anyone else find beacon builds kind of dull? Posted: 11 Feb 2020 05:11 AM PST Before modules and beacons, you tend to get interesting designs, unique shapes, and wonderfully bizarre belt layouts to save space. With beacons, everything basically looks the same. You have a layout of beacons with four or so assemblers, and pretty much every one looks the same. There's no real difference between a blue circuit factory and a plastic factory. Obviously I understand the point of UPS savings, but it does change the aesthetics in a way I think detracts from them. submitted by /u/EOverM [link] [comments]

I heard you guys like spaghetti Posted: 10 Feb 2020 10:07 PM PST submitted by /u/koyuze [link] [comments]

Newcomer here, managed to get to automated Blue Science and i'm so proud of it ! :) Posted: 11 Feb 2020 04:27 AM PST submitted by /u/kaf-ka [link] [comments]

Finally launched a rocket! Posted: 11 Feb 2020 01:14 AM PST submitted by /u/sturmhauke [link] [comments]

Exploding Powerpoles Posted: 10 Feb 2020 01:12 PM PST submitted by /u/ZombieP0ny [link] [comments]

I tried something new for my advanced (red) circuit production.. any advice to improve? Posted: 11 Feb 2020 04:55 AM PST submitted by /u/Iderion [link] [comments]

Diagnosing the artillery train crash Posted: 10 Feb 2020 08:41 PM PST submitted by /u/Dylloop95 [link] [comments]

Launched my first Rocket, and got the Lazy Bastard achievement at the same time! Posted: 10 Feb 2020 06:27 PM PST I found out about the Lazy Bastard achievement, and it sounded like a fun challenge... so here's the base I built to get there. It's a railworld, and I just kept going out and killing off the biters as the pollution cloud got near them. Boat loads of nuclear power to spare, and a full set of chests with fuel cans ready to go. Behold the power of Spaghetti... no walls, no turrets (well, only a few) submitted by /u/ka9dgx [link] [comments]

Is it just me or wasn't there red/green colored backgrounds for signals on different wires? Posted: 11 Feb 2020 05:43 AM PST submitted by /u/timomirko [link] [comments]

LTN: Balancing total number of trains Posted: 11 Feb 2020 03:29 AM PST I was wondering if anyone had done some thinking around this concept: I love LTN and I'm using it successfully for a 300-500SPM base in the making. At a certain point, around 50'ish trains or so, I realized a bit late that production was halting at certain places, not due to lack of resources, but simply by having too few trains. My usual workaround is to plop down a few additional depots with 6 train stops each, add 6 more trains per depot, and then see if everything chugs along nicely, but this seems a bit cumbersome, especially when scaling. Is there an easy way of gauging % utilization of my train network? I.e something like average idle time, LTN orders waiting for a train, or similar? In general it would be awesome to get more train-based statistics to help find bottlenecks, things like average movement speed per train, time spent at read lights, time spent loading/unloading etc - maybe there's a mod for that? :) submitted by /u/Grayboner [link] [comments]

A new miner? Posted: 10 Feb 2020 01:39 PM PST Greetings all, Speaking strictly for the balance of the main game, should there be a new miner? Now I know everyone's individual playstyle is different. I just feel like there should be something after electric miners. Burner miners, I make maybe 10-15 of them. Just enough to get me going until the electric age. This means that the electric miner takes me from the early game to megabase. I am just spitballling here but obviously a miner that was bigger or faster would be nice. Or one with built in power poles. Maybe even ones with internal buffers that could be like passive storage chests? What about nuclear powered ones? Ones that require lube but mine 2-3x as fast. Just was wondering what everyone elses opinion is on this. submitted by /u/frankcastle3 [link] [comments]

New player, After recent advice, I made new base for my copper to protect for bad guys, what do you thing, is there any room from improvement? Posted: 10 Feb 2020 03:48 PM PST submitted by /u/Zeracko [link] [comments]

Automatic item destruction [SOLUTION] Posted: 10 Feb 2020 03:36 PM PST submitted by /u/adamjan2000 [link] [comments]

I made an early game 1SPM red and green science factory Posted: 11 Feb 2020 07:23 AM PST submitted by /u/factorionoob1 [link] [comments]

New game mode suggestions Posted: 11 Feb 2020 06:24 AM PST So about 4-5 months ago I got my first rocket launch. I was relieved because I finally beat this game that literally, kept me up at night. So I'm ready to commit myself to this torture again. But I want a new goal and I'm torn between "mega" base with an end goal of so many rockets and hour...etc, or trying out a mod that adds a little more depth, without completely changing the game. For instance I've seen bobs and that's a bit of overkill for me. Also I'm not much into speed runs part of enjoying the game for me is just walking around and doing stupid stuff in the world. Anyways thanks. submitted by /u/killl_joy [link] [comments]

Factorio crashes and the cause and the graphics card Posted: 11 Feb 2020 05:25 AM PST Hello, I'm in version 0.18.4, when I play the crash game and I get this error (see picture), it did it 4 times, I went to 0.18 and it doesn't do it to me. ​ The drivers are up to date, and the graphics card is a 1660 Ti Max-Q ​ And I have another problem, I lost my blue prints in my plan library, but I have the blue print.dat files and even a 0.17 backup, but when I switch to 0.17 it doesn't show any blue print in the library. https://preview.redd.it/8sf4dvgbqag41.png?width=770&format=png&auto=webp&s=c261b84b7503c3460fc84351c653e7abd1ff62c1 submitted by /u/Le-Gentil [link] [comments]

Just bought Factorio should I play vanilla or is there any mods recommended for first time players? Posted: 10 Feb 2020 10:31 PM PST I'm going into this basically blind, I was recommended the game by a friend in another subreddit after running out of games to play I decided I would give it a go. I played the hell out of Rimworld and in that game vanilla is nice. But pales in comparison to a heavily modded playthrough. Before I sink many hours into this game I have to ask should I just play as vanilla or what? Also I heard this game is very complex and has a fairly steep learning curve. any beginner tips would also be much appreciated. submitted by /u/Nomadfred [link] [comments]

There should be another intermediary product between solid fuel and rocket fuel Posted: 11 Feb 2020 12:15 AM PST In real life, rockets don't just take fuel with them, they also bring oxidizer - in space, you can't just use the outside air the same way you do in an internal combustion engine, given the fact that, well, there is no air in space. For this reason, I am suggesting another intermediary product be added between solid fuel and rocket fuel, maybe called "refined fuel". This one could be used in cars and trains the same way rocket fuel is used now, and could be the basis of nuclear fuel the same way rocket fuel is now. From refined fuel, rocket fuel could be attained by adding water to it (given that water contains oxygen). Since water is not a scarce resource, I don't think this would really break the balance of the game, but it would make it a bit more realistic. What do you think? submitted by /u/Enakistehen [link] [comments]

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