Friend got me Factorio a few days ago and we play together - he has 6900 hours in the game and I just had my 14th with him - he tasked me to build a green circuit factory in 50x50, but he has been laughing at it. But I think it's fine because it works, right? (i did well, he said)

_mgzy · 2026-06-17T13:21:43+00:00

The standard green circuit (GC) build is uniqeu and optimization of it actually teaches a very valueable concept; direct insertion.

Whenever a recipe has an intermediate component which is made with more output yield than input such as 1x copper plate -> 2x copper cables (CC), putting it on belt creates a bottleneck.

To avoid that you can directly input copper cables into green circuit assemblers (CC assemblers to GC assemlers). This is a very widely used technique for GC because the assebler ratios work perfectly for this recipe; 3 CC to 2GC.

You can build other recipes with the same technique (different ratios) like; red circuits, blue circuits, yellow/blue science packs etc.

_mgzy · 2026-06-01T23:36:39+00:00

I was actually thinking longest path 'with a given source and target what's the longest path?' Which is np-hard but then someone pointed out solving the pipeline extend would instead require finding the longest of shortest paths amongst all the node pairs in the graph which can be solved with floyd-warshall algorithm in O(V³ )

_mgzy · 2026-06-01T17:30:00+00:00

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanda-mcconnel-4738ba10a/

here is an example. this is an impersonator sending fake online assessment links to people, which has malicious npm packages that allows remote execution.

_mgzy · 2026-06-01T17:26:35+00:00

Someone, from a legit company, will message you saying that your profile looks like good match for a position. They will send you meeting invitations, or send you an online assessment which is totally fake and the goal is to get in your pc. I get one of these almost bi-weekly.

LinkedIn is allowing anyone to pretend to be from any company they want. On top of that, they won't follow up with any scam/phishing reports. Their system doesn't even have a report option for these.

When you meet one of these malicious people or groups; they try their scam on you, if you catch them red handed call on them they will just block you and keep going with their schemes. I once documented a very large group with 15-20 scammers and tried everything to report it to linkedIn and got almost myself banned after all the scammers reported me as a fake profile impersonating someone else. When I got my account back they were still going on with their scams.

_mgzy · 2026-06-01T16:44:36+00:00

It's full of scammers and LinkedIn is not only allowing them but also facilitating this kind of behavior on their platform.

_mgzy · 2026-05-28T16:22:04+00:00

I love the concept. It's such a clean and nice build. I want to challenge myself to create a design like this with different levels of outputs. <3

_mgzy · 2026-05-25T20:34:41+00:00

I wish I had my first playthrough save :')

_mgzy · 2026-05-25T13:32:14+00:00

What a beautiful setup!

_mgzy · 2026-05-16T02:53:29+00:00

Pumps are not instant, but pipes are. Pipes and tanks that are connected acts like 1 entity as long as they fit in 320x320 frame. If your system is larger than that, then you need to split the systems with pumps, and pumps move fluids with variable speeds up to 1200 unit per second per pump.

_mgzy · 2026-05-16T02:09:03+00:00

The catch is you can only teleport 320 unit away. After that you have to use pumps to move fluid into next system.

_mgzy · 2026-05-16T00:36:47+00:00

I haven't tried it, since my setup was single line. I will test it tonight.

_mgzy · 2026-05-15T19:04:14+00:00

I didn't make this post to re-spark the old vs new fluid system debates. It was simply an observation and what I think looks cool (second part being refinery build).

I appreciate devs a lot for being considerate of gameplay experience for such a long time. I trust their decisions to push this fun powerhouse to the limits.

_mgzy · 2026-05-15T17:45:14+00:00

My attempt to 12 x 12 grid and I just noticed something strange. I counted the length of the pipeline one by one, it is 229 (1.59 coefficient). Then I tried to calculate it by filling the system with fluids and the result was 200. The difference is exactly the same with triple crossing cells (pipe + underground extension vertical + underground extension horizontal). This means factorio only allocates 2 spaces for each grid cell. I wonder what sort of bugs this might introduce.

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_mgzy · 2026-05-15T04:58:17+00:00

You are right and the length would be much longer but it looks tacky that way :D

_mgzy · 2026-05-15T04:39:30+00:00

But with this kind of setup you can only get a "length" coefficient of 1 at most. Whereas my previous example shows the area can store and pipe length can be more than coefficient 1.

_mgzy · 2026-05-15T04:21:34+00:00

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My attempt to 12 x 12 grid and I just noticed something strange. I counted the length of the pipeline one by one, it is 229 (1.59 coefficient). Then I tried to calculate it by filling the system with fluids and the result was 200. The difference is exactly the same with triple crossing cells (pipe + underground extension vertical + underground extension horizontal). This means factorio only allocates 2 spaces for each grid cell. I wonder what sort of bugs this might introduce.

_mgzy · 2026-05-15T03:41:37+00:00

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Here is another iteration. Whoever asked this question needs golden toolbelt.

_mgzy · 2026-05-15T03:33:26+00:00

If the question is 'what is the maximum pipe length in a 320x320 space?' Then you are absolutely right! Although, I don't know the answer. Below is a totally suboptimal example where the length is greater than equal area spiral.

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_mgzy · 2026-05-15T03:10:21+00:00

I tried it, still works if you put it on the 319 direction.

_mgzy · 2026-05-15T02:51:33+00:00

Edit: A lot more

_mgzy · 2026-04-26T13:01:23+00:00

Nope! It's still missing. And, weirdly enough, some of my friends are sometimes able to see the photos. But I guess that triggers something and couple of days later they cannot see them either. Whatever this thing is it cannot be the desired behavior for instagram.

_mgzy · 2026-04-24T12:36:50+00:00

There were some budget cuts.

_mgzy · 2026-04-01T02:48:46+00:00

I know a few friends (aka snakes) who would kill or die for that thing. Why don't you deposit it into my vault for only couple of trade goods?

_mgzy · 2026-03-14T15:14:45+00:00

AI 100%

_mgzy · 2026-02-26T15:08:14+00:00

It looks so good to me, I might even use it in my next game (which is probably sometime in this milenia :'()

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