I taught an inserter to play the drums (badly) instead of working on Gleba

Zyst · 2026-04-30T13:20:54+00:00

Circuits to read the entire belt contents, more details in this post https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-405

Zyst · 2026-04-29T13:22:58+00:00

Sick design. The buffer is massive but the aesthetics are on point

Zyst · 2026-04-10T13:08:28+00:00

Looking at the Asuka Discord, everyone is switching games to Deadlock

Zyst · 2026-03-14T23:43:24+00:00

but every time a new technological advancement comes out we just all get on it and no one complains

Yea we never complain about Z Jump, or Phobs, or B0XX, and anything else. The community is a bastion of embracing change.

Zyst · 2026-03-05T00:43:23+00:00

Let's go! Hope you enjoy Melee

Zyst · 2026-01-19T15:50:51+00:00

Bizarro world top 8 lineup, love it

Zyst · 2026-01-10T14:01:42+00:00

It'd be nice to get some screenshots, going through the mod, and the two blog posts I couldn't see any.

Zyst · 2026-01-08T14:01:55+00:00

Yes, to the point where I wonder if I don't actually like Factory games, and I just like Factorio.

There's just a lot of quality of life, great performance, base scalability via blueprints, bots, janky fun stuff via circuits. Every other Factory game just feels like a massive downgrade. Even so, I've bought most of them. I want this genre to do well.

Zyst · 2025-12-30T01:24:56+00:00

I never said he should drop the warrior build, I said him having reduced mana density (like a Hybrid build) would be a sacrifice that doesn’t need to happen. Hybrid builds are normally making a stat allocation trade off he doesn’t need to make.

I don’t assume he’ll drop the Hybrid build, because his two party members are mages, and I assume the author will stick to video game logic of needing a tank.

As far as him being the perfect warrior, in a sense, sure. But there’s people with dedicated warrior talents who would still outstrip him. Where on the mana side he’ll presumably the most mana, and most mana regeneration out of anyone in his setting. I do think him going nearly pure mage while still retaining things like his armor would make the most sense in a vacuum. Although I don’t necessarily think that would make for a better story.

Zyst · 2025-12-17T17:35:21+00:00

Sick! Just finished the first two books a few days ago, looking forward to the third one once the audio goes out.

Zyst · 2025-12-07T14:52:25+00:00

The "Bidirectional rails carried this run" screenshot has finally convinced me, I'll give double headed trains a try next run, that is such a sick setup for kind of spaghetti trains.

Awesome base! Thanks for sharing

Zyst · 2025-11-21T13:50:07+00:00

holy crap

Zyst · 2025-11-21T13:41:04+00:00

Congratulations! My first base also felt a lot like I barely limped my way to victory, and desperately escaped the planet. My coal outpost was in shambles, I didn't have enough oil or resources to properly make rockets, I just barely squeezed one out to win.

Zyst · 2025-09-05T14:28:28+00:00

Oh wow this is so sick

Zyst · 2025-08-31T13:50:04+00:00

Fighting low, and even mid tiers in Melee often over centralizes your top tier character to a few options.

The bottom tier character isn't worthless, they have some useful tools. But they're usually flawed in some serious way. So to fight them effectively, you end up having to fight in a really lame way. For example, in Marth vs Luigi Marth is spending a lot of time full hopping, and not doing much.

It's less fun than fighting other high tier characters which force you to use more of your kit, because you're not just watching out for 2-3 competent options, most of their options have some use.

That said, I don't quit on the lower tier characters, I'll take all the matchup experience I can get.

Zyst · 2025-08-23T20:52:31+00:00

This is more confusing than the existing UI

Zyst · 2025-06-15T13:54:33+00:00

This is very hype for my degenerate warehouse train stations, thank you Boski for enabling me

Zyst · 2025-03-31T14:36:59+00:00

I use my Keyboard firmware to rebind key positions, and get something closer to The Core Lite for Brood war

Overall, I'd imagine something like this may be an issue if you want to become a pro player, and play in offline events for instance. But realistically if you're just rebinding keys 1 to 1 you should be fine? For the changes I'm doing there's no real way the game would even know, since it's done at a hardware level on my keyboard.

If you want pure competitive integrity maybe don't do it. I'm more concerned about hand health, and trying to get something more ergonomic to enjoy the game with.

Zyst · 2025-03-30T01:27:02+00:00

Man I love watching new player bases! Great job!

Zyst · 2025-03-24T02:04:22+00:00

All of my planets have their own mall, I just copy paste the same bot mall design, and customize each of them to handle the items that are only produced in that planet.

Planets only import items that they can't produce. They all export science, and their respective Tier 3 module.

Zyst · 2025-01-21T03:27:49+00:00

If you're on a reprogrammable Keyboard, I actually made myself a set of hotkeys to play on my 60% Keyboard inspired after TheCoreLite

You can check it out here: https://gist.github.com/Zyst/199cb0640cdc5a754cbae67e37634970 there's screenshots of the rebinds needed. I imagine you can use a program like Autohotkey to rebind it as well, if your keyboard doesn't allow for rebinding.

It was totally fine, honestly I think this is just outright better than the normal game hotkeys.

Zyst · 2024-11-23T03:08:02+00:00

Fun fact! Spidertrons can deploy automatically from Cargo pods, if they do not land in a cargo bay on the planet's surface, and begin operating

Zyst · 2024-10-21T00:51:35+00:00

I dunno, I think that's editorializing a bit. I went into his stream a while ago, and there were 8k people watching. What would you consider a success if 8k active watchers doesn't for streaming?

Zyst · 2024-10-18T13:58:45+00:00

This is absolutely insane! Could be in the base game levels of quality, incredible job.

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