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    Factorio I Turned My Starter Island Base Into A Giant Solar Farm


    I Turned My Starter Island Base Into A Giant Solar Farm

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 11:45 PM PDT

    Got run over by my first train, I'm a real player now.

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:35 PM PDT

    At first I was like "what the hell just happened, did the game fail?", but nope; I did. Wish I had it captured.

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    Colourblind fixes WITHOUT mods and without losing your achievements!

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 03:13 AM PDT

    Thanks to the work of some previous people on this sub, I have compiled an update for Factorio that will fix the graphics for colourblind people without using a mod and without losing your achievements.

    You can also easily update the graphics yourself, if your particular colourblindness isn't helped.

    Download here, and you can find the Github repo here.

    Please let me know if you have any suggestions on other game items that should be updated.

    What's changed

    • Science packs have been updated to have a different shape for each pack. (Space pack is also included but not pictured below.)
    • Advanced circuit colour has been changed.
    • Green wire has been replaced by blue.
    • The logistics network overlay has been updated to make it clearer.
    • Light oil and lubricant updated.

    Example images

    Science packs, circuits and wires:

    https://i.imgur.com/PkTuKQO.png

    Logistics network:

    https://i.imgur.com/4gyJEsH.png

    Light oil, heavy oil, and lubricant THANK GOD

    https://i.imgur.com/cLlXIBx.png

    How to install

    1. Close Factorio.
    2. Go to your Factorio install folder.
    3. Open the data folder.
    4. Copy the base and core folders from this repo into your Factorio/data folder, and choose to overwrite existing files.
    5. You're done!

    Making your own changes

    If, for example, you don't like the colours of the wires above, it is super easy to make your own unique colours:

    1. Go to your Factorio install folder. Most graphic files are in Factorio/data/base/graphics/icons
    2. Open the file in an image editor.
    3. Change the hue using a Hue/Saturation slider to something that's distinct to you. That's all you really need to do.

    Credits

    Credit to Hornwitser for the science pack graphics from his cb-science mod. As per his licence, no derivative works have been made and his original content has been included verbatim.

    Credit to RedditNamesAreShort for showing that it was possible to change these graphics without using a mod.

    Credit to BadWolfHS for the logistic network overlay and for inspiring this collection.

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    New player. Messy factory.

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 11:23 PM PDT

    Love this game to the death, but can't enjoy it... Please help!

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 12:32 AM PDT

    Hi!

    I love this game, but often it feels like the moment I finish any task, there's next thing to do and no time to sit back and enjoy my accoplishment. And knowing that every second pollution spreads and biters evolve forces to do everything in a hurry.

    Also I am trying to build everything on my own. I make my own blueprints in creative mode and then build them by hand in actual game.

    I played Factorio on and off almost for a year now, but still haven't got to drones even a single time... The furthest I got was completing basic oil processing. Every map ends up feeling like I am doing work just to unlock more work. Today I started another map (maybe 10th), this time without biters in hopes to get rid of some anxiety.

    Maybe there's something wrong in a way I approach Factorio or something?Please, help me fix my perspective :)

    Update: wow, so many answers in 6 hours! Thanks alot guys, this is a great community!

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    The comes a time when you must question...Do I make spaghetti? or does spaghetti make me?

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 12:40 PM PDT

    Large game files making multiplayer difficult

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 04:54 AM PDT

    I recently started a game of Space Exploration + Rampant with a friend of mine, and the save file is nearing 1gb and we just went into orbit over Nauvis as our first venture off-world. We've been scanning every planet we discover (and this seems to have been a mistake)

    But between downloading the map and rather long save times it's becoming more and more frustrating to play.

    How can we address the issue now, and since we're so early in the game, how can we keep file size down during the rest of the playthrough?

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    This sums up Bob/Angel playthrough so well.

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 07:53 PM PDT

    Sweet jesus, I accidentally unloaded my iron ore trains straight into the coal line. What the dumbest mistake you've made?

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 02:16 PM PDT

    So I'm having a grand old time building a new iron ore outpost with spidertron, copy pasting a 10-10 lane balanced belt array from my other similarly sized coal outpost to feed the train. I setup 2 new trains, lay down the rails, add signals, assign the stops, then head back to base to figure out what to do next. Life is good.

    Then I see it…one of my iron ore trains has decided to go rogue and stop at my COAL unloading station…I see two entire wagons worth of iron ore dumped into the coal belts. I use the coal belts to feed my 100SPM main line, but also to fuel my ENTIRE smelting setup of 960 steel furnaces, and the trains themselves. Oh god how did I fuck this up, this is going to take forever to clean up. I'm going to have to shut down the whole thing and pick this all up by hand. If I don't move quickly my copper smelting is going to start smelting the iron ore off the coal line and feeding that into the main line...oh god.

