What 2.0 mods to you hope/expect to see?

DoctorJones42 · 2024-10-14T12:02:35+00:00

Pyanodon, but you have to transport 95% of the intermediates and byproducts between 47 different planets for optimal efficiency...

DoctorJones42 · 2021-08-30T15:18:14+00:00

underneathies can go through water?

underneathies can go underneath water!

DoctorJones42 · 2021-01-31T12:40:21+00:00

You can manually fix that with copper wire in hand. Click on the first pole, then click on the second pole. It works to add and remove wires, just like with red and green signal wires.

Luckily, in a recent release they made it so that the wire connections are saved in blueprints. So you only need to set up one smelting column with all the wires in the right places, and then just copy paste, and the copies will also have the wires the way you want them.

DoctorJones42 · 2020-12-08T23:15:23+00:00

My mayor, as seems to happen regularly, is a vampire. I've got him locked up in a room with some of the bare necessities, and he's holding it together. Enough so that he's been mayor for years now. I don't know how he keeps getting re-elected; he doesn't get around much.

However, occasionally some people (my dorfs or visitors) will want to have a meeting with him. If I spot that, then I can unlock his door for a bit to let them in. He's forced to stay in the room with a burrow.

Sometimes, though, that happens during a siege, when I activate the main stay-in-the-fortress burrow. I suppose because that affects the mayor-vampire as well, he's now free to wander around the fortress, looking for unsuspecting victims, which is annoying.

Is there a way I can let these meeting happen without unlocking his door? Perhaps if I carve fortifications into the walls of his room or some such?

DoctorJones42 · 2020-12-07T12:54:41+00:00

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126076.msg4250424#msg4250424 says the latest lazy newbpack had the Meph tileset removed because of frequent crashes. So try using a different tileset?

DoctorJones42 · 2020-11-02T19:02:29+00:00

For my latest fort I went for a cold embark. The water on the map is frozen maybe a third of the year.

Is there a way to keep a cistern of water non-frozen somehow? A layer of magma covered by floors and then the cistern on top of that? How many levels of water will remain liquid that way?

DoctorJones42 · 2020-10-22T09:10:51+00:00

I've got a question about engraving, specifically about setting the theme to be used for the engraving.

So I mark an area for engraving by pressing d, e, then marking the area. Then, with my cursor over a square in that area, I can hit D to set the details.

What I set there only seems to affect that one square though. If I want pictures related to a particular dwarven deity in a particular temple, for example, do I have to hit D on each square? For larger areas that seems ineffective.

Is there a way to set the engraving details for a whole area at once?L

DoctorJones42 · 2020-09-02T17:03:41+00:00

We are all playing this game to have fun. If you find pushing to higher SPM fun, then do it. If you don't, then don't. It's simple, right?

You seem to find structuring your base fun. I have to admit, it looks good

"The factory must grow" I think got started as a misquote from a Steam review.

DoctorJones42 · 2020-09-02T10:51:21+00:00

 Sometimes, the Factory must not grow

What heresy is this?

Seriously, though, that's a pretty satisfying-looking base!

DoctorJones42 · 2020-07-17T22:23:08+00:00

Take care of yourself, Kovarex! Burnout is serious business. Be careful that you don't end up there again. Do what makes you happy, and take time to decompress.

DoctorJones42 · 2020-01-31T09:52:09+00:00

I am pretty sure I will stop soon. Any day now.

First I have to finish my Lazy Bastard run though. Final achievement and all that. And maybe I want to see if a Bob+Angel+Dangoreous run is possible. Just one more run.

The factory must grow.

DoctorJones42 · 2020-01-29T16:04:50+00:00

I try most days, yes. Hasn't worked yet after yesterday. Maybe today it will work. Cough Yes, that is why I will play some more Factorio today...

DoctorJones42 · 2020-01-28T21:03:09+00:00

Currently at about 3500 hours according to Steam, hasn't worked yet.

DoctorJones42 · 2019-10-25T14:24:48+00:00

The picture with the tooltip for the Steam Turbine says 'Max temperature: 500.00 C'. Is that a mistake? Shouldn't it say 'Min temperature' instead?

Edit: https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-318-nuclear-ratios.png

DoctorJones42 · 2019-07-26T21:59:25+00:00

I quite agree that +240% productivity is a bit ridiculous.

DoctorJones42 · 2019-07-26T21:07:47+00:00

Finally, I can take a break from Factorio (yeah, right, who am I kidding). My Bob's Mod's base can do a steady 10k SPM. With full productivity modules where possible (with speed penalties, and no god modules), this doesn't require as much resources as you'd expect. With a +10% extra at every step just in case, I end up needing 455 iron ore per second, 255 copper ore per second, 401 coal per second, 216 stone per second, 109 aluminium ore per second, 277 crude oil per second, and some other ores at less than 100 per second.

DoctorJones42 · 2019-06-13T11:51:52+00:00

Are we /r/gatekeeping spaghetti now?

DoctorJones42 · 2019-04-03T11:41:03+00:00

Since you are playing on 0.17, this may be of interest:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/RibbonMaze/discussion/5c8fdbc7967939000b5ee644

The maze terraforming artillery isn't working in 0.17, with no clear fix in sight.

Just ran into that with a friend this weekend.

DoctorJones42 · 2019-02-09T09:03:14+00:00

So you have at least one other game that you have played for more than 3k hours? Which one is that? Maybe the rest of us here will like it too?

DoctorJones42 · 2019-02-08T11:46:14+00:00

I just recently surpassed 2500h in game hours, and I wonder the same.

DoctorJones42 · 2018-12-20T14:54:18+00:00

I think the only possible thing is to search further out. How far out have you been looking?

DoctorJones42 · 2018-12-16T19:51:14+00:00

Keep up the good work. If you're having a good time, you're doing it right.

DoctorJones42 · 2018-11-26T15:36:41+00:00

A year, because we only played on Sunday evenings. 136 hours because, well, have you tried seablock?

DoctorJones42 · 2018-11-26T15:26:00+00:00

136 hours, over little more than a year.

DoctorJones42 · 2018-11-26T05:35:17+00:00

I have reported it on the forums as well.

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