    After some investigation I can see I accidentally assigned my 2 new iron ore trains from the outpost I just created to stop at coal instead of iron. I must have mistaken the black coal icon for the blue iron ore icon when assigning stops...crap...

    Good lord this game is amazing.

    What's the dumbest mistake you've made that caused LOADS of logistics damage to your setup?

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    refinery without beacons cuz im bored

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 09:17 PM PDT

    A couple hundred hours total in this game. ~30 hours in this map and I'm finally about to produce blue science! This is by far the cleanest factory I've made so far

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 09:35 AM PDT

    No Oil, what are my options?

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 08:14 PM PDT

    I'm doing a playthrough of Nilaus' Base in a Book, and have got to the stage of starting my oil refinery.

    I can't find any crude oil anywhere so far. How can I progress without/until I find a patch?

    Map exchange string in the comments.

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    Do you like my 1.3k SPM base?

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 06:13 PM PDT

    Do you like my 1.3k SPM base?

    I don't use rails...not all belts are visible at this distance. The thick line is 17 belts wide.

    https://preview.redd.it/measmth5a2d71.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=022baadc0fa983dfd5dc46f8d2d0770edd2e4945

    submitted by /u/fexfx
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    Any mods to make the nights pitch black except for your vision?

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 05:18 PM PDT

    I've never understood the need for lights when the game is already hella bright at night.

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    Stock factorio - wide area radar sweep

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 01:36 PM PDT

    Circuit Network: Detect when a chest is filling up

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 02:20 AM PDT

    Recently I started playing Krastorio and it has been wild;

    And one of the processes creates two products and I need one of these products to bootstrap a process for the other product. However the belts are not the same length and as such the entire process is choked up... I tried fixing it with balancers, but no dice.

    Eventually I found a solution using loaders and containers. And this buffers enough to bootstrap the entire process!

    The process is: raw imersite -> sand + imersite powder -> imersite crystals; the sand is used in the electrolysis plant to create hydrogen, which is needed to create the imersite crystals. I have 18 purple belts of raw imersite as input (in sandbox for blueprint testing) :D

    So I was wondering if there is a way to detect if a chest is filling up or staying at a (semi) stable state? I know that it is possible with accumulators; because I have a power-indicator blueprint, that shows drain, idle and charge. If it is not possible, it is not a big deal, my intentions were to use a lamp to indicate when the process was still buffering (yellow) or had successfully bootstrapped itself (green).

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    How do I embrace the spaghetti?

    Posted: 24 Jul 2021 02:18 AM PDT

    I have 385 hours in game and am only missing the 20 million green circuits achievement. I am looking for a new way to play the game after becoming overly dependent on the main bus style.

    I have always struggled to get into trains, mainly because of how long they take to plan out (especially pre-bots). I think learning the ways of spaghetti will help me get over this.

    Whenever I've tried intentionally to be consumed by the spaghetti, I always revert to a bus base when I get access to bots. How is it possible to not be steeped in technical debt from bad planning, without over-planning or becoming terribly bottlenecked?

    submitted by /u/PhantomLad_27
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    My best green science factory yet

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 03:42 PM PDT

    Just started playing factorio so i wanted a bit of advise over the design just in case i'm doing something wrong.

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 09:02 AM PDT

    Starting a new world

    Posted: 23 Jul 2021 09:27 PM PDT

    Sooooo as the title says I'm starting a new modded factory. Going to be AAI B/A and Space X. Using 10x research. Biters are going to be on but set to no expansion maybe peaceful, gotta bump up my hypermodule somehow. I would like to get up to 100 then 300 and finally 1000spm (hopefully).

    Plan on running with the AAI haulers to start with then bump up to a big train setup later on. With aircraft coming in for distant ore patches.

    Couple questions Would base resource setting be useable or should I bump up? Part of me is thinking about running with infinite but only using standard size or a tad smaller. This way it would be consistant but when I needed more I couldn't just drop more miners I would need an expansion or to push productivity research.

    How well do the AAI vehicles for long distances or full routes? Work with complex paths? Used them a couple times for biter base pushing and running a coal/crushed stone around but nothing for large scale.

    Is their a way/mod to limit which bots do what? Ex less then 10 items use standard logi more then 100 use a crawler?

    And any general tips?

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